TheAgentLeftBehind

[theagentleftbehind]

Why superhero fiction can be unrelatable

Nobody is worrying about whether their parents would accept them or not as a part ghost.

Nobody is worrying whether or not a so called friend would sacrifice someone's else's life to convince them to turn on their parents ghost portal to satisfy their own curiosity.

Butch would write in 'parents accept me even I'm part ghost' it's a kid's cartoon owned by Nickelodeon what were you expecting?

It's a cartoon made for kids of course it's gonna have safe conflict.

I was watching some episode of Lego Marvel and the billionaires were actually making inventions to help people!! NO BILLIONAIRE HELPS PEOPLE!! YOU CAN TELL THAT'S A WORK OF FICTION! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Real rich people hoard their wealth, avoid paying taxes, exploit our labor, and do nothing unless it benefits themselves..

Superhero shit solves global crises and focus on global warming, invent clean energy overnight, and build shit to help the public. Fictional billionaires use their wealthy ethically, they prioritize the public good, invent shit for free, won't exploit or hoard resources.

It's just fantasy.

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Great idea for a crossover

Imagine if that Fenton Ghost Portal was a way to connect to Pixie World, Faerie World, and Anti-Faerie World.

Denzel Crocker would lose his fucking mind over that.

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Danny's accident was so terrible for some reason Sam and Tucker somehow helped Danny hide it from his parents.

What we saw during Memory Blank...

He's zapped by the fucking portal and just walks right out of it. This is fucking bullshit. Like zapping a potato in the microwave BZZT there is no consequences from this whatsoever.

Danny goes in > Danny goes out

At least Vlad was sickened and hospitalized!!

This is bullshit.

And Danny's like 'oh shit gotta hide this with the fake out make out. So the accident which they hid from Danny's parents during the first episode was basically like getting like 'meh.' a huge nothing burger.

I'm just like what is the purpose of any of this episode at all. Or what a selfish bitch Sam was for forcing someone to go back into his parents murder machine.

You have a do-over and she chooses to take her so called friend and shove him back into the fucking portal.

If she loved Danny she'd let him live a life without trauma.

This episode basically tells me.

Sam - I love you Danny, you are my friend, if I ever had the chance to shove you inside of your parents ghost portal I will do it again without hesitation. I do not care about your future. I do not care about your trauma that was inflicted by your parents who built the machine or protecting you from your parents who inflict trauma upon you every single day until the end of your natural life. I just want you in that damn portal!!!

Some fucking friend you are Sam. At least Tucker didn't pull that shit.

Imagine if Mary Jane pulled that shit on Peter Parker. LOVE AND SUPPORT LOVE AND SUPPORT!!

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That stupid ass plot twist where Fred just had to have a different set of biological parents other then someone who shared his last fucking name Fred Jones.

I'm just like...Daphne's from an ultra wealthy family it would have made more sense. Daphne could have been born from an affair if that's what they wanted so fucking much.

Hidden families or some shit.

Daphne is right fucking there! She's literally the perfect candidate for hidden families, affair babies, or inheritance drama and SDMI had to choose Fred Jones.

Daphne has way more potential to have a secret mother, a half sibling, some cover up to protect the Blake family name or some shit. A buried scandal tied to one of their mysteries.

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Bartholomew Jojo Frink or as everyone around knew him as Bart was Professor Frink’s eldest son. No one would have ever believed they were related if wasn’t for the family name that gave it away. He was a rebellious little hellion much to Principal Skinner’s chagrin which required the school faculty to reasonably lower their expectations.

So he wasn’t a brainiac like his younger sister who was an over-achieving apple polisher. So he didn’t understand things like theoretical science and mathematics like they did. Which was a crying shame because he used to care about STEM which his father introduced to him when he became five years old. Bart knew Professor Frink wanted him to follow in his footsteps.

He wanted him carry on the family legacy Frink Laboratory he built from the ground up.

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me whenever I try make to sense of the SDMI plot twist

FRED HAS BIOLOGICAL PARENTS. WE DON'T KNOW WHY THIS HAPPENS IT'S NEVER EXPLAINED, BUT IT'S THE PLOT TWIST.

Me - don't try to think about it too hard.

also me - it doesn't make any sense....(cries)

also me - why couldn't it be the other way around? It would have made more sense...

also me comforting me - I know...I know...

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I always thought if Jazz became a halfa and since she isn't really good at ghost hunting like we seen during the episode Secret Weapons. She'd exploit it. She'd use it for attention seeking behaviors instead. All that time she spent being neglected and ignored by their parents Jazz would finally have a way with interacting with them for once.

Being a ghost means she's finally noticed be their parents.

She finally gets to be the center of her parents world. Her need to be seen and to be wanted is all that matters now. She wants parental attention, a reason to be worried about, the sense of urgency Danny has when he runs off to fight ghosts, and above all importance.

She isn't a carbon copy of Danny since she suffers from ghost envy. Ghost envy as we seen during Reality Trip was deprivation.

When Jazz finally becomes a halfa she wants to be the child their parents rush towards instead being the one they assume is fine.

Kind of like the way Chloe from miraculous ladybug wanted her mother's attention. But I haven't watched that cartoon past season three before I stopped watching it.

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The more I think about if Sam or Tucker set off the portal it wouldn't be as easy to hide if Danny wasn't the one who was inside of it. Danny's parents were negligent to the point where they were able to hide the accident from Maddie and Jack.

Maddie and Jack are so absent from their own children's lives they were able to get away with it hiding the fact their son was harmed by their own invention.

If Sam and Tucker were zapped they'd be forced to call an ambulance. They'd be forced to call their parents to explain in detail what happened.

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I guess I don't blame Sam's parents for not wanting their only child to hang around Danny. If you found out a pair of parents like Maddie and Jack built a lab inside their own basement with the sole purpose of dissecting and building an arsenal of weapons that could probably arm a small militia to destroy ghosts.

I wouldn't be too keen on letting my daughter hang around them either.

Imagine if Sam was inside that portal and she set it off while she was still inside of it. They would sue the ever loving fuck out the Fentons if they found out what happened.

Reinforce their beliefs that 'this is why we never fucking trusted you with our daughter you negligent assholes! I'll see you in court!"

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Wanna talk about indie creators you guys left out Noodle and Bun.

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Role reversal why not Vlad Masters strap Jack or Maddie down in his lab and have at it?

It's always Maddie and Jack strap Danny down inside their basement after capture but it's never the other way around.

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Fanfictions where Jack and Maddie electrocute and torture their own son but they never do it to Vlad?

Come on.

I refuse to believe two ghost hunters couldn't overpower Vlad Plasmius and then fuck his shit up inside their own murder basement.

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Freakshow vs Flappy Bob

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People give Butch Hartman way too much credit when it comes to therapy. There's not one single thing Jazz has said within Danny Phantom that remotely resembles good advice.

When Butch is just really writing Maddie and Jack as sitcom parents in a supernatural cartoon.

A lot of the stuff is just nonsense.

This is a Nickelodeon cartoon do you really think it was going to be super serious? Well researched? Trauma aware?

The show has none of these things. Nothing is emotionally realistic it's like everyone forgot about how he wrote The Fairly OddParents. So Danny dies in the portal accident. It's not like they bother to change anything, they don't protect him, they don't investigate, they don't worry, they don't do anything.

Family dynamics are nonsense, the therapy is nonsense, the portal accident is nonsense, a lot of things he wrote were nonsense.

It's too fictional, too goofy, too poorly researched, it's too Butch Hartman remember. Remember the guy who made the cartoon?

But it's nice when people write meaning when the canon has none.

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Butch Hartman does not understand therapy.

Spectra isn't a therapist > Jazz is shit at trying to become a real therapist

Jazz isn't emotionally literate. Danny was never attending therapy when all those kids in Casper High were shoved in Spectra's office. The school was never offering therapy. The writers don't understand therapy at all.

Therapy was just Spectra's disguise remember? She needed to feed off of those teenagers misery so of could she could at least pretend to get away with being a shit school counselor. It was just a plot device, the counselor's office was just a setting. Nothing about Spectra resembles real therapy. Nothing about Jazz resembles real therapy either. Nothing about Danny's 'sessions' resembles real therapy.

Spectra was just a ghost feeding off of teenagers misery in a room labeled counselor.

That's the thing about My Brother's Keeper and Spectra. Spectra was never a of satire of therapy. She was never even a critique of bad therapy. Spectra was never a commentary on teen mental health. She isn't even a parody of self-help culture.

Spectra's just a ghost that loves feeding on the pain of others.

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I feel sorry for the digi-destined during first season they're stolen from summer camp and their own Digimon don't have any food security at all.

Those Digimon are hungry too and they brought a bunch of children who need to be fed three square meals a day!

What's the point of being in a digital world if all your gonna do is constantly be hungry all the time? Searching for meals, you have to rely on Digimon who are capable of providing meals, or foraging for food?

I wouldn't wanna be apart of some prophecy inside a digital world where grocery stores don't exist! What's the point of trying to stop the bad guy if your hungry all the time? Starvation doesn't build character it just makes you more hungry!

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Just saying we didn't need any of those Danny being mind controlled by Freakshow episodes. We should have had Jazz-centric ghost envy arcs and I think the show would have been stronger for doing so.

Would have made a nice juxtaposition between Jazz and Danny. Just think about it really hard you guys.

Danny's ghosthood was an accident. Jazz's ghost envy is longing. Danny is forced into duality and Jazz only has singularity. Danny only sees his powers as a burden and Jazz would see it as liberation. Danny's ghost half is misunderstood, feared, and hunted. Jazz is human, she's ignored, minimized, and dismissed.

Danny’s ghosthood is too visible. Jazz’s humanity is too invisible. Danny wants normalcy. Jazz wants transformation.

Danny wants to be less ghost. Jazz wants to be more.