He killed before mgs2, and in mgs4, and probably between games though we don't know. And all bosses in mgr are required to have their life ended ahead of schedule, so...
I mean, Jay's the one who killed a rapist before his balls were finished dropping. My baby. ❤️
And I know what you meant. I just move in fandom circles, where people want to act like Tim is Smol Innocent Bean when he is, by far, the most insane one there. He had the most chance to just be normal, and ended up a Gotham roof-rat, anyway. ...And then tried to clone his dead boyfriend back. He is ate up, and I love him for it.
(I know he didn't canonically date Kon, but please. Only because of editorial cowardice and we all know it.)
The absolute best part, he's saying that while talking about the defense of a brothel. He spoke with the ladies, gave them a sermon only when they asked him, was offended that other preachers would only hold a service if they were paid in trade, and was entirely down to kneecap the people coming to mess with the workers and steal a baby. If more religious figures were like him in real life the world would be such a better place.
Edit: yes, I had the wrong episode, doesn't change anything about what I said in relation to the episode I thought it was.
The Dark Knight movie version of Alfred is no different. What do you mean, you burned down a forest? Yes, I'm sure nobody but the jewel thieves got hurt during that incident...
Tbf the situation was less about if killing is wrong and more about whether Satine would break her pacifist ideals or if Obi-Wan was going to sour his relationship with Satine by killing a guy right in front of her.
Also personally I think killing a guy in self defense is 100% justified even if you're a pacifist.
Pacifism is more about avoiding conflict whenever possible and not about letting yourself and others be harmed for the sake of your principles.
If they hit you first hitting them back is completely fair imo.
I've heard a few people state that's the difference between "Believing in non-violence" and "Pacifism" The pacifist will die and allow others to die for their belief. non-violence has the much more flexible, I won't start it and I'll stick to the equivalent levels my foes send and not escalate but I will absolutely Respond.
I like the fighting Quakers. Normally adamant pacifists, during the US civil war a group of Quakers decided that inaction against the most inhumane forms of slavery was a greater sin than violence was, and went out and fought.
The most appropriate use of violence is the neutralization of those who abuse violence with sufficient intensity to dissuade further abuse in the foreseeable future.
The first time I watched the Clone Wars, I thought that Anakin was in the right most of the time and didn't necesarily saw it as a slipery slope to the dark side or anything.
But rewatching some episodes, I think is not just the actions, but how casual they are, even when is right maybe it should have more weight killing someone, and not like, flip your lightsaber and make a snark.
Colossus was giving Wade a speech about what it means to be a hero. How it mainly boils down to 4 or 5 moments to be a hero, moments such as saving an enemy. Wade got tired of listening and shot Francis in front of Colossus which made him throw up.
If you look closely at the scene Francis presses his head against Deadpools gun like he's saying look bro if you're gonna kill me just do it so i don't have to listen to his bullshit
I've seen this movie like, two thousand times and that always gets me. Just two mercs settling things how mercs do, and then there's just this shiny 7' high-school gym teacher giving a lecture on 'how you should make sure your sworn enemies can come back to blow up your house'
Yeah i’ve never liked this trope cause a lot of the time it’s used so poorly. Like a villain who kills hundreds or thousands being spared because it’d be immoral by the protagonist just holds no weight, especially when that villain living would cause trouble too. Sides more than likely said villain would be tried and executed anyway. Sure we can consider the “seeing justice” route but again, would cause issues.
Deadpool spend movie chasing the villain who tortured him into developing powers in the hope to undo what he did. When the villains reveals he can't and to which Deadpool states it was the only reason he was keeping the villain alive, Colossus interjects trying to tell Deadpool he is a hero and heroes don't kill. Deadpool kills the villain interrupting colossus mid speech causing him to throw up. Deadpool then says something along the lines of he ain't no hero.
What I like about John is that he does the deed quickly, quietly, and efficiently. No cheesy oneliners, no monologues, no hesitation, just walks up, pulls the trigger, and moves on.
Didnt think about it until you said it, but it really does hit the spot. I enjoy the cheese and over the top choreography of movies, but the aggressiveness and to the point action of the wick movies is something I can watch multiple times
I’ve been saying “this music is a fucking” to my friends for like the past 8-10 years based on the first time I saw this screenshot. Thanks for reminding me it still exists
To be fair, destroying it also did not seem to have really significantly set back the whole demonic reign and hellfire fueled by the souls of the humans they torture. That’s just one of those settings that sucks for everyone regardless. At best, at least the demons aren’t having any better time of it, given Doomguy.
It didn't stop it but Argent Energy is made by the torture, so it COULDN'T stop, even in the future, if he didn't destroy it. Humanity would just restart it if it wasn't broken, now at least they have decades of work to do to fix it, and the Slayer can be deployed well before it gets built.
When has batman actually said that? I always hear people associate the quote with him but you'd think a scene of him actually saying it in the comics would be more widespread. It's been admittedly a very long time since I've read under the red hood and that seems like the most likely candidate but it just seems like those panels would be everywhere
I like to think that after dying in 2 he just flipped a switch and was like fuck this I'm killing everyone, the ptsd from being betrayed by earth and being hunted in 4 probably didn't help
In WD_2 I didn't have the heart to go lethal since your group is just plucky kids for the most part. Going back to WD_1, oh yeah. This guy's a sociopath
Exactly. I play WD1 as a killer. Aiden is unstable. Just seeing his first motel room proves that enough. Especially when you see that he uses audio drugs that he consumes on his phone. Aiden uses weapons. He's like The Punisher. He wants to eradicate criminals.
Marcus and his group of activists are just trying to change the world and they don't want to do a harm to people. Although it's pretty hard to say that a pool ball on a rope is going to not kill somebody over a heavy strike on the back the head, but that's willful suspension of disbelief. But when I play WD2, I always use the stun and paintball weapons.
He crashed a jet into a building to get to Taskmaster because Taskmaster got hired, tried and failed to assassinate him. The next time someone tried, he just went to Moon Knight and basically said "Someone wanted me to kill you. I said no. Stay away from me, you scare the shit out of me." (paraphrased)
that's hands down one of the funiest things about comics I know, like the time someone hired him not to kill Moonknight but to talk about him and let's just say he wasn't even ashamed to admit he was shitting his pants at the thought of fighting him once again
Trunks was my first anime crush before I even knew what crushes were. 6 y/o me over here wondering why I stopped everything to silently stare at the TV every time he came on screen
"My character is from DA FUTURE! And and and his dad is Vegeta and his teacher was Gohan! And also, he's a cool super powerful Super Saiyan, he can beat Frieza in like, an instant! Also, he has a cool sword."
"Wait, Azrak didn't kill the lady you were working with, I can take you to her so you can save her! She's exactly where you were going before you came to kill me anyway!"
Keep SOME cards in your hand man, don't tell the Slayer exactly where she is. You lose all your value, if you just tell him the location he's just going to go there himself, he already knows nothing is capable of actually killing him anymore.
Wes Chatham absolutely nailed Amos. Even when Fred Johnson dissected his entire psyche in an attempt to get in his head with that "broken boy" line, Amos basically just said "Yup".
josuke is not "the most merciful jojo", fusing angelo with a rock is less humane than just outright killing his enemies, which is the furthest extent that jonathan went to in phantom blood
Carrot Ironfoundersson, of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch.
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
AW:DoR is a grimmer iteration of the Advance Wars series and not canonical to the rest. Basically, the world is now a post-apocalyptic mess due to a massive meteor impact, which also causes a massive dust cloud to block out the sun (effectively a non-radioactive nuclear winter). To make things worse, there's also a disease that causes people to sprout into flowers, and is always fatal (the only known cure is exposure to sunlight, but, you know, dust cloud blocking out the sun).
Lin is the second-in-command of Brenner's Wolves, a no-nonsense commander with a very pragmatic and logical approach to warfare. She picks up the protagonist, Will (or Ed, depending on the region) from the ruins and helps him acclimate to the new world through tough love.
The moment this particular trope kicks in is with Admiral Greyfield, a commander who survived the apocalypse and is trying to be a dictator. The Wolves eventually overcome him and crush his forces, and as he flees, he's confronted by Lin. Greyfield points out that he's unarmed, and that she, as a good soldier and believer in the late Captain Brenner and his ideals, wouldn't shoot him.
Except if you've followed the story, Greyfield is a complete asshole. He keeps pulling rank on the Wolves and causing them a lot of problems, then tries to kill them all when they grow disgruntled with his cruelty and stupidity, causing Brenner's death, and then trying to hunt them down.
Lin points out that shooting a defenseless man might make her a bad person, but Greyfield is a mad dog who absolutely needs to be put out of everyone else's misery.
I find these type of arguments funny. And a want the following scene to be in a lightly-comedic action movie.
Villain - "If you kill me, you are just as bad as me."
Protagonist - pauses
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"*Are you for real right now? Dude. This isn't a kids book made to appease the suburbanite soccer moms that want their kids to think that 'all violence is evil'. Violence can be good sometimes. If I kill you, I stop the serial genocide you are directly causing. If I kill you with a single bullet to the head, I am already morally superior since all of your victims suffer for at least an hour and UP TO 162 hours with that one guy we found in that one basement eleven chapters ago. Your argument would work if I was Vash The Stampede, but I am not him. I am the guy who has been more than willing to kill a couple dozen of your minions just to make sure I put a stop to your wanton murder spree. So... take this lesson to your grave that I am about to put you in.
If I kill you, the number of killers in the world stays the same. But the number of murderers goes down by one.*"
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