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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 65 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Alan Moore talks about how he created Rorschach to be the most disgusting character imaginable. A total loser with no friends and a twisted view of the world.

He says he's tired of all the fan boys who come up to him and tell him how Rorschach is them!

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 42 points 6 days ago (4 children)

To be fair, Rorschach has a few traits worth emulating. He does have a rock solid sense of right and wrong and uhhhh... Yeah no, that's about it.

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

He's also capable of backing his words up with actions. Although in the prison scene I guess the actions came first.

Pretty sure the "you're locked in here with me" vibe. is what all the fanboys envision themselves as, but would never actually be to emulate.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 19 points 6 days ago

I can't remember the exact name, but there's a common process with ongoing characters where the writers find themselves making their toughest characters nicer over time.

Both Wolverine and Jack Reacher were presented as unapproachable loners at first, and both mellowed considerably over time.

Rorschach was 'lucky' because he got to die a noble death before being forced to become civilized.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He does have a rock solid sense of right and wrong

As long as it is not informed by the white supremacist tabloid he was reading. Did you miss the parts where we read his thoughts about gay people or welfare queens (dogwhistle for black people)?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I didn't say I agreed with his sense of right or wrong. But it's very solid.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But that's a subjective quality.

The terrorists that flew airplanes into the Twin Towers also had a rock solid sense of right and wrong, but not in the direction that helped anyone.

So yeah, not an admirable quality in vacuum.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

Rorschach died because he refused to go along with a scheme to hide the truth from people. That seems universally noble to me.

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Acutely relatable trait

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well the willing suspension of disbelief is adjusted based on the story being told. If you say there's a made-up kingdom where animals talk in the exposition, that's fine. But if you say it takes place in a world that's basically our own, then one person can randomly shoot lasers from their eyes, you should give some explanation. It doesn't even have to be a particularly good one, but even in-universe people would be asking about that.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Also, I don't usually see these questions asked in an overly critical sense, but rather with a sense of humor or with an eye towards world building. It's about having fun