OT: is Mufasa the most overrated fictional character ever?
Sorry if this offends anyone. This is not meant to be an indictment of James Earl Jones. But if we are being honest, Mufasa has some serious character flaws that cannot be overlooked.
He teaches his son and heir to the crown to be disrespectful towards their servants when he conducts a "pouncing lesson" on Zazu, against Zazu's wishes.
He doesn't discipline Simba AT ALL when he defies his father's wishes and takes his friend to the elephant graveyard.
He loses track of his son and allows him to wander into a ravine where the wildebeests are known to stampede frequently, then looks to his younger brother to get him out of the snafu he has created with his being such an irresponsible parent.
Here's the worst part: Scar gets his shot at being the king, and by sheer coincidence a famine ravages the Pride Lands. Scar has no control over the climate nor the weather patterns of sub-Saharan Africa, and yet he is fully blamed for the problems that arise because of it.
I'm a huge fan of The Lion King, but these issues have rubbed me the wrong way for a long time. Imo, Scar should have been given a second chance.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:32 PM ^
No, because Deadpool is.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:35 PM ^
He said overrated, not underrated.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:54 PM ^
Deadpool is trash.
February 2nd, 2019 at 10:04 PM ^
Lighten up Francis
February 3rd, 2019 at 10:18 AM ^
Eli is Ajax???
February 3rd, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^
Eli is Francis who uses Ajax dish soap.
February 3rd, 2019 at 9:04 AM ^
Maybe you're just not a fan of maximum effort ;)
February 2nd, 2019 at 10:37 PM ^
The correct response is quit drinking and go to bed.
February 3rd, 2019 at 2:23 AM ^
You suck
February 3rd, 2019 at 9:38 AM ^
Genius response, genius. Love it.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:34 PM ^
Scar has issues
February 3rd, 2019 at 9:41 AM ^
Jeremy Irons does a fantastic job of giving Scar his character.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:34 PM ^
Yoda. Now get the fuck out.
edit: thought OP meant underrated.
February 2nd, 2019 at 11:41 PM ^
I agree
February 3rd, 2019 at 6:56 AM ^
I think you mean: Agree, do I.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:35 PM ^
Anyone else think Thanos is the good guy in Avengers?
February 2nd, 2019 at 10:34 PM ^
Thanos did nothing wrong.
February 2nd, 2019 at 10:41 PM ^
Thanos is gangsta but he killed all of Tyrion Lanister's friends for no reason. Then he killed Zoe Saldana before Chris Pratt got to knock that good stuff out.
February 3rd, 2019 at 12:08 AM ^
Wait. What? Zoe got killed again? F+&k.. Damn it. I'll not watch it now.
February 3rd, 2019 at 5:18 PM ^
Please. The real Darkseid omega beams Thanos into higgs bosun particles without getting off the couch.
February 2nd, 2019 at 11:48 PM ^
No. With the unlimited power of the Infinity stones he has the full power to double the resources, but he refuses to do that in favor of the opposite. Evil.
February 3rd, 2019 at 9:19 AM ^
doubling the reasources would just double the rate of growth in the universe. you're proposal would lead to an exponential increase of population and a runnaway effect
February 3rd, 2019 at 9:59 AM ^
Also, wouldn't the doubling of "all resources" include a stunning increase in planetary ore, increasing the gravity of each, begeting solar system catastrophes, as various planets in various systems either fall into their star, collide with other orbits, or fling into the deep freeze of interstellar space? Also, isn't sunlight (as measured in time or intensity) technically a resource?
None of these outcomes are helpful.
February 3rd, 2019 at 10:26 AM ^
not to mention that the doubling of resources would not result in the fair or equitable distribution of those resources. It would exaserbate the situation.
February 3rd, 2019 at 11:58 AM ^
I'm fully on board with your original reasoning, though - with this particular example - halving the universe's population seems similarly unlikely to change distribution asymmetries. Either way, Thanos don't care.
February 3rd, 2019 at 5:26 PM ^
It is sunday - And my sunday sucked trying to convince bride to pay me to photograph their wedding at a bridal show. Where, well, no Fiancé come (Because, I could convince them to hire me: Dang, I did that amazing pic of Matthews laughing at Ward!).
Anyway - I am tired, I am sad, I feel fat. Kids were up all night - Stupid flu season.
And ...
And ...
I realized that not only Ann Arbor is a town with the greatest team of all time, with the greatest board of all time. It is full of smart guys who debates on Thanos is bad or good?
And you ended up with probably my favorite OT answer to an OT thread on Mgoblog.
Hail to you Michigan Arrogance! Hail to you CarrlsMyHomeboy.
Now I feel in shape, happy and ready to watch some football.
And I did not needed to shower.
February 3rd, 2019 at 10:22 AM ^
Yep. He had me convinced.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:36 PM ^
I’ve always heard he was good. But everytime I’ve seen him... he sucks
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:58 PM ^
It's the Fictional Character Fan's Paradox.
February 3rd, 2019 at 1:23 PM ^
Okay I'll admit I enjoyed "Downton Abbey," but it seemed like everything this guy touched turned to shit:
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:40 PM ^
does musfasa want to fire KBA?
also, can someone tell me who musfasa is? guessing a lion king character, but beyond that, i am a cypher....
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:43 PM ^
Mufasa is King Hamlet, husband of Queen Gertrude from the Disney adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:49 PM ^
You mean Disney's blatant rip-off of Kimba the White Lion.
February 2nd, 2019 at 11:18 PM ^
I just read about Kimba. Doesn’t really sound like a ripoff. Unless any Lion movie is a rip-off of Kimba.
February 3rd, 2019 at 1:20 AM ^
Someone somewhere did their PhD thesis on this topic, I'm certain of that.
February 3rd, 2019 at 1:20 AM ^
It's kind of hard to justify Kimba when they changed one letter in Simba's name and put it in the title. At the very least they were hoping to ride off the coat tails of The Lion King or maybe catch some uninformed folks who thought they were seeing the right movie.
February 3rd, 2019 at 4:59 AM ^
yeah and it's kinda crazy how they were able to do that 30 years before the lion king
February 3rd, 2019 at 11:01 AM ^
Kimba was made in Japan in the fifties and broadcast in the US starting in the sixties; I forget whether it was on channel 20 or channel 50 in Detroit.
The Lion King was released in 1994.
February 3rd, 2019 at 2:22 PM ^
Channel 50. Kimba's animation was pretty bad-- yet I watched it everyday after school, and the song is indelibly etched in my brain. My brother, who is a little younger than I, loved "Astro Boy" and "Speed Racer" which were the same animation style and similarly bad...
February 4th, 2019 at 1:30 PM ^
The dude in hia pajamas in "PCU"? Can't remember the character's name.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:42 PM ^
Maybe the issues could rub you the right way for a long time, and you'd be the better for it.
Mic Drop.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:43 PM ^
I believe the correct answer is Tom Izzo’s coaching acumen because it is fictional and it is vastly overrated
February 2nd, 2019 at 11:21 PM ^
Got eeeem.
February 3rd, 2019 at 2:10 PM ^
Who else could identify the potential explosion from Ben Carter?
Me? I'm just a layman that would have gone with Jaren Jackson.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:44 PM ^
Scar had no control over the climate or weather patterns of sub-Saharan Africa? This is bullshit. Scar was the leader and easily could have implemented a green tax on the rest of the pride.
February 3rd, 2019 at 8:40 AM ^
Bernie, AOC and Granny Warren are on board with implementing the green tax on the pride. No mention of Sarabi and Nala's position on a women's right to choose? Where was Scar's MAGA hat? Obviously he wasn't pro environment or for wealth redistribution.
February 3rd, 2019 at 8:58 AM ^
Wealth redistribution to underprivileged classes was the core plank of his platform. The fact that he turned the Pride Lands into Venezuela should come as no surprise.
February 3rd, 2019 at 9:23 AM ^
Hahaha
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:46 PM ^
Wow. Someone must be bored.
February 2nd, 2019 at 9:51 PM ^
To the OP:
Quit drinking and go to bed.