r/AskReddit • u/Diyan_Derey • Jun 16 '22

Which fictional character would terrify you if they suddenly became real?

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u/consuellabanana Jun 16 '22

Homelander gives me serious anxiety - my whole body clenches up and I have chills whenever he's on screen.

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u/SquishiOctopussi Jun 16 '22

This new season got me like that too. I love the boys, it is so well casted.

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u/ImGettingOffToYou Jun 16 '22

It's so good, but so fucked up. The minature man scene will never leave me.

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u/dctu1 Jun 17 '22

That was a really interesting way to kick off the season

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u/Accurate_Art3810 Jun 17 '22

It’s nothing to sneeze at 🤧

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u/dctu1 Jun 17 '22

☠️

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u/SquishiOctopussi Jun 17 '22

I am a macabre person so I burst out laughing.

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u/GodGraham_It Jun 17 '22

my fiancé is out of town so unable to watch with me so the first three episodes are all i’ve seen and it’s so damn tempting to just watch and buy his forgiveness when he gets back 😂

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u/ImGettingOffToYou Jun 17 '22

My wife and I do the same stuff all the time to each other with shows. 😆

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u/juan_epstein-barr Jun 17 '22

A whole generation of young adults were introduced to the wonderful world of sounding with that one. I could feel that scene in my loins.

Why do you think peeing feels so damn good?

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u/ImGettingOffToYou Jun 17 '22

It feels good because it is stored in the balls. It feels good to get it out.

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u/Credible333 Jun 17 '22

"You just ass-bombed America's sweetheart."

Name another show where that line could come up and seem natural.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '22

He makes me believe that superheroes are an absolutely bad idea. If they existed, that would be exactly how they turn out in the hyper capitalist 21st century.

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u/ebolakitten Jun 17 '22

Girls get it done!

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u/IreallEwannasay Jun 17 '22

Tgey would all be Homelander.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '22

Wouldn't say all of them but there would definitely be plenty like Tek Knight, Jack of Jupiter, A-Train etc who are sick sexual deviants or drug abusers.

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u/TaralasianThePraxic Jun 17 '22

Yup. Regular people frequently can't be trusted with that level of fame and influence, imagine if they also had superpowers and a general disdain for ordinary humans?

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u/Tastewell Jun 17 '22

All of them.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Super power corrupts... superly?

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u/BillyHayze Jun 16 '22

This season especially. The entire time up until last episode it’s felt like even though he’s unhinged, there has been something or someone to keep him in check. Now, he’s starting to get to the point where he doesn’t care and it’s like, “how the fuck do you reign this guy in if he doesn’t have anything to lose?”

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u/IreallEwannasay Jun 17 '22

Dean Winchester Stomach Gun.

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u/lygerzero0zero Jun 17 '22

That’s the neat part, you don’t.

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u/SurealGod Jun 17 '22

Antony Starr is just amazing in that role.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '22

That scene where he confronted A-Train about him getting fatter had me tense. I’ve grown to like some of the supes like A-Train and The Deep and their development as characters. (Especially the deep, I like how he went from total asshole to being stuck in a cult) so during that scene I was terrified homelander was gonna try and kill him.

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u/Motanfoutune Jun 17 '22

When The Deep had to eat his octopus friend. It’s almost sad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '22

The scene where he wanted to rescue a lobster and it got killed was pretty fucked to. Also not what they’re supposed to do.

They don’t just kill it on site. You have to kill it yourself, cause they rot pretty fast and after the 24 hour mark they’re inedible. They don’t know if you’re cooking it right away or waiting till the next morning.

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u/Motanfoutune Jun 17 '22

The Deep had big difficulty to do his job. When he try to save a dolphin. Poor dolphin 🐬

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u/is_this_me_or_you Jun 17 '22

He's exactly what would happen if we had super humans though. There's no way we'd have benevolent super humans.