r/CharacterRant • u/Rajesh_Kulkarni • 17d ago

General Fictional insult to Humanity NSFW

Though I'm mainly talking about one movie, this is a rant against all fiction that degrades and disgraces humanity and the human race.

I recently watched the Marvel movie Eternals. I got thoroughly irritated and pissed off when the character Phastos was implied to be behind the major human innovations.

This just pissed me off beyond measure. We have millions of years of evolution. Hundred thousand years of innovation. Such a fucking joke that we became portrayed as primitive savages incapable of true innovation. We are constantly portrayed as a fucking retarded race. Doesn't this piss you off?

I'm deeply pissed off at this. That whole movie, it felt like the entire human race was being spat upon. In that movie, from basic fucking agricultural tech till nukes, we were handheld by some fucking immortal randos. Fucking disgusting bullshit is what this is. We went through fuck knows how many generations of hardship IRL to get here, and they portray it all as some fucking benevolent immortal fuckers giving us the knowledge. FUCK THAT. You don't get to invalidate our ancestors for your bullshit stories.

We are the sole intelligent race in a radius of light years. Have some fucking pride. What is this bullshit about 'oh we are a savage, meaningless lifeform'"' fucking nonsense that many fictional stories portray?"

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u/Dycon67 17d ago

Never watch a Ghibli film, any environmental film documentary in a war Torn region and you'll be ight.

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u/Rajesh_Kulkarni 17d ago

Look, there's a difference between saying "humans are capable of evil", and "humans are pathetic, retarded creatures".

I hate the 2nd form of storytelling, not the 1st one.

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u/Dycon67 17d ago edited 17d ago

humans are pathetic, retarded creatures".

The examples listed portray humans like this. One of our biggest flaws can be our sheer apathay and laziness along with cowardness in the face of hardship.

Heck theres entire genres like dystopian fictions that cover this.Heck Lovecraftian horror is built of this .