#It's like when Bao played before Incred1bles 2 and 90% of my theatre was confused when she ate the son. There are MESSAGES to be DELIVERED

[flakytartart]

Someone more well-spoken than me PLEASE explain why Kingpin from Into the Spiderverse is expertly designed. When I watched it in theatres people laughed every time he came on screen + all reaction videos I've seen laugh too and it's SO ANNOYING

Whenever I see Kingpin I think he was designed to be big because he's intimidating and to play around with shapes. Like he makes some pretty interesting silhouettes!

(I screenshotted that last one from a reaction video - on this frame they were literally calling him a blob. That is not a blob bro)

I also feel like it's meant to represent that he's a man completely overtaken by darkness/overwhelmed by his past...his head (mind) is almost always framed by black nothingness

Am I insane for thinking there's more going on with his design other than just "haha he's big"? I don't want it to be true but also lmk if I'm thinking too hard about an obvious joke