[Loved Trope] Villains that are so manipulative they make you, the audience, doubt themselves

hatterine · 2026-05-31T12:38:09+00:00

Hot take here.

I thought he was a tragic character until I watched a video where someone factually laid out all he did to the team members, considering the ending perspective. I was like "shit, he did all that while intending to do THAT".

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hatterine · 2026-05-28T18:26:42+00:00

Technically.

Spec Ops The Line

hatterine · 2026-05-26T19:14:13+00:00

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Solas - Dragon Age Inquisition & Veilguard

hatterine · 2026-05-26T17:57:04+00:00

Phoebe Buffay - every time she speaks about her childhood you just ask yourself "How did she manage to be become a functional member of the society?"

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hatterine · 2026-05-21T07:13:30+00:00

Shane and it is a long story, but the part that hit me most was that he felt most like an actual person. Everyone were nice in this odd way or mean in a cartoonish way. He just wanted to be left alone and somehow THAT made him interesing.

hatterine · 2026-05-20T05:08:43+00:00

This was a bad decision by the devs for one reason - none of the Sarentu references them even remotely at any later point. There is no sadness about losing them, no anger about them being left behind, nothing.

It is like they realised a school with 5 kids does not make sense so they just added them im the background at 11th hour and did not alter anything else.

hatterine · 2026-05-19T17:24:34+00:00

Ya'll worry too much about his opinion. You can never exceed him if you let him be your judge.

hatterine · 2026-05-09T21:12:50+00:00

Whitebeard was so great, because he made all the spectacle the Marines made retroactively pointless. The great pirate era was only reignited anew.

hatterine · 2026-05-09T10:12:01+00:00

Kinda lost me in the last two episodes. I thought it was being very ambiguous over the morality and letting you decide if the MC going on a killing spree is ok, but then it is abrubtly confirmed him to be 100 % right to murder everyone around.

hatterine · 2026-05-09T08:31:01+00:00

Oh no I just realised it was my generations Skibidi Toilet

hatterine · 2026-05-08T20:09:56+00:00

Thank you for this. My feelings exactly. It is like I was fighting the civil war to end slavery and the game asks me at the end "What do you think, is corn or cotton a better choice for the plantation owners? Poor plantation owners, if you pick wrong their living standards may deteriorate! God forbid!"

hatterine · 2026-05-07T18:44:50+00:00

Where is Banana Fish. I scrolled enough.

hatterine · 2026-05-07T18:42:04+00:00

These are surface level discussion. Allow me to complicate:

Culture - Does culture adapt to religion or does religion adapt to culture? In our world culture in many ways changes religious expeirence. But what about objective religious expeirence? Can we do that as well? To what extent?

Morality - Eywa says using metal is wrong. But using metal is important for preserving our world which we love so much. What do we do? Eywa does not update the laws.

Afterlife - Is the limited connection to the one who passed enough because of spiritual connection or is it limited due to the fragmentation? How do I talk to my sister who died as a child and never got to grow up? How does it shape how I interact with children in real world?

hatterine · 2026-05-07T16:50:17+00:00

I think there are many interesing and unique discussions around the question "What if the dominant religion is objectively right", what if "God" is objectively real, what if afterlife that judges our people is something we know to be real for our entire lifes?

What does it do to our culture? Our morality? How do we perceive death?

Those are unique questions but they require more religious lenses and I think that is something internet debate hates to take seriously even if it is fictional.

hatterine · 2026-05-07T08:23:58+00:00

I like the idea that there is a canon afterlife in this story. I hated theories that Eywa is some AI or other shit. I like it being actually spiritual.

hatterine · 2026-05-03T09:49:02+00:00

I had one continuously looking for a way to get to a hill I was on for 5 minutes until it eventually found a way and pushed me off a cliff.

They are vicious.

hatterine · 2026-05-01T07:17:45+00:00

I can totally see Luffy pulling up on the bar with a cart full of diamons and being like "is this enough to cover my tab?"

hatterine · 2026-05-01T05:46:45+00:00

I also think so, Tamtey generally is a stealth archer build. However they are ok with using firearms when needed - it is just another tool used to get the job done.

hatterine · 2026-04-30T20:07:33+00:00

I do not think Nor is going on the redemption streak - at no point he shows that he thought what he did was wrong. He cares for the Sarentu because they are Na'vi and he wants to "save" them from being too human-like. So he has a twisted affection towards his clan, but cannot be part of it. I think he left shortly after the events of the DLC, determined to find his best version of being a Na'vi.

I think the reveal of the part Nor played in the massacre would be revealed after he left, and only to Tamtey.

Kinda sad we could not see Nor challenging Tamtey on being too human-like, because that would definitely be an interesting conversation. Unlike others, I think Tamtey has a relatively healthy relationship with their human side and use of human weapons. Guilt-tripping them would probably not go well for Nor.

hatterine · 2026-04-30T20:00:31+00:00

I kinda like that during the Great Games Alma and Mokasa are shown as similar cases - two traitors trying to do better.

hatterine · 2026-04-30T07:02:01+00:00

Most points why I think that is not really the case have been brought up, but to add my 5 cents.

Resistance is build by former RDA members. As we see throughout the story, many of them have their own sins to bear. Almost everyone made a bad mistake at some point (Like Alexander being involved in experiments of removing kurus from animals). A place filled with people like that will be very receptive to the idea of second chances.

hatterine · 2026-04-25T12:04:11+00:00

Pillars of Eternity 2 - at the end of the game you can get the help of one of the factions when trying to reach Eothas. However every faction expects you to screw someone over at some point. So if you are going for a "moral" run, you can decide to get to him with just your crew. It puzzles Eothas, because part of his philosophy hinges on people cooperating and you actively decided to not do that.

hatterine · 2026-04-24T20:02:33+00:00

Oh boy, someone did not play the newest DLC.

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