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One of my favorite little quirks of TVTropes is that the people covering the Godzilla franchise have a deep moral revulsion towards Gigan. Like, seriously, just search for Gigan and they have him in the same "Complete Monster" category as Anton Chigurh and Judge Holden.

Fucking Gigan.

"The freedom of giant cyborg chicken things is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. That would be a hell of a zoo."

First of all, in Godzilla vs. Gigan, he was just a poor space dinosaur surgically mutilated and forced to be the mind-controlled slave of alien cockroaches. So no moral culpability there.

And in Godzilla vs. Megalon, the seatopians are pissed that people keep nuclear testing in their oceans, so they send out a giant beetle god (actually kind of feel like these last two movie's kaiju should have been switched, but that's beside the point). And once the beetle gets his ass kicked because he's stupid and drill hands aren't actually that productive, the Seatopians radio the alien cockroaches for help, drawing on some Ancient Atlantean-Blatta Accord that apparently exists in the same continuity as Gojira (1954). And so Gigan comes back to earth. To save the oceans' indigenous people from the ravages of nuclear weaponry. And he's automatically chummy with Megalon, who clearl needs assistance because something's not all there.

Gigan is an environmentalist hero, and has empathy towards people in need, no matter how aquatic or chitinous. He's like Captain Planet if he locked the fuck in.

"OH, GIGAN IS SADISTIC, HE TORTURES HIS FOES."

Uh, so does Godzilla, all the time. He just toys with motherfuckers.

"OH, GIGAN IS A COWARD, HE ALWAYS RUNS AWAY WHEN HE'S LOSING."

Yeah, it's called a strategic retreat. Gigan is smart enough to know that once you get your HP wrestled down to 10, Godzilla's going to atomic breath you in the face. You're not a dirty coward for not wanting your head to be the next Trinity testing site.

I am become breath, destroyer of latex.

"OH, GIGAN SLOWLY DRAGS PEOPLE INTO HIS BUZZSAW."

Uh, yeah? He had his viscera forcibly ripped out and replaced with a buzzsaw. You expect him not to use it in his kaiju death battles? Excuse me? He lost his duodenum for that. He has to use colostomy bags. He has hooks for hands, the boy cannot wipe, let his use his one goddamn thing without moralizing about it.

Godzilla has atomic fallout for breath. You know what that shit does? You think using that in Japanese cities isn't problematic? The boy is a metaphor.

onion-souls

No, but seriously, the tropers hate Gigan so much and will do everything to slander him.

Oh, so he won't finish off his opponents, only drag them into his buzzsaw, something well known for causing minor, painful injuries.

And, oh boy, really evil move, attacking poor, defenseless GODZILLA

His helpless opponents are, once again, Godzilla, Angurius, and an Ultraman knock-off trying to kill him.

He didn't choose to "wear" it? Other people did all of these things to him?!

Also, insane? Gigan is a paragon of mental health. Oh you have to be crazy to *watches the events in question* deal damage to your opponent in a death fight

"One or two hits?" Did anyone on this page watch these movies?

He's just a chainsaw-guy who knows when to call it quits when shit is getting too much for him to handle, we call this pulling a Fujimoto Tatsuki

"Also, uh, yeah, he's totally helpful and friendly but don't let that fool you, he's a complete monster, totally dude"

Fuck you

Oh no, he won't let Godzilla stand up and kill him

Did Godzilla bot this site?

The fuck is this? Just... it's his fucking beak? You're just going off vibes?

Pretty lady

She was such a good chicken

faemorrigan

im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point

faemorrigan

"this story is misogynistic!!"

>looks inside

>about the pressures of societal misogyny and how its bad

destiel-news-channel

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

solarishashernoseinabook

Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".

I hope your nostalgia is worth it

insaneandlovingit

You would not believe your ass

If ten million largemouth bass.

problemnyatic

desired you while the women flee

arosaces

From anything that is popular at all, Murderbot sure is my favourite aroace character.

I do understand people who don't vibe with non-human characters as aroace rep, but personally growing up I was always soooo pissed when even machines had to fall in love (which was also treated synonymous with sexual attraction) to prove that they were a Person.

Murderbot diaries ask the age old SciFi question of "what does it mean to be a person?" without answering "sex and love", and that means a lot to me personally.

space-mouse

i'm rereading the murderbot diaries and murderbot's utter conviction that it and gurathin are bitter enemies is still so funny. buddy. gurathin got over this months ago. he's just a quiet guy.

theaicollective

one-sided antagonism is so delicious. murderbot diaries i also very much enjoy how surreal it must be for gurathin / to know that the heavily armed rogue secunit holds a grudge against him / and also know that all it will ever choose to do about this is make frowny faces and flip him the bird. / (tags via space-mouse)

asimovsideburns

Gurathin, like three books from now: hey we’re friends right

Murderbot: no. we fucking hate each other.

Gurathin: awesome check this out it’s gonna make you so fucking mad

derinthescarletpescatarian

MB: I don’t like you

Gurathin, knowing MB calls its best friend “asshole research transport”: Uh-huh.

rhysintherain

Murderbot: I don't like Gurathin, and he doesn't like me

Gurathin, not even looking up from the article he's reading: careful buddy, if you piss me off I might look at you really hard

Murderbot: I have guns in my arms!

Gurathin: yeah, but if you shoot me who are you gonna call when you need help solving a murder or getting out of an awkward social gathering?

marxism-transgenderism

Somebody save me from this barbaric, bidetless backwater of a country

marxism-transgenderism

Every photo or video you see of an american, god forbid any individual you see in real life, is almost certainly walking around with poop butt. They may have convinced themselves they dont because they rub their assholes red and rashed with tissue paper but, like trying to sweep up crumbs with a bad broom, there is always some left. They're luddites whove convinced themselves that the beauty of modern bidet technology is a scary, unknown thing thats meant to hurt them. Some even mythologize their poop butt as proof of their rugged character. God willing one day they may grow into a more advanced civilization

hotvampireadjacent

The average American male will write off bidets bc they’re “gay” and rather walk around with shit caked on their ass

marxism-transgenderism

It is with deep regret that I must inform you that not even the women are safe from this barbaric practice. They, like the men, also believe that using a bidet can harm them spiritually or even throw off the balance of their humors. Im afraid no one in this unenlightened land is free from the need for reeducation

writterings

it's really funny teaching rhetoric to college freshmen because i explained ad hominem to them via example by arguing with a student over something silly (i kept insisting 25 minutes was a quarter of an hour, not 15) and then "insulted" her instead of addressing her argument (i said she doesn't have a college degree whereas i have two, so of course she'd be wrong - which the whole point is that it's a stupid insult but not something that's actually mean) but she got soooooo mad so even when i stopped the exercise and explained that she was indeed correct (15 minutes is a quarter of an hour). like she was still fuming. so i validated her feelings on that, complimented her, and even reminded the class that a college degree doesn't mean that a person is smart/right. and then i went on to explain that, yeah, dirty arguing techniques like that are meant to make you so unreasonably angry that you can't respond or that you lose your cool, so your opponent looks like they win by default. the student i was arguing with then just said that it seemed like professional ragebaiting and i was like. well yeah that's correct.

and then this kid, this one kid who is always very eager to answer questions and is always kind to his classmates, raised his hand looking a little bothered. now for context, i emphasize thinking for yourself in my classroom, even if that means disagreeing with something i say and he has echoed some stuff that his parents clearly have told him before. he's not a bad kid or an asshole, he's just an 18 year old with conservative parents who otherwise knows nothing about politics. but he just looks so bothered after i explain this about dirty arguing techniques. big frown on his face. looking unsure. when i nod at him to speak, he says, in a very quiet voice, "didn't -- didn't charlie kirk used to do that?"

and i was like. well yes. yes he was famous for stuff like this.

and then the kid looked down and was just like, "oh. i thought he was just really good at debating. i never watched his videos though, only clips. why would he do that?"

and that coincidentally lined up perfectly with the rest of the lesson, which was on propaganda

dancinbutterfly

this? is why conservatives hate liberal arts education

vintagerpg

If there is a single 2E D&D product that transcend editions, it’s the four-volume Encyclopedia Magica (Vol 1 - 1994, Vol 2-4 - 1995), compiled by Dale “Slade” Henson and illustrated by Arnie Swekel. Over 1500 pages, it collects every magic item created for the game in official sources, including RPGA products, the various TSR magazines and the slightly different Basic game items. All the items include their abilities and the original descriptive text. No attempt has been made to revise, rebalance or otherwise monkey about with them. Some items are ridiculously overpowered and remain so. Some are very stupid or silly. The book makes no judgments.

It’s a titanic work. It’s hard to express the importance of magic items to the game; you could maybe boil the game down to its essence by calling it system of rules that are broken by magic items interacting with monsters. Magic items are the prime mechanical method characters distinguish themselves from each other. The same is true, to perhaps a lesser extent, of the campaign worlds themselves — what magic items are lying around and why implies much about the nature of a given world. These books give you the keys to all of it — the mightiest characters, the lore-iest worlds, the Macguffin-est quests.

There’s not much more to say. Useful to every player of any edition. The Encyclopedia Magica is one of the greatest D&D publications of all time.