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MLP Has Found My Weakness: Chaos
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█ And his name shall be Discord.
What's the weakness though? The weakness is those characters who are chaotic in nature, and in Discord's case it's a sort of double weakness as the character is voiced by John De Lancie (or probably more commonly known as "Q" from Star Trek")
I think I enjoy chaotic characters the most because they are difficult to write; because the moment you start making them predictable they lose a lot of their power as a character. Yet the vein that chaotic characters run on is they do it for a laugh: nothing more, nothing less. Yet at the exact same time they are capable of deep insight that escapes those who run the straight path.
Though what kind of chaotic characters do I like? Well as mentioned "Q" from Star Trek, and then there's the Joker from Batman, Kefka from FF6, Hexadecimal from Reboot, and Puck from Gargoyles (there maybe others that escape my memory currently). All characters with very random personalities, and who are at their core are tricksters; who tend to be able to make very insightful and pointed jabs at their targets. These are the characters that forces thought out of people, because with any other hero/villain setup, the morals are almost always clear cut and spoon fed to you.
What message you take from the tricksters when they have been bested will vary from person to person, and perhaps that's their greatest strength; that what you take is a revelation of who you are. Can you accept their message, and grow from it thus; or do you reject it, and grow from it that way? For they are hard to ignore.
Sides, they get all the cool maniacal laughs.
█ As a side note, Celestia has turned out to be a rather cruel individual, trapping her sister in a moon for a thousand years and turning Discord into a statue. I find it funny how Discord even points out that despite who he is (the bad guy, duh) that he doesn't turn others into stone.
Course I'm sure people will say Discord is a bully for cheating and brainwashing the good guys, but really it's just an illustration of the folly of attempting to be pure by denying the facets of one's personality that exists in everyone instead of accepting it. Course that's just me reading in Discord's trolling of the ponies.
Still like the show, just not to the brony level, sides Discord looks more like an eastern dragon than a pony and he's just become my favorite character in that show (just a shame that he's probably a one time character) I just wonder a bit at the mixing of the Trekkies with the Bronies that will happen due to Discord's character... somehow seems appropriate given the actor....
█ I suppose since I'm on the topic I should comment on the MLP FA banner. I chuckled a bit, but I thought it was well executed considering what it was going for. I'm a proponent of that laughter is the best medicine, and that if you're unable to laugh at the ridiculousness you might need to chill out a bit. Cause I'm not going to get angry over that, there's other things more deserving of my ire.
█ EDIT: I just remembered the other chaotic character I like Mxyzptlk from Superman. A shame Youtube killed the clips of him and Superman going at it.
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█ And his name shall be Discord.
What's the weakness though? The weakness is those characters who are chaotic in nature, and in Discord's case it's a sort of double weakness as the character is voiced by John De Lancie (or probably more commonly known as "Q" from Star Trek")
I think I enjoy chaotic characters the most because they are difficult to write; because the moment you start making them predictable they lose a lot of their power as a character. Yet the vein that chaotic characters run on is they do it for a laugh: nothing more, nothing less. Yet at the exact same time they are capable of deep insight that escapes those who run the straight path.
Though what kind of chaotic characters do I like? Well as mentioned "Q" from Star Trek, and then there's the Joker from Batman, Kefka from FF6, Hexadecimal from Reboot, and Puck from Gargoyles (there maybe others that escape my memory currently). All characters with very random personalities, and who are at their core are tricksters; who tend to be able to make very insightful and pointed jabs at their targets. These are the characters that forces thought out of people, because with any other hero/villain setup, the morals are almost always clear cut and spoon fed to you.
What message you take from the tricksters when they have been bested will vary from person to person, and perhaps that's their greatest strength; that what you take is a revelation of who you are. Can you accept their message, and grow from it thus; or do you reject it, and grow from it that way? For they are hard to ignore.
Sides, they get all the cool maniacal laughs.
█ As a side note, Celestia has turned out to be a rather cruel individual, trapping her sister in a moon for a thousand years and turning Discord into a statue. I find it funny how Discord even points out that despite who he is (the bad guy, duh) that he doesn't turn others into stone.
Course I'm sure people will say Discord is a bully for cheating and brainwashing the good guys, but really it's just an illustration of the folly of attempting to be pure by denying the facets of one's personality that exists in everyone instead of accepting it. Course that's just me reading in Discord's trolling of the ponies.
Still like the show, just not to the brony level, sides Discord looks more like an eastern dragon than a pony and he's just become my favorite character in that show (just a shame that he's probably a one time character) I just wonder a bit at the mixing of the Trekkies with the Bronies that will happen due to Discord's character... somehow seems appropriate given the actor....
█ I suppose since I'm on the topic I should comment on the MLP FA banner. I chuckled a bit, but I thought it was well executed considering what it was going for. I'm a proponent of that laughter is the best medicine, and that if you're unable to laugh at the ridiculousness you might need to chill out a bit. Cause I'm not going to get angry over that, there's other things more deserving of my ire.
█ EDIT: I just remembered the other chaotic character I like Mxyzptlk from Superman. A shame Youtube killed the clips of him and Superman going at it.
Pokemon and Avatar have powerful hatedoms too. I jumped on the anti-Avatar bandwagon myself, but only because the film deserved it. For all it's pretentiousness, it was basically Fern Gully In Space, complete with the dubious hippy nature-worshop and the even more dubious whitewashing about how wonderfully perfect indiginous people were before the Big Bad White Man came to attack them.
And I'm STILL a digimon fan!
Avatar: TLA is something I doubt I will ever stop loving. Aaaahvatar was a terrible, terrible movie. And James Cameron's Avatar was pretty, but still a bad movie.
As far as Hex goes, her outfit got more and more dominatrix in style as time went on and I think the passing comment on "She probably likes to be tied up" only really seals the deal. For children that comment would probably pass over their heads, but for the adults it's good for a laugh.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6534224/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHCdKb5UWc
"You should see the looks on your faces, priceless."
Haven't even seen the show myself. Heck, I don't even know where to find it on TV. However, though the banner didn't bother me in the slightest. However, I do find it amusing that it went down after three days when they said it'd be up for the week. I guess with the level of popularity they saw on the site, they weren't expexted the concentrated yet quite vehement negetive reaction to it as well.
Speaking of Kefka and the Joker - I had an argument with a friend about which was crazier, and he liked my argument that the Joker worked better as an embodiment of madness than Kefka.
Kefka will kill you. He'll happily poison your family, burn you to a crisp, doom the whole world, just because he can. He is crazy in any sense of the word.
The Joker? He might kill you. He might zap you with a lethal hand buzzer, or douse you in acid, or push you in front of a bus. He might kill your family, dress them up as marionettes and put on a puppet show with their corpses. He might kill everyone you know, everyone you love, just because you said something he didn't find funny - or just because he thinks it makes a great joke. But then again, he might not.
With Kefka, you can be certain he'll try to kill you. With the Joker? There is no way to tell. He could hit you with a pie in the face, or throw you off a building, but the only rhyme or reason to what he does is that in some twisted way, he won't do anything that isn't funny.
As an aside, I liked The Dark Knight's take on the Joker: An agent of Chaos, he doesn't reason what he does, as he puts it, he's "like a dog chasing cars", and he's eager to show the entire city how to be like that...
Kefka and the Joker are two different shades of crazy. Kefka views life as inherently worthless and pointless, so it's something to be snuffed out; where as the Joker (depending on the version and the writing) it's all just a game of life and death. Yet in both cases they both do it for their own amusement (and because they can). Kefka is ironically more straight-forward than the Joker simply because he yes he threw out the live part of the equation. Yet both exist to throw cold water in the faces of the hero's pretentiousness.
The Joker tends to win between the two simply because he's had far more time to be developed as a character (many shows and movies). Kefka (before he destroys the world) is more akin to the Joker, who is working loosely within the rules given to him by the Emperor. I feel that after Kefka destroys the world is perhaps how the Joker would be if he ever won the ultimate victory over the good guys.
I'd better go find someone who I can get to watch it with me...
I found a friend who will watch it with me already, too. Now I just have to check the TV schedule and hope she gets the right channel.
And hey, you can be a Brony without being a "Celestia Jihad!" Brony. I'm always happy to see someone more balanced than that.
On the other hand, it is fun to poke the trolls with a unicorn horn occasionally, even though I know I shouldn't.
And you never know! We need Luna and Discord to make returns in the future, and we can always hope!