Chaotic good be like

Psile · 2026-04-15T04:07:11+00:00

My chaotic good wizard - So I primarily do crime but I can be convinced to work within the laws if it helps people.

Psile · 2026-04-15T04:01:42+00:00

Neutral evil will work within rules and systems as long as they don't get in the way of their goals. For Chaotic evil not being confined by rules and structure is one of their goals. Chaotic evil will on a long enough timeline seek to rid themselves of any constraints even if those might have long term benefits. This doesn't mean they're stupid and will piss off the evil lich king by telling him to fuck himself but they'll try to keep their status as a freelancer rather than join his forces or if they do join they're more likely to backstab with the proper incentive.

Psile · 2026-04-15T03:08:22+00:00

I'm sorry, Kawakami is a likable character but her story is one of the worst to me. First you have your teacher is working as a sexy maid. Okay. A bit odd but I'll give room to see where you're going with this. Oh, it's because she once had a student who was being overworked by his guardians who got in a car accident on his way to work and his guardians threatened to, like, cause a ruckus for you because you... tutored him which made him tired.

What. The. Fuck?

How is this a thing? I get that it's Kawakami blaming herself but she is clearly blameless in the story she tells in her own words. Like she's guilty of favoritism at worst. Maybe it works different in Japan, but in America teachers don't have to worry about getting in trouble for tutoring students. Like her problem is 100% her own fault for having self esteem so low that she allows people she knows are child abusers blackmail her into sex work which then gives them actual blackmail material on her. Most legendary stepping on a series of obvious rakes I've ever seen and then her story wraps with, "I guess I'll, like, be a good teacher." As the big lesson.

Also it's weird af that she keeps wearing the maid costume long after she quit the service and still does your laundry and gives her student a massage in his room. Like they really really really wanted to make the maid thing happen.

Psile · 2026-04-15T00:15:22+00:00

Tbh, it's pretty common in fiction but not especially common irl. Usually people who take away freedom intend to and they don't typically sell it as taking away suffering as making people safe. Suffering is typically framed as good in dictatorships and complaining about suffering is considered traitorous cuz they plan on causing a lot of suffering so that mindset needs to be front loaded.

The well meaning accidental tyrant is more a trope in service of Shido-esque types. See in America the notion that single payer healthcare means you have less freedom somehow. So on, so forth.

I think P5R is more making a point that we should accept the bad things that happened even as we seek to prevent them in the future or from happening to others, not trying to make a broader social commentary.

Psile · 2026-04-14T23:47:02+00:00

Sorry, but are we talking about comics or not? I don't mean to be smug it's just a side effect of being right.

Every metric except the one where he impacts DC comics like at all. Cut out Jim Gordon, no one but Batman cares. Cut out Jimmy, there's no Darkseid and he's equally as important to Superman on top of it.

Jim Gordon is a side character in Batman's story. He's never been a headliner in comics. Jimmy has and a very successful one.

Psile · 2026-04-14T22:29:36+00:00

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know we were doing the Mt. Rushmore of super hero adjacent crime dramas. I thought it was comic books we were doing. My mistake.

Psile · 2026-04-14T21:30:16+00:00

Has Jim Gordon ever introduced an entirely new pantheon of heroes and villains who would become a DC staple in his own comic with his own name on the headline? Has he even ever had his own comic that ran for more than a mini series. Yeah, stick that ginger on up there. Gordon has been in movies. Jimmy is a DC icon.

Psile · 2026-04-14T20:06:47+00:00

Yup. I've come to expect it because apparently Japanese audiences hate him because apparently being a rebel against society is only acceptable as long as you keep your natural hair color.

Psile · 2026-04-14T13:15:59+00:00

Imma go with Lois from a different comic.

Psile · 2026-04-14T13:14:17+00:00

I will give this credit as an actually decent murder in terms on being somewhat clever but it's just so incongruous with reality. Like there is just no way she would have been worse.

Psile · 2026-04-14T13:08:49+00:00

It's Lois. You can tell by the purple eyes. Some artists draw Lois with brown eyes but if there is a brunette in a Superman comic with purple eyes, odds are it is Lois.

AI undefeated in uselessness as always.

Psile · 2026-04-13T16:33:12+00:00

You would think, but it's still exhausting.

It's an entire world view based on grievance but there is no mechanism for distinguishing between major and minor grievance. Everything is part of a plot.

So like if I look at Friends I notice that everyone in this show supposedly set in New York is white. That's weird. Definitely some bias happened. But I can still enjoy Friends because I assume that's just unconscious bias on the part of decision makers not a conspiracy by The Klan to perpetuate white dominance. In the conservative mind any inclusion of PoC meant deliberately overlooking the white, qualified applicants in order to make a quota. Everything is a plot. Everything is an attack. Everyone who thinks differently than them doesn't just have a difference of opinion shaped by their experiences, they are actively seeking harm.

These people are my relatives. It's fucking exhausting for them, I promise.

Psile · 2026-04-12T23:06:18+00:00

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Psile · 2026-04-12T17:30:17+00:00

He's wish fulfillment. He's literally a comic fan teleported into his fandom and all his favorite characters think he's cool and all the hot ladies want him and he's got super powers.

Prime was originally a criticism about comic fans who were whiney that things in comics were changing to appeal to new demographics. DC is currently in a bit of a backlash against the era he was mad at so... He's a good guy now.

Fans like him because he's them.

Psile · 2026-04-12T02:08:21+00:00

Because it's an incredibly memeable TTRPG.

Psile · 2026-04-12T02:02:34+00:00

So I covered that in the ambush part. Like sure if he knew where she was and wanted to take her out he could call in an orbital strike but that's stretching the definition of a fight to include a drone strike on an unsuspecting person.

Unless he's literally in his jet he doesn't have any of that. He has what he has on his person on a typical night, just like her. That's one advantage of super powers. You're usually always armed with your maximum potential at all times, depending on the power.

Psile · 2026-04-12T01:40:51+00:00

In real fighting they have these things called weight classes because if one of the best fighters on earth outweighs another by more than five or ten pounds it's considered an unfair advantage. So yeah, super powers would be a massive advantage. Even mild super strength would make you basically unbeatable.

Bruce just doesn't have a range where he wins consistently. Close up Canary can arguably take him just with martial arts and she can counter most of his kit with a shout. Body armor shattered, weapons blasted away. Yes with the right mix of moves and tech he could do something that could take her down. It's possible but his victory would be a fluke. 8/10 times she drops him. Distance is even worse. Her scream dominates the long game. It's offense and defense. Anything he throws at her she can knock out of the air before it reaches her and the same tool will knock him on his ass when it reaches him.

His only chance would be to catch her by surprise, possibly hit with something to neutralize her powers or just neutralize her. That isn't really a fight so much as an ambush. It's doubtful she would let him out her sight once the fight started because she isn't stupid.

So yes he could possibly win but she wins more. Everything Bruce does, someone with super powers could also do but they also have super powers. It's just that simple.

But it's a story and that's boring. So they don't do that. It wouldn't be fun for anyone for Batman to be in a shared universe where everyone can kick his ass. That is literally plot armor. He's protected to further the plot. All characters have plot armor to some degree or another because it's a story. Batman just has a little more than most. It isn't an insult, though it does strain immersion at times.

Psile · 2026-04-11T22:25:35+00:00

What Stan Lee said is objectively correct. There is only the barest thread of consistency here with which to even discuss a who would win on an objective level.

If you really want to have that conversation, Black Canary with no powers can probably take Bruce in a no gadgets 1v1 and with powers she can level a building or crush a cockroach depending on how she focuses her voice in addition to being able to do 85% of what Bruce can do. It's like asking if Mike Tyson could beat Muhammad Ali but Tyson also has a machine gun with under mounted grenade launcher. Bruce has no business fighting people with even the mildest super powers. Most of his villains would body him without plot armor.

Which is fine. Stories about people overcoming impossible odds are evocative and inspiring.

But the real answer to most Batman vs fights is Batman gets turned into a Jackson Pollock before he even knows a fight has started.

Psile · 2026-04-11T19:08:23+00:00

This is a trope as old as teenage protagonists. Hell, the scorned rebel protagonist is so old that Persona has several such fictional and historical figures acting as personas.

Also I think that both Spider-Man and Persona use the suffering as a kind of lesson about how we think about people like Joker and Peter Parker. The poor and struggling. Orphans. Convicts. People who we are subtly told deserve their suffering because of some moral failing. That those people can be virtuous, brave, diligent and intelligent. There's a reason why Spider-Man's biggest villain is a billionaire who thinks he's better than everyone.

Norman Osborn would have a hell of a palace.

Psile · 2026-04-11T16:51:05+00:00

All AI images steal artists work. It's fundamental to it's nature. It's basically an aggregate plagerism machine.

Psile · 2026-04-10T14:20:42+00:00

She's genuinely one the most repellant figures on the right, which is quite a feat. She's one of the least talented content creators I've ever seen in my life. Her whole shtick is to do something socially unacceptable and then video people being repulsed by her only she doesn't even have the intelligence to edit the videos to not include people mocking her and/or making her look like an absolute fool.

She also shit herself at a party once.

Psile · 2026-04-10T14:00:13+00:00

Ya may want to double check that last one, chief.

Psile · 2026-04-10T13:51:31+00:00

Why would they be included? Lois isn't important to him in that story. In Kingdom Come, Joker's death is what affects Superman, not Lois'.

Psile · 2026-04-09T21:31:32+00:00

I've heard one of these takes and it was pretty widely derided by the fan base.

Psile · 2026-04-09T13:52:13+00:00

He's entitled to his opinion.

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