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Sep. 30th, 2022 05:24 pmAn indirect thought on Steven Universe:
There was this thing on TV Tropes a while back where some people kept adding Mr. Krabs from Spongebob Squarepants to the Complete Monster page, and other people kept deleting him. The people who added him cited that he did this and that and the other that were Complete Monster things. The people who deleted him didn’t seem to think an argument was necessary. To them, it was obviously silly to call this character a Complete Monster. I’d stopped watching Spongebob at this point, but it felt strange to me that people didn’t even conside it worth addressing whether the character’s behavior could actually merit the Complete Monster tag.
I’m one of the people who argues that Homeworld in Steven Universe does some spectacularly messed-up things, in ways that go beyond the usual cartoon villainy. The general response to this is “you’re crazy.” I feel like I’d be more satisfied with it if the argument was more “Homeworld really isn’t that different from a lot of other cartoon villains,” and to be fair, I do see that sometimes. But more often, the reaction is that it’s too stupid to bother arguing with, and that just annoys me.
(TBF, I also disagree with the folks who compare the Diamonds to Nazis. The Diamonds are a hybrid of multiple different kinds of terrible government, from kleptocracy to Communist dictatorship, without clearly matching any one real-life society.)
There was this thing on TV Tropes a while back where some people kept adding Mr. Krabs from Spongebob Squarepants to the Complete Monster page, and other people kept deleting him. The people who added him cited that he did this and that and the other that were Complete Monster things. The people who deleted him didn’t seem to think an argument was necessary. To them, it was obviously silly to call this character a Complete Monster. I’d stopped watching Spongebob at this point, but it felt strange to me that people didn’t even conside it worth addressing whether the character’s behavior could actually merit the Complete Monster tag.
I’m one of the people who argues that Homeworld in Steven Universe does some spectacularly messed-up things, in ways that go beyond the usual cartoon villainy. The general response to this is “you’re crazy.” I feel like I’d be more satisfied with it if the argument was more “Homeworld really isn’t that different from a lot of other cartoon villains,” and to be fair, I do see that sometimes. But more often, the reaction is that it’s too stupid to bother arguing with, and that just annoys me.
(TBF, I also disagree with the folks who compare the Diamonds to Nazis. The Diamonds are a hybrid of multiple different kinds of terrible government, from kleptocracy to Communist dictatorship, without clearly matching any one real-life society.)
