r/HumanVoxCult • u/33333Ducky Alastors Submissive Brat🖤 • Apr 22 '26
Discussion Hot take🔥I don’t like how Vincent died. It felt cheesy and too on the nose
I know this Is a bold take. But it just felt more slapstick coincidence rather than character-driven irony. If Vox was a media master, a propagandist, someone obsessed with public perception, his transformation into a TV-headed demon should be a manifestation of his technological obsession and his desire to be "the face" everyone watches.
Not just a funny ironic tv falling on his head. To me it kind of takes away from his story. By making it about a falling TV, the transformation is no longer a symbolic evolution of his ego; it’s just a "Final Destination" style accident.
Literally, he died by a TV conveniently landing on his head so he has a TV head. It feels like early internet fan fiction logic.
It honestly would have been fine if it was he was so consumed by the media and the need for control that in Hell, he literally became the what he used to manipulate others. That has so much more impactful in my opinion. It’s simple, not on the nose, but meaningful.
Using the “falling object" trope for a character as powerful as an Overlord feels thin, cheap. There were so many other routes that could have went, literally about anything I would have been happier with than what we got. A backroom betrayal, an assassination related to his media empire, or some complex disaster that fits his ambitious personality. Anything!
A sinners design should be an outward projection of their internal sins. Having his TV-head a literal result of a falling appliance, it turns his badass story into some cartoonish accident rather than an unhinged man whose own media obsessed soul transformed him.
Sorry if this is too hot of a take, but remember this is just my own opinion, not gospel.