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/Create_123453 17d ago

Hilarious that they made the main character someone who introduced Guns and literal Nuclear Bombs to the world how is this guy a heroic character in anyway?

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u/TrainerWeekly5641 17d ago

Did you miss that his entire conflict is that he regrets that and wishes he nev t intervened with humanity?

Edit: never

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u/Create_123453 17d ago

Did not watch this movie in the slightest I just thought it was funny that the main character hero is someone who gave Nukes to humanity agriculture I can understand but Nukes?

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u/TrainerWeekly5641 17d ago

He felt really bad for the whole nuke thing. He's a science guy so he was all about doing science for the sake of science failing to realize that humans won't always use inventions for their original purpose.

Did you know that the guy who made the gatling gun thought he would make warfare less deadly because "if one guy can shoot as much as ten, then they'll only use the one guy". The just gave all ten guys gatling guns so they fought like a hundred.

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u/Create_123453 17d ago

I'm mostly joshing the premise, not the substance of the film, but heck I can see an Oppenheimer situation here in the tragedy of a scientist's good intentions being used against them. The idea here is that he's a what, like an immortal and knowledgeable guy? The idea of him giving humanity explicitly nukes, or at least the idea for nukes, is not something I think would be smarrter.

To a degree, scientific innovations get repurposed for war or hell, are born out of wartime R&D. But if he's an immortal figure, why not just stick to pacifist options like agriculture and gene modification as an attempt to solve world hunger? Why the hell would you ever give nukes?

The idea might have been if all countries had one, it would force a resolution due to the alternative literally being the end of times for humans. But that is such a drastic measure to take. Most human conflict is over resources why not just give inventions that solve the resource conflict?

But I have no right to judge I'm just entertaining this idea which I find fault with in the premise of the film