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One Thing In Fiction That Always Causes Me To Facepalm
April 30, 2018 at 11:18 pm
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One thing in fiction that always pisses me off is the Concept of the" deal with the devil cliche" . Were some dope makes a pact with a clearly evil being or uses a clearly evil object to get what they want and it backfires on them. As if they should not have figured that out before making said pact . Classic examples of this are Faust. Were a bored bookworm makes a pact with a being called Mephisto . A being with quite possibly the most evil name ever . His name might as well be Evil Mc Evilson.And surprise surprise it backfires .Or The Monkey's Paw oh yes using a curse monkeys hand to grant wishes surely nothing bad will come of that . Oh yes it backfired. This trope of course has rightly been parodied like The Simpsons episode where Homer sells his soul to the devil (Ned Flanders) for a sandwich.Or the Futurama episode where Bender makes a pact with the robot devil. Overall if you find a wish granting object or an clearly evil entity shows up offering to give you what you want . Just say no .
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Was a sandwich really worth it Homer ?
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RE: One Thing In Fiction That Always Causes Me To Facepalm
April 30, 2018 at 11:19 pm
Those are not sentences that make any sort of sense whatsoever.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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RE: One Thing In Fiction That Always Causes Me To Facepalm
April 30, 2018 at 11:20 pm
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(April 30, 2018 at 11:19 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Those are not sentences that make any sort of sense whatsoever. How so?
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RE: One Thing In Fiction That Always Causes Me To Facepalm
April 30, 2018 at 11:26 pm
You know I can see your edits, right?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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RE: One Thing In Fiction That Always Causes Me To Facepalm
April 30, 2018 at 11:46 pm
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For once, I just want to go see a superhero movie where there is no new powerful villain about to destroy the world!
I WANT to see superman or Batman or Ironman just sitting around, feet up, eating pizza and watching Big Bang Theory and laughing out loud.
God knows they've earned a rest, right?
Maybe Superman can fart while laughing and blow a hole in the sofa or something 
Or WonderWoman in the Coles Isle checking out prices for dishwashing liquid on special and wondering if she should get 2?
Or even Thor whipping up a pergola at his holiday home and using a nail gun instead! Why the fuck not!
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RE: One Thing In Fiction That Always Causes Me To Facepalm
May 1, 2018 at 12:04 am
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(April 30, 2018 at 11:26 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: You know I can see your edits, right?
I reconsidered what you said . Yeah there was some stuff that needed to be edited . Plus i wanted to add some pics for emphasis . 
(April 30, 2018 at 11:46 pm)ignoramus Wrote: For once, I just want to go see a superhero movie where there is no new powerful villain about to destroy the world!
I WANT to see superman or Batman or Ironman just sitting around, feet up, eating pizza and watching Big Bang Theory and laughing out loud.
God knows they've earned a rest, right?
Maybe Superman can fart while laughing and blow a hole in the sofa or something
Or WonderWoman in the Coles Isle checking out prices for dishwashing liquid on special and wondering if she should get 2?
Or even Thor whipping up a pergola at his holiday home and using a nail gun instead! Why the fuck not! Yeah but it would be hard to make a movie out of that
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RE: One Thing In Fiction That Always Causes Me To Facepalm
May 1, 2018 at 12:27 am
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Can it be any less boring than B&B, DOOL, etc
I'd love to see Spiderman see a daddy longlegs in the shower and start screaming like a little girl!
I would relate to that 100%
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RE: One Thing In Fiction That Always Causes Me To Facepalm
May 1, 2018 at 12:28 am
(May 1, 2018 at 12:27 am)ignoramus Wrote: Can it be any less boring than B&B, DOOL, etc :dunno
I'd love to see Spiderman see a daddy longlegs in the shower and start screaming like a little girl!
I would relate to that 100% True enough
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RE: One Thing In Fiction That Always Causes Me To Facepalm
May 1, 2018 at 12:30 am
I'd love to see them all at a fancy dress! With normal clothes!
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RE: One Thing In Fiction That Always Causes Me To Facepalm
May 1, 2018 at 4:30 am
Evil-shmevil. If any magical being wants to grant me wishes - I'll sign whatever deal, using any bodily fluids they want, the consequences be damned. Just putting it out there.
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