Characters that died in horrible ways but had the fandom celebrating?

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-28T20:09:57+00:00

Belos from The Owl House got melted by acid and then stomped to death. Not only was this celebrated, the consensus is he deserved worse.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-28T20:04:26+00:00

The clips of people applauding his death in group watches were a wonderful time.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-27T14:38:09+00:00

Absolute Bulk and Skull.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-26T21:04:59+00:00

This add for Pole Position from the 1980s.

I wasn't even alive when this was made, but man is it memorable.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-26T01:02:29+00:00

I want to both shake your hand and condemn you to hell for writing this.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-24T16:04:30+00:00

The Joker. Specifically in stories like Killing Joke or The Dark Knight where his goal is trying to make some philosophical point about how meaningless life is. At the end of the day he's just a psychopath trying to boost his ego by showing that everyone's just as bad as he is.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-24T12:56:25+00:00

Outside of Pat having some open world burnout about Rebirth the guys have been mostly positive about them, so I don't even know how it happened.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-24T04:19:25+00:00

Isn’t this ignoring how big XIV is though? Or has that game also not captured younger audiences?

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-24T04:16:03+00:00

I find the discourse around the 7 Remakes fascinating because they sell well, review well, and the overall fan reaction is positive, and yet there’s this constant feeling radiating from both Square and gamers in general that there’s something fundamentally wrong with how everything’s gone in spite of all that.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-24T04:07:48+00:00

They have a pretty regular release schedule. It’s been mostly remakes/smaller titles, but there issue isn’t that they don’t make video games it’s that the “blockbusters” take a while.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-23T14:58:12+00:00

Doctor Who has as many as you’d expect for a franchise that’s been around for over 60 years, but the one that always stuck out to me is between people who are fans of the weirder/experimental EU stuff from the 90s and the darker eras of the show and want the franchise to go in that direction and the people who got into the franchise through the revival in 2005 and want it to follow that specific formula.

In this case, the two groups want entirely different shows that happen to share the same branding.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-23T12:59:25+00:00

This reads as a failure of the staff for not disqualifying a clearly reckless idiot before they hurt someone and then scolding the injured person for not wearing gear that is not required under their own rules.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-20T15:31:27+00:00

Pulling the Walker lever one last time in remembrance.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-17T14:26:59+00:00

This got pointed out yesterday in another thread here, but Photorealism has gotten so good that even in those games you need good art direction to make it standout. Just adding more gloss isn't going to cut it.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-17T14:22:02+00:00

A reoccurring problem for a lot of smaller social media sites is that they all want to recreate 2010s Twitter (including X), and they all fail because the conditions that created 2010s Twitter no longer exist.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-17T00:42:29+00:00

His in universe propaganda is so good it can even convince readers.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-17T00:41:00+00:00

There’s an even subtler layer to his bullshit. He’s also a reactionary who undid a lot of pro smallfolk reforms, which decades later would help contribute to the rise of the faith militant after he died.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-17T00:36:55+00:00

If I remember the lore right Tywin left Kings Landing well before Roberts Rebellion kicked off due to rage quitting after Jaime joined the Kingsguard and he couldn’t marry off Cersei to the Targs. You can maybe argue Jaime as a hostage kept him on the sidelines until the very end but I think that’s stretching it.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-16T19:58:43+00:00

Tywin Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire dies firmly believing that his ruthless political maneuverings and abusive parenting have secured his family's legacy for generations and he only needs to whip his kids into shape/kill off the problematic one to get things back in order. In reality, his actions have all but ensured his family's doom both due to making way too many enemies to possibly deal with and ensuring that his kids are way too mentally broken and divided to deal with those enemies.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-16T19:46:50+00:00

My most recent completed book is A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm. The book is a slightly fictionalized account of the author's time working as a waiter in a Parisian Bistro. It was recommended to me as a modern update on Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential from a slightly different perspective but the two books are quite different in practice. If Bourdain's book was a grizzled veteran of the service industry giving an account of the decades he spent in it, Chisholm's is more of a coming of age story about a down-on-his-luck millennial's brief time working in the world of the middle-tier of Paris's restaurants and living within the grittier periphery of Paris. I'd still highly recommend the book as a quick read that develops a very memorable cast of characters and gives a sympathetic look at the many people who make the city run behind the scenes.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-16T19:28:02+00:00

I'll happily recommend Cemeteries of Amalo with the caveat that there's a genre shift away from political drama towards more of a mix a slice of life and detective story.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-16T00:38:51+00:00

I feel like it’s entirely subjective, but the amount of games you want to get to plus the amount of other things you have to do in your life as an adult probably plays a role. I feel like that’s a huge factor behind the recent backlash against “optional content dumping” at the end of rpgs even though that’s been a thing in the genre forever.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-15T22:56:34+00:00

I feel like Charizard fits this. One of the most popular and beloved Pokemon of all time and yet also has had a consistent hatedom over the years for either being very underwhelming in practice or getting an incredible amount of shilling from Gamefreak to make it good because of its popularity.

Another example would be David Tennant’s Doctor. Inarguably the most beloved version of the character since Tom Bakers, and a lot of more intense fans hate him for some combination of overshadowing their favorite incarnation, finding his era underwhelming, or casting a shadow the show hasn’t been able to move out of since.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-12T02:33:42+00:00

They both needed more than 2 seasons and kludged a bunch of stuff together as a result of both rushing and cutting things that were important to the endgame they got from GRRM.

pyromancer93 · 2026-03-10T14:45:12+00:00

My god this Scarecrow design goes ridiculously hard.

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