honestly tho that scene in the incredibles where mr. incredible sees the names of all the old super heroes that used to be his friends / that he knew from Back in the Day and how every one of them has been killed by syndrome is such a chilling scene for so many reasons
like for one, everyone he knew is dead at this point and has been killed on the same island he’s at now and two, its heartbreaking bc that means that almost every hero wanted to try out being a hero again despite the laws against it and wanted to try and help someone out and relive their glory days, only to be straight up murdered like fuck that scene is just so fuckin intense
I think the core of that scene for me is, when you’re insane like me and you go through it frame by frame, you can work out that Gazerbeam defeated the omnidroid twice – the only super we have enough information to confirm did so. I always wondered about his body in the cave, how and why he got the password… But it makes sense. This thing goes haywire, gets an upgrade, and goes haywire again? He must have been hella suspicious! So he does what any good superhero would do – tries to get to the bottom of what’s really happening on Nomanisan Island. During the process he’s clearly caught and wounded but has just enough time to get himself somewhere he can leave a final message, just praying that the next super to come along will find it and break the cycle.
Its great because I remember in some interview they talked about how they gave him a broken nose because they thought he was literally too attractive so they had to ‘normalize’ him in some way.
Like someone said, “our leading man is too hot, we need to tone him down”
neo yokio is a subversive work of modern art considering – that its animation style is based on early 2000′s anime w/ english voice overs (because the dub was usually out of sync with the animation) and its supposed to imitate abdridged anime + jayden smith’s near emotionless voiceover + a socially conservative bougie and really oblivious protagonist + an antagonistic force that the protagonist focuses on but seems to not be as important to the story then at first glance, makes it seem like a not-thought-out or terribly written show but behind all of those things are a solid story line with clear values that the show wants to promote and clear character motivations that makes the show work
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