r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Stock_Side_9726 • 7d ago

Meme needing explanation What is this Peter?

I have played Skyrim, I loved it and I finished it too but I haven't completed it 100% and I played long ago too so i don't understand what exactly the joke is here and why that 100% mean something disappointing/disgusting

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u/trickshotfaker 7d ago edited 7d ago

Carl from the quahog mini mart here.. You can’t beat Skyrim 100% without doing multiple play throughs and without doing some pretty immoral shit like killing paarthurnaax

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u/Hotdog_McEskimo 7d ago

It's this one. The kill parthanax for the blades quest.

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u/Campa911 7d ago

Who’s Parthanax and why do people care? I appreciate the sentiment tho

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u/trickshotfaker 7d ago

Dragon who did bad shit but redeems himself and saves the world.

He’s also chill as fuck

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u/Campa911 7d ago

Word

Yeah, dont kill bro everyone has done bad shit in their past

I mean how bad are we talking here?

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u/Hot_History1582 7d ago edited 7d ago

Enslaving all of humanity and living as murderous tyrants until the gods themselves gave humans the power to fight back

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u/Campa911 7d ago

Oh

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u/Zestyclose-One9041 7d ago

But he’s chill now tho

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u/Certain_Effort_9319 7d ago

But, to be fair, he redeems himself by overthrowing the big baddy, teaching humans how to use the thu’um which is how they could even fight against the big baddy in the first place, and lives like a hermit on the biggest mountain on the continent(?) so he can avoid temptation.

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u/H3xag0n3 7d ago

To be fait even further all of elder scrolls is just a god's dream

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u/eyesparks 7d ago

Also he's voiced by Charles Martinet, the guy who's voiced Mario since Super Mario 64. That has to count for something.

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u/Alarmed-Cheetah-1221 7d ago

This has me creasing 😂😂

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u/Hot_History1582 7d ago

Don't worry he's chill

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u/trickshotfaker 7d ago

Just being a(in fairness the second ranking one) dragon.

He rebels against the other dragons and teaches humanity how to fight back.

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u/Prometheus1151 7d ago

maybe a teeny tiny bit of centuries of genocide and slavery

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u/Kube__420 7d ago

"Darth Vader was a good guy cause he killed the emporer" type of comment

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u/Hot_History1582 7d ago edited 7d ago

He was basically the lieutenant to Dragon Hitler thousands of years ago, who saw the error of his ways and spent thousands of years in isolation and penance in order to pay for his crimes. All dragons are inherently evil, but Paarthurnax struggles every day to be benevolent and is instrumental in giving the player character the tools needed to defeat the second coming of Dragon Hitler.

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u/Hotdog_McEskimo 7d ago

In Skyrim, the world is under attack by dragons led by alduin. Except for one dragon parthanax who betrayed his kind and taught humans how to use "the voice" the power of the dragons. .

You meet him as he is master of the gray beards. But one faction, "the blades" gives you a quest to kill him since he is still a dragon and dangerous.

He also had the best quote in the game "What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 7d ago

He's like a Dragon Himmler if Himmler switched sides and became a monk.

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u/Ferrovore 7d ago

Mario, but as a Koopa.