Iman

Theres this thing that happens with a few too many franchises, where the constant need to one-up and raise stakes makes each entry slightly more unhinged than the last. Until you reach a point where what started as a fairly simple/grounded concept has become completely ridiculous(see Dragonball, Fast and Furious).

They managed to present a man with a dark past and anger issues who is also not a monster. He is a human being desperate to survive and nobody even knows his name anymore. The closest thing he had to a family he resents but still obviously misses terribly as he clings to that pendant and shakes.

i saw iron lung in theaters for the third time today

but hey at least you have one thing going for you, because gender roles dictate that as a girl they're obligated to protect you, and maybe one of them will even fall in love with you someday, so you can use that to keep them close and make sure you don't get left behind. and then everything gets ripped apart again and you're helpless as all this stuff happens to you and around you and because of you, and by the time you're even capable of trying to help you're told you'll just get in the way because you didn't get to grow up playing swords!!!! and then they leave you behind.

and maybe you eventually get to help and fight and train and learn. but that doesn't change the fact that they left you behind so all those things society told you should make you secure in your relationships were never enough, you were never enough, so you cling to them harder in an effort to keep it from happening again. except every time you try to seize agency over this it ultimately gets seized right back and so all this stuff is still happening to you and around you and because of you. and in the end it turns out your entire life was just someone else's plan to relegate you again and again to being nothing more than the object, the damsel, the motivation.