It was garbage, what one loves is moments in the product, not the product being the hallmark itself because its actually good.
Its an end of an aesthetic, not an era. Mecha as a whole is an era, a genre is an era. Shonen itself is an era, 1 corny af show is a phase at best.
Kamino arc is when it fell off its stakes mainly because thats when AFO was shelved, then the movie immediately during S3 gives us DollarTree AFO in Nine, then Chisaki.
The villains were colorful but came & went, barely an inconvenience when gone, Deku had no rivals, no real threats. No drive to get stronger, he was too comfortable. He & Shigaraki had no recurring dynamic, none.
you mention My Villain, yet what came outta that besides setup for no payoff? Even you had to admit it was booty.
Shigaraki ran nothing, we didnt get to see him build no empire like a Peaky Blinders vibe. Immediately after that event could even breathe, Jaku Raid starts.
300+ characters KH couldnt let go of but had to shovw them all into frame because all his babies are special snowflakes.
Zero breathing room, & I dont blame Jumps deadlines just yet for that cause KH was choking even earlier.
Sports Festival was about getting scouted right (its revealed even this was pointless), U.A apparently didnt give a shit about USJ event putting students in danger & thought a festival was the appropriate response to essentially a terror attack on a school field trip, thus putting civilians & other Hero courses in danger and the parents got no vote in the matter.
They didnt even think to omit Class 1A from the festival but keep the event intact, just keep the target class out of it just for precaution, nope nothing.
Eraser heads best retort to Jiro is basically 'we wont be intimidated', thanks EraserBrain.
And again, parents had no say.
*NICE ONE Horikoshi, anything for that TournaArc. And you know why this is a problem now? Because MHA didnt stay goofy, kiddy, and ACADEMIA.
it made the mistake of getting gritty, more contrived and serious*
When you turn your storys tone more serious, the standard of writing raises as well. And if you cant keep up with tracking the continuity consequences then you shouldnt be making serious stories.
Cause if it was just a stupid Saturday morning Superhero school anime that didnt get serious, the sports festival plothole wouldnt matter. Because you can overlook it.
When you raise stakes, you raise the standard. And Horikoshi wasnt ready.
I could go harder , so much to obliterate about this show along with the few good bits.
Whatever you could try to praise about it, that praise will likely possess or be attached to a problem that conflicts with it. Not because stories inevitably do that, no but because THIS ONE does.
MHA was bent from day 1 because the writer was inexperienced as most tend to be- but the difference is he had no writing talent to begin with. And likely had no plan hence why he kept making changes reliant on what fan feedback, vs having a plan & better help.
KH needed better / HELP.
The fight & animation doesnt matter at this point, the story was crap, the ending will likely be the same because more important changes that needed to happen were NOT made, so its far too late now. The best ending in 2020 era anime history is not going to fix 10+years of mid, or rectify the other 95% of wasted potential and time wasted.
The anime is a re-run of the book, Boku no Hero Academia ended already. The "era", the phase ended already.
*Animation is irrelevant to the story IF the story any good, if the colors gotta be pretty to stick the landing, you basically said everything that needed to be said about the thing yer talking about.* ♿🚮
Thats what needs to carry, writing, not background art. Lmfao, this is why Mangaka keep fucking up endings & arcs, yall prioritize the wrong shit over & over and wonder why you get the same exact outcome ad infinite.
And yes, OP is correct. I dont doubt MHA would've gotten a foothold without the wests clout, My Hero woulda been popular regardless but the MCU phase 3 specifically is why My Hero blew up so quickly, it debut during the golden years of superhero hype.
However the fatigue is not what you think it is, its ppl being tired of what Superhero movies turned into, not fatigued of superheroes themselves.
Superheroes are modern pagan gods, ideals, paragons, there will never be a fatigue of "the superman" or ubermensche as a concept. Thats like Americans getting Football fatigue, HA! Dont hold yer breath.
My Hero took off because Horikoshi (like Snyder) knows aesthetic, it got a following because it's superhumans in cosplay calling themselves "Heroes" in an ANIME, it got movies because the following migrated from Western Superhero clout--
And it took a hit overtime because its a lesser example of how to do a Superhero story, let alone an origin story; always has been.
Overall it was fine, a hot mess, most of the fights are trash, the "development" from the plot to the characters is a joke and the oversaturation of characters is top 3 reasons why the development was nerfed, but it was okay. And someone else said it but BONEs sticking with it this long? They're the real MVPs.
By just the movies (2nd one is best) & the OVAs alone (most of em are dry af, first 2 were solid) MHA is as much their kid as it is Kohei's at this point. Joint custody.
The game in question: “Girl Shrunk The Neighbors” again, is a mess, poor design and the fetish holds it back because of all it’s awkward visual beats, and lackluster story decisions that prioritizes fetishism cliche’s over gaming experience.
As usual per Macrocreep M.O.
Fitting for the mess of a mindset that it derives from, Macrophilia ie. Manhood crisis fetish.
And how it links to the prospect of a woman with “power” or advantage translating as a threat to men, to other women, children; and with the popular scenario of a woman destroying her surroundings like a rabid out of control animal, rambling on and on about “control”, little people being “insignificant”, getting aroused at terror of her victims, eroticizing helplessness- so we can add deranged psychopath to the list.
So in the mind of a Macrocreep (aka npc macrophile), a woman with “empowerment” is a threat to society/a threat. That’s an excellent narrative to beat off to for years on end, right?
Hence how the Giant idiot aka “Gynocentrism” is literally destabilizing society & destroying men physically, mentally or both.
Art imitates reality, because reality (in this case, insecurity, abuse, incompetence, ineptitude, human failure, and often trauma) birthed this “art”.
And because of a Macrocreep’s compulsion to pump this imagery lalaland shit out with a ‘foaming at the mouth-’ esque dedication that would make actual religious leaders either jealous or concerned, they have no idea what it is that they’re actually doing or communicating by pushing this misandrist, misogynist, and even as it escalates (because fetishism always escalates — ) ultimately a misanthropic (aka Anti-Human) narrative out in the world.
“Giantess”, One of the silliest fetishes on the planet- It’s an embarrassment and insult to the species. Not because of giants, but what the narrative communicated through the giant.
It’s indicative of a serious, serious problem society possesses regarding men and women and this concerning habit people have with “surrendering” to oppression, but only when it’s convenient.
So while silly, Macrocreepism is a unique cautionary tale in real time in why neglecting men & boys while putting women & girls on pedestals/on high/ above/ deified — is really not okay.
And how relevant it is regarding how modern zeitgeist absolutely failed men & women on a basic level, absolutely basic.
The core of this fetish is insecurity and the illusion of power.
The problem with insecurity, is it’s insecure, paradoxically.
Path of least resistance is easier: Consumption & rationalization, indulgence is always easier.
Much dependence, decades of commitment, one even adopts it as an identity trait, a common coping mechanism for addictive dependence — Identity Entanglement
Keyword: Addict
Because if I adopt it, embrace it, that means I’m secure/confident in it right? Wrong.
Or it means:
“I render any future criticism irrelevant to me, I know I am horrible and i love it. Thus it being an issue is omitted from my reality.” right?
Wrong.
“Embracing that it’s dysfunctional makes one an exception to conviction.”, that’s the outcome hoped for when people “own it” but fortunately, that’s not how that works lmfao. (Mad convenient tho, very very clever)
No one gets criticism plot armor.
And because it’s not physically “harming” anyone isn’t vindication either, even though many people want it to be. If it was that simple, insulting someone on the street or an empty death threat wouldn’t be such a big deal, they’re significant because the narrative, the principle is the problem and the lack thereof of any principle.
People don’t need to hurt for it to be addressed and corrected.
Picture it, an empty threat or a threat in isolation doesn’t physically harm anyone but who is it benefitting?
Does that make it okay because words or visuals can’t physically strangle you? No.
So how is an animated macabre of a 300ft tall woman sprinkling human beings down her throat (yes some idiot actually dedicated their life clock to not only make that but share it with the rest of the planet), how’s that any different and for some fucking reason — a human being, not a hormone crazed teenager, a grown ass adult thought that was cute enough to share for others to digest into their heads.
hits different when you say the quiet part it out loud.
Through attempting to “own” it by embracing it, it’s actually owning said subject through attachment, deeper association, kind of like the black symbiote from Spider-Man 3.
Thus, illusion of control.
Hence the obsession with control in the fantasy, zero control over self, minimized will, compromised agency/NPC; because through obsession, attachment, control is actually the ony thing you’re giving to the fetish — thus one obsesses over it because you quite literally have no control over yourself. Paradoxical Illusion.
Why do I say this? What is this paradox? Glad you asked, to reiterate: a prison of illusion of control.
So naturally, one commits to making a choice to attempt to take control by embracing the fetish so you can eliminate doubt or the prospect that it is indeed a problem
When the only choice where you’re in control or exercising agency is in-fact by letting it go
but the fetish is all about wanting to be controlled-
And so that’s exactly how one operates by clinging to the fetish for dear life
Thus you have no control, even over oneself
So naturally, one commits to making a choice to attempt to take control by embracing the fetish so you can eliminate doubt or the prospect that it is indeed a problem
when the only choice where you’re in control or exercising agency is in-fact by letting it go
but the fetish is all about wanting to be controlled-
— — — Ad Infinitum
Illusion of control. Paradoxical.
In fact, lack of control is why these people lost their goddamn minds. Not because they fell into it, everyone is afforded stupid phases in their life, but so many DEVOTED themselves to it like cult members. That’s where you lose the plot.
Cause to no one’s surprise & I’ve said this before, many times- the obsession with “growth”
is a direct correlation with a Macrocreeps refusal to “grow the fuck up”. Lack of progression, to an extent — suspended development.
And “shrinkage” is a literal metaphor for regression, hence the lessening of a person to a state of weakness, going BACKWARDS to the helpless state of a child; or according to their fantasy, apparently an inferior state of a human that should be abused like an object.
Art imitates life. If that’s your art, what happened to your life that created something like that?
Trauma projecting onto fiction. Hence why the majority of Macrocreep projection is almost always negative.
Equally condescending even when it’s gentle shit, cause always in some way insulting, domineering, & abusive. Always a reminder of who’s in “charge”, sometimes if the woman isn’t the person being a jerk, the shrunken person, usually male- is the one expressing to us the audience, how superior she is in exhausting, agitating, mind-numbing, self-loathing, nauseating detail. Like bro, LOVE YOURSELF.
Makes me want to shrink down & royally punch him in the goddamn jaw. So so SO goddamn annoying. Society convinced this moron he’s meaningless and like any abuse victim subjected to abuse, they begin to not only believe it but they like it, they need it to function.
Which is why Macrophilia is not exclusive to men, but it is predominantly a male self-hatred fetish, because it is ripe in societies where men are openly disrespected, abused, omitted from cultural relevance and neglected, & that’s normal culture that boys grow up in.
The concept of this fetish exposes the fetish.
Nothing of what the brain does is accident.
Got to spread it here, there, everywhere because that’s how a virus works. That’s how insecurity works, it’s not secure in one dimension.
The fetish springs up in social biomes where birthrates not only drop, not only the sex relations are shit but it’s usually woman-centric or first world privileged where men are the lesser priority.
Kind of like a GTS fantasy where women are the central focus and men are the lesser priority.
A feedback loop of abusive, distance, isolation, dysfunction, and societal/even parental failure.
Men wanting to be micro footslaves because they’ve seen enough “#KillAllMen” & “#MenAreTrash” to be convinced that they’re subhuman.
And now so desperate to make these mental issues everyone’s business, it’s on steam of all places.
Redirecting back to the game: “Girl Shrunk The Neighbors”…..
Not a patreon exclusive (which is bad but enough), but a STEAM Game Shop drop. I shit you not.
The problem is the lack of boundaries here, no matter where it’s spread, or how much we consume of the same violence, same abuse, it’ll never be enough.
Because it’s fantasy, it’s not real, zero gain.
Even if you tapped into the perfect VR experience of a Giant Woman harming you, violating you in every conceivable way or coddling you like a goddamn baby, whispering her mighty voice emphasizing how safe you are in her presence….. *vomits
You have to come back to reality eventually baby, you have to.
Eventually, where women are not your fucking enemy nor your overlords.
A woman for a man: is a business partner to build an investment with; kicker is, a BOY wouldn’t know anything about that.
Hence the problem, Peter Pan Syndrome.
Sure you’ve got your parasites & attention seeking grifters calling themselves “Goddess [Insert name]”, with social medias out the ass ready to milk these abuse starved NPC’s for every buck & drip of drool they can get.
Taking full advantage of these mental issues for their own gain, and feel like Queens in the process, usually over the hill but because all they need are camera tricks to appease the monkies.
Their age is irrelevant they just need to play a role and entertain boys they’d never give so much as a conversation to, let alone a side glance or meaningful emotional support if they bumped into em on the street.
**But here, get stiffy from a picture of my mouth, dur. Now we’re best friends.
So yeah, you’ve got these “women” out here ready to cosplay in front of green screens and show everyone just how well spent those tax dollars that went into their upbringing, that’s comforting.
However, Women on mass don’t want to be babysitters and or full-time wardens for someone’s grown-ass son.
At what point do we make the distinction that there’s a problem? Thinking nobody sees the crap we (in general) are doing, thinking ‘silence is tolerance’, WRONG silence is patience, and patience runs out eventually.
Because that’s what a woman is right? An avatar of burden and misery for everyone around her.
I vaguely recall a disturbing short skit from School House rock “Adjectives” episode where a girl deadass flattens a boy underfoot all cause he laughed at her height, we don’t see him after that lmfao; it’s played like a gag but it’s interesting though in isolation. Casual normalized violence against boys, ofc it was one sided, naturally they wouldn’t show that happening to a girl; but boys are expendable, subject to abuse and that’s normal- Women & girls are victims of abuse and Boys & men exist to be abused.
And that was just a children’s program, relatively harmless little skit by itself but subliminal messaging is all it takes, the vivid visual imagery planting a suggestion in a kid’s mind and then he’s fucked in his own.
Not everyone looks at the same thing the same way & walks away….’okay’.
If the majority of the violence is happening to one side, especially if girls are the main one’s dishing it out between the two sides. Eventually that narrative is going to stick in a kid’s head.
That stuck out to me as odd in that skit, and I’m a normie, so I can only imagine how many macrocreep subjects latched onto that skit & internalized it as a suggestion, even if subconsciously.
See those issues rarely get high budget movies, mainstream awareness & integral consideration in culture vs pushing girls into STEM;
Purely reactive awareness, no proactivity to make sure men & boys are actually “okay” before something manifests that clearly- CLEARLY indicates that something is very very wrong.
Because if mass genocide is cute or hot, what won’t you entertain & internalize into your mind or Whitelisted as a desire.
Fact is, when it comes to this mental issue being made to be everyone’s business via spreading it on most platforms, now another game, we have to keep in mind — — — -(And I’m going to be more brutally blunt here going forward)
To reiterate, the rest of the world is not your brow beaten, misogynist yet purse whipped little macrophile cult-like faction where everyone’s in on it.
Point being, and redirecting back to this “game” again or yet another Inferiority Complex Simulator (because this is NOT the first GTS game to exist nor the best designed amongst them, to be fair): The bullshit/ the cliche’s/ the done to death scenario’s that constantly revolve around abuse and death, the infamous cereal vore scene — that would earn one easy brownie points from like minded cornballs & macrocreeps that casually request genocide & cannibalism commissions like clearly sane people.
Keep in mind please: (these cats are obviously regular people with jobs, routines but possess an unconventional degree of “functional insanity” or Functional Maladaptive Impairment)
Whether here, or anywhere else, none of this is an effort to dehumanize, so keep in mind these are (as with anyone) someone’s child with a social/emotional/psychological affliction stemming from environmental catalysts & abuses. Babies don’t come out the womb, cuteness at the ready thinking “Swallow them whole, Julie.”, something obviously happened here.
So despite my aggressive tone, they’re not a problem to be removed, as much as they royally piss me off. The mindset they’re entertaining & channeling is where my criticism (& very apparent agitation) is directed at, most of the time. Because if you’re the one pushing this shit, then I’m looking at you. A mindset doesn’t have power until you “surrender” to it, entertain it, and give it “power”.
The crap that goes on in said DeviantArt comment sections, that isn’t going to fly out here.
You want to drop games on this market?
Then bring more to the table than a towering proxy that represents mommy, put more forward than the fact that you got issues & you need everyone to know about it because that prospect gives you comfort, and sharing your misery is the only way you can stomach to live with it.
Your misery needs our company, we get it.
”NOO!! you can´t make people get giant and masturbate to it, this is unrealistic”- A grammatically sound Macrocreep parodying the sane people on Planet Earth criticizing their cult dogma.
Hell I still remember that low budget Attack on Titan game from Feng Lee, that was my shit back in the day, all the homies was on those servers. Fighting giants, and it wasn’t on some weird fetishy bullshit. Hence why it was successful to BROADER audiences, including people who weren’t even anime fans.
If one can’t do that to make a game, if that fetish owns that much of your soul, better to keep that crap in those niche circles where the monkies will clap, eat the feces & request for more like good little NPC’s .
And say “teensy”,” teeny”, “tiny”, “little” every variation of it over & over again like 4 year old children well into your goddamn 60s, still obsessing over the same 5–7 vocabulary words, still looking for the comforting the bosom of mommy’s domineering presence in some fucked up lala-land.
Cause out here? Putting a giant woman in the game is not going to carry with normies, I promise you that. Not everyone is you, some people had good childhoods that translated to functionally, mentally sound people who get by on breast/hips/ waist ratio like a normal person.
Some might goon just cause it’s a chic, most will be confused because they don’t get it.
And I personally will get pissed off because I’m sick of seeing this shit everywhere.
The game has to stand on it’s own, because if it’s fetishy, it’s already starting off handicapped. I personally will be more critical because of that alone because of the lack self-restraint in the dev — the fetish is only going to get in the way of what could be a great game. I don’t give a fuck if it’s the most beautiful game in history on a graphical level, you push some ol’ macro bullshit, it’s ass.
Know when to NOT do something — “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” you don’t have to inject that crap into everything, and if you do?
Work on that, it’s not healthy. Women are not out to get you —
so where is it coming from that in some ppls minds women are a source of pain & intimidation. That shit’s not cute, nor is it funny.
It’s blatant misogyny. (The meat of this rant)
The only few times I’ve ever used that overused word is when addressing this goofy ass fetish, the rare moon I care to do so.
It’s pure disrespect, because (I repeat) if a woman has any advantage to men, apparently according to this subculture that means she’s a threat to civilization and everyone in-between & around her right?
Women can’t be trusted with power because they’ll then abuse it like a bunch of manic children & destroy everything. — Nice subtext
Tl;dr according to Macrophiles & their recycled visual narratives painting “empowered” / women with ‘too much’ agency as the literal anti-thesis to anything decent or good to civilization.
“Oops” right? Said the village idiot. #Misogyny
This is why we think, the brain is not an accessory to use to make bigger, more elaborate ways to make an ass of oneself; mainly because some of us think no one is actually paying attention to what exactly it is they’re doing while making their foolishness public on these art sites.
Keyword: PUBLIC
Giant woman growth < “You’re a grownass adult now, not 13 anymore. GROW the hell up already.”
Can’t be 3 yrs old anymore where mommy/female authority figure was the biggest woman in your life, where her looming will (good or bad) had complete control over what happened to you.
Yer not a helpless child, accept it, work on it, move on, evolve, grow. I believe in you, you twerp.
The entire fetish is a sick parody of all parties involved, big & small; It’s actually remarkable at how thorough it maps out various degrees of human incompetence & self-mockery and how it relates to the person making it-
…….. because said person is literally giving us a rent-free doorway into their head lmfao, so whatever it says, it’s telling.
“Oops” right? Said the court jester.
Hence the central focus on insecurity, like an inter-connected network. Insecurity is consistent, because it’s not random, neither are Macrocreeps-
“ The fetish is a product of the times, not a payoff that mommy and daddy did something right.”
Macrophilia is not an expression, it’s not creativity, it’s a cry for help; a blatant insult in fact and a distortion of man’s natural desire for the womb-man.
Contrary to what some people might say to slander or insult the fetish in jest, none of this is actually “weird”; another generational tragedy? Obviously, but Macrophilia existing actually isn’t weird, it’s a consequence.
Doesn’t make it normal or actually “natural” but the consequence of it existing makes total sense in retrospect.
That’s what the giant represents: Authority, parents, teachers, guardians in general, society- entities that you obey or submit to or there will be consequences.
Men are in serious pain because boys are frankly beneath notice of civilization, often until they do something wrong, then we get that ‘Adolescence 2025 movie’, which solves & resolves absolutely nothing.
But Male occupation death gaps
male suicide rates
the deficit of boys having mentors or fathers
We see woman centric narrative about women running the world, female-centric future but what exactly is society doing to assure males/ the other half of the species that they have a place in that future that MEN are building with blistered hands, not women but the men are building the cities.
Otherwise the “weird” can’t be explained or rationalized, macrophilia can be, easily. Even if professionals refuse to dig deeper and for some reason tell people to “explore” it, that’s the weird part to me.
This social tumor is anything but a mystery. We know exactly where it came from. (I’ve said this before and I’ll keep saying it, this is not a mystery)
At best, an embarrassment; at worst, an exhibit of modern society’s failure to assure women & girls without neglecting men & boys.
We lambast the ideal of the stoic man, masculinity is toxic, demand men be more vulnerable, & when they are, they’re not taken seriously
Nothing they do is good enough, “as he should”, “happy wife happy slave life”, manspreading, mansplaining, #MenareTrash, Y Chromosome is “shrimpy”, Y Chromosome is shrinking & disappearing, fear tactics everywhere, Women are leaving men behind, attack attack attack.
Expecting men to suffer in silence with this simmering vulnerability festering in them. And the best our experts can do to explain this- is to theorize that Macrophilia aka Male Self-Hatred fetish is a manifestation of men wanting or desiring more powerful women.
Society got what it wanted, weak, vulnerable men that are neglected, sterilized & docile.
See a man that’s empathetic, doesn’t have to be vulnerable. A compassionate man, is not a weak man.
Society got what it wanted, while not knowing what it was asking for, actually. And Macrophiles are a partial result of that misunderstanding.
These males went and made a sub-culture that glorifies weakness, misandry, woman worship & a frankly an Anti-Human/ Misanthropic zealot-isms atmosphere — All as a coping mechanism from what they’re LIVING in and bombarded with constantly. When you see yet another macabre of a giant woman happily, gleefully trampling a city like a dumbass, a human drew that, kids live in cities btw, so a human is apparently subconsciously supporting mass massacre’s of children.
And I bet you that doesn’t cross their mind once as they’re pouring nothing but hormones and repressed trauma onto that canvas.
They drew it, colored it, post-edited and posted it with confidence, zero fucking self-awareness.
You’re looking at the result of society betraying & neglecting an individual and that’s how they cope with it. Constantly visualizing that society being destroyed for that betrayal, do they realize this? Most don’t, that’s the point.
And then our “experts” take MEN’s pain and make it about men wanting empowered women. When this has literally nothing to do with women being empowered in isolation and everything to do with men being left behind in woman worship culture, crushed under it while carrying it on their whipped backs.
Please, help me understand. And I’ve said this elsewhere many times:
How are men craving female empowerment in a society that believes girls being in STEM is a more pressing matter to the nation than boys & men committing suicide in droves.
Make that make sense.
Another monumental cultural failure to add to the list.
Parents need to affirm children now, so they’re not held hostage in their own minds by aregressing back to toddler mode for the rest of their natural adult life looking for the daunting safety of parental authority, in whatever form that takes- even if it’s genocide.
This is not a blasted joke, abuse, insecurity, capitulation & looming intimidation is the through-line of Macro-isms because abuse is where Macrophilia came from, gynocentric/toxic matriarchal mindset.
Western culture WAS primarily patriarchal, but a lot of the problems, including cancel culture happened actually because it started becoming matriarchal in execution despite the leaders being men: Macrophilia stems from a sub-category of that devolution, because a “Giant-ess” is just a mascot totalitarian matriarchy destabilizing civilization.
Now you know.
It’s in no way a feminist power fantasy of defying patriarchy but more so an example of female incompetence and perhaps women being empowered was a mistake because they can’t be trusted with advantage.
This is the narrative they’re pushing, even if unintentional, which is even more dangerous.
Because the only way the Giantess is superior is everyone else has a handicap? That’s not power, it’s fucking pathetic, it’s silly.
Train your children to be secure in order to produce “adults”, not produce more grown-ass children looking for giants to exercise or enforce a proxy form of “adulthood” & totalitarian Government control over them to get that exciting jolt in their stomach, because apparently adulthood and control is precisely what they didn’t have in the first place.
So they run to a giant woman to be man enough for the both of them since he’s not going to step up to her level. Which is…. actually accurate to what some men aren’t doing IRL, due to no training or proper guidance, in many respects, namely the black community.
So a shrunken man that’s sacrificing his manhood for security in the presence of a giant woman or for her ; or he’s castrated verbally, emotionally or physically, or just her presence is so overwhelming he has monologue how “insignificant” he is “compared to her” —
That one’s a very very very popular line, it’s heartbreaking really.
technically it’s a scenario where both subjects are women. There is no man there, the entire point —
Is the consenting or forceful erasure of masculinity. Or trivialization/mockery & destruction of femininity.
Macrophilia is the epitome of the concept of “overcompensation”, & the writing in their craft is frankly, absolutely, god awful.
Please hug your kids, build children up while they’re small and vulnerable or risk them remaining that way forever, imprisoned inside their own mind, and all that that implies.
Not to stave off Macrophilia specifically, but to prevent a complication, period.
We, society are very quick to forget how malleable the human mind is- or the truest extent of what people will normalize (no matter what it is) in order to cope with something else entirely.
Because when pushed hard enough, you can break enough to crave their own extinction by the sex who’s biological directive is literally delivering life.
That’s how brutal you can break a humans will, man or woman. Purely a nurture skill issue, unbridled parenthood fail.
The one’s claiming they embraced or owned it; are often compensating the most.
It’s perpetuating, it’s not supposed to be fulfilling, the point of the fetish is to disrespect you.
Remixing the same infliction of pain by matriarchal totalitarian authority (Mommy) or toxic patriarchy (daddy) in a male giant, recycling the same horror, regurgitating the same misery; boring boring boring.
For decades now, nothing but stagnation.
It’s why despite some making decent art (in STYLE only)- their content overall sucks pure donkey ass. It looked better & better every few years, but things kind of leveled out when they started making animations, then the art scene got redundant, and then Ai was like a shot of adrenaline so the impressionable members are really going to go nuts with this foolery. Whole thing’s gotten dry nowadays ngl.
But despite the aesthetic improvements, it’s still absolute garbage.
Like a pile of shit sprinkled with pink diamonds.
Silly, infantile, unhinged, sometimes hilarious, yet repetitive, awkward, boring. Like a child’s recurring nightmare about their own mother (or any female guardian, or girl with a position of imposition, could even be a peer) trying to justify itself through repeated, forceful exposure. (Because if you numb yourself to it, then it’s not a problem anymore right? Wrong.)
All a coping mechanism for something totally different from what’s being projected onto the world/way different from what you see is not what it means. Hoping anyone sees that projected trauma, horror & pain and then says “good job”.
mediocre/ forced/ entire existence trivializes the miraculous- touching impact of Kal surviving at all, so really-- thanks to her, the LACK of impact of him surviving at all.
(Because most of the Kryptonian villains/extras that survive either get incarcerated, die or killed or were explained to be in the Phantom Zone anyway, so Kara is the main constant that breaks the impact of the "Last Son of Krypton" being "THE LAST", because the way she survives in PC already trivializes Kal's survival once over before her existing at all trivializes his survival twice over)
And most people miss that because most don't truly get the point of Kal's connection to Krypton's memory specifically. And neither do DC writers apparently. Style over substance.
Writers were/ & are still terrified of taking chances with Kara Bore-El & even more allergic to committing to it; god forbid doing anything interesting with this NPC avi of a character. Thats the box she's been in for the past 20 years since Superman/Batman #8, as of 2025
At face value, you could write her off as an innocent/uninspired marketing gimmick, like in the 60s, which she still is somehow- but it's different when writers try to marry her into serious storytelling. Then it gets messier.
But Loeb inserted a unique element of grit in 2004 for her (not a brand new take btw, but the way he did it was fitting for a modernization) that if committed to: could've made Kara something special, tragic & even contradictory even, in a good way. The same opportunity My Adventures, New 52 , & others had.
Even then, Loeb made some mistakes, one of which is making her his cousin again. Fan-fic tier writing, insulting even.
Now she's a basic bih anime extra in My Adventures with Lois-Chan, as I predicted the day Episode 2 of Season 1 dropped.
I knew exactly what was going to happen when they announced Season 2 before Season 1 could get comfortable, these cats truly overestimate her importance in the Superman lore. She's a part of it, not essential to it.
Now, to be fair--- I didn't see the genocide angle coming, & yet it surprised me just as much as Horikoshi's good concepts inMy Hero Academia, meaning it works better as an aesthetic because that's all it amounts to.
And with that in mind-- I knew exactly what to expect: Solid concept, whack execution.
An edgy concept with wasted potential is as useful as a cup of purified water for someone drowning to death. Style over substance.
And before her trauma could be explored or tapped into, developed, milked even: we've moved on; before this version of Kara could finally maybe raise the goddamn bar for the Supergirl ARCHETYPE as a whole, this could've been it for her & all takes to come after her- but instead they did exactly what Supergirl writers do and that's backtrack, domesticate her & maintain status quo cause that's easier to manage, it's safe.
As if the mere prospect of the genocide alone was supposed to be enough; and never mind what a revelation like that would do to a person all at once, let alone long term- the reality that their body was repeatedly ventriloquized/violated for the cause of deaths of civilizations, WHAT?!
Before she could even properly process that, here comes Lois-Chan, James & the plot, just in time to ruin the scene and prevent introspective development.
These writers can't commit or cook anything. ADHD writing since season 1, in a rush to avoid making a competent story.
It amazes me how WB can sleep on goldmines like Cassie Cain & Starfire but Supergirl gets all these chances. She's likable, yes- yet the LEAST interesting of their heroines. Super-Nepotism.
people like the idea of kara, they love the novelty of a girl with the powers of Superman.
Novelty. This has been the case before the century turned, however: Wasted potential, that's the most consistent element about Supergirl since the beginning. Wasted potential / Mediocrity. And that element is represented consistently in this mid show.
"Honest Thoughts"?
Kara is garbage overall, but with good intentions. The end.
But this version of Kara Snore-El specifically is a Dollar Tree attempt (keyword: "attempt") at The Iron Giant, X-23, Winter Soldier, Zuko, Cassie Cain, or even Chase from Kamen Rider Drive or accurately? SON OF DARKSEID from Superman The Animated Series (which came BEFORE Loeb's Evil Kara take in 2004) because Kara is literally nothing without Superman.
(Kara In-Ze-- well rounded attempt, easy to follow without deep homework, not Kal's cousin, outsmarted Zod/ she's clever, some missed opportunity but decent enough; still knockoff but tolerable, solid)
So if it's solid, it's solid. This Kara is not one of them, a messy, tumblr fan-fic attempt at a Supergirl and it shows in both the execution to how she looks.
Could you get anymore uninspired?
Android 18 was no total victim, she was all in for being a menace until she was the one getting hunted (Cell), which was sweet karma. But Android 18 was 1-3 of public enemies and she was neither 2 nor 3. Why can't we get a Kara that just embraces not having to be a DLC Superman? Why does she always have to be attached to this man & why does she always get thrown in universes where a Superman exists already, thus forever making her existence redundant, holy moly. I don't like the concept of this character let alone the character on mass, period, but even I have to question why DC keeps doing that to her in mainstream.
And then they give her this little facial scar at the end of the season, ooooh she has a scar guys, really making the most of that "Adult Swim" brand lmfao.
Lightning Lad loses an entire arm in a kids show, but the best they can do here is a glorified tattoo. "Adult Swim" Cowards lol.
Otherwise, Kara consciously committing such crime because she knew what she was doing because of bad nurture vs Making it all Brainiac's doing-- takes the agency & accountability off of her (PREDICTABLE, I thought this was "ADULT SWIM", not KidsWB)
Which negates more intrigue she could've had, which is what ALWAYS happens to this character, because writers insist on PROTECTING her instead of writing her worth a crap through blisters.
Even Tom King couldn't pull it off
For him, yet another self-discovery re-tread because thats all Kara is worth nowadays, grips constantly where her place is or purpose; the best DC can do every 9-10 years is edge bait or Kara re-learning & Re- re learning again self-help "identity" themes, because she DOESN'T organically have one. Otherwise you wouldn't need to try that hard to justify a character thats almost 100 years old.
This is why she has always been Kara BORE-EL, and it bleeds into the show.
The show wants the money shot of Kara floating over burning city
it wants the tease of her being an obstacle, but not entirely an enemy (because then she's not a victim)
then it wants the tsundere kawaii "she's awkward & doesn't know how to be normal" moments to attract all the smooth brained monke's ready to adopt a new pet waifu, max cringe,
the show wants all of that without any of the consequence or work, when that baggage, that controversy is exactly what the writer NEEDED to exploit while the iron was hot- to make this Kara the best of them all, in just under 3 episodes, if not 1.
She could've been the best that Kara should've been since her debut in the revamp in 2004. But nope, "Style over substance." Modern Anime syndrome.
In the history books, this Kara gets points for edge (not unique, its been done already), just like her post-crisis version getting rimjobbed back in the day because Kara's more "angry" than Kal because of her memories of her home and that made her more interesting than him (Bullsh1t, no it didn't. If anything, that's actually Zod & Superboy-Prime. But nobody's tryna have that conversation)
Otherwise, unless they did something of substance with said edge (Red lantern arc/Daughter of Brainiac) +AND COMMITTED (which they didn't), the edge is actually a strike against her, cause all it did was just set her up for being put in a status quo box, yet again.
In her defense, she was seriously robbed here, because this show's writers specifically- constantly prioritize cheap /quick payoffs over development (this literary quirk of theirs agitated me since Season 1's premiere); The show successfully modernized her (yet again) & did her zero favors anyway (yet again), when this could've been the turning point for how Supergirl should be written across all her media & DC meta, if done right. It's Adult Swim, there's zero excuse for this.
Not enough commitment & drive to mold her into something believable----ESPECIALLY if they decided to go with GENOCIDE of all things....they didn't have to take it there but they did, now they don't wanna do the work in the season relevant to the matter THEY themselves chose to introduce. Sloppy, hence the series.
tl;dr As she is now is what she's always been, mid/redundant/wasted potential/forced/robbed/& forced
Too much protection & "not her fault" syndrome- to get anything interesting / or legitimate done.
