I can imagine what happened with poor Bernard in the day of Museum reopening, when everyone wore those weird masks, and I bet some even had cheap replicas of dehydration gun.
Can Someone Please Tell Me What is Guillermo Del Torro’s and DreamWork’s Obsession with Cross Species Couples Thank You 😊
For Del Torro, at least, it’s explicitly a reaction to casual racism and insular mentalities.
I’m going to focus on Megamind, because that’s the property I’m most familiar (and obsessed) with.
Megamind starts out ridiculed and stigmatized since childhood. When he messes up because of his lack of experience, he’s never told WHY what he did is wrong or how to make a better choice – he’s just punished and blamed. It’s easier for people who are uncomfortable with the idea of a blue literal extraterrestrial alien to justify that he DESERVES to be thought of as unpleasant. He is made to associate his physical identity (alien) with his personal identity (bad, villain, outcast). And then we see the self-fulfilling prophecy where the only reinforcement he can get is where he’s acting “evil,” and everyone else is reinforced for thinking of him as “other.”
We see people equating the outside physical with the internal mental/emotional/spiritual – a person’s literal WORTH.
People who match expectations – quite often in America, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, are easier to trust because that population has been taught to trust its members. If they are LIKE you, you can like them.
But cross species relationships deliberately deconstruct that. You see people not only having similarities on what’s in the INSIDE despite the physical differences, but you also see how the internal differences STRENGTHEN each member when they work together.
Megamind is brilliant, but he hasn’t been given a good rule book for life and he lacks a purpose beyond “acceptance” (which he honestly believes is impossible to achieve)
and “have fun” (can you blame him?).
And then you have Roxanne, who has been pushed into her own stereotype of “damsel in distress” because she’s a beautiful woman, despite her intelligence.
The fandom will tell you, Megamind doesn’t take Roxanne’s observational skills and intelligence for granted. His epic plan at the beginning RELIES on her being brave and smart enough to lure Metro Man to the target.
Their relationship works, not BECAUSE they’re different species, but because their experiences being THEMSELVES compliment and support each other. But because film is a visual medium, having that visual contrast helps as a shorthand to keep the movie under 2 hours.
It’s also a deliberate “take that” to people who insist you can’t have a romantic relationship with someone based on their physical body.
So yes, people who feel like outcasts are drawn to a cross species relationship, because they don’t feel safe in the “people like me will LIKE me.” So they look elsewhere.
Because we all want to find SOMEONE we like being with, romantically or otherwise.
Finally managed to finish this through my muscle spasms and pain. I start physical therapy this week for the injury. So here is Lady Doppler, Titan, Metro Man, Minion, Megamind, Hot Flash, Roxanne and Psycho Delic. Prismacolor markers and a white gel pen for most colors. Also silver and gold metallic sharpies.
One thing that a lot of transmasc people struggle with before they fully realize they’re trans is the question of “do I hate being treated like a woman because women are treated like shit, or do I hate being treated like a woman because I’m not a woman?”
and one method (though not entirely foolproof) to figuring that out is asking “would I be upset if another girl was treated like this?”
like, I’d be just as mad if some dude said “you can’t do math because you’re a girl” to a female classmate as I would if he said it to me
however, I never got uncomfortable at waiters calling my female friends “m’am”, I was only uncomfortable when they called *me* that
and obviously everyone’s feelings are different and there’s tons of variables at play, but if you find that there’s a lot of the second scenario going on with you, there’s a good chance you’re not entirely cis
I’ve brought a precious gift for you too. This slave! Especially bought for you. He has the guile of a wolf and the agility of a cheetah. He will serve you in every way possible.
I honestly thought this was a cut scene from Assassin’s Creed
I am the king having a squeeing clapping shitfit in the second to last gif.
So clearly I need to watch this Bollywood movie immediately….
This is called Padmaavat! I know literally nothing else about it other than it came out this year.
I ship this.
ekebolou why i am reminded of rev? *laughing*
this looks fantastic. please tell me it’s the main plot, not a 30 second villain cutscene in the middle of the same old ‘girl with 9 identically dressed dancing sisters is in love with gallant mustache but her parents forbid it’ plot.
Looking at the wiki it looks there is a romance plot but it’s more High Court Drama and Intrigue than thwarted love.
Though wiki’s can be deceiving.
i do love high court intrigue. especially if the love interest is a stabby princess. tell me she’s a stabby princess.
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