#very heroic

[ink-the-artist]

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

#i think its cute #they took the mars rover approach #humanizing the space craft making it cute making us (me) project emotions onto it #the soviets also used imagery of laika in propaganda a lot #which is pretty fucked up imo #but if i grew up in the soviet union that shit wouldve definetly worked on me lmao #the narrative of a heroic little dog going to space and being honored by the whole country #as cruely wrong as it is its very appealing #the soviets knew what they were doing man they didnt reveal how laika really died until like. the 2000s #bc they knew people really cared about that dog #they liked the narrative around her

[kaltacore]

one thing that is fascinating to me about merrill's arc is the way narrative manages to convince a big part of the fandom that she's immature and irresponsible and overall stupid. what we know about merrill and what we actually see on screen is that she successfully avoids possession for 6 years while working closely with a demon, almost every time she participates in some magic/spirit-related discourse she acts calm and confident and has some interesting input, she actively uses her knowledge of dalish lore and tradition to reason with her keeper, and that she actually did make progress with fixing and studying an ancient long forgotten artifact no one knows particularly anything about. but then an old woman who's never been shown to be an undeniably wise and reasonable figure, a guy who got willingly possessed with no awareness of possible consequences and whose whole mindset is still deeply andrastian and a bunch of people who know nothing about magic start judging and doubting her and everyone's like. yeah. she's so fucking dumb.

#that one post about your boyfriend getting tricked into believing in-universe propaganda #but in-universe propaganda in question is a little too loud opinion of incompetent people #which is like. very funny to me. because every time i leave my bubble with the most correct takes i stumble upon some da fans #who hate her guts for being an arrogant idiot and then bring up marethari as an example of Who Merrill Should Have Listened To #well i guess merrill would have listened to her if she had had smth to say except 'you have to stop and i won't explain you why' #also i guess. getting possessed to keep merrill safe (while she was as safe as 6 years ago) is not. the heroic move yall make it out to be. #and that was a lot more stupid and irresponsible than anything merrill has actually done. but i digress #merrill #dragon age

[snowangeldotmp3]

hey do you guys ever think about the fact that in season 3 robin chooses to stay behind so erica and dustin can escape the russians? she chooses to stay with steve and hold the door so dustin and erica can get out. she doesn't know these kids. not as well as steve does, at least. and yet she still chooses to stay behind. it's not a huge moment. in fact, it's a blink and you'll miss it moment, but it's the fact that she chooses to put herself into the danger for these kids that she does not know. she is willingly to be caught and captured and tortured by russians. all she wanted was to get through her shitty job.

#mj has me going crazy over ws robin and idk im just Thinking #i would argue it's more heroic than steve coming back in s1 to the byers house. bc he knows jonathan and nancy #im Not saying that steve's never done anything heroic #im just saying. she is much more heroic than ppl give her credit for #it's also why i think the spidey robin au is very popular within (at least the ronance) the fandom. #robin buckley #stranger things

[pianokantzart]

Not me thinking thinking about how good of a brother Mario is and how there's literally nobody better that Luigi could've clung to while he sorts out his own anxiety.

Mario acknowledges that Luigi is a fearful person, but doesn't think any less of him for being scared. He doesn't see Luigi's bad luck as a burden, even when he tries to make sure he's safe and protected at every turn. Mario gets annoyed by his brother on occasion, but doesn't degrade or talk down to him– not even jokingly. He just puts up with it and forges ahead without drawing attention his brother's mistakes. Then when it comes to Luigi's victories, even small ones, he dwells on them and gets excited without an ounce of insincerity or exaggeration.

The worst thing Mario does is get a little too caught up in his impulses and emotions to listen, but otherwise he's so rock solid, even apart from his three-day adventure solely focused on saving Luigi's life.

#it's getting emotional about the mario bros hour again #super mario brothers #super mario bros #mario movie #Mario #Luigi #It is literally so so good for young boys to have a role model like this too #I can not think of a single character aimed at kids that is nearly as good of an example of how to treat your sibling #siblings are always made either a source of annoyance to relate to #or a point of tension and drama #not the very thing that highlights just how heroic a character is #while simultaneously not feeling forced or cheesy or even boring! #If anything you wished you got to see more of these two on screen!!! #It's just so so good I need more of their dynamic in my life

[raekleindogpaintings]

I think a lot about how when little Utena begs the prince to help Anthy he redirects the conversation to be about Utena to distract her from his powerlessness, he who is supposed to be the most powerful. He praises her and thanks her for her kindness and kisses away her tears, never assessing the real problem. He treated Anthy as some sort of a spectacle, not as a person suffering, and the most important thing to him was Utena's reaction, not Anthy's suffering. He attempted to push Anthy into the background, but Utena looked at her again.

#DO I MAKE SENSEEEEE I'M GOING CRAZYYYYY #rgu #revolutionary girl utena #anthy himemiya #utena tenjou #The 'strength and nobility' are just basic human compassion he just doesn't see it that way because he has none for her so it seems like #-a heroic act for him?? #very reliable posts

[disteal]

sharing your transmasc headcanons about female characters requires, like, 4 weeks of casing someone’s vibe. If everything checks out you can drop the batshit 40 page manifesto on top surgery allegory in the narrative. But you gotta make sure.

#this is true both ways ppl are very defensive abt ‘losing gay men’ to transfem headcanons as well #but oh boy #trans men are birthed fully formed from the head of zeus #lest we remember we lost a heroic tomboy 😔 #dis.txt

[bigkickguy]

some daan marcoh doodles around some dialogue bits I hit in game haha - gave me some thoughts on how one could think of daan if you only bumped into him at certain points? I don't remember the lines exactly but there were a few like this? 'Are you moving on? I guess we'll split ways here.' 'Someone has figure out how to treat these people...'

'You were very heroic stepping in there.' 'In the dark, your thoughts can really get to you out here...' 'Am... I... still a good man? Or...'

#fear and hunger #daan fear and hunger #marcoh fear and hunger #kickdraw #daanmarcoh #keep getting dialogue and I feel like if you only saw certain parts of Daan he seems like a very noble doctor figure #trying to research/avenge his dead almost(?) wife - staying behind to diagnose the villagers #meanwhile marcoh has like only killed one guy and is trying so hard to be a good person but is sinking in that Guilt #if daan stepped in on the marcoh held at gunpoint bit - I feel like it would fit Marcoh's lines about 'being heroic' or whatever #maybe he would be comparing himself to him - like 'im not a good man cause thats what a good man looks like in this situation' #and later when marcoh has a reality check he has to be like ... oh.... he's actually like this... huh #I feel like daan would hate it if anyone thought of him like this hakfjghadfg - but that makes it crunchier in my mind :) #daan starts looking much less like a tragic romantic protagonist when he is bickering with the party and getting dunked on #this weird image leaves the second you take both of them into the sewer and daan just starts complaining at him about the smell too often #sorry marcoh your fantasy protagonist man only exists in your dreams :) I think he'd still like him after getting a more realistic view tho

[herssian]

#art #ffxiv #xau #zenos #zenos yae galvus #final fantasy xiv #comic #honestly truly truthfully by my own truth i think she keeps him as a bodyguard hound for the scions #but doesn't tell either side #just drills it into him that he's to protect the scions even if it means an innocent won't be saved #i don't characterize her as anything close to an anti hero because protecting people is always no.1 priority #...but that's when it comes to her. HE'S to make sure the people she loves the most never come to harm #saving alphinaud even if it means fifteen innocents will have to die is easier to coparmentalize because it's not her who made the decision #sometimes being the hero is is very close to playing god and sometimes god has clear favorites and that's a bit toxic #to be so heroic it turns borderline evil is very warrior of light ask elidibus

[anonymouspuzzler]

one Warmup Gone Wrong later i finally have a full ref for the man, the myth, the legend, the minor annoyance, the thorn in the side of petty criminals and more successful heroes the world over, the one and only GOLDEN BOY (civilian name TBD. it's gotta be something super boring like, Jim or Something)

#anonymous puzzler art #anonymous puzzler originals #villain coded comic #casual outfit was going for more of a 'guy who grew up on a farm' vibe but ended up more in the vicinity of Kurt Russell In Every 80s Film. #which to be honest? is also the correct vibe. so we work with it #i've definitely talked about this elsewhere but golden boy is very much a Superman Type Hero. crash landed from Elsewhere raised humbly #was classic hero Silver Fox's sidekick for many years and became a proper hero in his own right after he retired. very idealistic guy #genuinely believes for good for good's sake and helping people and the ability for bad people to change and all that #very Direct and not a fan of red tape. needless to say he is not the Favorite of the current establishment and is often treated as a joke #he is buck and davey's Most Consistent Heroic Adversary especially pre-Minnie

[drac-kool-aid]

I've talked about it in some tags, but I'm thinking more on it, and I really do believe that there is something.....mmmmm supernatural and particularly gothic going on with the impersonation game Dracula is playing.

The eerie supernatural double was actually a very big theme in gothic literature as well as folklore of the time. Hell, two very famous deaths (Abraham Lincoln and Percy Shelly) have doppelganger sightings attached to them (although whether or not they are true or just added on postmortem to further sensationalize the event, I do not know).

Basically, you or someone you are close with seeing your double (whether that be a doppelganger, ghost, evil twin yet unknown, an actor doing a supernaturally good impression, etc) was a very ill omen and often one of death.

Not really sure where I'm going with this, but tl;dr Dracula impersonating Jonathan isn't just a part of his grand plan to isolate and drive him to rely on Dracula, but in fact a long standing trope of Gothic literature likely tied to the inherent horror that your own identity can be taken from you with nefarious results.

#dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #jonathan harker #think Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde #or how many Sherlock Holmes cases revolve around how identity can actually be very fluid #even Sherlock's unnatural ability to shape change #while couched in realism #is probably related to this #although he is one of the few heroic examples of assuming identity #nowadays the trope doesnt quite hit so hard #identity theft is a concern of society but we no longer need to write a supernatural reason when technology exists

[formulatrash]

haven't been this fucking insanely furious at Williams since they fired Damon Hill halfway through 1996

#this is SUCH a horrible decision for them both #while i think there is a short term chance that Alex may produce a better race result #the car is pretty naff so the chances are low #and now alex has enormous pressure on his shoulders #if he makes another mistake and tbh that's likely because the car is not ideal and he's now in a high pressure situation which he #historically speaking #does not do well in #(also despite the heroics in the first year at williams he actually doesn't get on with Melbourne very well) #but if he does that he looks like an arsehole and the team look like arseholes and the press will call alex a villain #and meanwhile in the medium to long term #logan's just been told the team has so little confidence in him they believe a driver who destroyed his car will do better #which is going to knock anyone for absolutely fuckin six #like if you empathised with alex at red bull you have to empathise with logan here #mr vowles i am booking a fight i am coming to fight you

[averagebkdkenjoyer]

Why they look like they want to beat me up?

#Honestly I would laugh because Izuku trying to be mean would never not be funny #pov you said something not very heroic #bakudeku #deku #bakugo #no idea if I should use the ship tag but here we are

[antianakin]

I think part of the reason I have a hard time considering any of the characters in Star Wars "antiheroes" is because I think the real message of Star Wars sort-of goes against the entire CONCEPT of an "antihero." An antihero is generally defined as someone who does "the wrong thing for the right reasons." Or, in other words, someone with heroic and noble intentions but who perhaps uses less noble and heroic methods in order to achieve that ultimate end goal. And while there are absolutely characters in Star Wars who fit that description, the message of the story tells us that there isn't really any such thing as doing "the wrong thing for the right reasons." If you're doing the wrong thing, there is no right reason. There are ONLY wrong reasons for doing the wrong thing.

For example, you could argue that Anakin is an "antihero" because he commits a genocide and throws a galaxy into tyranny and fascism, but he does it to "save Padme from dying." Saving Padme sounds like such a good, heroic goal, even if his methods are obviously horrific and evil. But the message of that whole story is that Anakin isn't really doing this to save Padme. He's doing it to keep himself from having to live with the pain of losing her. He's doing it because he can't accept change. He's doing it because his own fear of that pain is more important to him than anything else, including the lives of innocent children or the wellbeing of an entire galaxy. He's not an antihero according to Star Wars's own messaging, he's just a villain. The moment he decides to murder a bunch of innocent people for his own selfish desires, he chooses to become a villain. There's no middle ground where his slightly sympathetic reasoning puts him into the "antihero" category. He's JUST a villain. Immediately and completely. None of his reasons are right, they're just selfish.

There is no "heroic intention" that outweighs the less than heroic means in Star Wars. There just isn't, because the heroic intention doesn't actually exist. So while many of the characters fall under the traditional definition of an antihero, the actual message of the story (at least if it's written by Lucas or someone who actually cares about his story) doesn't support the idea of an antihero at all.

#star wars #anakin skywalker #anakin critical #anakin skywalker critical #antihero #this counts for all of anakin's foils/parallels too #dooku isn't an antihero #reva isn't an antihero #i love my girl but she's not #she's a villain until she chooses not to be anymore #just because her reasoning is sympathetic doesn't make it selfless or right or heroic #her reasons for what she's doing are entirely selfish #they aren't actually going to help anybody #and in actuality she's hurting the very people she claims she's getting vengeance/justice FOR #not to mention hurting HERSELF #that's the entire point #her intentions aren't heroic they're just selfish #and only by recognizing that can she stop being a villain

[rthko]

I'm not going to single anyone out when they tag my posts "q slur," but you really ought to get out and/or read books because once you do your aversion will dissipate REAL quick, and also the people making the biggest fuss about that word now are bad.

#i think the heroic implications of the word are contrived but it is still very useful

[txttletale]

the self-justifying and self-mythologizing that this website did about john green is actually ridiculous. tumblr users didn’t drive him off tumblr because of some righteous crusade because of some evil thing he did. they did it because it was funny to be mean to him. anything else people try to claim is post-hoc rationalization so they personally don’t feel bad for finding it funny

#yes his books suck and anne frank kiss was bad but i PROMISE you thats not why people did the cockypasta #they did it because it was funny and mean #the habit of retroactively turning online comedy bullying campaigns into like #a heroic uprising of mass-movement altruism is very silly #and actively harmful to your ability to understand how online social spaces actually work and recognizes this happening in action

[general-grey]

so.... who was gonna tell me that Lucio's masquerade costume was based on Raoul (phantom of the opera)'s masquerade costume

#the arcana #count lucio #lucio #lucio morgasson #phantom of the opera #im dying squirtle #no seriously i am. SO ILL OVER THIS #this was the most earth shattering realisation. of COURSE they keep the phantom references going #of COURSE he gets to become the heroic love interest #i am truly insane over this. oh my god #this was really probably very self evident lready for many folks around here but give me a break i literally only jumped back after years #god. godddd