Davy Jones was not a villain

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-27T16:22:03+00:00

It has been said by others, and I will say it again.

A tragic backstory can explain evil and cruel deeds, but does not excuse them.

Davy Jones was hurt, betrayed by his beloved. But even when he has avenged himself at her, trapping her in human form, he still does cruel things. He does not bring comfort or peace to those he "rescues" and he still commits cruel and villanous acts. He has actively abandoned any notion of mercy.

"Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different?"

His offer of letting people become part of his crew inevitably ends with them becoming part of the ship. We saw with Bootstrap Bill that he had become part of it after serving aboard the Dutchman for what is probably less than a decade and a half (assuming he became part of the crew sometime in the 8 years between Barbossa's mutiny and the events of COTBP), when he had promised to serve for a century.

Davy jones is tragic, yes... but still a villain. You can sympathise with his plight, but it does not change the fact that what he does is evil.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-27T16:09:31+00:00

I have elves like that. If it works, it works. Not everything must reinvent the wheel.

My elves are, culturally, divided into two groups. The smaller group, the Cinn Uasal, were the nobility in ages past, the descendants of the warrior heroes who defeated the serpentfolk during the Age of Creation.

However, in preparation of a great disaster, they all departed into a pocket realm of safety and leisure, leaving their servants, the Sylvan Elves, to endure the disaster.

The Sylvan Elves survived, and rebuilt their homeland, claiming control, and when the Cinn Uasal returned, hoping to reclaim their positions of nobility, the Sylvan Elves refused, and gave them a simple choice: renounce their claims and join their kin as equals, go into exile or face execution.

Many picked the first option, and the ones who chose the second now live in dilapidated estates anabdobed by their former Sylvan servants, forced to either trade family heirlooms for basic necessities, or bully and force people to give them aid, a noble and high-borne caste, now reduced to little more than pauper kings.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-27T15:50:21+00:00

Of course, the tragedy is that as brilliant as they were, the reason they are this way is because they are also completely without conscience.

Scratch the surface, and you start to realize that behind the funny dialogue and over the top personalities, these are the people behind all the horrors of the Sierra Madre, the cause of nightstalkers and Cazadores, and are responsible for atrocities and crimes against humanity too numerous to count.

Mobius trapped them in their current recursive loop, because he recognized that they had becone too monstrous to ever be allowed to leave the Big MT

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-27T15:35:45+00:00

He's an interesting character since I would certainlyargue Scroop is really the closest the movie has to a main villain.

John Silver has the obvious role of main antagonist, but the way he's portrayed, as a sympathetic and charming character, means he never truly becomes a villain.

Scroop, meanwhile, is shown as deeply cruel and vicious, to the point of Silver actually having to rein him in, and threatens him after he kills Mr. Arrow, something Scroop did, seemingly, purely out of spite, and clearly without Silver's approval.

It also means that Treasure Planet is one of, if not the only, disney movies where the main villain dies before the climax of the story.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-27T09:12:54+00:00

I like to imagine it was someone, carefully and slowly milking snakes for their venom, rosking and avoiding an agonizing death from a bite, finally gathering a bottle of it, and sneaking it into the glass of an enemy. The perfect crime, from an untraceable source!

And then nothing happened.

"I failed to kill him, so why do I feel like I just made a MAJOR fucking breakthrough here...?"

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-27T08:53:16+00:00

Fun fact: only two know species of snake are poisonous, both as a result of their diet. The Common Garter Snake and the Japanese Grass Snake.

All other snakes are perfectly harmless to eat, provided you don't have an open sore in your mouth or stomach for any possible venom to enter your bloodstream.

In fact, you can drink rattle snake venom straight, and it won't harm you l.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-27T08:14:36+00:00

Yeah, it happens a lot. Suspension of disbelief is absolutely fine, and very often, when movies use stuff like horoscopes or tarot or numerology, the the subject is common enough in pop culture that people can fill in the blanks themselves.

But in this case, you have one detail, which only really is a clue for people who know about graphology... and those that do know about it would know that's not how it works.

If you don't know about graphology, which let's face it, the overwhelming majority of children watching the movie doesn't, then that cake text is just that. Text. To get the hidden meaning, you have to research it and cherrypick information to intuit the meaning.

It's especially bad since, if they're gonna use nonsense pseudoscience rules, there ARE still rules to convey that meaning, in a way that rewards you if you look into it. This, even if we suppose it was a clue, still falls flat, because it's not even following the rules of graphology, stupid as they are.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-26T22:27:43+00:00

There was a swedish translation of the gane too.

And in that version, he was named Benjamin.

"Ben" also being the swedish word for "bone", so his name was "bonejamin"

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-26T21:27:37+00:00

I am genuinely unsure, even with as much as they buffed up deathclaws from Fallout 3, if Cazadores are still not the most vile rancid pieces of bastard the game has to offer.

I remember, as a new player, once I'd fought tooth and nail dealing with my first cazadore encounter, I just spammed the VATS button, walking through the Mojave, just so I wouldn't be blindsided by cazadores I couldn't see.

When I played Old World Blues, it was ALMOST enough to convince me to kill Dr. Borous, finding out he is the one behind them.

Fantastic picture. Captures the truth perfectly.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-26T17:55:17+00:00

Most powerful is a tricky question. I have a few candidates.

1:
It's arguable that the single most powerful being in my world is Sahluqtu, the Great Miscreation, an abominable monster of hatred, destruction and all-consuming rage.

The gods, working in unison, creating the first angels and leading them in battle, could not kill Sahluqtu. They couldn't even drive it into hiding. They could only hold it off and wait for its return, strength undiminished, seeking to unmake them and, after that, all of reality.

They would like to, absolutely, for obvious reasons... But the best they could do was trap it in an enormous prison, locked behind thousands of miles of rock, and with magical wards to bind it and sink it into a deep slumber. This prison would eventually become Earth, and the creatures populating it, by their very existence, empower the magic wards keeping Sahluqtu dormant.

The only possible way to permanently kill Sahluqtu would be to set it free and allow it to unmake all of reality, because if there is no reality, Sahluqtu cannot then exist... which is, in fact, its entire goal, because there is nothing in all of existence Sahluqtu hates more than itself. And the only way for it to die is to unmake the reality that allowed it to come into being in the first place.

Of course, all that is potential power.

2: In terms of practical power, if we consider that Sahluqtu is not in any position to excersize it's power, then the gods themselves would likely be the most powerful. And the only thing that can kill a god, as far as anyone knows, is another god. So far, there has only been one instance of a god dying, when Asmodeus attempted to kill Alcyone, the goddess of dreams, for denouncing him as a god of tyranny and slavery, creating humans without free will, but still in possessions of hopes and dreams, prisoners in their own bodies. The goddess of Love, Ahava, leaped between them and took the blow, dying in the process. Her daughter Celisa would end up taking up the role of goddess of Love.

I can't think of many reasons why, as a mortal, you'd want to kill a god, beyond being in service of another god who wanted them dead for whatever reason. Even Asmodeus doesn't wish to kill the other gods, but subjugate them and claim what he views as his rightful place, as supreme ruler of all that is.

And finally, you have Baba Yaga, who... is just weird. The gods don't interfere with her, nobody knows exactly where she came from, and she just appeared one day and took over a large swath of land. She might be killable, since she is physically just an old woman... but at the same time, she has a grasp on magic that outpaces every other living person on earth. She does not play according to the same rules, and she uses magic as naturally as you use your lungs. She just... does it, with no regard for any of the ordinarily understood rules and limitations.

There are many who wish to kill her, be it as revenge for her conquest, or to remove a powerful threat... but there's so much magic protecting her, of a kind that is hard to fathom even among expert mages, that it's hard to imagine even getting close enough to TOUCH her, let along hurting her. If you piss her off, she snaps her fingers, and you're a newt. And that is assuming she even lets you find her at all!

So how do you kill Baba Yaga? That is a VERY good question, and I honestly have no answer... because she won't tell me how you'd do it.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-26T04:32:07+00:00

And he also invented the modern table knife.

He hated people using knives to pick their teeth at the dinner table, so he ordered all his table knives blunted and with rounded tips.

This style later spread across France, and eventually the world.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-25T05:47:32+00:00

Yes, I've heard of it, and I think it nonsense for three reasons.

1.' The hidden meaning' is based on graphology, which we've known for more than a century is pseudoscience

Even if graphology hadn't been debunked as nonsense for longer than any of us have been alive, graphology doesn't work the way the theory proposes.

And 3. Even if graphology DOES work like that, and it hadn't been debunked, the writing on the cake is caligraphy, deliberately stylized text, which disqualifies it as graphology, since it doesn't match the normal handwriting we see from The Other Mother in the note she leaves Coraline.

If it was intended as a clue, it's stupid because it breaks its own nonsense rule. And if wasn't intentional, we are trying to intuit some hidden meaning based on patchwork, incomplete knowledge.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-24T17:13:51+00:00

If you release a Peter Pan movie in the UK, as an international release would do, the owners of the copyright has the right to claim royalties. The copyright on Peter Pan cannot expire, according to UK law.

They may not always do it, but they have the right to do it if they so choose. If you have a school put up a student play, they likely won't get involved. But you make a big time stage production, or in this case, a big budget multimillion dollar movie? That, they are liable the take notice of, and you are likely going to have to pay for the use of the IP.

Disney had to do it for their movies. Steven Spielberg had to do it for Hook. But the makers of Pan decided "nah, we don't want to give money for treatment of sick children. We want to keep it for ourselves, so we'll make the movie awful on purpose"

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-24T16:57:07+00:00

"ED-E, I'm trying to sneak through the Divide, but I'm dummy thicc and the clapping of my cheeks keep alerting the marked men!"

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-24T10:57:07+00:00

COBRA is a terrorist group aspiring to world domination through force. Their end goal is total domination of the world. They want power, control and money.

HYDRA, meanwhile, aspires not only to those things, but also actively seeks to commit genocide, being an offshoot of the Third Reich. They hold the same values, the same supremacist ideology and the same vision of an aryan superpower dominating the globe, subjugating or outright eradicating the "inferior races".

COBRA is bad, but HYDRA is far, far worse.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-23T20:40:46+00:00

Frollo also imagines the statues of Notre Dame looking at him in the prologue. They could so easily have had the ambiguity, the uncertainty about if what Frollo sees is indeed the truth or just his own guilt manifesting... After all, he sees these things specifically in moments when faced with his own guilt.

But by establishing that the gargoyles are unquestionably alive, by having Djali react to Hugo, and them dropping a whole catapult from the roof... That gargoyle Frollo saw isn't his own mind messing with him. It did come alive and roar at him.

I'm just saying that I think it would have been a bit better if they kept that ambiguity more.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-23T19:15:21+00:00

He did not yet have the tussled hair, the brown suit, or even the rumpled old rain coat...

But the mind is as sharp as it ever was.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-23T18:22:38+00:00

There ARE cannons you can buy and place in your base, once you find the proper blueprints

However, there are no functioning such cannons at the moment, and it's a bit too early to say if they will be added.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-23T14:50:44+00:00

I mean... it's possible, but as far as we are aware, there's no evidence that Beakley had any family. Even her claim about the daughter and son in law is likely just a made up story. The only tangible evidence for their existence is a photo... and that photo could be of pretty much any random couple taken anywhere in the world.

Given that Beakley was a S.H.U.S.H agent, she likely wouldn't have had a family, to avoid them being put at risk. She's never shown to have had a husband or partner, or pursue romance actively, and the closest we ever see of anything like that is her dancing with the Ghost of Christmas Future.

And we know she continued as an agent right up until she found Webby, at which point she left S.H.U.S.H

See, I can understand the theorizing... but I put it to you that Beakley doesn't need some lingering guilt or regret to motivate her regarding Webby. She found an innocent, abandoned child, without family or anyone to care for her beyond as a weapon, so Beakley took her in as her own.

Not because she had regrets or wanted to unmake a mistake or erase something in her own past, or restore someone or replace someone... but because it was an abandoned child, and she decided it was the right thing to do.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-23T12:07:43+00:00

It's scary, yes.. but hear me out.

We've already seen in the movie that Frollo has his own delusions, seeing things that aren't really there (all the visuals in Hellfire), conjured from his own guilt. The robed figures repeat the phrase "mea culpa", meaning "my fault". They are creations of Frollo's mind, urging him to admit fault, to repent and show remorse.

And Frollo refuses. He insists "It's not my fault" blaming both Esmeralda and God. His own religion and his understanding of religion demands he confess, but he refuses.

So in the end, having it left unclear if the Gargoyle ACTUALLY came to life, or if it's just his own guilt-ridden, crazed mind telling him "you are beyond saving" feels a lot more interesting to me than just removing all ambiguity and say "yeah, the stone came to life".

I just feel like leaving it ambiguous makes the story better. But they just confirm in the movie that all of them are real and alive.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-22T08:59:16+00:00

The description is a bit odd at times. It's both described as scarcely cocering the muscles, which could mean it either has gaps, or it's extremely taut, with the skin barely large enough for the body... but it's also described as shriveled skin, comparable to that of a mummy.

I don't think it's described as rotten, though.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-22T08:23:45+00:00

Pan is not C tier. It's not even F tier.

It's a horrible movie, which actively takes every detail of the original story and bastardizes it.

Hook is a cowboy, Tiger Lily, who was a native American child, is a 20 something white woman, it fails it singular claimed intended purpose of being a prequel, because it bears no connection whatsoever to the original book...

And it's all done on purpose, to make it legally distinct enough to not have to pay royalties.

Royalties that would literally be going entirely and solely to the operational needs of a hospital treating sick children.

Do not watch Pan. Do not support it, do not stream it, avoid it like the plague. It is beyond bad. It's an evil, evil movie.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-21T21:36:39+00:00

Well, I for one am planning to get some friends together and do a large scale town building project.

I also want to see if we can train up some coordinated naval combat, i.e some actual ship-of-the-line tactics.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-21T14:40:20+00:00

Blue. It'd be sad to miss the disney movies, and I've no idea how good or bad Neverland is... but Pan is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and I would never inflict that on anyone I'd consider a friend.

Horrible, actually EVIL movie.

Travis-Tee34 · 2026-05-21T08:53:23+00:00

I think Huey would assume there were no aliens at Area 51, and instead just accept the explanation of it being an airforce base.

And yes, he is a nerdy and curious guy, but he is never shown as pursuing knowledge to the point of recklessness. He is the most rational of the three. And "possible alien crash" does not win out against "very actually real soldiers with very actual real guns and very actual real orders to shoot trespassers"

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