exodia the divorced one
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Kind of a fun inversion of the Scott Pilgrim evil exes thing.
As an aside, does it make the whole thing any less weird and toxic because there's some small aspect of self awareness about the fact that the whole "fight and defeat my exes like I'm a prize to be won" thing is toxic?
I won't lie and say that I didn't enjoy the OG comic series as a nerdy college freshman, and I was shocked at how many people missed the underlying message of "all of these people fucking suck" even back then, but it's just so much worse every time I think back to it now that I'm older.
Just as it is very hard to make a truly anti war film, it is also very hard to show toxic relationship dynamics without romanticising them at least a little.
Yeah I was always under the impression that the message was "Scott sucks and needs to get some self awareness about how he treats others" even when I first read it 15 years ago. Looking back on it though, there is stuff in it that makes me cringe too hard for a reread, like the Knives stuff.
I get that he's supposed to be naive and selfish, but that poor girl.
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