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Been looking at Sun Wukong vs Kratos memes and I just had an epiphany. The reason the big monkey king is so ridiculously overpowered is because his real power is toon force before it was even a thing.

Hear me out. A fictional anthropomorphic animal with the powers of shapeshifting, carrying a size changing pillar, impossible strength and agility, and layers upon layers of immortality with the gall to go up against basically God. If he were made today he would be dime a dozen next to Bugs Bunny, Spongebob, and other toon force characters.

Case in point, kid Goku from Dragon Ball.

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The concept of Captain America's backstory of waking up from cryostasis only gets funnier the longer he exists.

At first it was only 10 years after WW2. Our modern interpretation with Chris Evans has him wake up almost 70 years later. If Marvel keeps going you'll have a 20th century soldier with no concept of AI or the internet wake up in Circa, 2242 fighting cyborgs in a dystopian world with nothing but his shield.

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The isekai genre has officially ruined how I see media of "characters in another world" as accurate as it is, new and old.

Alice in Wonderland? Classic isekai. Wizard of Oz? She even gets a reverse harem to join her on her journey. Narnia? They've even got the god of the world to support the cast.

Gwenpool? She even gets her overpowered skills from the get go. The Owl House, Amphibia, Over the Garden Wall, even One Shot! It's all so diverse, yet all so cliche. Doesn't mean it's bad though, it's just the folly of human pattern recognition at work.

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Sitting alone in my room on a high rise building, working on my story lit only by the light of the screen and a yellow lamp above while the open window shows the city beyond makes me feel like a romance era poet eagerly writing letters to his loves ones while waiting out the winter.

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My dad's answer to the Ship of Theseus dilemma was so out of the blue yet so sane, I was genuinely surprised nobody had thought about it.

When asked if the ship was still the same ship even after all its parts had been replaced, he simply said to me: "Well, the crew is still the same, isn't it?"

That's when I realized the true ship wasn't just the material parts, but the people running it. It's not just about your body, but who you are inside too.

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Thinking about those recent memes of the Indomitable Human Spirit™ against aliens with men quoting "we were born to inherit the stars" and it's bothered me a little how as much as humans have grown so far, we still have a long way to go.

We humans are innately persevering and determined, but we are just as equally destructive and malicious. We can solve sexism, racism, and religious discrimination, but the second we discover alien societies Speciesism is going to be the next thousand year societal issue we will have to overcome. I will not be around by then but I hope my great great descendants will be enjoying Star Trek and not Helldivers.

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Idea I may never use for writing so someone can steal this:

A chosen one storyline, but the chosen one never actually arrives. Without a hero to save them, the villagers of <fantasy kingdom> take arms and start to defend their home themselves against the BBEG.

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Against my better judgement and the world of normality, I am here and I will be a silly billy. That will be all.