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There's a way to make Oralech not throw himself off in the ending, y'know.

"And their consummation of their love is necessary for the Finale." We don't know anything about whether that's true or not. Hotel Transylvania 1 tells you everything about how Genndy handles romance, and your thoughts on THAT movie are going to reflect your thoughts on Jashi.

ONE example is not enough to show “how someone does things”.

Two, three, four... then you can see a pattern.

*checks*

Oh just... HNNGH!

Then don't go for the comedic effect. There's a difference between portraying Noxus positively, which you suggested, and portraying them neutrally, which is what the lore does as a whole barring that inaccurate choice of words. I won't argue that some cultures don't appreciate getting subsumed into the Noxian empire, but that doesn't discredit the ones that join out of their own volition because a nationless medieval world is hard living.

Riot did portray Noxus positively, which is exactly what I argued in the original post. By using loaded terms like “culturally inclusive” and stating outright that conquered people would have a better life by being forcibly incorporated into the Noxian empire (as long as they eventually submitted to Noxian rule and abandoned their own entire subset of cultural values in order to adopt Noxus’s value system instead), they tried to portray imperialist oppression as a good thing, or something with completely fictitious, contrived, and historically loaded “upsides”.

Did some individuals probably join Noxus of their own volition? Sure, maybe a handful of individual outcasts or immigrants. But you certainly can’t argue that on the scale of cities and civilizations. When you approach someone’s gates with a battering ram and ask if they want to open up, you’re no longer asking. The illusion of consent is just that - an illusion.

And just to reiterate from my original post - the problem with this is not that Noxus is “the worst”. The problem is that actual, modern day writers at Riot, who have all the benefit of all the knowledge and all of the history we’ve accumulated about imperialism, conquest, and cultural oppression, are trying to portray things that are objectively wrong, where the modern world has reached a consensus on their wrongness, as pretty much okay. Either value-neutral or positive.

And I get what Riot’s trying to go for here, mind you - they want to show that Noxus is more tolerant of differences in individuals, separate from culture, and that Noxian culture might be more tolerant of those differences than others. For instance, Noxus is fine with mages, whereas Demacia is decidedly not. Great! But that’s not “cultural inclusivity” because they’re still bulldozing other cultures to spread their own. Noxian culture is still king.

Thank Glen Keane for making it.

Prof. Peanut Pumpkin Carvin Made easy

1. Want to get the guts out and put a candle in without getting too messy? Cut open your pumpkin from the bottom!

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2. Use cookie cutters to cut out fun shapes in your pumpkin.

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3. Use ribbon to make your pumpkins pretty.

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4. Add some plastic vampire teeth for a touch of humor.

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5. And don't forget to add some cats to your pumpkin primping

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Prof. says bend pink paper clips into heart shapes today!