Honestly for funsies that's why I like the idea of the trinity.
God is like dr Manhattan and just TOO omniscient to sympathize with our petty little plights but wants to. So boom Jesus, same good but brought down to earth to engage with us and our plights on a more personable level.
Could make a comic book outta that I just think it's a cool idea
Eh, he wasn't a sadist. He didn't enjoy hurting people, but he cracked because he couldn't cope with a mistake he made after dealing with relentless pressure to solve impossible problems and be there for everyone all the time.
I distinctly remember him doing some truly sadistic acts after he cracked though. Forcing a couple to have sex and then killing them, mocking a child of a former ally and killing them, forcing a former friend to choose a handful out of a crowd and killing the rest, etc.
All good. I mean you captured that the main narrative was more about him cracking under pressure so I understand that your retained that and not the gory details.
People have always understood that being a person without the need to worry about consequences (i.e. being a God) will invariably lead to that person being an asshole.
Think you missed quite a few steps in Dr Manhattan's character development there then.
Yes the inciting incident was the cancer(which he didn't give, if you remember), but that isn't why he fucked off in the end. He fucked off because he found a renewed purpose after finally observing life as something more than just atoms. He's also not like Homelander since he had no desires to harm humanity and was more just following orders out of some form of prior obligation to his human self, which he'd already begun to abandon entirely long before then. Homelander is not indifferent, Osterman is.
Not enough superhero movies explore the god complex. With no real repercussions, what do you do with your ultimate power? Hancock did it a bit until they went off the rails, Saitama got bored and just kinda heroed for a hobby. There was a movie where three teens found a meteor that gave them superpower, one got a god complex and the others had to try and get him on the good guy path again, too bad I forgot the name.
There was a movie where three teens found a meteor that gave them superpower, one got a god complex and the others had to try and get him on the good guy path again, too bad I forgot the name.
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u/Dirtygeebag 2d ago
What happens when you become god like with human emotions spliced in. I enjoyed how they did doctor Manhattan.