I’m not even talking about the fact that the X-Men have always met their definition of “woke”, even from the very beginning. No, I’m talking about the utterly baffling number of straight up factual errors I see them spouting. It’s absolutely embarrassing. They present themselves as fans, and are the exact type of guys who would gatekeep comics and assume any random woman in a comic store is a “fake fan”, but they have no clue about some of the most iconic elements from both the comics and the old cartoon!

I watched a video by a guy who had no idea Morph was a character in the old cartoon, and had never even heard of the Age of Apocalypse (one of the most famous X-Men stories in existence). I watched another by a guy freaking out over Storm’s Mohawk, not realizing it’s part of one of her most iconic looks from the 80’s. He showed a picture of her in her first costume from the comics (on a cover of X-Men Classic of all things) that looked way sexier than she was normally drawn when wearing that costume. Then said they “toned down” her look for the original cartoon, not knowing that her cartoon look was an exact replica of her look in the comics when the cartoon was made. They didn’t tone down anything. That was just what she looked like in the comics at the time.

The new cartoon is great. And I say this as a person who was totally obsessed with the old cartoon to the point that it worried my parents. To the point that I (a super calm and well behaved child) threw a massive tantrum when I realized the VCR had failed to record a new episode while I wasn’t home and cried on the couch for hours. To the point that my entire family still, to this day, knows every character’s name (and real name!) without ever watching the show because I talked about it so much.

I’ve never had a problem with “fake fans” of anything, because I figure if you fake something like that, odds are good that you’ll end up genuinely getting into whatever you’re pretending to like. And more fans of something is always a good thing in my book. But when those fake fans are actively trashing something I love just to grift to their narrow minded audiences, using completely false information, it’s ridiculous.

The format was like an fnf battle. It was dark, and the background was hard to make out, but it looked broken, and moonlight was coming through the roof (I think). In the foreground, it seemed to have a fireplace on the right as there were orange highlights on the character, and the right side was in a warmer tone (but that could also be for a different reason). There were two characters, blueberror and grillby. But they looked different. Grillby was taller and bigger than how he normally looked. His clothes were hard to make out as they changed every time I focused on him (once he had an old samurai uniform that was red). His fire was white with an orange rim, and his eyes were two white circles. But most of the time, his head was out of the frame even when he was singing. Blueberror had a squared head, and his eyes were also white circles. He looked more deranged. His clothes were normal. He never smiled in the beginning. Actually, when the battle started, a brain dropped into his skull, waking him up.

Around the middle (or beginning, it was really confusing) of the song they both grabbed each other by the shirts and started screaming at each other, but blueberror teeth were long and yellowish, the ends were flat. Grillby fire ripped open to show a mouth. After the screaming match (that lasted like 10 seconds), they went back to singing, and blueberror started smiling-

And then I woke up (T^T)

so basically it all boils down to Bad Writing™ but since that goes for 99% of all naruto related things i’m just gonna go ahead and say that in sasuke’s case he kinda just… takes the things he has for granted for most of the series. and like the weirdest thing about that is that it shouldn’t be that way!! it doesn’t fit with his character or how it should be like back when he was 12 he cared so much about his bonds with team 7 because he knew how terrible loneliness felt but fast forward 4 years later and the thought of there still being people in the world left who care about you is now basically… meaningless. it all means nothing. and like yeah ok he had his own goals and he couldn’t afford to have anyone get in is way but do you know just how many other characters would’ve killed to have people show concern for them?? to have those who tell them that they still matter and are important to their lives??? from a writing point of view literally no one but sasuke had anyone go so far for them or any narrative privileges. he basically has plot armor so strong that even if the entire world realistically turned against him for his actions no legitimate threat would come from it. but even that doesn’t happen since he is immediately pardoned for all the crimes he has done because he helped in the war even if he wanted to like,,, become ninja world president afterwards or whatever and then suddenly everyone conveniently choses to forget everything he ever did. wack.

so it’s not so much of a case where he expected to be forgiven, it’s that he was already essentially forgiven, by both team 7 and the narrative. side characters’ opinions on the matter who have every right to be mad at sasuke be damned. it doesn’t matter if nobody wanted him to be hokage because in naruto, side characters have no rights. when he said his goal was to become hokage, it wasn’t in a “lol hey everyone vote for me to become ninja president” way it was more of a “i will become hokage whether the people want me to or not and i will use any force necessary to do so” route. and then after that chapter it just.. never gets brought up again because the entire world now views him as a hero which is just hmmmm. everybody just automatically forgives him without even thinking while sasuke does the bare minimum, if anything at all, to earn their trust again while everyone else who has wronged others have actual consequences that affect them and have to work hard to obtain everybody’s forgiveness. and if anyone does try to call sasuke out on his actions or dare get angry at him for what he’s done, then they’re painted in a negative light and are seen as the bad guys (e.g. karui, A, etc). apparently their feelings are unimportant, so they don’t get any explanation beyond “this character is against sasuke, and sasuke (a main character no less) has a tragic childhood which is why he does the things he does, therefore this character is Wrong”. i mean maybe, just maybe, if sad backstories weren’t incorrectly utilized as tools to excuse characters’ actions, we wouldn’t be having this problem. but maybe that’s just me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

bottom line is, his consequences are terribly disproportionate to his actions, and have no lasting impact. he gets a free pass for anything he does. and y’know what, it gets old. if this frequently happened to every character then it wouldn’t be nearly as frustrating but this is a clear display of author favoritism at its peak. kishimoto really said fuck non sasuke lives… 😔😔

anyway, kishi