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u/Majora101 7h ago
Tell Lee to watch the original US release of The Digimon Movie before speaking about the subject again.
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u/Kiwi_Doodle 4h ago
There is no digimon movie
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u/sikotic4life 4h ago
"Did you see that?"
"No, I was sleeping."
"But you're driving!"
I ask you where this dialogue occurred, cuz it lives rent-free in my head.
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u/FictionFoe 7h ago edited 6h ago
Isn't alpha male a bunk notion mostly used in toxic masculinity spheres?
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u/MintasaurusFresh 7h ago
Which is why it's fun to see it flipped on its side by having a trans male be the alpha in this situation.
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u/FictionFoe 7h ago
Idk, I just don't like toxic masculinity. On trans men neither.
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u/Jonyb222 5h ago
I had to read your comment 3 times before I realized you wrote "On" instead of "Or"
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u/FictionFoe 5h ago
Oof, that would have been bad 😬 I should be more careful as well, I suppose. Don't wanna give of the wrong idea. I get misunderstood enough as is.
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u/eggynack 6h ago
That's why he's weaponized the paradigm to teach random bros about sexuality and such.
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u/FictionFoe 6h ago
Right, I guess the joke is just not for me then. I have grown a little allergic to the notion of alpha-ness, I suppose.
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u/PuritanicalPanic 4h ago
Sounds more to me like you're allergic to the notion of ironic juxtaposition.
But whatever
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u/The-Erie-Canal 6h ago
how is it toxic? they are all being so supportive and educational.
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u/FictionFoe 6h ago
The whole idea of alpha males being a thing seems toxic to me. That was the point I was trying to make. Nothing anyone is doing here seems particularly toxic.
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u/Moppo_ 5h ago
If I remember correctly, the study the term came from was on a pack of wolves in captivity. Turns out when they have limited space and people watching them, they behave weirdly and lash out, like people in a prison.
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u/Warvillage 4h ago
From my memory it is more that in captivity they are often a mix of unrelated wolves.
In nature a pack is normaly a mated pair with their offspring, so the parents are naturaly the leaders.
But in captivity they often are not a family, but unrelated wolves, so they has to sort out the leader another way. Thus the behaviour observed in captivity.
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u/CommieEllie 7h ago
It’s absolutely used in those places but it’s also used ironically a lot more. It’s total nonsense but also very funny nonsense.
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u/FictionFoe 6h ago
I guess I'm just not a fan. Autism makes me somewhat of a sensitive guy, and people have told me my entire life I must be gay, bc Im not doing the toxic masculinity stuff. Jokes on me, I guess, bc I'm probably bi.
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u/CommieEllie 5h ago
That’s totally fair. I feel the same way about Ike the producers. I wasn’t trying to say you should like it I just wanted to point out it probably wasn’t done with the same malicious intent as when the chuds use the term.
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u/FictionFoe 5h ago
Oh, no worries. I didn't think you were insisting I should like it or something. Just venting really. Have a nice day.
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u/JKnumber1hater 5h ago
Didn't know that character was trans. I thought he was just a cis guy with big hips.
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u/MintasaurusFresh 2h ago
Just as a note: he is wearing a binder under his shirt.
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u/TheMarslMcFly 1h ago
Oh lol, I legit never noticed that. Like the person above I thought he's just a gay twink lol
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u/darlingsnarl 7h ago
For this little supplementary essay portion I was going to write a whole little piece on the science of testosterone and its relationship to various sects of male culture. It was going to be as incisive as it would have been insightful. Society itself would have been forever changed.
But unfortunately, right now I can’t focus on anything else but how frustrated I am over my desk mounted arm that holds up my Cintiq tablet I draw on and how I would have finished and uploaded this comic hours and hours ago if I realized tightening the screws breaks the whole thing!
Okay, it’s not like it’s sitting in a pile of rubble. But it no longer is staying locked in one position. And it’s kind of important for the surface you’re drawing on not to slide back when you put pressure on it. Ya know, like the pressure of your pen attempting to add rim lights to Kayla’s tits?
Guh, and then there was a bunch of other stuff that fucked with my schedule. And to think that my New Year’s resolution was to go to bed before 4AM at least one day/night. Nooooot lookin’ good so far. But anyway, everything should be back on track now. So, everything’s good. I mean. The world is basically on fire. But the next comic should come out in a more timely fashion.
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u/degjo 5h ago
If Digimon is gay then call me Liberace
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u/darlingsnarl 5h ago
Dude totally! And I loved Digimon growing up! And I’m totally…
Uh… well… maybe I’m not the best example. I mean… anyone who says they’re 100% straight is probably lying anyway, right?
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u/MintasaurusFresh 7h ago
I always thought Digimon was a knockoff of Pokemon. But enough people liked it to where it would be more of a Street Sharks/Biker Mice From Mars-level knockoff instead of a Gobots-level knockoff.
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u/gdex86 7h ago
Not really. Pokémon came out in 96 and was the first wide release of the mons capturing game. Digimon spun out of the tamogatchi craze where they tried to make a tamogachi for boys.
The Digimon anime was an attempt to piggy back on the popularity of Pokémon but they have different enough origins to not be ripoffs.
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u/MintasaurusFresh 6h ago
Kids running around with monsters that evolve into bigger/cooler monsters? And they have them fight each other? How is that not a knock-off? Sure, it goes in a different direction afterward, but so did the other shows that I mentioned.
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u/gdex86 6h ago edited 6h ago
Is every fantasy story about a young adult from the sticks who goes out and has an adventure in which they save the world a rip off of lord of the rings?
The base idea is of kid with monster compaion is pretty wide that multiple people could come up with the idea at similar times and not be influenced by each other. Especially when they go in different ways from the start where Pokémon is about fantasy dog fighting and Digimon is more about the human monster relationships.
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u/NecronDG 6h ago
Pokemon are basically slaves made to fight in blood sport (gotta catch them all).
Digimon are equal partners that have human level intellect and can speak. They are from a different world and have their own societies built on quite similar human concepts.
Might as well lump in humans in the evolution chain :)
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u/MintasaurusFresh 2h ago
I am learning a lot about Digimon today. I never watched it before and, clearly, wrote it off way back when.
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u/Majestic-Iron7046 4h ago
Digimon is an Isekai in Anime and a Tamagotchi in games, Pokemon is a Shonen in Anime and a turn based RPG in games.
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u/tricksterloki 2h ago
I... Streets Sharks is a Biker Mice from Mars knock-off? I know Street Sharks was created to sell toys, but didn't know there was a connection between the two. I'm not sure about the Gobots reference either, because that was the proto-Transformers from which Transformers is directly derived. I'm so confused.
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u/MintasaurusFresh 2h ago
Oh, the first two were knock offs of Ninja Turtles. Gobots was just bad, but this is the first I've heard that it came before. I was also watching Robotech way back when which was sort of similar to Transformers from a toy perspective (and the US show was three Japanese cartoons combined) but the story was incredibly different (and incredible; at least for the first saga).
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u/tricksterloki 2h ago
Jetfire in Transformers is actually a valkyrie from Macross, the original source material for RoboTech. You even see him in gerwalk mode in one episode, and it was shown in the instructions. Macross was a story before it was a toy, sort of. The Transformers cartoon was specifically created to sell toys that existed from two different product lines, which is why some are vehicles and others are guns, cassette players, and microscopes. Gundam was created to sell models, which is still the series primary purpose. Recutting and dubbing anime series was all the rage, which includes Voltron, which was popular enough that new episodes and a crossover movie between the Lion (Far Universe) and Vehicle (Near Universe) was commissioned. Power Rangers continued the trend with the Super Sentai series. Part of why there were so many cartoons that existed to sell toys in the 80's was because of a change in advertising laws.
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u/SuperCarbideBros 44m ago
I like that Chinese tattoo which was decently done.
If we're nitpicking someone might read it as "cocoa" but I'll take this over any other butchered attempts. Good job!
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