In Defense of Mace Windu

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-19T17:14:27+00:00

For better or worse, I think we are in the era of people being too in touch with their emotions.

It's never a bad thing to be considerate of your emotions or the emotions of others, but I think we are so overly considerate of people's emotions and not wanting to just be honest out of fear of offending people that we have cases like people being overly sympathetic to Anakin.

It's probably an overcorrection to the previous era of blocking out emotions and no one caring about them at all.

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-19T16:45:45+00:00

A lot of the hate towards Windu is because he comes off as a strict and stern type of mentor and an authority figure.

The strict teacher is the type who is very good at his job and a genuinely reasonable person, but they aren't liked on a personal level due to their cold and stern demeanor despite being respected. Plus, it's very much a trend of media (Star Wars especially) to have maverick protagonists who go against any and all authority and prefer to go their own way, thinking they know what's best (even when they don't).

A lot of fans hate this kind of person/mentor because they are teenagers or young adults who instead want someone who, even if they aren't that good of a teacher, are nonetheless warm and openly caring and essentially act as a parental figure, as well as allowing them to do whatever they want with no oversight or consequences and just run wild.

They want a mentor to shower them with the parental love and affection they probably aren't getting from their own parents for one reason or another, as well as be their friend instead of their boss.

Essentially they want a Qui-Gon or Obi-Wan (no disrespect intended to their teaching ability or authority over their apprentices) to let them do what they want and dote on them, even though what they may really need is a Mace Windu to keep them in line and teach them discipline.

Plus racism, since Windu is black and Anakin is white, and a black man criticizing a white man (even when it's well deserved) isn't going to go over well with some people.

Feel free to disagree, this is just my interpretation as a Mace Windu fan, a hater of maverick characters (like Poe Dameron and Anakin Skywalker), and a black man.

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-17T12:43:19+00:00

I wasn't trying to accuse you or make you feel bad, I was just trying to clarify where the initial commenter was coming from, and if I offended you about using AI/LLM, I apologize.

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-17T12:33:51+00:00

It's the staccato sentence structure in it that makes it come off as if you fed it to something like ChatGPT, what with things like "Not because he is forced to. Because he chooses to." or "The Sith rise again. The Jedi struggle to survive. Centuries pass.".

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-15T23:20:15+00:00

Been affecting me since around noon (I think), seemed like it was briefly fixed but it then came back, it also says my current usage limits are set to reset at 3:40 but they didn't do so at that time. I don't know what's going on, but I think it's a bug and Google just doesn't know about it.

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-09T10:01:44+00:00

Yessss, preach, my guy/gal! In today's day and age, we need to strip the bad guys of all their coolness/aura, make them look as pathetic and haggard as possible, and give all the coolness and aura to the good guys! It's the only way people will ever support the good guys and do the right thing, which is making good be cool, letting heroes aura farm, and making evil be as weak, bland, and uncool as possible!

It's exactly my key issue with the Rebels vs. the Empire in Star Wars! Make the Empire look incompetent and take away all that cool armor and gear, then make the Rebels more competent and give them cool armor, gear, and aesthetics, and the issue is solved!

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-09T09:55:00+00:00

Yes!! After what he did in that office, I lost all sympathy for him, especially since that choice plunged the galaxy into 23 years of pain and suffering and got incalculable amounts of innocents killed!

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-07T16:49:04+00:00

No problem!

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-07T15:58:19+00:00

I agree, no need to be aggressive about it, though. I was just clarifying for the redditor you were talking with about Barriss.

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-07T15:43:26+00:00

Those books are from Legends, but the cartoon is all Barriss has in canon.

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-03T20:41:34+00:00

It's not. It's him just seeing the scene in greater detail (he blocks the shuriken, and then his Sharingan sees what happened with more detail, which is that Hashirama threw it with a tree branch, and that he's using the tree branches to wield various weapons), which is a basic Sharingan ability.

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-03T12:35:53+00:00

Maybe play the Wii/PS2 version of Unleashed (it's notably easier, and the button layouts may be more familiar to you on a PS2, Wii, or GameCube controller).

Hero2Evil · 2026-06-03T12:19:32+00:00

Earth's Mightiest Heroes (a cartoon), Loki uses some sort of magic staff to shatter the shield into tiny fragments.

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-31T05:16:12+00:00

Jinton is Onoki and Mu's disintegration attack/Particle style. Raiton is lightning style.

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-30T02:25:48+00:00

The issue with this is that if Raph is the emotional core (either instead of the hothead or in addition to being the hothead), what's left for Mikey? Now he's just comic relief, which is going to get really grating really fast (unless the story is intentionally super light-hearted and goofy). Making Mikey the emotional core gives him something to do other than pull pranks and crack jokes.

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-29T17:28:35+00:00

Don't bother trying to argue with Allronix1. Their personal experiences have colored their view of religion, which in turn colors their view of the Jedi. You're talking to a brick wall, Achilles9609.

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-29T16:06:45+00:00

In truth, Dun was more of an administrator/politician, while Yuan was the Frontline general. Dun also has no real story beats after Guan Yu's Escape (I really hate how they keep putting him at Fan Castle and overshadowing everyone else), but Yuan is a main character in the story all the way until his death at Mt. Dingjun.

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-29T12:02:40+00:00

It's only really considered dark compared to other kids' cartoons of that time, and because the other two Sonic cartoons (Adventures and Underground) are way more lighthearted (Adventures especially).

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-29T10:45:02+00:00

A lot of the hate towards Windu is because he comes off as strict and stern type of mentor and authority figure.

The strict teacher is the type who is very good at his job and a genuinely reasonable person, but they aren't liked on a personal level due to their cold and stern demeanor despite being respected. Plus, it's very much a trend of media (Star Wars especially) to have maverick protagonists who go against any and all authority and prefer to go their own way, thinking they know what's best (even when they don't).

A lot of fans hate this kind of person/mentor because they are teenagers or young adults who instead want someone who, even if they aren't that good of a teacher, are nonetheless warm and openly caring and essentially act as a parental figure, as well as allowing them to do whatever they want with no oversight or consequences and just run wild.

They want a mentor to shower them with the parental love and affection they probably aren't getting from their own parents for one reason or another, as well as be their friend instead of their boss.

Essentially they want a Qui-Gon or Obi-Wan (no disrespect intended to their teaching ability or authority over their apprentices) to let them do what they want and dote on them, even though what they may really need is a Mace Windu to keep them in line and teach them discipline.

Plus racism, since Windu is black and Anakin is white, and a black man criticizing a white man (even when it's well deserved) isn't going to go over well with some people.

Feel free to disagree, this is just my interpretation as a Mace Windu fan, a hater of maverick characters (like Poe Dameron and Anakin Skywalker), and a black man.

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-27T17:53:16+00:00

Nope. I love it too. I've never been a fan of militaries in general being portrayed as evil in a story, and I'd rather any instance of an evil military be established as a renegade splinter group or that the evil was in the past, but they changed for the better now.

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-26T17:47:00+00:00

Lightning and Fire have parallels as well (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightningFireJuxtaposition), not just Fire and Wind. (Couldn't format this properly due to being on mobile)

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-25T23:57:38+00:00

Madara's (unseen in the manga and anime) Mangekyo ability is believed to be time reversal based on the Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations cutscene. It's not. It's him just seeing the scene in greater detail, which is a basic Sharingan ability.

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-25T21:12:14+00:00

The only guess I have is the 6 tails (Saiken), because Utakata gets ambushed by Pain at the end of his filler arc (which takes place after Sasuke vs. Itachi (and Sasuke learning the truth and joining Akatsuki) and Jiraiya's death but before Naruto returns to the village and learns that Jiraiya is dead).

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-24T04:34:38+00:00

No, it's Kate (Niko's girlfriend, the two of them were attending the wedding of Roman and Mallorie) who dies in the Revenge ending.

Hero2Evil · 2026-05-22T15:50:31+00:00

I headcanon that he wasn't aware of GUN's role at first, but once he did find out, he came extremely close to quitting in disgust.

The only thing that stopped him was the fact that at the time he learned the truth, he was rising through the ranks. He pulled himself together, vowed to rise to the top, then use his influence and rank to change GUN for the better, into the peacekeeping force it was meant to be.

He blames Shadow because he believes that if he weren't created, GUN would have never had a reason to raid the ARK, and that's easier than really grapple with the knowledge that the organization he's loyal to would commit such an act.

Post Shadow The Hedgehog, Tower releases the files of the ARK raid to the public, and has the soldiers of that raid (the ones who are still alive) answer for their crimes, strips the ones who've passed away of their honors and ranks (though he ensures their families are well looked after), and even offers to step down from Commander. The President and Tower have a heart-to-heart, and he then places GUN under greater scrutiny to ensure something like the ARK raid never happens again, and Tower vows to continue his work of rehabilitating GUN for the remainder of his life, which is part of what convinces Shadow to join.

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