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troonwolf · 2 years ago

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TWD truly fell off when it started dedicating arcs to Negan’s poor wittle man guilt at brutally murdering dozens of people and started to redeem him. all because gross men will see an actual caricature of toxic, racist, violent and shitty masculinity and be like “HAHA BROOOO HE’S SO COOOOL HE’S MY FAVE NOW HAHA HE’S JUST SO MISUNDERSTOOD YKNOW.”

keep in mind in the comics his introduction is beating a smaller POC guy to death with a baseball bat in front of his family and friends, for no reason, and then he threatens to have Carl (who is like 10 at this point) gang-raped in front of them too if they don’t cooperate

he’s legit as bad as the Governor but he appeals to some sick power fantasy ideals a lot of people absorb from society, so then when they introduced him in the show they even toned him down for the wider audience

always found that really fucked up tbh. big reason I don’t fuck with TWD or TWD fans anymore

#also idk if they did this in the show #butin the comics he had a literal harem #and it was the type of culty shit where he would jyust claim other peoples wives and gfs #and pressure women to get with him because ''only he can protect them''#he's such a genuinely disgusting character and people unironically like him as a Good Misunderstood Guy Who Should Be In Gays With Rick #yknow #the guy whose kid he threatened to rape :|#and it says so much about society #that in a show about normal people surviving the apocalypse #trying to care for each other and do the right thing #the character everyone latches onto #is the asshole white guy who beats POC folk to death and threatens to SA children #the TWDcast is so huge #and Glenn himself was such a great character #but everyone is fixated on the one character who is a total POS #and to try to make him seem like a nice redeemable guy whowas just doing what he thought was right lol #I just think it says a lot about people tbh #like folk can see themselves more easily #in an asshole racist creepy white guy who randomly shows up one day to prey on the main cast #than the POC cast member who had been in the story for years #and had saved everyones butts more than once and proved to be very useful and interesting in his own right #like I'm sorry but psychologically it fucking says a lot #it's like a litmus test for people I will not fucking trust in an emergency situation lmao

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