re: Defend a villain

Sandman in Spider-Man 3

hes not real friendly IRL

Dean Wormer kind of has a point with the Deltas, although he goes way too far by notifying their local draft boards that they’re all eligible for military service:

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I always defend Jenny from Forest Gump.

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You shouldn’t; she’s awful.

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She gets shat on for foisting her kid on Forest before dying and not telling Forest that it was his kid until too late. She gets shat on for being a tramp and not staying with Forest who loved her and would’ve treated her right.

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As she should.

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How can we judge her for not staying with Forest? He was literally retarded. She gave this retarded man a piece of arse, and nobody else ever gave him such a treasure. Can’t expect her to settle down with him, but kudos to her for giving him the one thing every man wants above all else.

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Bruh. You can’t call him “literally retarded” and then not give her shite for fricking him. That’s essentially rape of a mentally handicapped person. This isn’t the argument you seem to think it is.

Now, if you want to argue that he’s high functioning (which he obviously is….and IMO he’s just sort of slow and not actually retarded), that’s fine. But then you have to admit he was a good match for her. She needed someone to take care of her and to sort of fill in that dad role that she really never had and was robbed of as a child.

Knowingly keeping someone’s kid from them is pure evil (assuming the person you’re hiding them from isn’t dangerous to the kid or some shite). She knew it was his and never said a word until she was sick. Which begs the question: if she never gets sick it seems likely that she literally never tells Forest that he has a child. How fricking vile is that?

She literally uses and takes advantage of Forest at almost every turn. She manipulates him on and off for practically his entire life. She’s the 90s equivalent of a stupid attention whore who bitches to her best guy friend (who’s very obviously in love with her) some fishing type of “I’m so ugly, nobody likes me!” bullshite to get him to respond with love and praise to stoke her ego because the newest a-hole she was dating finally got tired of her whorish bullshite. And once she gets her pick-me-up from her guy friend, she leaves him in the dust and moves onto the next douchebag that will treat her like the piece of shite she is.

Of all the takes in this thread, you win the worst so far.

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Principal Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. What was he supposed to do? He was the principal.

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Probably not leave school and make his entire day about proving a point about a single student, up to and including breaking into his home and terrorizing his sister.

Just give him detention and be done with it or something.

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Does that really count as murder if they just go away (they clearly don't die)?


Uh yeah. I'd say going away (for what was intended to be for eternity) equates to dying. Do you think there's any comfort in someone losing a loved one "Well, at least they just went away via dust."

Also, if something like that were to really happen there would be plenty of people that would actually die. Think about how many car wrecks, plane crashes, etc. would happen if half the population just disappeared at any given time and how many people that weren't dusted would get killed or maimed as collateral.

Politically, it could lead to untold power vacuums that could also leads to God knows what.

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The original comic version was Thanos was in love with the entity Death (a real character in the comics). The balance motivation was inserted because a metaphysical entity of Death would have been unappealing if not horrifying in major overseas markets.

The sacrifice of half of the lives in existence was his play to gain her affection and more transparently evil (the sacrifice of countless for personal benefit).

As the quote above touches on, the balance motivation doesn't make any sort of sense if preservation of resources were the goal. A population cut in half can readily recover, often in less than two generations

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Yes rewatching Varsity Blues as an adult you realize that Mox was a selfish a-hole who had no business being on the football team. Lockerroom cancer and program destroyer.

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While we're ragging on Texas high school quarterbacks for being ninny-babies, Randall "Pink" Floyd can get bent too. I mean, all that pissing and moaning because the coached asked you to sign some sort of "clean living" pledge heading into your senior year? They had a real chance to win state the next season, the coach was just trying a tactic to keep everyone focused and on the same page. Just sign the damned thing and never think about it again like 100% of other high school students would do. It's not like there still wasn't going to be a kegger every weekend just because a few guys signed a pledge. Or don't sign it if it's that important to you, but either way spare everyone around you your "I'm so deep and special" angst. The team would probably be better off without your scrawny arse under center anyway.

Also, the fact that he's seriously listening to Wooderson (a self-admitted burnout loser)'s life lesson at the end about not following rules and "you gotta keep on living" doesn't bode well for Floyd's future prospects of making something out of his life. You know what DOES bode well for someone's future prospects in life? Making a habit out of setting goals, putting in place a plan for how to achieve those goals and then following through with that plan to achieve results. You know, like setting a goal of winning a state championship and then working hard and sacrificing a tiny smidge of fun your senior year to try and achieve it. That's what successful people do.

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the quote above touches on, the balance motivation doesn't make any sort of sense if preservation of resources were the goal. A population cut in half can readily recover, often in less than two generations

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Exactly. The Thanos was right believers are generally just trying to sound hardass for a genocidal concept that didn’t make any sense anyway.

Darth Vader.

Look, it's hard being a dad. It's even harder being a dad when you wife dies and you don't know your "best friend" and "mentor" kidnapped your kids and kept them secret from you for all those years. Now you have to make up for lost birthdays, missing so many multiple sunsets on Tatooine as you tell your kid to stare at the stars and see all the great force users of the past looking down on you. Or visit his daughter for nice walks on sand free Alderaan explaining to her about the amazing and strong mother she had and how you hope she will turn out.

On top of all that, you have terrorist causing civil havoc across the galaxy, you have an a-hole of a boss who puts very high expectations on you... doesn't want to give you PTO to spend with them, just throws you in a suit without asking your permission on style and color and makes you get back to work, and then uses the death of your wife as a way to control you and make you feel insignificant.

And really, I don't want to hear about him chopping his son's hand off. They were play fighting. The kid has to learn to defend himself so he can work harder to be the JEDI like his Father before him. And ok, he overreacted and blew up his daughter's planet. But she didn't see the BIG picture that her life there was holding her back from being the princess that she deserved to be.

Luke and Leia was too hard on Vader. He didn't know they existed, worked 80 hours a week, had to help build a freaking death star, deal with incompetent engineers and the shoddy Galactic Union work by failing to close off all holes in their structure. Constant Zoom calls with his boss that could have been emails (WE ALL KNOW THAT FEELING), and trying to keep an army of soldiers from shooting their eyes out. Would it have killed them to have more than 1 dinner in a Cloud town 2 star gas station restaurant and listen to his offers to join him on his ship and learn about his job and learn about the great stories their dad had to offer?!?

Edit: And the fact Leia would get mad at Darth getting a jobless bum of a boyfriend out of her picture (and into the hutts) because she is a princess and deserves someone better... That's just being a good dad there. He would have raised her SOOOO much better than going after that riff raff.