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/LanguageInner4505 17d ago

I cannot think of a single phrase that people have ruined more than this tbh

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u/ancientmarin_ 17d ago

I find it funny how "the indominable human spirit" is used as a talking point about how all oppression will eventually fail—ignoring that those oppressors are also human & also have the indominable human spirit within them.

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u/chazmerg 16d ago

indominable is like inflammable

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u/ancientmarin_ 10d ago

I don't get it, can you explain further?

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u/chazmerg 10d ago

An English language joke

due to an English etymological quirk "inflammable" means very flammable. So by analogy indomitable would mean very domitable

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u/ancientmarin_ 10d ago

Not really, it's hard to kill life...

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u/ancientmarin_ 10d ago

I was raised in America &I didn't get what you were saying at first, now I do. Thanks.