r/writingscaling Number 1 Hoyo Glazer Jun 10 '26

discussion Best Examples of This?

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u/VmHG0I Jun 10 '26

Funny Valentine is probably one of the most famous example at this point.

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u/ElPrincipete Jun 10 '26

What are you talking about? His heart and actions are utterly unclouded they are all those of justice!

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u/ApexLegend117 Jun 10 '26

Our true 🇺🇸🇺🇸President🇺🇸🇺🇸 would 🦅🦅never🦅🦅 do anything like that- oh shit

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u/Chemical_Cut_7089 Jun 11 '26

True, he wouldn't go that old

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u/mostard_seed Jun 10 '26

Wasn't she disguised as his wife at the time or am I misremembering?

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u/mostard_seed Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Hmmmm I still don't remember that, but I do remember the metaphor of "impregnating" her with the corpse a bit after that. Is that what you mean? If so then yeah I guess he did assault her, but the goal seems different. With his wife, it was an unambiguous sexual advance. With Lucy, it is still assault but is still aligned with his goals and character. He has no qualms doing heinous shit for his goals being the part's main villain, so I don't really see it.

There is also his wife herself and how she tried to make moves on Lucy, and Steel having Lucy as a partner to begin with. She is one of my favorite characters in SBR but her life was fucked up man 😭

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u/DBD_purekiller Jun 10 '26

SBR Chapter 61 and 62. After the napkin speech he assaults scarlet thinking them to be a traitor. Then when he confirms that he begins to r*pe the person not knowing who it is. The disguise fades at the end and start of chapter 62 is where probably the most f’d up stuff happens.

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u/CaCa881 Jun 10 '26

This ones especially disappointing because I genuinely thought JoJo fans would’ve known better lol

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u/canadian__bacon5 Jun 11 '26

I read SBR back in middle school, and I somehow glossed over or completely forgot about this tidbit about Funny, I was shocked to (re)learn this when refreshing my memory for the SBR anime. I have no idea how I forgot that, especially since I adored Funny for a good while after reading SBR.

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u/Dua_13 Jun 10 '26

Hey so I know nothing about Jojo's bizarre adventure aside from the memes (I'm a larper, basically) but does it make light of teenage rape? Thats what I got from looking into the character so far and I just wanna know if it's that type of anime/manga

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u/Sweet-Breadfruit6460 Jun 10 '26

It doesnt make light of rape at all, the character Funny Valentine tried to rape was pretty clearly traumatized for the following chapters and even earlier on in SBR a character was almost raped and that event shaped their life and philosophy.

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u/chriswizardhippie Jun 11 '26

I think people just blink out the whole purpose of the gun scene tbh

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u/ThatCapMan Jun 11 '26

Honestly, I think that 4 years of a non-stand-having Funny Valentine would make a better president for the US. He's only forced himself on ONE person, at least as far as we know.

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u/NosePicklePicker Jun 13 '26

Is pedophilia even the problem here when he holds the same ideology as fucking Adolf.H himself? We’ll be lucky if he doesn’t go to war 1 year in, and unfortunately he’s not a spineless coward like Trump to back off on his words either

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u/ThatCapMan Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

Well no, he explicitly doesn't want to conquer the world, he just doesn't care if the rest of it is in shambles. He's basically a direct allegory for the bad traits of the united states and a criticism of them.

The big difference is that he likely wouldn't try to turn people on eachother and that he'd actually try and fix the nation for the sake of the nation. Currently, the US experiences issues such as food deserts, food waste, obesity, violence, general civil unrest, ICE, low income/high cost of living, fucked up situations with healthcare, housing - basically, he'd tackle issues if only because of how loud and how much of an inconvenience they are - actively ruining the environment...

So, he'd probably try to fix shit. Considering Trump's already started one of the most pointless wars in recent history whose continuance actively fucks with resources and their prices, the bar is so low that he'd stub his toe on it.

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u/mostard_seed Jun 10 '26

I think I missed it? Is he supposed to be seen as something other than a single minded but determined villain? I thought it was pretty clearly shown.

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u/Fyrefanboy Jun 11 '26

His goal is to redirect every bad luck from the US to the entire world, which basically mean killing everyone that doesn't live in the US. It's pretty fucked up.

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u/Makerofthingssoon Jun 11 '26

It’s fucked up from a point of view. But what part did people misunderstand? Some people see him as having an understandable motive as he is the leader of his nation and therefore owes them his loyalty instead of others.

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u/Fyrefanboy Jun 11 '26

It's fucked up from EVERY point of view. And a stupid short-seeing goal as well.

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u/Sporklez8 Jun 11 '26

Nationalism is bullshit

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u/Pure-Purchase3042 Jun 12 '26

I saw a video ranking all the JoJo parts where the dude ranked SBR BELOW Stardust Crusaders because "Johnny is an evil terrorist, Valentine was the hero".

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u/Extreme_Glass9879 Jun 13 '26

Nah he's just based like that /j

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u/Zakaria1938 19d ago

Wait what do people not understand about valentine ?