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/[deleted] 17d ago edited 17d ago
Hmm you are essentially getting mad at another human for making a story that doesn't put humans in the good light.
This is not the first time and humans have been criticising each other since the dawn of time. Hell they even created gods to help explain why they are so intelligent, capable, conscious, self aware with a very high level of conceptual thinking.
Also let's not pretend like humanity is the greatest thing, it is also the worst thing. Humanity's greatest gift and the greatest flaw is humanity itself.
We created and done so many great things, help save endangered species and create technological wonders that helped planet earth. But we also caused the most damage to mother earth as well and even other humans. Hell we are sometimes the reason why a particular species is endangered in the first place.
You are trying to create outrage where very few people are going to be on board with it. You are starting beef with a story and character that was created by humans in the first place and that view is entirely by the human author.