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What's something you used to like as a kid that you now, as an adult, realize had some pretty fucked up messaging? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.

Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On giving it some thought now that I'm older, I realise that Goku is a terrible father, husband, friend and person with absolutely no consistent ideology or even heroic drive - because he's a fucking golden retriever in a human body who chases fights instead of a ball

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be the greatest shonen "train to be the best" warrior in pop culture history, he had to be nothing but a shonen "train to be the best" warrior in his goals. Kind of fucked up. It'd be like being the ultimate parkour expert that only did parkour at the expense of everything and everyone else, nonstop.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I wanna be the very best like no one ever was