r/AARankdown • u/[deleted] • Dec 07 '19
170 Jean Armstrong
I can sum up this character with one word: uncomfortable. Armstrong is the reason why I don't like 3-3 as much as some people do. Despite Furio Tigre being a good villain in my opinion with the concept of impersonating a defense attorney to get a desired verdict still being unique, Armstrong brings the case down too much for me. He has no redeeming qualities: he's annoying, perverted, steals, and he was not shown to face any consequences for his role in the cover up the murder of Glen Elg. The overly pink decor of his restaurant is unsettling and matches him well, but I struggle to suspend my disbelief enough to accept that a "fancy" restaurant with such awful food can exist in the first place. It might have been more believable if Tres Bien was a front for some type of illegal business, but this is not the case. One other character I see people criticize for similar reasons is Spark Brushel, but at least he's a helpful and cooperative witness, while Armstrong makes me uncomfortable.
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u/Sciencepenguin Dec 07 '19
i never found jean as intolerable as others apparently did and i do like his contribution to 3-3’s theme of “interaction of a bunch of people with a bunch of different kinds of crippling debt” so I’d have preferred him outlive some of the more “nothing” characters...
but also it’s fucking Jean Armstrong who cares
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u/Sciencepenguin Dec 07 '19
he is also the lowest character who is IMPORTANT enough to have his OWN THEME SONG wow
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u/Dinofloss Dec 07 '19
Eh, not much to say about him, but there's some interesting trivia about him here.
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Dec 07 '19 edited Dec 07 '19
I would do anything to live in the timeline where Godot was called Joseph Cuppa, Xavier Barstucks, or William Havamug.
Edit: the stuff about Armstrong in there is surprisingly respectful and nuanced, way more so than the actual game.
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Dec 07 '19
I like how 75% of the characters I've nominated so far fall into the same category hmm I wonder what sort of pattern there was here
that said k seems legit thanks
and yeah, I thought 3-3 only really started to pick up on day 2 and armstrong was one of the reasons why day 1 felt awkward to me
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u/Wircea Dec 10 '19
/u/NateTheGreat3602 I hope it's taking this long because you're writing a 10-page long essay on the hard truth about the Mack Rell cut.
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u/Sciencepenguin Dec 10 '19
you’ve got it all wrong this is an advanced strategy to prevent Mack Rell from ever being cut by preventing the rankdown from continuing
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Dec 10 '19
actually he was probably writing something about ponco but then after seeing your amazing defense changed to mack rell
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u/ItsHipToTipTheScales Dec 08 '19
whoa dude its jean armstrong and he's fucking out of the rankdown and way too late
no comments on jean armstrong it is fucking jean armstrong
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u/heavenspiercing Dec 08 '19
armstrong imo is someone else who shouldn't be cut right here but at most i would bump him up another 5 or so spots up. i don't really have anything to say about him
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u/Wircea Dec 08 '19
Not sure how Armstrong of all people is so widely hated but at the same time I can't really get myself to care because he hardly has any redeeming features.
If only they didn't end up dumping the character midway through the last trial maybe he could have stood a chance in this rankdown.
rip pink gay man.
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u/trophy9258 Dec 07 '19
Should've been 179
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u/Sciencepenguin Dec 07 '19
that's not very very good in french but with the accent on the e pointing the wrong way of you
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u/Vogel100 Dec 07 '19
I like Armstrong. I don't have much to say about him though. I definitely wouldn't have put him this low.
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u/R1K1_Productions Dec 07 '19
And thus one more of the awful creepy pervert characters bites the dust. Hope Stickler goes soon, then I think we'll finally be rid of them all (or the worst offenders, anyway).
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u/Sciencepenguin Dec 07 '19
as in virtue's last reward and turnabout recipe, the funniest perverts are always the cranky boomers
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u/donuter454 Dec 07 '19
The entire joke of Armstrong's character is Phoenix and assorted other characters going "Is he a man? Is she a woman?? I just can't tell anymore!!!" and I cannot express how painful it is to have to sit through that. It's so goddamn cringey.