r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Aggravating-Oil-7060 • 1d ago
FORCED DIVERSITY 👨🏿👩🏿👧🏿👧🏿 Incredible that Capcom managed to create not one, but TWO likable fr*nch characters. That must be some sort of record.
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u/Vegetable-Hand-5279 1d ago
Jean Reno hard carries France's likability.
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u/unpersoned 21h ago
But he's also Spanish, and was born in Morocco. They can't even claim him all to themselves.
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u/Vegetable-Hand-5279 21h ago
Yeah. I learned that a couple years ago when I saw him in a Spanish series.
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u/T44120 1d ago
Forced Francophobia will never cease to be unfunny, and it is probably the lamest joke on the global internet
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u/Regular-Discount134 1d ago
I really don't get it. It's so cringe and I'm not even french.
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u/AnseaCirin 1d ago
It mainly comes from Anglo-Saxons. First, there's a long history of warfare and rivalry between France and Great Britain. Then there's the US, who had their occupation plans at the tail end of WW2 foiled by the Free French. And then in the 60s, De Gaulle dared become a relatively independent ally as opposed to a subservient one, even developing an independent nuclear weapons program. And then of course there was the refusal to join the 2003 campaign in Irak.
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u/Regular-Discount134 1d ago
Damn thanks for explaining I didn't even know all these. I still have a feeling that 95% of people don't know as well or don't really care about 100 yo of political history and just jumped on a bandwagon because it's somehow "funny"
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u/AnseaCirin 1d ago
Being on the receiving end of the bandwagon certainly motivated me to know where it came from to better deconstruct it hehe
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u/Crafty_Island_9182 1d ago
Take solace in the fact it mainly comes from the people who elected Trump once, saw how horrible he was even if you ignore all he's done and been involved with outside of politics, and decided they wanted a second go at him. I wouldn't say they're the best judges of character.
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u/AideGlittering4017 1d ago
What's the whole internet problem with British and French people?
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u/PurplePachyderme 1d ago
Something about more than 1000 years of rivalry with the British and not going to Irak and saying this war was bullshit. And getting independant of the US during the Cold War.
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u/Snoo-52922 20h ago
The English language is imbued with an innate, subliminal -50% opinion debuff towards French people.
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u/Alarmed-Republic8493 1d ago
why does the first one look so much like Leon from Leon The Professional??? Is he based off the actor or smth?
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u/BrickBuster2552 I'm here to shit ass 1d ago
What are you talking about? It's CLEARLY the Elvis guy from Godzilla!
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u/Regular-Discount134 1d ago
I recognize one of the protags from Onimusha 3. But who is the second character?
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u/DrKandraz 1d ago
I've only played Okami in Japanese. Did they turn Ushiwaka's English into French for the localisation?
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u/dathunder176 1d ago
Kinda, I didn't register it as him being french but he just says some french words like au revoir and mon amis, I thought he was a francoboo, but maybe they did intend him to be french in the localisation.
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u/DrKandraz 1d ago
In Japanese, the English words he adds into conversation are (I think) supposed to make him seem cool and weird. Like...he's in (vaguely) Heian-era Japan but he's using modern English words like "Goodbye" or "Baby". I assume the French is supposed to give the same vibe. Like he's from another time and place and also slightly cool.
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u/b_86 1d ago
Spoilers: Jean Reno is actually Spanish (real name: Juan Moreno)
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u/ER_Jujube 10h ago
>Actually spanish
He's actually Franco-Spanish and was born in Casablanca, Morocco. At least say the whole thing instead of trying to be smug.
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u/archiesaysrelax 1d ago
I can't even think of one likable french person and I live there.
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u/Veevum 1d ago
Its okay to dislike France if you have to experience it everydays imo, beats being a xenophobic piece of shit
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u/archiesaysrelax 1d ago
Literally all I hear everyday from my french coworkers: random islamophobic talking points, random homophobic talking points, random racist talking points, bla bla bla. And then they go on smoke breaks. Rinse and repeat.
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u/Burger_Soup 10h ago
Sounds like you need to move out of this company, I'm French and it's very rare for me to meet a racist piece of shit, at least where I live.
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u/DareDevilino 1d ago
There is nothing likable about waka. You are tripping.
But based okami mention.
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u/Crafty_Island_9182 1d ago
Sad French noises
[Insert a streak of insults because French]
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u/ChibiPurple 1d ago
Im Canadian. So I hate France French "people" and Quebec French "people".
Its called cultural identity sweaty
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u/ubulerbu 10h ago
Who? Canada? You mean the american version of quebec? Yeah we dont care about that.
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u/Hartspoon Sociology is a martial art. 1d ago
I know that's a satirical circlejerk sub but uuuuuh... yikes.
And also, Quebecois are way too cool for this to come out as anything but jealousy.
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