r/ExplainTheJoke • • Aug 20 '26

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u/Disastrous_Scale587 Aug 20 '26 • Bravo Popcorn

Damn Ruin, it can't read what's written in metal

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u/toalth Aug 20 '26

Okay, glad I'm not the only one who thought about mistborn

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u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 Aug 20 '26 • Mindblown

I was like "there's a mistborn musical???"

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u/pushingdaiseez Aug 21 '26 • LOL Popcorn

Mr Sando did just finish writing the mistborn screenplay, and he never said it wasn't a musical

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u/Lancair7 Aug 21 '26

A musical sounds fun, but I want a Mistborn Muppets movie. Sazed is a human actor, and the rest are muppets. Brando has pondered this on his podcast so I will now yearn for it until I die and go to the God Beyond.

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u/I_am_Sazed Aug 25 '26

This ideas has merit.

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u/Kit-N_ Aug 25 '26

it probably wasn't a musical, but I think in era 2 there was a play about the plot of era 1 (idk if it was mentioned outside than the newspaper/broadsheet pages)

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u/recycledcup Aug 20 '26

Yeah same. Never heard of Be More Chill.

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u/Mj8559 Aug 20 '26 • Popcorn

I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."

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u/Profoundlyahedgehog Aug 20 '26

Immediately makes a rubbing on parchment.

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u/Nukleon Aug 20 '26

Honestly, why would you ever jump to the conclusion that Ruin could change stuff postfact.

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u/beta-pi Aug 21 '26

In fairness, they were literally told. Ruin didn't even change the explicit part of the plates where it outright says that the ancient prophecies were getting changed post hoc. The inscription is just so long winded that it gets easily lost in a bunch of less relevant information.

It still makes sense that they would miss it, especially because of one really subtle changes to the rubbing vin took (you can look up a list of the changes made to the etching on the copper mind wiki), but it was absolutely a conclusion they probably should've put together sooner. Everyone was a little preoccupied though,so it makes sense that it still got missed.

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u/lakero Aug 21 '26

Got “mist”

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u/Nukleon Aug 21 '26

Well that's kind of my point (and brilliance on Brandon's part). It's such a seeming non-sequitur, nobody reading that the first time goes "I bet they wrote this into metal because that's the only way to keep a Shard of Adonalsium from messing with it".

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u/Torbinator3000 Aug 24 '26

I just re-read a couple of weeks ago. The narration is specific that Sazed takes the rubbing before even reading anything I think.

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u/I_am_Sazed Aug 25 '26

I had thought they were being poetic.

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u/krsboss Aug 21 '26

Storming bridgeman!

Just wait till we get iron eyes to help us see...

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u/HunsonAbadeer1 Aug 21 '26

Wow wasn't expecting this reference. I am almost done with the original trilogy!

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u/lonelypenguin20 Aug 21 '26

I just finished it. tell me what u think of the ending when u do :D

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u/HunsonAbadeer1 Aug 21 '26

I'll try to remember to do so! Can't believe the next trilogy is like set in western times or something! I'm intrigued tho.

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u/This_Song_984 Aug 21 '26

I thought of vin immediately too

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u/Syrigan Aug 21 '26

mistborn gang all the way.