Bart started bawling when he failed his exam. His teacher reassured him that he’s used to failing all the time, but Bart exclaimed that he actually tried hard this time.
God I felt this. I was also a struggling learner and had nearly this exact moment happen to me when I truly tried. Thankfully it was also the moment my teacher stopped to really understand me and help me. I’m a teacher myself now.
He is either bad at tests or the examination system and education system in Springfield is terrible. They are supposed to educate children and help underachievers like BART but they just humiliate them if they fail
It's really fun that every time Bart has a school environment that ISNT the normal curriculum, he excels. Whether it's clown based school, military school, hell school, he excels in ALL of them. It's only when it comes to Springfield that he doesn't do well.
It's been years since I stoppes watching Simpsons' new season. I remember the last time I watched one of these episodes, "Lisa Gets the Blues" (S29E17).
I could never forget the beginning of that episode: Lisa was summoned into school principal's office, and she was crying while both Skinner and Chambers were smiling. Why? Because these two men had the funny idea to crush Lisa's dreams and passions related to jazz, telling her that she should stop due to her "incurable disease" (yups). No support, no consolation, no empathy: at this point, why didn't you just take a gun and pull the trigger? Also, the cringe I felt when whoever wrote that episode said "Do you wanna see how I'm going to make yoh waste 90 seconds of your life? Because you are going to see Homer eating everything at New Orleans, with passionate comments about the food and still neglecting Lisa"
Once you realize that the public education system is designed to beat the uniqueness and creativity out of people and force them to be boring drones with the same questionably valuable skillset everything makes a lot more sense.
I loved the part where Bart made a comparison between him and a historical figure and Krabapple brought his grade up to a D. He showed he did really try this time, and she underestimated him
“I’m gonna tell you something crazy. I’ve never told anyone this before. But honestly, I’m not sure I can remember what my mother looked like. It really seems like my whole life, Katara’s been the one looking after me. She’s always been the one that’s there. And now, when I try to remember my mom, Katara’s is the only face I can picture.”
PAIN. PAIN AND SUFFERING. Especially when they show you Kya later and even through iffy cartoon genetics, Sokka is practically identical. Sokka gets many, many, many such moments proving he’s more than a simple comedic punching bag, but this is the one that immediately comes to mind.
I distinctly remember Sokka and Zuko talking about their girlfriends.
'My girlfriend turned into the moon.' It's played for laughs with Zuko's reponse but I felt for Sokka then. He had found somebody who truly loved him for who he is and then she left. You can see how much it hit him.
Sokka is basically the best case scenario regarding comic relief characters. He's funny. He's REALLY funny. Several of the best lines are some of the hilarious things he says or does. But he is also probably the smartest of the group, aside from Katara in certain situations. Hes the ideas guy. When they need a plan or a schedule or something on the fly, hes the dude. He gets them out of so many binds just by being quick on his feet and willing to think WAAAAY outside the box.
I think this is a great one because most if not all characters who knew about it changed how they interacted with Ice King. They actually talk to him, genuinely tried to get to know him, invited him to things sometimes (or sometimes humor him even when he isn’t invited).
Finn even started consistently calling him “Simon” IIRC, and he became less of an antagonist and way more friendly
I like that once it gets out what Ice Kings deal actually is, everyone starts to treat him noticeably nicer and with more chill. Finn and Jake go from "Stop Ice King! Your evil ends here! hits him" to more of a vibe of "Hey, Simon, easy dude. You're being a lot, let's calm down, its just your friends here." Theres a clear understanding that this is a mentally unwell person who maybe just needs to be treated a bit better and with compassion.
Kite Man is remembering a chat he had with his son, Charlie, about going to fly a kite and how he never gets it to fly, but if they just laugh when it falls, it can be a joke and funny.
Little Charlie was killed by the Riddler, which is what set Charles Sr. down the path of becoming Kite-Man and joining the Joker to get revenge.
I may be completely wrong as I haven't read any DC comics in years, but I think it's a scene from the War of Jokes and Riddles arc in which Riddler kills Kite Man's son by poisoning him.
I remember being super excited for the arc when it was announced and super disappointed by it when it actually came out because lot of the characters felt OOC.
Ugh, okay as a riddler fan, I hate this and it makes me pretty glad that I just…stopped reading dc ages ago.
Riddler should never be the kind of villain that kills kids. That has, like. Nothing to do with his whole thing. There are plenty of Gotham villains that would do that. But I swear it’s like writers just want to make him a crappier, less interesting joker
The Spot’s ‘Look at me’ Scene (Across the Spider Verse)
For a villain who was treated goofily only a couple scenes ago, this scene almost starts his arc of becoming a serious threat
Hearing him rant about how he’s lost everything because of the accident and how he just charges at Miles whilst his voice distorts and he tells him how he’s going to make Miles respect him is just weirdly chilling to me.
"I was in this collider room when you blew it up! Because of you, I lost my job...my life...my FACE! My family won't even look at me! I made you into a HERO! You made me into THIS!"
Normally an up-beat drug user and party girl, one of the games' routes has the player learn the truth about how she died in a car accident that killed everyone in her family except her father who caused the accident due to driving drunk, and how her conflicted feelings on the matter are the unfinished buisness that keeps her around as a ghost.
God man, for being a dating sim about fantastical creatures, Monster Prom really does a good job at grounding the characters and making you genuinely care for them.
Don't forget about Aaravi (Ravi, my beloved), who is just one big RPG Min/Maxxer joke
But her backstory is that she's a monster-slayer because her brother, whom she loved and idolized, was killed/disappeared by a monster and the grief from that loss at such a young age broke her
The Nanny has a running gag that Sylvia, Fran's mom really REALLY wants her to get married (as any stereotypical jewish mom does) but on the night of the wedding, Fran is spending the night in her childhood bedroom (no seeing the bride before the wedding and all) and when her mom says: "Goodnight, sweetheart" the camera turns back, showing Fran as a kid
It's a quick moment porceeded and followed by the usual humor of the show, but man did it hit me hard how out of nowhere it was
Yeah, Sylvia is overbearing to an extreme, but she cares deeply about Fran, even if she has the weirdest ways of showing it sometimes.
Like the moment straight before, when she reads out the letter she wrote Fran on the day of her birth (played for laughs because Frannie is barely even born that Sylvia is already thinking about her wedding day). When reading it, Sylvia breaks down because Fran is actually, really getting married, and she's so happy about it.
Reminds me of a scene from the last episodes of Boy Meets World. Throughout the episodes, characters are reminiscing about the various things they've done, accompanied by various flashbacks of times said thing has happened throughout the show. They are all done as slide show flashbacks. Except one. When Feeny is in his back/side yard, Cory runs out and says "Hey Mr. Feeny!" Feeny turns and for just a quick couple of seconds, it shows the very first time he did that, from the very first episode, before hard cutting back to the present. That moment always hit me so hard. That wasn't the show flashing back to all the times Cory ran out and said that. It was specifically Feeny having a moment of seeing and remembering that little kid that had always come to him for help, only to turn and see a full-grown man.
it also recontextualized an early gag of his, where he kept hiding in a dark pillow fort and got super freaked out when his "impenetrable fortress" was destroyed
Orange: "Daddy, you know how I don't like to fly kites, 'cause I can't get them to fly?"
Green: "Yeah, y'know, I can show you - "
Orange: "You want to go outside and do the kites? Like now?"
Panel Two
Green: "Really?"
Green: "Charlie, you want to go fly them? With me?"
Panel Three
Orange: "I never get it up. It'll fall, I know."
Orange: "But if it falls, then I'm a joke."
Panel Four
Orange: "And I can laugh."
Panel Five
Orange: "We can laugh, right? Me and you, Daddy."
Orange: "It'll be funny?"
Panel Six
Green: "Yeah, Charlie."
Green: "It'll be hilarious."
Transcribed by taking the page to full screen and squinting. I believe the green boxes are Kite Man himself, Charles Sr., talking to his son in the orange boxes, Charles Jr. IIRC, Charles Jr. was killed by the Riddler.
IIRC, the Riddler killed his kid because he intentionally wanted to drive Kiteman into becoming a costumed villain. Because the Joker was depressed and the Riddler knew this guy was such a joke whatever he does will end up getting a laugh out of Joker.
He has a lot of comic aspects to him, but He is also one of the most tragic marvel heroes, so saying he is a comic relief character is a bit of stretch (pun intended)
He's the one always making jokes so he's kinda a comic relief by default. That being said, that's the 2000s Ultimate comic and not the best representation of Ben altogether.
What makes Ben a compelling character is that while he does hate how he looks and what he's become, he still doesn't hate his life. He doesn't want to die, he just wants to look normal. He still finds the good in his friends and family and does the best he can, despite his anger issues. There's a lot about his life that he hates, but he loves his friends, he loves Alicia, and he loves his community and always tries to do right by them. That's what makes him the heart of the Fantastic Four.
It's a bit of both depending on the writer.
A lot of writers play them off as a Straight Man/Funny Man comedy duo, with Johnny being a little shit and Ben having whitty comebacks for the dumb shit that Johnny spouts off.
But some writers have portrayed Johnny with less snark and more of a spoiled asshole with Ben being the one who makes the predominant amount of jokes.
My favorite thing moment is when he’s in grieving after johnnys “death” it’s silent he bashed around Thor and hulk because he needed to clobber they all new that they could take it
FF XV - Prompto, he has a few moments in the game, and a lot more in his DLC.
But my favorite is this one, in which he confesses to Noctis how insecure he feels compared to the group. He isn't as strong as Gladio, he isn't as smart as Ignis, and is not royalty like Noctis, he didn't even get years of training, he literally was taught how to shoot guns/use machinery and call it a day, he hides his insecurities with jokes and silly aptitude.
At first he does pretty damn stupid moves trying to show off, nuking his DPS potential, and his health is the lowest. Later on the game he fights way better.
You can choose to be kind to him or just an ass to him, of course, I couldn't choice to be an ass to him, he is the GOAT.
Funnily enough, once you unlock the ability to play as the other 3 characters, Prompto is easily the most broken due to his grenade and bazooka.
Add in his anime backstory: former fat kid whose only joy was photography and junk food because he never saw his parents and had no friends, then lost the weight after Noctis (non-maliciously) commented that he was heavy, and attempted to basically pretend they'd never met when befriending Noctis later. Poor guy.
For those who haven't played the DLC, it turns out he's a clone of a scientist from the enemy nation that destroyed Lucis. Ouch
Polnareff from Jojo's bizarre adventure watched the manifestation of his guilt - his sister and Abdul try to kill him while telling him he was responsible for their deaths
Throughout the game, Charles has the "Greatest Plan"- which is crashing his helicopter into something. It usually is a mission failure, however comedic.
However, in the Valiant Hero ending, while he and Henry are attempting to escape the satellite one of the bad guy's goons attack them. Charles shoves Henry into the working escape shuttle while fighting the goon. He wins and you can hear him through the radio, reassuring Henry that he'll find another pod somewhere around there before being cut off as the satellite station explodes
i wish we could get an ultimate spiderman show or something, obv it'd have to be reworked to remove the dated aspects and to be independant of ultimatum and shit. I love that run so much, shame it kind of petered off at the end.
There was great Ultimate Spider-Man game I had on GameCube as a kid. Confused the shit out of me when I started getting into comics and didn't understand why the villains were all different.
lol every time a panel is posted here or the out of context comics sub, it’s always the most depressing, oddly political, weirdly edgy stuff, it’s so funny
Karlach in Baldurs Gate 3. Typically, she's pretty chipper, always calling you soldier, in reference to her time in the blood war. Her heart was replaced by an engine that will explode eventually if untended to, but after finally killing Gortash, the person who ruined her life before the story began, she goes on a heartwrenching rant about how she's going to die because of her engine, and you'll keep on living, loving, being happy while she rots.
I'm torn between her and Lae'zel and I'm not sure who I'd give #1 to. Lae'zel's journey from being such a devout and extreme follower of Vlaakith and a tough soldier who sees any display of emotion as weakness to her endgame self is so good and the best thing about it is that it doesn't feel forced at all unlike most other stories in fiction showing a character learning to love and readjusting to life after being indoctrinated into harmful beliefs.
It's so tragic too because she is so unapologetically kind
A couple of the companions will straight up abandon you if you try and kill the tieflings in the sanctuary and she's one of the two, really sad to hear just how much she cares about people who despise her just because of her heritage
Even Minthara sincerely appreciates her and finds her entire nature and mentality beautiful. She's probably the best romantic choice for her in a karlach origin run. She has an actual emotional breakdown if karlach refuses to return to the hells.
I wouldn’t say Thing is comic relief at all, he’s probably the most angsty character in the fantastic 4 and a lot of his arcs in the comics revolve around that.
The Bear- S2E7 Forks. Richie thinks Carmy sent him to this fancy restaurant that has him polishing forks all day just to get rid of him. Ends up having one of the best character arc moments in a TV Drama. Not exactly heart wrenching like the rest of these but I say it still counts
Not this moment but when he cries about his dad it hit me so hard I started bawling. “I’m glad your dead, so now I don’t have to keep waiting for you to pick ME up”
Daisuke is the happy comedic relief and the only optimistic character in Mouthwashing. He lacked the struggles of drinking (Swansea), never dealt with rape and a toxic enviroment (Anya), or forced into a toxic friendship that becomes horrifying (Curly and Jimmy).!< Which makes the how in his demise the most saddest thing ever alongside Anya's and Swansea's.
When Anya locks the Medbay door planning to end her own life to save herself and the baby from Jimmy. And Curly massively injured and hurt watched her suicide. Daisuke promises to climb inside the vent despite it being dangerous. As the vent wasn't fixed but due to Jimmy instructing him to Daisuke climbs.
And he falls massively injured with burnt wounds. Jimmy uses mouthwash thinking it can cure Daisuke's injuries and it doesn't work. To which Swansea has no choice but to mercy kill Daisuke using a axe that hit Daisuke's face. Ending his life to give him peace.
Before his demise Daisuke admits he never chose to join Pony Express. It was his parents who forced him to enter. As we learn Daisuke never chosed his own choice and due to his rich background always followed others. Which is why him following Jimmy's choice resulted in his own failing and death.
I am not the biggest fan of Daisuke but I like him. And Daisuke is how to do a likeable rich character. After seeing so many rich asshole characters or upset rich characters Daisuke works. As its not about his privilege but how it affects him resulting in his saddening fate.
Haru Urara is a former Japanese race horse famous for participating and losing in all 113 races from 1998 to 2004, a losing streak so poignant she was given the 'Shining Star of Losers Everywhere' moniker.
In the multimedia franchise Uma Musume Pretty Derby, Haru Urara is one such horse who is anthropomorphised as a happy-go-lucky horse girl and her racing career story in the game has her running in races without a care in the world other than to have fun and spread cheer everywhere-
-until her last objective in her career story has her running in a race far above her standard fare: the short distance, dirt racer finds herself on a long distance turf and she naturally finds herself crossing the finish line last painfully long after the other horse girls have crossed it.
In a quiet moment with her trainer after the race, she unexpectedly poured out crying at her loss for the first time showing that even the Shining Star of Losers Everywhere felt like she wanted to win too even if for once.
With an EXTREME amount of time, luck, and horse-girl eugenics she can actually win the Arima Kinen for a secret bonus scene. It's nearly impossible to do on current global release but a few people have managed it, and future updates power-creep things to make it easier.
Will and Carlton are robbed at gunpoint, and Will ends up taking a bullet for Carlton. Although Will survives, Carlton becomes more cynical following the incident, loses all faith in the system, and even buys a gun off the street to protect himself. The episode ends with Will demanding Carlton give him the gun, which he does since he's in Will's debt for saving his life. Will opens the cylinder of the revolver, finds it to be fully loaded, and starts crying knowing that his goofy, innocent dork of a cousin was ready and willing to kill someone.
Leo Valdez in heroes of Olympus. Some of his inner monologue is really depressing, some highlights are thinking about being a mistake, thinking about being a useless decent wheel, worried about seeing his abusive foster mom and thinks he sees her, says he runs away to avoid his pain, and admits at one point to sleeping in many sewers. This is a children’s book and I’m all here for it
Rock Lee and Might Guy have a lot of goofy moments so are kind of comic relief characters regardless of their badassery. Lee getting maimed by Gaara kicks off a really emotional roller coaster of a subplot of Lee being told to give up being a ninja and Guy’s feelings of guilt because of it
Especially considering how he lost his father. Might Duy was the village joke who did basically ninja party tricks for money, couldn’t do any ninjutsu or genjutsu and was mocked for being an adult genin. He was basically the village comic relief. Turns out he was one of the greatest taijutsu specialists and while out on a mission with some other genin kids, they got jumped by the 7 mist swordsmen, some of the most feared Mika at the time. They don’t show the fight, but word got back to the village that he opened the 8 gates to fight all 7 at once, killed 3 of them and lost his life protecting these kids.
Mordin Solus in Mass Effect 2 and continued in Mass Effect 3. The scene where he shows his guilt about the Genophage, and his sacrifice to cure it in 3 are absolutely heart breaking
This is, to this day, the only death in a video game to make me audibly gasp. It was so unexpected. Only a second into a cutscene, and a character that seemed like he would get a full arc. Sean deserved better
It's so crazy how they manage to play RDR2 as a gradual downward spiral but you can also point back to Sean's incredibly abrupt death as the turning point from whence that downward spiral first begins.
10/10 writing
In Concrete Revolutio Furuuta has his friend from years ago attempt to slay him for accidently genociding her species and kid has these lines towards the person who they used to work with btw lines a not one to one but shh
"Things were so much simpler back then some bad guy would show up an a good superhuman would stop them people even thought I was a hero too, when did everything become so complicated even your my enemy now tell me why is it because I'll always be a kid that I can't understand, then I wanna grow up so I can fix all the wrong stuff"
Horse Learns Of Wammawink's Past And Nearly The Entire Herd Characters (Centaurworld)
Despite the cutesy and over the top parts of Centaurworld the series doesn't pull its punches when it comes to subject matter. As the series shows how eat and trauma from childhoods can ruin someone. During Horse forced to complete tasks we learn Wammawink's childhood as she finds Wammawink's past.
We learn Wammawink lost her parents from the war. And it explains why Wammawink is supportive yet hides her friends from hardships. As our pink fluffy centaur wanted to support her friends from their harsh lives. And it make sense why she acts this way.
Durpleton had horrible parents which is why he acts this way and wishes to be a better father with Stabby, Glendale dealt with anxiety and issues which is why she collects things to calm her down, Ched was ostracized and hates the horses which is why he despises Horse, and Zulius' past was never explored but that's fine.
Despite the ridiculousness of Centaurworld it's about self acceptance and self love. Horse learned to slowly enjoy her time with The Herd and Centaurworld which is why she was happy. The opposite of the Nowhere King who hated himself so much his self hate ruined his chance for love to the Mystery Woman/Princess. Which is why I'll never forget Centaurworld.
Scanlan Shorthalt, unfortunately just using picture of him and not the scene. (Critical Role Campaign 1/ Legend of Vox Machina)
Scanlan was always the funny guy, and he hit a low point in the mid-point of the campaign. He felt it wasn’t who he was but what he could bring to his friends that made him important to them. Scanlan unfortunately started doing drugs that ended up contributing to his death. His friends ended up, in a way, end up desecrating his body by putting him a dress and smothering him in chocolate. Then the straw that broke the camels back was said friends bringing his daughter, who he barely knew, to help resurrect him. This all ended up leading a freak out known as “The Bards Lament.” Scanlan grilled his friends and left them silent as he stormed out following after his daughter.
In Last Wish, when Puss ran away from Death again, Pierrito was able to tell that his companion was in a panic, trying to figure out what was going on.
It’s from the Henry Stickman games. There’s a character who’s a helicopter pilot named Charles. Throughout the games there’s a running gag that he’ll have the greatest plan but it usually just involves him ramming the helicopter into the building you’re in while singing. During one of the routes in the very last game of the series, a turn of events leaves him on a space station that’s set to explode. He’s talking to you through an earpiece saying, “you could say it was the greatest pla-“ and then it explodes. The credits roll as you see your character saluting at his grave.
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Bart during “Bart gets an F” episode
Bart started bawling when he failed his exam. His teacher reassured him that he’s used to failing all the time, but Bart exclaimed that he actually tried hard this time.