My opinion? It's not any particular character archetype, it's the underlying cultural suggestions of social conformity and authority. No real grays. It's subtle reactionary worlds of assumed norms.
To me Dragonball Z was about accumulating power. Wisdom was a seasoning sprinkled around to help gain more power. And if you gained the most violent power then you can get wishes granted and by then I'm sure the accumulation of power didn't make you a flint hearted villain like in real life and you would make the world a better place...you just need more power.
I've never liked anime and it's probably that that gives me the creeps. The whole "assume these norms are good and right" and then you get sexism and school drama and poverty and wealth, and it just never comes up to question it or do anything about it. You just need to adapt and go along. Power is good, coolness aesthetics and popularity is good and you should go along and agree and do whatever it takes to accumulate whichever of these resources is seen as good so then you'll be good, too. Super reactionary to me.
I doubt many would agree with this, but I thought I would write it down for myself anyway.
when i was a kid i liked dragon ball z because i liked the good guys defending the earth from the saiyans, then freeza, then cell. i stopped watching after that.
whenever i see a reactionary online i don't think i see a dbz character avatar, just a generic anime girl. the kind that looks like it takes no effort to draw, and is indistinguishable from all the other ones.
Kenpachi doesn't spend his entire morning putting bells in his hair to be maligned like this. Sometimes I psych myself up by going, "you mean you need a reason... to FIGHT?!"
My opinion? It's not any particular character archetype, it's the underlying cultural suggestions of social conformity and authority. No real grays. It's subtle reactionary worlds of assumed norms.
To me Dragonball Z was about accumulating power. Wisdom was a seasoning sprinkled around to help gain more power. And if you gained the most violent power then you can get wishes granted and by then I'm sure the accumulation of power didn't make you a flint hearted villain like in real life and you would make the world a better place...you just need more power.
I've never liked anime and it's probably that that gives me the creeps. The whole "assume these norms are good and right" and then you get sexism and school drama and poverty and wealth, and it just never comes up to question it or do anything about it. You just need to adapt and go along. Power is good, coolness aesthetics and popularity is good and you should go along and agree and do whatever it takes to accumulate whichever of these resources is seen as good so then you'll be good, too. Super reactionary to me.
I doubt many would agree with this, but I thought I would write it down for myself anyway.
when i was a kid i liked dragon ball z because i liked the good guys defending the earth from the saiyans, then freeza, then cell. i stopped watching after that.
whenever i see a reactionary online i don't think i see a dbz character avatar, just a generic anime girl. the kind that looks like it takes no effort to draw, and is indistinguishable from all the other ones.
Kenpachi doesn't spend his entire morning putting bells in his hair to be maligned like this. Sometimes I psych myself up by going, "you mean you need a reason... to FIGHT?!"
:turtle-pogger: