• SatyrSack@quokk.au
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    46 minutes ago

    This is why I dislike even knowing the simple fact that there is some twist in the show I am going to watch. Even knowing that there is a twist is somewhat of a spoiler, and you are left guessing what it might be the entire time you are watching it.

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    Last year I watched LotR for the first time (yesyes) and I was shocked that

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    the wizard with the spikey black tower that looks like a torture dildo in the middle of a lush forest was one of the baddies!

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      Hey hey hey, if that spoiler tag wasn’t there I would have known Magneto was a bad guy.

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      Is it really a gotcha when the person born into a position of power, whose entire lives are shaped by clawing for power under feudalism does the thing that gets them power?

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      I mean why would it not be the aristocrat? Down with the nobility! I feel like the goblin dude is only going for his own species going by his description.

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    Eric the Noble spent thousands of gold on his image, otherwise he begged Jeffrey the Noble (later Jeffrey the Child Rapist) to let him on his island, excommunicated his trans daughter, and bought up public square “Twitter” to control it. Xavier just likes to backstab cannibals.

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    Old time sci-fi adventure show Blake’s 7 did the ultimate twist

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    ___They killed Blake but kept the name, because he’d become so famous.

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    8 hours ago

    Consistently the cannibal backstabber turns out to be kind and just an ex social outcast while the noble actually cuts deals with the bbeg

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      the bbeg

      The Bouncy Belligerent Equine Genius?
      Bold Bald Enterprise Guy?
      Big Beautiful Enby Gorilla?

  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    Can you guess which one is the evil dark magician that hides their actions in a veil of darkness, murders children and is inspired by someone who revived a world destroying demon to get revenge on his father because he left them because god gave him power to protect the planet from that demon, but required him to leave his family (he agreed, influenced by the fact that his wife was also killed by that demon)

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    They will get introduced for 3 minutes in the beginning as a side-character, never get mentioned again to the point you forget them, and then backstab the main cast 3 minutes before the end.