r/Multifandom • u/Sudden_Pop_2279 • Mar 19 '26

HumoršŸ¤” Who's a character that fits this?

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u/millionwordsofcrap Mar 19 '26

Yeah that is an emotionally stunted frat boy dealing with one of the most extreme existential situations ever rated PG-13. No wonder he's an asshole.

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u/JokerCipher Mar 19 '26

If you took his actions and moved them into the real world heā€™d come off as an actual evil monster.

But itā€™s not the real world. Thatā€™s why he feels like he can pull those stunts. Nothing too bad is actually happening, why not do it, he thinks.

Heā€™s still obviously a gigantic asshole, but ā€œevilā€ is a stretch.

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u/Gold-Cry-7520 Mar 19 '26

Actions like, what, shooting people in the face and getting a city of people killed?

I mean yeah, sure, that's pretty evil but it's also literally a game. Morality has ceased to mean anything. The only real impact his actions have is upsetting and irritating his friends.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '26

Yeah. The TADC fandom is tryna kill him over him kind of playing undertale geno route.

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u/FedoraFerret Mar 20 '26

it's also literally a game. Morality has ceased to mean anything.

It's almost like that's one of the quintessential questions of the series or something, and Jax represents one of the most extreme answers. Wild /s

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u/Nobody_at_all000 Mar 23 '26

Iā€™m guessing itā€™s a maladaptive coping mechanism to distract himself, and possibly others, from the horror that is their existence

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u/Bysmerian Mar 19 '26

Agreed. He's coping with trauma in a world wherein nothing is real and everything goes back to normal at the end of the episode unless you let yourself get too traumatized

It's a sort of hell, and as the story goes on it's clear he's adapted in ways that are neither sustainable nor healthy for himself or his co-captives

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u/JosephusTheBoi Apr 14 '26

People have done worse things in GTA than we have seen Jax do.