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Ashley would have control over her hair, like, using it as a prehensile limb and poo poo if she was a supe.
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Jun 27, 2022 23:29
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My Strange Addiction, but it's people eating Ashley's hair.
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Jun 27, 2022 23:38
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She turns into medusa. Or each strand shoots lasers.
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Jun 27, 2022 23:55
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Mr Interweb posted:right, but that's the point that the tiktok guy was making, which Wheeeee was arguing against Right-wingers love The Boys because it's full of cool violence and jokes and satirizes woke liberalism and soyboy millennials, they love Homelander because he's wearing an American flag, tells it like it is, and is funny when he triggers the libs. That Homelander is actually weak, a pathetic weeping little manchild with deep insecurities and a powerful mommy fetish, has previously gone over their heads because right-wingers tend to be functionally illiterate. No sincere fascist protagonist would be portrayed anything like Homelander, he is explicitly shown to be a fraud, a psychologically broken creature who believes in nothing. Someone mentioned Man In The High Castle and that show is a much better fit to the idea of media that hews close to genuinely portraying fascist ideals, John Smith is a more dangerous character than Homelander. SirSamVimes posted:is this a bit Michael Ironside, who read the novel as a youth, said that he asked Verhoeven, who grew up in the German-occupied Netherlands, "Why are you doing a right-wing fascist movie?" Verhoeven replied, "If I tell the world that a right-wing, fascist way of doing things doesn't work, no one will listen to me. So I'm going to make a perfect fascist world: everyone is beautiful, everything is shiny, everything has big guns and fancy ships but it's only good for killing loving Bugs!" Starship Troopers is played completely straight, the movie never questions the legitimacy of its premise or challenges the ideology of the Federation outside of a brief talk show clip of a loony lefty suggesting that humanity may have provoked the war before being dunked on by the other guests. Self-awareness doesn't exist in any of its characters, they are all perfect human machines, and it is bizarrely sexless despite having multiple romantic subplots, a naked coed shower, and a sex scene. Kitschy glossiness, vacuously beautiful sexless leads, childlike simplicity and subordination to authority, sincere true believer leaders, that's all authentic fascist poo poo. Of course the movie is absurd to most of us watching it with outside context, that the terrible leads were literally taken from soap operas and 90210 and that it has the popular child star of Doogie Howser MD running around in a Nazi SS uniform is loving hilarious, Starship Troopers is a very funny movie despite not being a comedy. It's also absurd because fascism is just absurd and stupid on its face once you see it laid out. Fascism is a Thomas Kincaide painting.
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Jun 28, 2022 00:16
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I've been doing a rewatch of the show from the beginning to get a friend caught up over the last few weeks, and it's fun to see the callbacks and foreshadowing from both directions. A-Train's arc in particular is especially great---go rewatch his "apology" to Hughie in S1 and compare it to this last episode. Kimiko's fight scene this last episode is also one of the best gritty, visceral ones I've seen in quite a while, right up there with The Raid et al. They *might* be showing her getting her powers back, but the point of the scene was to drive home her point that the brutality is really just her and not the V, IMO.
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Jun 28, 2022 01:08
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Hughie being unsatisfied with A-Train's finally sincere apology was a good Hughie moment, caught him off guard and wasn't what he was really hoping to hear.
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Jun 28, 2022 01:13
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No Dignity posted:Someone also should have given him the nerd logic case though I mean SB carries a shield which implies to me at least that he's not bulletproof like Homelander or (juiced-up) Butcher are. So shooting at him doesn't seem ludicrous like it does for those two.
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Jun 28, 2022 01:27
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Khanstant posted:Hughie being unsatisfied with A-Train's finally sincere apology was a good Hughie moment, caught him off guard and wasn't what he was really hoping to hear. Not merely hoping - it's not what he wanted to hear. In his mind, he was already wailing on A-Train. Like Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction going, "It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it," this was Hughie hoping A-Train would key his car just so he could catch him keying his car. TwoPair posted:I mean SB carries a shield which implies to me at least that he's not bulletproof like Homelander or (juiced-up) Butcher are. So shooting at him doesn't seem ludicrous like it does for those two. My man, MM saw the video of Russians unloading an automatic rifle into SB's mouth. How much more proof of bullets does one need to be? Habibi fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Jun 28, 2022 |
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Jun 28, 2022 01:27
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Habibi posted:Not merely hoping - it's not what he wanted to hear. In his mind, he was already wailing on A-Train. Like Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction going, "It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it," this was Hughie hoping A-Train would key his car just so he could catch him keying his car. do u think he swallowed and passed the bullets or spat them out?
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Jun 28, 2022 01:37
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bobjr posted:Depowered Homelander is found by MM’s ex’s new husband, who does everything to keep him hidden and recovering. I thought about that, like, if he's on the run (I like Vought puppet idea too) that necessitates a whole cast of people harbouring Homelander, but we have one character we've already met who could slip in there...
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Jun 28, 2022 01:41
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Habibi posted:My man, MM saw the video of Russians unloading an automatic rifle into SB's mouth. How much more proof of bullets does one need to be? maybe only his mouth is bulletproof did you think of that fucker
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Jun 28, 2022 02:01
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Tactical Soyfacing
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Jun 28, 2022 02:02
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Someone earlier said it would be fun if Homelander was depowered and had to blend in, in some unrecognizable way, and I think if that's the case he should put on some thick glasses, dye his hair black and walk with bad posture. That oughta do it.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:10
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Spare Black Noir suit
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Jun 28, 2022 02:22
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To be honest I never recognize Anthony Starr when he’s out of that costume so I think it would work.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:22
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He's also got the Australian accent down
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Jun 28, 2022 02:32
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Owlbear Camus posted:do u think he swallowed and passed the bullets or spat them out? Guess we'll have to wait for part 2. tokin opposition posted:maybe only his mouth is bulletproof did you think of that fucker Nope. But "bulletproof mouth" would be an awesome random superpower.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:34
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Habibi posted:My man, MM saw the video of Russians unloading an automatic rifle into SB's mouth. How much more proof of bullets does one need to be? lol I had honestly forgotten, now I feel foolish. I honestly forgot most of the video except for "killed some guys in one experiment, got a chest beam". Huh, I wonder what the shield's for then? I mean my first thought is propaganda like most things Vought* but SB actually went into wars and it feels like it'd be much more convenient for a bulletproof man to have both hands free instead of carrying a pointless shield. *I mean I know the meta-reason is to make the Captain America parallel more explicit, but Captain America is notably not bulletproof so the shield makes practical sense.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:37
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Kimikowns
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Jun 28, 2022 02:43
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BlackIronHeart posted:Ashley would have control over her hair, like, using it as a prehensile limb and poo poo if she was a supe. "What if Love Sausage but worse"?
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Jun 28, 2022 02:47
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TwoPair posted:lol I had honestly forgotten, now I feel foolish. I honestly forgot most of the video except for "killed some guys in one experiment, got a chest beam". It seems that getting shot is painful to him, so he might use the shield because it protects him from getting shot in the balls while also being a pretty useful club to crush skulls.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:49
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Maybe it was for shielding non supes or non supe soldiers when he fought in ww2
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Jun 28, 2022 02:50
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Is it bad I want a spinoff show about Soldier Boy's ww2 campaign? I want more of him.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:55
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the shield is for railing coke off of, op
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Jun 28, 2022 03:00
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As Nero Danced posted:Is it bad I want a spinoff show about Soldier Boy's ww2 campaign? I want more of him. WWII is boring, spinoff about soldier boy hanging out with ex-nazis doing gladio poo poo in europe If its going to be anything like how they portrayed the contra's i would love to watch how the show would portray all the stuff that went on post WWII in europe. ughhhh fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jun 28, 2022 |
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Jun 28, 2022 03:04
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Chamale posted:It seems that getting shot is painful to him, so he might use the shield because it protects him from getting shot in the balls while also being a pretty useful club to crush skulls. tokin opposition posted:Maybe it was for shielding non supes or non supe soldiers when he fought in ww2 Owlbear Camus posted:the shield is for railing coke off of, op all 3 are equally valid and probably correct, thank you
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Jun 28, 2022 03:04
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Jun 28, 2022 03:05
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The shield could just be a helpful melee weapon / defensive measure when going up against tanks and poo poo. Like, yeah he could take a shell in the face, but does he want to? Probably not. It seems extra dense / heavy / sturdy, so maybe it also made punching through a tank easier.
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Jun 28, 2022 03:10
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BlackIronHeart posted:Ashley would have control over her hair, like, using it as a prehensile limb and poo poo if she was a supe. Kabuki Quantum CEO.
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Jun 28, 2022 03:12
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He's said this about other things before. He's one of those "I thought about doing this!" type of guys once he see's something popular. In short I take what he says with a grain of salt.
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Jun 28, 2022 03:36
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Cpt_Obvious posted:The first thing that popped into my head when that episode ended was "If starlight had helped, Homelander might have died right there." If Starlight had been there, the writers would have written a dumb scene about Hughie loving it up for everyone by playing the hero. Oh wait, that's what they did.
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Jun 28, 2022 03:53
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The Last Call posted:He's said this about other things before. He also made Snatcher, which is deeply deeply in yikes territory.
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Jun 28, 2022 04:09
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Snatcher would be Hughie's supe name, teleporting in to grab people then teleporting them to both safety and nudity somewhere else.
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Jun 28, 2022 04:42
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i don't want kojima the boys but I am absolutely loving desperate for starr playing a kojima villain
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Jun 28, 2022 05:32
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TIP posted:"I'm Homelander's twin brother Freelander. He told me everything about you so I feel like I already know you boys and we won't have that awkward getting-to-know-you stage. If I could just ask you one favor, if it wouldn't be too uncomfortable, I was hoping maybe you would call me Homelander, in honor of him." flmo
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Jun 28, 2022 05:42
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Bill Cosby, now that was a real man. He could mix a STRONG drink! Necroquoting to ask if this is meant to imply that the Cos' was trying to knock out Solder Boy for some after hours shenanigans but he metabolized it as just being a heavy pour? Very slight  if so.Habibi posted:The shield could just be a helpful melee weapon / defensive measure when going up against tanks and poo poo. Like, yeah he could take a shell in the face, but does he want to? Probably not. It seems extra dense / heavy / sturdy, so maybe it also made punching through a tank easier. I think it's this. Hughie couldn't even budge the thing like it was Thor's Hammer, so SBoy swinging it around would be like a wrecking ball.
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Jun 28, 2022 07:07
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Yea, I mean Captain America wrecks people with a 28 pound frisbee. That thing has to be pretty much an instant kill if soldier boy flung it at you.
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Jun 28, 2022 07:26
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btw, i'm totally on board the idea of a depowered homelander. not just cause it's what i want but i mean, that HAS to happen at some point right? otherwise why even introduce SB's depowering ray?
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Jun 28, 2022 07:27
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Open Source Idiom posted:He also made Snatcher, which is deeply deeply in yikes territory. It's a great game at all times it is not engaging in pedophilia
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Jun 28, 2022 07:31
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tokin opposition posted:It's a great game at all times it is not engaging in pedophilia yikes I've heard so many nerds evangelize that game but never heard that particular thing about it
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