#insufferable protagonist

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Propaganda why Tony Stark is insufferable:

>Makes weapons

>Billionaire

>Made multiple AI Surveillance Robots

>Gaslight a child into fighting a super soldier in a foreign country for him

>His fans are annoying

Portrayed as a hero because? He chose to no longer mass produce war weapons and bombs after suffering the consequences. Huge hypocrite. Doesn't care about anyone but himself. Will backstab people if they believe in human rights when it's inconvenient to him. Seen as a hero while he's the personification of privileged people saying they're not privileged

There’s the usual “he’s a war criminal who only felt bad about it when he realized his weapons were killing white Americans as well as Arab people” reason, and also he’s just super annoying. You had to be there for the original Avengers shitty dialogue a la “we have a Hulk” that had Tumblr in a vicious chokehold. Also he was supposed to FINALLY go away after destroying all his suits in Iron Man 3 but he just… didn’t! Which is bullshit.

Tony is so annoying. When they first meet he straight up bullies Peter into fighting for his personal bullshit, insults and objectifies Aunt May in front of him, spits into his trashcan and is in general being pushy af. He blackmails Peter when he doesn’t wanna come to Germany with him AND HE DOESNT EVEN EXPLAIN WHY HE WANTS HIM TO COME. Uncomfortable vibes lol.

Tony being the one to tell peter “if Captain America wanted to hurt you he would’ve” when Peter was trying to state his case, yet HE’S also the one who put Peter in harms way when he didn’t even want to go with him???

Telling Peter that he should stick to being a “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” (stealing his thing once again) when that’s what Peter _was_ doing before Tony took him out of his zone and filled his head with grander things to be apart of….bitch? Die. Ohh waaaait (jkjk) but yeah

Super long, sorry lol

Thinking about how in Homecoming when Peter accidentally caused that boat to get split in half because the Vulture’s gun exploded and Tony was acting like as if Peter was completely in the wrong for going there just because he did it without his permission. He was acting like as if Peter was out of line and “disobeyed him”, trying to act like his father. And then I remember how in CACW he’s the one who scouted Peter in the first place just because he saw he might be useful against a personal squabble between him and Captain America despite knowing that he was a kid and he’s just now acknowledging how dangerous it is because Peter “acted on his own”

Completely hijacking Peter’s superhero story and trying to control his every move (Training wheels protocol and baby monitor thing he put in the suit), acting like Peter should’ve known that Tony would send someone in despite the fact that he’d been ignoring him for 2 months since Civil War and not keeping him updated on anything!!

How the hell is peter supposed to know Tony is going to listen to him when he treats him like a kid instead of a superhero when it’s convenient for him? And when Tony loses his temper after Peter says he’s 15 not 14 like “the adult is talking” bitch he could literally flatten you without your suit!!!

I guess in a way he is acting like a father but like the absentee kind. He’s more like a sperm donor father trying to act like he has any rights over Peter’s life smh.

It’s not that reprimanding Peter for the situation is bad, but the way he makes it seem as if Peter is irredeemable as if Tony wasn't a literal weapons dealer lmfao. He could’ve said what was the truth about it without completely invalidating him saying shit like “no thanks to you” after Peter asked if everyone is okay when it’s literally thanks to Peter finding a lead on those guys in the first place that they were even noticed and it’s not like the FBI being there could’ve in no way caused a similar situation.

And then near the end of the movie when he’s getting crushed by the building rubble screaming and crying for someone to help him where the fuck is Tony?? That scene just proved that he never needed Tony’s suit in the first place to be Spider-Man since he had to use 100% his own strength to lift it off of him. I know he would’ve found the motivation even if Tony hadn’t been involved in the first place to give him the suit, take it away from him and have the words “if you’re nothing without the suit you shouldn’t have it“ echo in his head. Why did Tony even take the suit away? Like as if he expects Peter to stop being spoderman without it??? Holy fuck. This is why you don’t make it out of endgame /j /srs.

When Tony took this suit away from Peter he was like “God I sound like my dad“ shouldn’t that be a red flag to him? Wasn’t he literally just saying that he wished his dad was better than he was?? Lmfao

Propaganda why Victor Frankenstein is insufferable:

Victor Frankenstein is so pathetic not even tumblr could love him. The best parts of Frankenstein are the ones where your blessedly saved from being in his whiny, self deprecating, self centered pov. He’s so conceited that when his creation tells him directly “In revenge for killing the wife you were making for me I’m going to kill YOUR wife to see how YOU like it!”, Victor Frankenstein thinks that the creation is going to kill him and *only* him. (A decision And on top of it, he’s a shitty dad. Truly the worst.

this fucker has zero self awareness, which could maybe be fun to read about! except that 3/4 of the book consists of him constantly woe-is-me-ing about his own mistakes and how he shouldn't be responsible for any of his own actions.

He's not irredeemable, but his refusal to take accountability til it's too late is irritating

[taitavva]

Phantom Thief Looking At Black Mask

[devflamme]

begging people to stop saying that agatha is going to die or that rio is going to kill her. there are so many points that just... BREAK those theories

it has already been confirmed that agatha and rio will show up in other marvel projects, and that agathas storyline isnt complete yet

the scenes that people are citing most to further proof the theories had already been shown since the first teasers. guys. we're talking about a MARVEL show. do you guys really think that marvel would just show a character's death in the first teaser? please

plus, rio cant kill agatha. "you cant kill me" / "you cant kill ME. its not allowed"

with that i say: agatha isnt going to die and if she dies im coming with her

[kivinelock]

I hope this hurts.

I told myself I wouldn't draw him. However, it is 1 AM and I am going between "Curly you didn't deserve this" and "I HATE Jimmy" so..

[cigarette-room]

going to a vacation! :D

[non-un-topo]

Getting an extreme case of writer's block the second I graduate and actually have time to write has to be some kind of cosmic punishment for something idk

[alliluyevas]

that's literally nicki my best friend nicki

[shorthaltsjester]

Am I the only one (and maybe that's just me) who thinks that the animated show has been removing the explicitly gay scenes from the campaign? Idk man maybe it's just because they are removing all of the little character quirks and banters but having friends who haven't watched the campaign go "oh this character likes multiple genders? you mean this character who isn't Vax or Scanlan?" and I mean I don't blame them because we got a squint if you miss it Vex and Zahra moment despite their dialogue being so flirty and into each other (rather platonically or not in the campaign is up for debate) plus Vax flirting with Kashaw and the removal of almost all of the really emotional scenes between Gilmore and Vax (I feel like Gilmore is a hallow shell in the show) and Vex and Keyleth don't ever talk to each other so how would you know that they are not only FRIENDS but that Keyleth has been actively juggling the fact that she LIKES both twins more than she can count and to now top it all off...does the animated show even need Tary to come in now? Tary you know...the explicitly gay man who's entire backstory evolves around the fact that Tary...is gay...

i think, particularly given the focus on kima and allura’s relationship to the point of having an entire episode heavily featuring their backstory and their romance, that i’ll have to politely disagree on this one, anon. at least as far as it being a concern re: specifically gay scenes. i also will push back on what you’ve laid out as ‘explicitly’, while zahra and vex were flirtatious in the campaign they were both flirtatious characters on their own and the grounding for it being genuine comes from the context of tweets made by the cast iirc. i’ve had friends who have seen the campaign be shocked to realize what the sexualities of the characters were, i think that is more a product of percy/vex being a mainstay of the campaign and general casual biphobia informing people’s interpretive skills. gilmore is certainly a shell of himself but . gestures sadly and vaguely at 12 episode seasons with plot emphasis over character. plus i understand them being less serious with the vax/gilmore stuff in terms of they know vaxleth is endgame and they are making a very truncated version. additionally, if i’m being honest, of the things that the show has sheered the edges off of with keyleth, her crush on vex is the least of my concerns, particularly given that they did include that blushy scene in s1 and truly that is the kind of thing that doesn’t get much time in the campaign itself though the prevalence of shippers might make that size seem grander. i agree with your thought that it might just be because of the lack of general character interactions that that lack is apparent. regarding tary, his potential absence is very 50/50 rn so idk about getting into the optics of his exclusion, but assuming he doesn’t show up, while devastating to me, especially as a certified sam and laura pc dynamic fiend, would actually be the kind of full bodied choice i’d like to see them make and actually fully commit to the consequences of rather than splitting the difference between campaign exact and a whole new world. additionally, his story is an important one i think especially in its place in cr1, in terms of the power of representation, i think it probably has more significance in a 2017 story than a 2025 one.

but yeah tldr: definitely agree that the lack of interactions leaves things lacking, not particularly concerned with the queer angle.

[delphi-shield]

"ah yeah i'll just write househusband leon snippets real quick that sounds fun"

3k later and it turned into jilleon and i can't stop and this is me sending up a flare for help

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Have you ever absolutely loathed a protagonist, either because they are an annoying hypocrite, a terrible person portrayed as a good one or a Mary Sue/Gary Stue?

Then this is the poll for you, where we determine who the most insufferable protagonist is.

The protagonist may be from a book, show, film, game etc.

Disclaimer: You may submit anti propaganda as a rebuttal at any point if you disagree with a MC being insufferable

Inspired by:

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@tournament-announcer

[vault81]

ik i already did smn like this before but im doing it again!!

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[aidenwaites]

I've been reading The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers and I want to like it SO bad but I just,,, don't

[enobariasteeth]

love remarried empress but WOW are the fans incapable of nuance

[sometipsygnostalgic]

Im trying to chill but i saw someone on reddit make the most inhumane, nasty takes on Adora and i am seething

[no-sp4g-4-b4by]

Tusk had been on my watch list for so long and I finally got around to watching it and it lowkey sucked

[luminisvii]

at this point i think gundam seed is starting to haunt me on so many levels i might just have to make a post using big girl words to talk about it later when i finish. bc by god if i'm gonna be a bitter hater, i'm gonna be an informed bitter hater, and to do that i need to finish the show. at least it's not all bad, there have been things i liked, and it still has not made me as angry as unicorn did, but good fucking god this show is vying very hard to beat it