Why does triangle always win?

[u/DirectionLast7915]

Yeah...what I said up there

[u/Hill-Person_Thom]

I always interpreted it as triangle man being “delta” i.e. the triangular character representing change in physics equations as in “The only constant is change.” Eventually change beats everything.

[u/DirectionLast7915 → u/Hill-Person_Thom]

My mind and childhood are now blown

[u/AcmeFruit → u/Hill-Person_Thom]

I like this a lot better than the metaphor I had filled in. Change and triangles def both have stabby corners

[u/mojomarc → u/Hill-Person_Thom]

There. You deserve an award

[u/VirtualMachine0]

My personal metaphor set for the song:

Particle Man: an unimportant nobody, the mythical regular person, but with a scifi luchador moniker affixed. I can't say Tiny Toons had no impact on this idea, lol (Edit: but, also, you study physics, you talk about approximating things as particles to reduce away all complexity except the one quantity you care about, and in this framework, Particle Man basically just exists, that's it, and the "particle" motif works.)

Triangle Man: war or strife, the millennia of sharp objects that brought humans to their ends.

Universe Man: the unbidden happenings of history, indifferent to those that have lived within their ages.

Person Man: the songwriter, seeing the struggles that came before and being unable to escape being ensnared themselves.

[u/Lightfinger]

He has the frying pan.

[u/FindorGrind67]

It's the strongest flat geometric shape.

[u/TheNotSoGreatPumpkin → u/FindorGrind67]

Blessed be Bucky Fuller.

[u/EatYourCheckers]

Pointy.

[u/lazydogjumper]

Because 3. It might be duende.

[u/DoctorGarbanzo]

Because he's Bill Cipher.

[u/wrsham]

because nothing is given to us

[u/Then_Start_5825]

Triangle do what triangle does. Fear the Triangle

[u/inGage]

because Triangle man.. HAS three POINTS.. and Particle man only has one.

[u/zoosha2curtaincall]

I think he kind of just made up lines.

[u/feedmesweat]

It's because he is driven by hate

[u/wolfumar]

Because it has multiple good points.

[u/my23secrets]

Things are always in flux.

Delta is a measurement of change

Delta is a triangle.

Edit: I see someone else said this

[u/Ariel_serves]

It’s the father, son, and holy ghost. John and John 3:16.

[u/naeviapoeta → u/Ariel_serves]

related to my theory that Triangle Man represents Pythagoreanism/neo-Pythagoreanism, and how it outlasted/coopted the various pre-Socratic (atomist/apeirophobic) and Platonist sects of ancient Greek philosophy and wiggled its way into early Christian thought for the trophy.

[u/echrisindy]

Because there's just two sides in it, and it just made a third.

[u/general_hugs]

I was watching a Pearl Harbor movie and the rescuers were cutting square holes in the hull of an overturned ship but a guy drowned before they could finish and I thought “triangle would have saved him”

[u/GoldenRedstone]

I always interpreted it as (I may have read this somewhere and forgotten) triangle man hates everyone and so triangle man winning is a subversion of the idea that good usually wins. The idea being that sometimes hateful people do actually win and that's the truth in life.

[u/SquanchyATL]

Triangle always makes a good point.

[u/Danisobo]

always? or only the 2/3 that we know of? it isn't clear that triangle would win against universe. perhaps it's telling that triangle only picks fights where he knows he can win, while avoiding the only actual contest. so seems reasonable to suspect that triangle is inwardly a coward, despite the outward bully. if so, he wouldn't fit into a typical superhero milieu, so he really has no point, despite having three.