Michael, is that you?

Nope.

hakasims pp

Brainstormer623 Gordy step dad and mom are evil

Brainstormer623

+Dr Shaym So if they had a character from Uranus, would he be wearing the clothing of a Greek aviator? Because Uranus is the Greek god of the sky.

+Firestorm ofanime the greek concept of sky didn't simply refer to our atmosphere but space in general so Zeus would be the god of space Uranus wasn't a god as much as he was a primal force that was the father of the titans he was the Son and husband of Gaia

+carultch "so if they had a character from ur anus..." man, you botched such a potentially great joke right there.

+Samuel Pérez García An overused joke that they probably didn't want to use.

Actually his helmet is more of a Carthaginian styled one.

Especially since her coat guy was her husband. Who by the way left her at the end of the book

Why did Cracked like this comment after they ripped this series away from us?😓

I had no idea T1J was aware of Cracked

Connor Tyler I remember in the 101 Dalmatians TV show they all move to a farm in the countryside because there was more room.

THANK YOU!, yes they said that the puppies will be an expense but they are clearly well off enough to afford a full time housekeeper- and Secondly we never find out the source of Cruella's Wealth, I always thought it was a family thing, with Cruella and Anita being from rich families, so that is how Roger and Anita are scraping by at the moment and Cruella's attitude fits a spoiled aristocrat who expects to get everything she wants- It fits her attitude better than if she was a self made woman, who would likely found a better way to get the dogs and arrange the whole thing

@@timothycarney9652 I always assumed Cruella came from old money because of her dark, mostly abandoned mansion (Hell Hall was it?) where Horace and Jasper keep the puppies. If she were self made and bought her own house, and is Anita's age, she'd likely be living in her own house. It's the family house, she's abandoned it and lives in the city most likely. One of the characters says "no one has lived there in years." I base this entirely on the animated feature, of course. Edit: her parents are likely dead, or else that's still be living there, she inherited early and probably blew a bunch of the money on drugs and plastic surgery and that's why she looks a thousand years old.

They didn't even have electricity so what if it's a giant home? I doubt it was taxed by square inch, and kicking the old housekeeper out (who was surely very low-wage) just to keep some puppies is stupid.

Manek Iridius - oh, you want to get into the intricacies and inequities of the ad valorem tax system? I thought not! ;-)

I Rosencrantz but the Dad also smokes

I Rosencrantz Forget all the other stuff about smoking. That shit makes you murder puppies.

King Yak yea but the dad looks 40, yet he's actually 12

botched plastic surgery

Still a bad lesson for kids.

Space jam was the shit, the new one with LeBron is going to be just shit.

Yeah, as stupid as that movie was, It kinda grew on me too.

@@maxhydekyle2425 you sir were correct.

yup

+bobbiwib They do I think the little girl gets a line about not all step mothers being bad.

it is frightening how much better that made me feel

bobbiwib Because the writer acknowledged something that should have been acknowledged.

Yes they reference that not all step moms are bad when the bratty kid was complaining about her Dad marrying Nancy. Ironically Giselle brought up Prince Edwards step mother nessa who was evil lol.

LEGIT_ELITE it would have blown my mind as well if I hadnt seen that comment trending on tumblr about a week ago. It sure did back then. It wouldnt surprise me if someone thought of it way before that though seeing as how the movie is almost 20 years old.

LEGIT_ELITE Something else about Marvin that can be considered interesting his centurion helmet could be a reference to the fact the planet Mars is named after the Roman god of War

LEGIT_ELITE I know man.. its out of this world!

Zthewise Ares

IAmDaedem He's the greek one

K.M. Char Yeah, but ironically, Kira stopped Chaz from marrying an evil step mother haha

K.M. Char And didn't Chuckie have the same kind of "you're not my real mom!" relationship that Swaim described with stepdads?

KingofSting19 Not really. I mean, even in the "all grown up" crap, he actually treats her as his real mom. I think there was AN episode where he goes through that, but by the end they hug it out. (Either that episode exists, or my brain made fanfiction with AMAZING animation.)

animewisher Can you call Rugrats 'AMAZING animation'?

D.A.R No, but as someone who can barely draw, I consider my brain recreating any level of animation amazing XD

Same.

me too XD especially the voice he did when he said,"YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!" XD

I also used to think that she was anorexic. But I believe she's doing more drugs than just cigarettes ;)

Angel Singer But...but Roger smokes.

The early artwork made them look similar ages but Disney wanted her to look evil so made her look older. Because older women are evil 🤨 Though as a kid I just assumed she was on drugs or suffering from anorexia

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick Yes be he smokes a classic pipe. So you know he can be trusted

He only knows how to shop from ACME though, there's a very good chance he'll be having explosive something, all I'm saying bud.

If Looney Toons happened in today's world, ACME would be diversifying itself like Amazon and would offer Prime delivery as well as grocery online shopping, thus ending his endless need to eat the Road Runner.

Karen Holmes In the words of Cliff Klavin. "It's not about food. He wants to catch that one Road Runner. It's, uh, very existential. "

I always imagined it was because of pride or desire. Think about it like everyone knows he buys stuff from the internet and while all we see him buy is ACME stuff that doesn't mean he doesn't order food, hell he's bought TONS of Roadruner food to distract that bird so my best guess is he either keeps trying to catch him to prove himself as capable of catching what's supposed to be his food-chain established prey; or alternativelly it's because he knows that eating the guy will be the most delicious thing ever, like if someone ran into a golden eggs goose they'd most likely chase it for god knows how long same thing here.

Forest for the trees.

Cheaper by the dozen

Those aren't kids movies just because it happens to have children in them doesn't make it a is movie.

Cheaper by the Dozen is totally a kids movie

Sofia the First

But the woman Captain Von Trapp almost married was pretty useless, despite having all the socio-economic markers of equal status as the captain. Maria was young, and inherently virtuous by having chosen to be a nun. And she wasn’t the Captain’s ‘appropriate’ choice as a wife and step mother to his children.

CyricZ So true. There have been quite a few times. Also, didn't know you watched Cracked. :o

CyricZ Besides, he's the only one of the "winners" that showcases wit and craftiness to get out of trouble. The whole drag thing is a good example.

CyricZ Thumbs up if Bugs Bunny in drag gave you a boner.

He is the most progressive character they have

Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?

Sun Jetzu every series is good, maybe not so much cracked responds anymore, but I think you should watch more because they're all great

d deadjl All the series are fairly good. If it doesn't fall into a series, usually pretty bad.

Try Today's Topic or Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder (if you haven't already) those are cool too.

Sun Jetzu I can see why.. Yet I think these take the most amount of time to make.

MrFrostburner It didn't used to be like that. Discount Domain Names was pretty funny, all those years ago.

But she still needed help from sponsors and the help she got was because of Peeta and Haymitch for the most part. Don't get me wrong, I like Katniss but she was helped out a lot by other people. Peeta even kept the "Careers" off her scent for as long as he could. Still I will say she worked hard to keep her family alive and that paid off with the skills she needed for the arena.

Yeah but there's a difference between training to be a good hunter, which is probably done in the few hours in between helping her impoverished family, and training specifically for the Hunger Games' survival challenges like the careers did. Remember, Katniss only trained to hunt small animals and deer. The careers specifically trained to kill people, which is an entirely different ball game as you can ask any soldier or police officer forced to take a life while on duty.

But that only reinforces the point that she wasn't some "chosen one" who was magically gifted. In fact, the support Katniss gets from other people is a huge theme of the books/movies. That's the point--she can't do everything she does by herself. If she was doing it alone, she'd have died. She needs the help of others. Everything she gets she either worked her ass off for (her skill with a bow) gets from the help of people who care about her, or gets because someone she helped/did something kind for/inspired wants to help her back.

The "chosen one" doesn't have to be magically gifted. The trophe is also fulfilled if the person has to work for it. Its more about the protagonist being that one person that seems to be necessary to set all the important things in motion, like how Neo is the "chosen one" in the matrix. Its not like he doesn't do anything like Harry Potter in the first HP movie.

Jay Smith I see your point .... but she was not the favorite to win and did not have that big of an advantage..... you have to remember other districts broke the rules and would have their "tributes" raised to enter the Games, they literally trained their whole life to fight, use multiple weapons and survival skills and were treated like heroes in their District for doing it......in fact she was a malnourished girl who could only use one weapon and track , they even had a sene that pointed out that her survival heavily counted on a Bow being in the Cornucopia at the start of the games. So they were concerned she could or would not survive if the Bow was not there.

+Bryan Cruz adoptive mothers aren't stepmothers

I thought step parents adopted their step kids? Like, that was part of the process of marrying someone who already has kids.

No, just because you marry someone doesn't mean you automatically adopt their kids, that's a separate legal process altogether.

Foster mom

And Kircheck was technically his step dad who resented him

Ex-fucking-actly

DenkitekiKesshiRune That's what I was thinking! I haven't seen the film in _years_ but it never occurred to me that they were legitimately poor because of the house and nanny.

DenkitekiKesshiRune Back then houses were much cheaper than they are now, proportional to income level. More people could afford houses even being in lower middle class. As for the nanny.... well back then old people were cheap, heck old people still are cheap, and we cant possibly expect a single man to clean his own house, nah, thats womans work

But the location of his home was prime realestate, it's walking distance of a park, and look at their furniture! Grandfather clocks, wall paneling, curtains, and a fireplace mantel? That doesn't look like a lower middle class house. I don't think Roger was even a failing composer, he was just suffering from a writers block which is common for any composer in the musical career. In fact from the royalties from the Cruella De Ville song, in a few short months they were able to move to a plantation that could accommodate all 101 Dalmatians.

DenkitekiKesshiRune Again. that movie was set at what time? like the 1950's? There were parks everywhere back then, it was a different world

How do you know? We never really see her raise her after the movie ends.

but there is a line in Enchanted that not all step mothers are bad

+Rahsaan Footman THIS. Also the smart or hard working ones are obsessed with their prey, and selfish. The best character to teach them a lesson is a Trickster one, since it can get to the limits a righteous character could not go, and that's how it can create the comedy part.

+Rahsaan Footman Mythology, Old Folktales, Puss-in-boots. One of these things is not like the other.

+TNPWarlord Source material Puss-in-Boots. The French fable like Reynard the Fox and Cinderella. Not necessarily the Dreamworks one.

+Rahsaan Footman Bugs Bunny did end up playing the fool in two cartoons. One where he got duped multiple times by a gremlin, the other where he challenged a Tortoise to a race and, despite actually running his ass off, the Tortoise still won, exactly like the title said. (But in the Gremlin's case it was because Bugs didn't believe in him for half the cartoon, allowing the creature to do whatever he wanted until Bugs wised up, which was unfortunately too late, and in the Tortoise's case the Tortoise had identical siblings who helped win the race for him. Bugs legitimately beat the Tortoise he challenged at the beginning but the Tortoise still won because his 5th brother was at a checkpoint near the finish line and crossed it just as Bugs outran the 4th brother.)

+Rahsaan Footman I would also like to add that at the beginning of most Bugs Bunny cartoons, he isn't trying to outwit anyone. He's simply going along his own business. It's usually someone else trying to start a fight with him which causes him to act. In a way, Bugs Bunny is acting in a sort of 'poetic justice' type of way towards these characters because they were gunning for him in the first place.

When you adopt a kid that kid doesn't become your step child they become your child

cjishere97 So if one parent dies and you take over for them you are evil, but if both die and you take over you are a hero?

+OtherGonzo what are you even talking about

+OtherGonzo kind of what movies present. as yea there is a difference between an adootive parent, and a step parent. so you cant use adoptive parents as examples for positive step parents.

cjishere97 Well, because a step-child is the child of the person you marry.

...that's amazing. Is that... is that confirmed to be the case, because that's just so clever.

what about the hightops?

That's.... Actually really cool. Kudos to you.

Personally, I always liked to think that maybe it was the Spartans who wore Martian helmets, not vice versa😉

It, for some inexplicable reason, bothered me that you said "Mars is Ares" that's like saying Neptune is Poseidon.

Who is to say Who is evil and whoisnt. Daffy Duck plays both sides. Foghorn is a total dick to the Dog but is seen as the focal character. And it is odd that most antagonists do have speech impediments. Porky does too but he is rarely an antagonist.

finalfanfan7 Do you think Cruella would sue for defamation of character?

Master Markus In 1950s London? Nah, people weren't as lawsuit happy back then.

Vlad Velasquez I never got the impression that people were "lawsuit-happy" now. I just thought that she seemed very overly prideful. Hell, I don't know anyone who would just sit around and let a song about how evil and terrible they are get popular, truthful or not!

+finalfanfan7 How is it that they can afford a house maid in the early part of the movie? If they are supposed to be so poor they can barely afford to feed themselves?

+carultch It's London, every family has an English butler and a maid whether they're rich or not.

Yes

look at him he looks like he's wearing Roman war armor

Mark Breen-Klein If you listen, right after Soren asks the question, you can hear whats her name say Mars. Sorry, I haven't caught her name yet.

Niche Carved Ah. Kate. That's her name.

Mark Breen-Klein Yup. And Bugs calling Elmer "Nimrod" was based off of a great hunter. The nickname "Nimrod" was ironic (like calling an idiot "Einstein" or someone stating the obvious "Sherlock"), and it became an insult over time (because it was always associated with Elmer Fudd).

Tbf, if you're in that abusive a relationship, you should probably get out as soon as you can.

Snow white was far worse.

Except for the cartoon where he gets outraged over the $0.01 bounty on rabbits and ends up in prison. That does help show that his normal M.O. is effective, as you point out.

And to say he doesn't have any skills was ignorant when the cartoon clearly shows how smart and creative he is going beyond normal thinking the rabbit who evrn dress up sometimes in drag to fool his antagonist. Only time I disliked bugs was when he screwed with Daffy.

@@teemusid exception but not the rule. There is also the one time Coyote does catch road runner and then doesn't know what to do with him. Just raises a sign "Now what?"

YES!!!

Eric D. Hansen Rugrats, Brady Bunch, Different Strokes. Probably more.

sprukununuy And those are all pretty old. Phineas and Ferb seems like the only modern show that shows a second marriage family getting along well.

Rav Enj Dalmations is old, but that's something a kid will watch, because the parents will get the Disney collection for their kids. Brady Bunch, not so much.

Rav Enj Have fun paying for therapy and plastic bedsheets, then.

+Definitely Catherine At least in Chocolate factory the kids weren't really being punished for their specific flaws, they were punished for their poor impulse control and their parents by extension punished for their poor parenting. Many of Dhal's books contain poor parenting. It just happens it is easier to convey a bad guy if you give them unattractive flaws in addition to being bad. And of course a writer would consider reading to be an attractive trait.

Very true but when I think about Characters like Sophie from the BFG or Matilda they can sometimes come across as very Mary Sue-ish, Don't get me wrong I love these books but it's just sort of a trend I've noticed in his writing.

***** Funny seeing you here. :P

Crossover your the best

***** Can you post a link?

***** In most of the stories that Disney's films are based on (Grimm's etc.) the evil ones are actually the real parents/parent which Disney deemed to controversial hence the stepmoms.

Icarus2377 I would post a link, but KZfaq would probably flag the comment as spam and it wouldn't show up here. Just look for the Allusionist on iTunes and find the episode called "Step Away"

Edisson Ortega So did the Lego Movie! :D

Edisson Ortega How? The only other person who could be the one was Neville, and since he wasn't the universe shit on him, almost constantly.

Tyler Reed Did you somehow miss the HBP? Large portions of that were devoted to Dumbledore talking about how the prophecy was bullshit that only mattered in so far as Voldemort believed it.

Sean K Yet it came true, despite Dumbledore's exposition on the matter it was entirely true. Not to mention the same foreteller is shown to have another accurate foretelling in I believe the Goblet of Fire. None of the book supports the notion that anyone can be the chosen one, instead all of the books constantly reinforced the idea that only Harry could have been.

Tyler Reed The point was the prophecy came true because Voldemort placed stock in it. If he had left the Potters alone then Lily never would have sacrificed herself for Harry and Voldemort never would have died the first time. And he probably would have succeeded until a confrontation with Dumbeldore. Diviner's can foretell the future but that doesn't mean it's set in stone. Did you not even read/watch Prisoner of Azkaban?

Remember when Wile E. Coyote drew a tunnel to a rock (or rather, a mountain) , and road runner fucking ran through it? That is the bullshit they meant by magical.

Özgür Bulut Karaosmanoğlu it is a cartoon, it's comedy after all.

Ebon Hawk Someone always has to be the best though, and sometimes no matter how much work you put in, it's impossible to beat them. Especially with bugs who puts in a hell of alot of work on costume design and other prep. The point is that everyone has their own abilities and some are just special, like how everyone who isn't luke Skywalker is kinda screwed when compared.

+Rem Twilight does that make Bugs silly Batman?

Rem Twilight yes someone always has to be the best, and sometimes that means ''you'' will be filling that spot. but even the best can lose the best boxer loses sometimes the best pingpong player loses sometimes.

There _is_ a reason he always wins, that reason being that he's the designated protagonist, living in a cartoon universe that literally won't allow designated protagonists to fail (or designated antagonists to succeed).

fox inuasha I'm a Venture Bros fan, mocking classic cartoon tropes is in my blood :D

There WAS that episode with the Gremlin ("Falling Hare") and Bugs never really got the best of him.

Marianne Ibbotson I don't know who that is. another yt channel I'm guessing

fox inuasha Actually it's a really awesome cartoon on Adult Swim. One that loves, amongst other things, deconstructing old cartoon tropes in a really funny way. Sometimes a really sad way too. Apart from that it has some really great ongoing storylines in its own right, so it's not _just_ a "hey let's parody all these old 60s-80s cartoons" effort.

Wow. I seriously have no argument. Well Done. You need more likes.

So children's movies only have evil stepmoms because of censorship, then?

What about Tim Allen's The Santa Clause. Fuck Neal.

Yes, because a brutal child rape would really mess up the pacing and tone of most Disney movies.

If I remember correctly, in the original versions of fairy tales, it was originally mothers, not step-mothers, who were the villains. At some point, centuries before Disney, it was seen as too cruel to kids to make them fear their mothers, and the mothers were changed to step-mothers.

Charley Deppner referencing Atlas Shrugged is -10 karma points

Peter Gorman I'm in *total* agreement. A soul partially-crushed for a moment of troll. But if we're gonna get _heady_ about _101 Dalmatians_, we might as well break the moral bank.

Actually Horace and Jasper, the lackies, hide out in a mansion in the country called the "Deville place". And there is the implication of class divide between Creulla and Anita.

Katja Yount In the book, it's explicitly said that the mansion is an old De Vil family heirloom. Though, in the book, Cruella has a husband who actually makes the furs. It's implied she had to marry him to keep the lifestyle she was used to. EDIT: In the sequel, she's found to be making raincoats out of tough metal instead--after having gotten out of jail. And that's probably the most sane thing about the sequel.

+ZipplyZane She is a fashion designer and was a model. Having starved and likely slept her way to the top, she wants to stay on the cutting edge. She also likely came from a family of hard core sport hunters who saw animals as being here for whatever use and whim that struck people's fancy, particularly rich people.

About speedy, yes! I remember the entire point of the cartoon was that speedy was the only hardworker in his family...

I read the book many years ago, so I may be wrong. I thought that Roger, (in the book), worked as some kind of financial/economic professional and then at the end of the book he is rewarded in some way by the government for successfully helping them to fix the national debt. maybe my memories just not so great

Adam Moore That's how I remember the book, too. He was a musician in the animated movie, a game developer in the live-action movie, but somehow used his skills with numbers and finances to help the British government with their money so much, they permanently exempted him from taxes.

No, I could've sworn she stole the 84 other puppies from shops and shelters. If she paid for them, why on Earth did she steal from Roger and Anita instead of just finding more somewhere else and paying there. It's the only reason why she wanted to have the puppies killed because she was sure the cops were closing in. Paying for more never would've brought this problem. Sorry, I just think I'm remembering it differently.

@@ackbarfan5556 What I remember from the animated movie is Sargent Tibbs sneaking into the De Ville mansion and asking one puppy "Are you one of the 15 stolen puppies?" and he answered, "Oh, no; we're bought and paid for!" You're dead-on accurate that Cruella shot herself in the foot by stealing those puppies, and more patience on her part would've paid off---for exactly the reasons you've cited. The movie doesn't really address why she stole them when buying more puppies would've been smarter; at a guess, she was just greedy and impatient.

Touche.

sniffthecactus duh hhhh

Deep cut. LOL. Had to go far back for that one. Shows what they're saying is kind of true though. There aren't many examples of good step mothers in movies.

All Dogs Go To Heaven 2

Nanny Mc Phee had a good step-mother aswell

At least for Chuck Jones cartoons, Bugs never starts the conflict. He is minding his own business until forced to deal with an aggressive antagonist. That was Jones's main rule.

Oh God Yes!

pereiramariana35 Actually they never got married, at least it's not shown in the end montage, you could argue it's implied, but I there is no indication that they are married or even living together.

The stepmom also became a princess in Enchanted

Timothy Robert pajama dance party.

pereiramariana35 i shall, and it shall be Delicious! lol. x)

In The Sandlot, the step-father is conscientious and makes a sincere effort to be a good dad. He was played by Denis Leary.

i think its because he cant really speak (from what i remember) and that he lives in the middle of nowhere also he's a predator so i just assume people are extremely scared of him (keep in mind i have not seen looney toons in several years and was very young when did so i could just be talking out my ass)

@@SlashDashCrash you're pretty much right, but I think the real reason is because of their dynamic. Think about it like this the roadrunner is supposed to be the coyote's prey, yet he manages to bot outsmart and humiliate Willie every single time he even attempts to catch him, to me it seems like the Coyote's pride is hurt and his motivation is showing that even if he gets beaten a million or more times he'll eventually catch up and eat the roadrunner.

Whatever. She's still the special chosen one. History won't remember her trainer, or the announcer, or the person who pulled her name out of a hat. History is going to remember that a girl named Katniss rebelled from the oppressive government system.

Read Nin Thank you

+Unownshipper Even early in the movie, Roger and Anita seem to be able to afford a lot more than Roger could afford as a bachelor.

Yeah? She still wanted fur coats. I don't care, the ends justify the means, the means DON'T justify the ends. She still wanted to make fur coats out of domestic animals. Even if she had ONE female dalmation, that dalmation couldn't feed that many pups.

+Read Nin I was just saying the family found another female to feed the puppies and cruella had the money since she was married to a rich husband

+Read Nin I was just saying the family found another female to feed the puppies and cruella had the money since she was married to a rich husband

+Read Nin I was just saying the family found another female to feed the puppies and cruella had the money since she was married to a rich husband

@@readnin7314 what are you talking about?

Rodger and Anita that is.

+Luke Watson judging by the genre of music that the guy wrote (rag time), the movie is set many years ago. Pretty sure the housing market was a lot cheeper back then

+Luke Watson So why does Cruella say that they can barely afford to feed themselves?

+Sebastian Ferguson But they still have a live-in house maid. That implies they've got to be somewhat wealthy. Maybe Roger was a poor failed songwriter when he was a bachelor, and started to see the success of his work around the time he got married. If Roger and Anita can barely afford to put food on the table, how can they possibly afford to hire a maid?

carultch I thought the maid was Anita's, do we even know what she does for a living?

Yes , yes it does .

This, and also: Though the movies skip over it, the Harry Potter books at least have a whole part wherein Dumbledore specifically emphasizes to Harry that he should not put too much weight into the whole prophecy/"chosen one" one thing as if it was inherently predetermined fate. Dumbledore explains that, if the prophecy had been made with nobody around to hear it, none of it would have come to pass. It only came to pass because Voldemort *did* take it as fate and acted upon it, and because his acting upon it changed Harry's life in such a way that he *would* become the one with the particular connection and ability to defeat him. Not by some extraordinary magical ability or divine rite saying "you're the one to defeat him", but because Harry would never WANT to stop fighting against the man who robbed him of the loving family he'd had! To quote the book, since JK Rowling puts it way more eloquently than I could paraphrase it: " 'But sir, it all comes down to the same thing, doesn't it? I've got to try and kill him, or--' 'Got to?' said Dumbledore. 'Of course you've got to! But not because of the prophecy! Because you, yourself, will never rest until you've tried! Imagine, please, just for a moment, that you had never heard that prophecy! How would you feel about Voldemort now? Think!' Harry watched Dumbledore striding up and down in front of him, and thought. He thought of his mother, his father, and Sirius. He thought of Cedric Diggory. He thought of all the terrible deeds he knew Lord Voldemort had done. A flame seemed to leap inside his chest, searing his throat. 'I'd want to see him finished,' Harry said quietly, 'and I'd want to do it.' " Point being: it was only because Voldemort had MADE that prophecy have so much meaning to Harry that it came true. And it was only because of the person Harry already *was* - good and pure of heart and willing to give his life if it meant saving others from the pain Voldemort had given him- that made him the one who could defeat him. So the message to kids really isn't "you're a special snowflake" at all (and, yes, if you ARE, it probably does come at a cost). Instead, it's much more about every person's ability to make their own choices about how to face the obstacles and injustices they see in life. That you can either look at the injustices you see in the world and choose to turn your back on fighting for a change, or you can be like Harry and CHOOSE to take it as your responsibility to stand in resistance even when it's the hard and scary thing to do.

i don't think he feels guilty for the guy who killed his parents dying because of his mothers love protecting him enough for it to back fire and kill voldemort. i think he just didn't want to be seen as famous cause he wasn't in on that.

He wants to eat him. Of course it's inhumane, he's a fucking coyote.

Coyote isn't doing the wrong thing, he's fulfilling a basic need.

Blaine Self ikr

i mean step mom sounds much better than thinking that your real mom who is supposed to love you would do that, so i get why they changed it.

In the book she did inherit her money or at least most of it.

@@puffball4484 also her husband (who’s alive in the books) is a rich furrier