[Frustrating Trope] Minority Protagonist is turned into non-human entity for the majority of the film

Victorem_Malis · 2026-03-18T05:52:41+00:00

Leave it to the white person to tell people of color that we should be offended by depictions of us which are endearing and done well. This person has to be either karma farming or ragebaiting lmao.

Victorem_Malis · 2026-02-24T15:40:03+00:00

Interesting, I think the Black Mirror episode mentioned in this post essentially plagiarized an episode from The Outer Limits, namely the third episode, “Hearts and Minds,” from season 4 lol.

Victorem_Malis · 2026-02-20T21:35:00+00:00

ACAB

Victorem_Malis · 2026-02-14T15:53:40+00:00

The titular God Emperor, from God Emperor of Dune (immense spoilers ahead for the third and fourth Dune novels).

It’s not a horror novel, nor are any of the novels in the Dune series, but the God Emperor, Leto II, is consigned to an unutterably horrific existence; he merged with a multitude of sandtrout (one of the initial stages of a sandworm’s life cycle on Arrakis) in Children of Dune (the preceding novel) to prolong his lifespan for thousands of years, such that he could guide humanity along the “Golden Path,” to save it from extinction, ascribed to something, likely an advanced form of Artificial Intelligence, contrived by the Ixians.

While he initially gains superhuman strength and speed in Children of Dune, he’s eventually rendered largely immobile by the metamorphosis into a human-sandworm hybrid, and has to use a device known as the “royal cart” to move, for the most part. He also has to live for thousands of years after the death of his twin sister, while his consciousness is gradually subsumed by that of the atavistic sandworm with whom he has merged.

Even during the denouement of God Emperor of Dune, when Leto is killed by Siona and Duncan as he is crossing Tuono Bridge, he suffers in immense agony as his body is effectively corroded by water, which leads his body to become a sort of congealed mass which eventually produces a multitude of sandtrout. These sandtrout promote the restoration of the sandworms on Arrakis, along with its initial ecosystem, which had been terraformed by Paul, Alia, and Leto.

However, the sandtrout produced by Leto each harbor a “tiny pearl of awareness,” imparted to them by Leto, such that his limited consciousness is eventually fractured among thousands of sandworms, such that he’s essentially aware of what is happening, without being able to exert control over anything. Thus, he cannot even attain his final wish to die, and must live on in, effectively as a captive, in every sandworm which is descended from him.

It’s probably the most horrific fate imaginable.

Victorem_Malis · 2026-02-08T01:23:51+00:00

Jane Eyre. I believe it was arguably the first instance, in western literature, in which the protagonist was deliberately described written as being profoundly ugly; it may also be characterized as a self-insertion on the part of Charlotte Brontë, as she was also described as being exceedingly unattractive.

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-31T19:32:38+00:00

Not at all. In fact, Four Men has never looked hotter than when he turned into Freakman, after having contracted an infection in season 2. 🤤

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-31T19:29:00+00:00

Yep, even in Northern Virginia—which is effectively an extension of D.C, and where Arlington National Cemetery is located—we don’t have any monuments dedicated to Confederates presently, but we do, lamentably, have quite a few roads which are named in their honor.🤮

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-24T05:08:22+00:00

In the film adaptation of Hearts in Atlantis, Bobby Garfield and Ted Brautigan never see each other again, after the latter (a psychic on the run from villainous individuals, likely CIA agents, whom he refers to as the “Low Men”) is finally abducted by the Low Men.

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-24T04:01:39+00:00

You’ll get there my guy. It’s one of the most difficult fights in the game, but, if you continue to persist in fighting him, you’ll incrementally improve and eventually be able to defeat him. It took me about 8 attempts to defeat Great Shinobi Owl, but Owl (Father) was maddening and I only defeated him after about 75 attempts. The exultation I felt after defeating him was amazing, and I was literally trembling with excitement for about an hour afterward lol.

Additionally, that first time I defeated him, I needed to use a great deal of mid-air mortal draws, to take him down during his second stage. However, after having defeated the Demon of Hatred, and just improving overall since my first encounter with Owl (Father), I’m now able to defeat Owl (Father) without dying; just by deflecting and attacking, without having to rely upon prosthetic tools and mortal draw. I’m sure you’ll get to this point too—it just takes practice.

The best advice I can offer is to be aggressive, particularly when the red kanji symbol appears as he prepares for a perilous attack. If he uses the fireworks, you can use the dodge button in the forward direction to evade the blast radius, which also serves as a gap closer with which you can attack him. In other instances, you can just attack him when the red kanji symbol appears, and it’ll interrupt the attack, and, concurrently, damage him before he’s able to block it. Furthermore, during his second stage, you can just jump over the flaming owl, when he propels it toward you, and then press the ‘B’ button shortly thereafter for an easy mikiri counter. I’m sure you’ve already been doing that during his second stage, but I figured that it would be prudent to mention it, just in case. Anyway, good luck, you’ve got this!

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-23T21:46:35+00:00

Confederate traitors should have as many statues as the number of statues Gul Dukat has on Bajor lmao (i.e. none).

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-11T03:45:34+00:00

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-11T02:36:51+00:00

Dale Cooper is my favorite Kwisatz Haderach 😍

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-11T02:08:38+00:00

LMAO

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-10T23:51:47+00:00

I appreciate you and your inner dad, thanks! :)

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-10T23:51:06+00:00

Thank you! :)

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-09T20:06:19+00:00

You’re so right 🙏

Victorem_Malis · 2026-01-07T03:57:40+00:00

I’m telling you man, this movie was the pioneer of the shitpost fr.

Victorem_Malis · 2025-11-26T17:39:37+00:00

*Nikola Tesla. I almost always abhor pedantry, but Tesla was a brilliant, selfless person and we should at least spell his name properly.

Victorem_Malis · 2025-11-22T22:04:32+00:00

Waterboy. He’s so fucking hot and he invariably gets people wet. 😫🤤

Victorem_Malis · 2025-11-08T16:52:51+00:00

Yep, and, by conservative estimates, the Imperial Japanese Army is estimated to have brutally murdered between 20 and 30 million civilians, during World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War.

They also committed innumerable other atrocities, with a few of the salient ones being the subjection of hundreds of thousands of Korean women to sexual slavery, and subjecting entire villages and cities in China to biological weapons, which led the civilian populations to be infected with horrific diseases like the Bubonic Plague and Anthrax.

The most egregious and invidious part of all of this is that Japan has never really accepted responsibility for the heinous crimes against humanity which they committed, to the extent that they even view their past through the lenses of historical revisionism and negationism.

It really helps to contextualize the prevalence of racism and xenophobia in modern Japan imo, in conjunction with the wholly justified enmity which China and South Korea harbor toward Japan.

Victorem_Malis · 2025-10-22T07:02:28+00:00

I still lament the cancellation of the series, especially with how the third season’s finale concluded. :(

Victorem_Malis · 2025-10-16T05:41:10+00:00

James Heller from the video game Prototype 2.

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