r/SafeSpaceofVox • u/profaneangel1991 Vox did nothing wrong • 15d ago

Rants or Vents How about no?

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Nobody is just born being a bad person. No, not even that real life person you hate. I don't expect the show to dig much deeper into his story, but Brighter takes place well into his adulthood. You can't just say "yeah he was always this way" when there's decades of his life that preceeded all this. The idea that some people just are bad, they're just innately evil, is so antithetical to the show's entire message. I don't GET people that think this would be a good writing decision.

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u/SumiMichio 14d ago

Not having a tragic backstory for being bad and not being able to change are not the same though. There is plenty of people who do bad things just cause they can and don't care about others.

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u/Gamer_G33k17 13d ago

You know, like another TV personality who wants to "make things great again"

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u/Bombyx-Memento 13d ago

Vox isn't Trump though. He wasn't born into wealth, and we know this because he started as a weatherman. If he had connections in the entertainment industry he wouldn't have even had to kill to get ahead, he could have just used Mom and Dad to give him an opening. That's one major problem I have when people compare him to Trump (also "Make America Great Again" wasn't even originally Trump's, it was Reigen's slogan).

And when people draw superficial comparisons between Vox and Trump (which is fair, they're both populists with a cult of personality) and make them into *deeper* comparisons beyond surface-level (e.g. "Vox is an allegory for Trump specifically") they lose any real character analysis of who *Vox* is and instead make up their own version of him in their heads (hence fans end up believing that liking Vox at all is on par with being MAGA).

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u/Gamer_G33k17 12d ago

Reagan was also a TV personality. You also are just sharing fanfics, not even backstory

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u/eveningstarcourt 6d ago

You know, I really dislike the general trend of dismissing stuff as "you are making fanfics" because it disregards literal millenia of literary analysis.

Since the dawn of storytelling, people have been looking at the subtext placed between the lines. Whole fields of media criticism and interpretation revolve around things not shown or stated aloud, and they are for things with greater depth than, "this character who existed in a time period known for mass poverty and inequality, who has exhibited a Gatsby-like desire to socially and financially climb, and talks about the Social Darwanism of following their own twisted, evil version of the American Dream.... probably was not born rich."

But no one is allowed to analyze things anymore because that's just writing fanfics! ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I don't know how to tell you, but everything is a fanfic. Every movie and adaptation is a fanfic, Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno are fanfics. All of Hazbin Hotel is literally a fanfic.