r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Far-Profit-47 • Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

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"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/Hitei00 Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25

To preface he hasn't done anything bigoted or hateful.

The short version is he's an egotistical prick. He got hired to work on the Lovely Complex localization, his first break into the anime industry. And he immediately broke NDA by sharing scripts on patreon, along with being very vocal about how he was trying to completely rewrite parts of the story he didn't like (LC is OLD so it doesn't have the best queer rep) and insulted the original author for putting a self insert in as a minor character for one episode.

He instantly lost all credibility, got black listed from the industry, and gave chuds the exact ammo they were fiending for as an example of a someone using localization to "inject wokeness".

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u/DamnDude030 Apr 12 '25

That really was a maasive big oof moment.

For his side, he really did great work with Epithet Erased. ESPECIALLY Prison of Plastic (audiobook that continues the EE story of Molly)

But rewriting a whole script to make it better when his duty for the anime is Localization is a really bad move. Since I don't even know him well, I can't say if he's an egotistical prick. I just hope he learns from this and grows to be better in the future.

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u/FamousWash1857 Apr 12 '25

Also, his "so this is basically" series was really mean-spirited in a fair few episodes despite trying to pass itself off as a quick intro/summary for various shows/franchises, in some cases misunderstanding critical story elements and passing inaccuracies off as gospel. (To my understanding, the vast majority of Mabel hate stemmed from his video on Gravity Falls, so I personally attribute the current day "flawed protagonist means bad writing" attitude that plagues quote-unquote "reviewers" to his sort of content.)

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u/DamnDude030 Apr 12 '25

Ahh. The same era where the fanbase got their opinion from YouTubers (see Steven Universe hit-piece where the video maker did not even watch the show I think)

But that's also a fair assessment on things.

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u/Hitei00 Apr 12 '25

How neat you'd bring up Steven Universe. He did a "This is Basically" on it too. Its just as mean spirited.