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militat omnis amans

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clau. 21. madrid. spain
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silverhawk

honestly tho that scene in the incredibles where mr. incredible sees the names of all the old super heroes that used to be his friends / that he knew from Back in the Day and how every one of them has been killed by syndrome is such a chilling scene for so many reasons 

like for one, everyone he knew is dead at this point and has been killed on the same island he’s at now and two, its heartbreaking bc that means that almost every hero wanted to try out being a hero again despite the laws against it and wanted to try and help someone out and relive their glory days, only to be straight up murdered like fuck that scene is just so fuckin intense

I think the core of that scene for me is, when you’re insane like me and you go through it frame by frame, you can work out that Gazerbeam defeated the omnidroid twice - the only super we have enough information to confirm did so. I always wondered about his body in the cave, how and why he got the password… But it makes sense. This thing goes haywire, gets an upgrade, and goes haywire again? He must have been hella suspicious! So he does what any good superhero would do - tries to get to the bottom of what’s really happening on Nomanisan Island. During the process he’s clearly caught and wounded but has just enough time to get himself somewhere he can leave a final message, just praying that the next super to come along will find it and break the cycle. Gazerbeam is my hero.

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dongtopus

Gazerbeam’s the real MVP

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pyrogothnerd

OK, but look at the material outside of the film for even more sadness. Allow me to explain: 

Every single character had a personality, and many of them had a voice through audio files.  (link)

  • Universal Man refused to have a secret identity, and it was messing up his dating life. He likely never adjusted to civilian life, and his file mentioned he had low self esteem. 
  • Gamma Jack believed Supers to be a superior race and was an egomaniac, and admitted to usually kill the villains, but you can’t help but chuckle when you hear him admit he prefers to save hot women before anyone else, and has to remind himself that hot female villains are still villains that need to be…killed. Also, there was a security warning on that
  • Gazerbeam was socially awkward because he could accidentally trigger his powers when staring too intently at something or someone, so a lot of people mistakenly thought he was being rude because he wouldn’t make eye contact. He also claims to be very humorous, while his written files claim that he has no sense of humor. 
  • Hypershock had a hangover during his interview and stormed off halfway through to try and get some coffee. 
  • Psycwave used her mind-control powers as a teen to get boys to ask her out, and suddenly realized in the middle of th interview how creepy that was. 
  • Stormicide talked about how because she had “gas powers” she was the butt of every joke, and then laughed long with the crew when she realized she had said butt. 
  • Thunderhead (not killed by Syndrome, but still) adopted 5 children that he raised with his “roommate” Scott (yeah, sure Pixar) and his interview was outtakes of a “stay in school” message…but he dropped out of school, so he felt really conflicted about giving the message, and couldn’t read the script, and tried to improvise, resulting in lines such as, “Stay in school or–you’ll end up like me…wait, that’s not right.” 
  • Everseer was very intelligent, successful therapist and author, but an extreme germaphobe, because one of his powers included seeing microscopic organisms, along with mind-based powers, which he used to avoid making physical contact with his enemies because “ew, germs” 

And these supers had teams, some successful, some unsuccessful. The Thrilling Three did not work out due to inner arguments.

OK, great, but it gets worse: if you go through Syndrome’s files and compare them to the NSA files on the DVD bonus features, almost every super in those NSA files was killed by Syndrome, except Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, Frozen, and Plasmabolt, who did not appear in the film at all, and the characters who died from a suit malfunction. 

Those files make the scene where Mr. Incredible sees that they’ve all died that much harder, because it’s almost as if you knew them. 

But to top that off, there were names mentioned in Syndrome’s files that weren’t in the NSA files, which means he likely went after supers who also weren’t sponsored by the government, maybe even supers from other countries.

But wait, it gets worse.

Everseer had the power of Clairvoyance, the ability to see into the future, and in The Incredibles comic book series, Everseer was revealed to have predicted his death ten years ahead of the events of the film. He knew he was going to be killed. Did he know how? Did he know by whom? Did he try to stop it? Did he accept his fate? (Oh, and his brain was kept and used by a villain, later…do I even want to know how that other villains got Everseer’s lobotomized brain?)

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some guy: uhhh there’s a leaf in your water

person who’s about to invent tea: oh haven’t you heard?

I’M SCREAMING I DID NOT KNOW THIS

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marcvscicero

writing style: author from the 1800s with a severe love of commas whose sentences last half a page 

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fencer-x

I came out here, to this point, to this place, hoping against all hope and despite signs and portends suggesting otherwise that I might, somehow, find myself having a pleasant experience, and yet here I stand, alone against the world, feeling assaulted, attacked on all fronts, knowing not my enemy’s name nor his face nor whether our battle is done.

….is that “I came here to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked right now” but by Oscar Wilde

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“team of people and there’s one girl” is literally the worst trope and I’m Tired of it

“team of people and there’s one girl and when there’s another girl the first girl hates her for no reason” is the second-worst trope and I’m Tired of it

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archcracker

my favorite part of history is probably the romans being attacked by things

some roman solider seeing an elephant for the first time in 218 bc:

“what the fuck is that”

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secondhand embarrassment is pure agony and i wish a lot of comedy didnt rely on it

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vaspider

I cannot deal with it. I have to literally leave the room.

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ahaze

It’s a sign of being extremely empathetic.

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kelssiel

thanks! i hate it, how do i uninstall?

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