• Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    He was stealing his sister’s toys and fucking with them in ways that scared her. Lad isn’t innocent.

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      19 days ago

      I enjoyed that part of the story. I like to imagine he picks items out of the trash that could be reused in his projects.

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        He even enjoys his work, it’s one of the most thankless ones. we see he enjoys music while working.

        Since he learned that inanimate objects are alive. What job would he go for? Bro isn’t fucked up and working a crappy job. He is trying to save the toys he finds

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    How about the whole villains-have-rotten-teeth thing? When this came out in the theaters the first time, my best bud had bad teeth from growing up poor and neglected. Fucking felt terrible watching it.

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      There’s the thing where the poor/neglected tend to have a higher rate of mental health issues, for… Obvious reasons.

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      Villains are stereotypically older fat queer bald men (e.g. Vladimir Harkonnen). These are all factors people have little-to-no control over.

      Media will sometimes subvert those expectations, but most of the time the iconography matters more to the filmmaker than decency. It’s quite fucked up the insecurities these portrayals breed, no amount of positive affirmation will make up for the fact that some natural body types are fundamentally associated with villainy in the Western visual canon.

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      Villains in Don Bluth movies don’t have rotten teeth.

      They have big teeth.

      Even if they’re penguins.

      Clearly you should have taken your friend to see The Pebble and the Penguin and showed him that brushing can lead to villainy.

      (Okay, the first guy had missing teeth…)

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    20 days ago

    Nah Sid was a little shit. Hopefully he gets therapy for the toy stuff and they home in on why he’s an asshole.

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      And?

      Those are supposed to be inanimate objects. You know how many toys a kid destroys out of their curiosity and experimenting?

      AFAIK he loves his dog and it loves him back (that’s a win in my book), and he hasn’t done anything bad to a single living thing (beside messing with his sister, but who wasn’t messing with their siblings when little?).

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      To him, the toys were just as inanimate and lifeless as the M80s. To take it a step further, if the M80s were also sentient he still wouldn’t know.

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    Also the 4th movie shows that something is alive if it’s considered a toy/played with. So Sid did consider his creations toys that he played with.