Has anyone ever told you that you can carry a grudge?

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Click me, I'm Irish. [link]

Most days I'm pessimistic, and I think, "Everybody in the world is stupid." Some days though, I'm optimistic, and I think, "Everybody in the world is stupid, except for me."

I prefer to think of it as mining an embarrassingly rich, but somehow vastly underused, field.

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"America hates Dib" is not a commandment but an observation, not an injunction but a lament.

The ep "Taster of Pork" was cobbled together after one random remark: "Lately everything I eat tastes like pork."
Damn, does it show.

If only this were the sole case of this... Apparently, as long as the vicious, merciless bully is female, or at least an attractive enough guy, fans will swoon over them. And, of course, line up to insult the victim of their "affections" or actually blame him/(very occasionally) her for said person's misfortunes.

Somewhere along the line, apparently being evil became cool. If only this had stayed at actually sympathetic villains rather than plummeting headfirst into the territory of characters who didn't deserve to be liked...

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"Some set their hearts on a rocking chair,
They're better to sleep out the days.
But I'm looking for a reason to kick and scream,
I don't want to fade away."
-Chumbawamba, "Fade Away."

People around here often think so. Bullies in fiction are totally cool, however when it comes to real-life-bullies they're SO against bullying.

Tsts <:

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Zim
Dib
lol fu c:
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_{I do believe in Jesus. <3}

I've seen reviews that damn Dib for "not standing up to her." "Her." The obviously unbalanced psycho who files into uncontrollable convulsions over a bottle of soda. Uh. Huh.

I noticed they only said he should do it; they never provided a whiff of a hint as to HOW.

Sure, villains always had a certain cachet and e´lan to them; they stole the show and movie stars made no secret that they really enjoyed playing the bad guys. However, we used to know they'd get what they had coming to them, and would even leave the theater dissatisfied if they didn't.

I wonder when this change happened?

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"America hates Dib" is not a commandment but an observation, not an injunction but a lament.

The ep "Taster of Pork" was cobbled together after one random remark: "Lately everything I eat tastes like pork."
Damn, does it show.

I wonder if admiring fictional bullies will make it easier for people to eventually admire, or at least not condemn, real life bullies. Before we do it, we first have to think about it. Or as I like to say, before it was science, it was science fiction.

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"America hates Dib" is not a commandment but an observation, not an injunction but a lament.

The ep "Taster of Pork" was cobbled together after one random remark: "Lately everything I eat tastes like pork."
Damn, does it show.

And of course if he actually did stand up to her, the fans would crucify him and say all the things about him that right now rightfully apply to Gaz.

I've heard that described as the "darker and edgier" phenomenon - a lot of companies and creators deciding that people liked a more cynical or generally less friendly take on things. I've seen the origin of it attributed to graphic novels replacing straight superhero comics, anime and a whole bunch of other things, but there's probably a deeper reason for why people enjoy that.

Personally, I'd prefer that creators would focus on making the villains more sympathetic rather than making the heroes harder to like. It seems I'm in the minority there, though.

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"Some set their hearts on a rocking chair,
They're better to sleep out the days.
But I'm looking for a reason to kick and scream,
I don't want to fade away."
-Chumbawamba, "Fade Away."

That's what I. Do NOT. Get.

"liek totaly omg liek i luuuuv zim he's so eviel! and iluuuuv gaz evn moore or something, shez juts so... EVIEL!! but idon liek dib, he's juts evil." And they'll give the very same reason.

The very few times I managed to find a fic on FFN where he did come to his senses re Gaz, most of the reviews expressed relief and applauded him. Now, SOME still did say "po' widdow babbee gazzee," or "dont let gaz be dead," or something else deliberately blind to the facts.

It is hard enough as it is to find someone who likes Dib, and by that I mean who truly likes him (and NO, lolling one's guts out when they find a pic of him tortured and defeated and humiliated does NOT count as "liking" him, believe it or not. )

If Dib hadn't kept licking that ungrateful, intolerant poisonous bitch's ass in canon, we wouldn't even find even this much affection for Dib... temporary as it is and all. That's the truly sad thing.

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"America hates Dib" is not a commandment but an observation, not an injunction but a lament.

The ep "Taster of Pork" was cobbled together after one random remark: "Lately everything I eat tastes like pork."
Damn, does it show.

I left out something.

That's the mark of a more mature work. Today's better written works will show the less evil side of a villain, and admit that the hero can have a less than honorable facet. Today, plays and movies in which the hero is whiter than white and the villain is blacker than black are laughed at as cheap melodrama.

This additional depth and dimension was TRYING to trickle into animated cartoons via Invader Zim; but the masses took one look at all the pretty colors and went, "Name of show hero. Hero GOOD! Villain BAD!"

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"America hates Dib" is not a commandment but an observation, not an injunction but a lament.

The ep "Taster of Pork" was cobbled together after one random remark: "Lately everything I eat tastes like pork."
Damn, does it show.