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Sephiroth is a villain.

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I think too many people forget that, for all of his alien modifications, Sephiroth IS human and IS subject to the nuances of human tragedy. Both of his biological parents were human. He was born from a human mother. Jenova was grafted into him, but Sephiroth's capacity for compassion is indicative of his true human heart. He only really goes full alien after he emotionally/psychologically rejects his own humanity. But it doesn't erase what he is on a fundamental physical and biological level.

Friendly reminder that Usagi literally dying for the good of mankind TM - even when said Mankind TM could care less about her and her well being - was never enough for her to receive even the most basic respect and human dignity in the 90-s anime version.

You're definitely not going to like The Boss's arc from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, then. She went through the EXACT same thing, and to add insult to injury, she died saving her country by having her student kill her, and her country "repaid" her by basically memory-holing her at best, at worst made her out to be a traitor and war criminal and dishonored throughout history (oh, and if you thought THAT was bad, Peace Walker via The Boss's tapes made the abuse by her higher ups SO in your face by her country that The Boss felt less like a patriot and more like someone who had battered wife syndrome. Put another way, even Usagi had more self-respect than this.). It was in fact a guy who pushed that as well, series creator Hideo Kojima (who incidentally ended up BASHING the Disney Princesses as a whole later on, and even bashed Princess Peach in Super Mario during Super Smash Bros. Brawl via Solid Snake), and the one guy who even respected her enough, ironically the guy who killed her, ends up becoming a bad guy down the line partly BECAUSE of said guilt. Oh, and like those guys, Kojima showed himself to be a male feminist by claiming the 21st century would be "a century for women to protect men" while promoting his then-in development Metal Gear Solid 2. She didn't even have Magical Girl powers, to boot, she was just the Mother of all Special Forces and someone who fought in World War II, while PREGNANT mind you.

When a person has an anime icon, a genre whose distinctive feature is the rampant sexualization of underage girls and toxic fetishes of male creators/producers and passes it off as "progressive" to endorse one of such fetishes in the non-anime media they automatically should not be taken seriously.

I'll be blunt, DailyWire really needs to cut Sonnenburg loose, because he's DEFINITELY not doing them any favors (I've already seen enough infiltrators ruining sites like Conservapedia). Attacking women and kids online is COWARDLY, period. And I've already seen enough of that crap on the internet as it is by some Pokemon fans, and one, CyberCubed, dating back to 2004 (and older than the general age bracket of Pokemon even back during the original series) basically acted EXACTLY like him and Whedon in more ways than one, INCLUDING overrating an overdeveloped 10 year old replacement and kicking her predecessor down repeatedly, and even going as far as to write really sick fanfics of her quite literally getting screwed by Ash while STILL remaining 10 (oh, and worse, he flat out ADMITS with pride to being a troll who caused carnage on the forums), even dismissing anyone who criticized May who wasn't even FROM the original or AG fanbase as "not living through that time period" and harrassing them.

These writers are driving me nuts with all the Misty-ness thrown around lol I miss her. All I need now is to say her name ;)

This has been bugging me a bit but I’ve decided to finally put it in writing. Eighteen episodes into Pokemon XY and I’m beginning to have this train of thought. Namely, does Serena seem like she was constructed as a foil to Misty?

Do you feel that Misty is treated poorly by the writers? She hasn't had a cameo in 7 years, and she has now not appeared for two series in a row. They also constantly bring Brock back over her, either as a main character or for a special. Between that and May and Dawn getting better screentime than her, it makes me feel like the writers never cared for Misty much. Why is it that aside from flashbacks/endings they haven't put her in an episode since 2005? That was like 7 years ago.

Food for thought. I think it’s kind of fascinating how almost all the girls that fell in love with Ash are the ones he helped during times of distress: Latias, Angie, Macy, Serena. I think the only girls that don’t fit into this pattern are Anabel and Misty.

Sad thing is, this was the first instance of her participating in a Contest, and while skipping the Gym class as well upon hearing of it.