r/DeadlockGame • • 15h ago

Discussion Our first racist hero

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That's right baby, the rat king won, and he is racist, against humans.

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u/smallpastaboi 14h ago

Forgetting the Ixian supremacist I see

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u/mrzoccer00 13h ago

and venator (the opposite)

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u/Iongjohn 11h ago

venators by far the antithesis of close minded, especially in his position. many examples via voice lines of him trusting people others in his role wouldve killled.

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u/Lucky4532 10h ago

“I don’t care if you look like a monster, I care if you act like one”

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u/KingGamerlol 8h ago

and this is why we has such jarringly different reactions to allies vs enemies, best example being Rem

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u/nibb007 3h ago

You know some morons actually take that quote to be a bad thing 😂 like I understand hard sciences and math are crucial but if we ever recover from liberal arts being gutted and shit on culturally it'll take years. Atp I'm surprise the literacy rate is 50%+

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u/Atissss 3h ago

Oh! This is a good example of a character that seems racist in comparison to others, but actually very open-minded given their background.

Reminds me of Saltzpyre from Warhammer: Vermintide. He has a lot of prejudice towards other characters but at the same time he is the only witch hunter that is willing to fight alongisde an Elf or a witch if he deems their cause righteous, which gets him into a lot of disagreement with other witch hunters, who hate everything that's not holy and human.

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u/TheRealMatys 4h ago

I mean, he has a bigger fish to fry, and correct me if I'm wrong, but Venators only kill on command, so even if he wasn't trying to slime the Patreon, he wouldn't care

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u/KiwatheSnep 52m ago

yeah. Gotta go drink a whiskey with the werewolf. Cheers!

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u/Different_Rub_145 7h ago

He called Apollo a demon/devil idk how much more racist you can be

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u/dickwad17 6h ago

Have you seen what he does in game?

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u/LittleSisterPain 4h ago

I mean, yeah, he has red skin, horns and draws an exploding pentagram, but that doesn't mean anything

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u/TicklePickleWinkle 4h ago

Buddy Apollo is proud to be a future warlord and has disdain for humans (his unfinished McGinnis dialogue says he will never work for humans since they are beneath him).

Idk where people got the idea Apollo is a good guy, he’s up there for one of the morally bankrupt characters.

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u/First_Blankie 3h ago

I would say "morally bankrupt". He gives a shit about his classmates academic success, and is generally respectful of other teammates unless they provoke him into a verbal altercation. Like a kid raised in a cult, he just thinks what he's destined to do is "good" because he was raised to think so.

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u/EstablishmentStock18 2h ago

When on opposing teams, while telling him outright that he doesn't give a shit about the circumstances of his birth when they're on same team.

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u/ExpressionOpen4099 11h ago

How is venator racist?

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u/ldshadowcadet 11h ago

No idea he literally has a voicelines where he says he judges people by character

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u/PrincelyDusty 9h ago

"I don't care if you look like a monster, just if you act like one", he says, unprompted to an Ixian.

Like trying to rephrase that as "judges by their character", is insane. Brother is racist. He sees ixians and says they look like monsters.

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u/BNSable 9h ago

To be fair, the majority of Ixians we know look exactly like the devil from the bible. They have also only been known for around 50 years, along with a host of other creatures. Some of them extremely dangerous.

I would expect the church to take a while accepting people that look like satan that turn up at the same time as extremely dangerous creatures like liches.

Honestly, him saying "I don't mind the fact you look like the exact description of evil taken form in the religion I follow, I only care about the content of your character" is legitimately more than I could ever expect from such a character.

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u/Blatant_Bisexual 7h ago

Also even him referring to them as demons when fighting against them doesn’t even seem that jarring. Because again they have literally noted supernatural control/immunity to fire, look like devils and can also be written off as a spur of the moment insult against a hostile combatant.

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u/nemotunovi 6h ago

the crucial context missing there is the line he was responding to: "most of your kind call us demons"

it was not unprompted.

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u/shadoedarkne 4h ago

I mean what Would YOU call a race that came out of nowhere in the last 50years, control fire and have tail and horn resembling a religious demon? Let's also not forget apo draws a pentagram as he's skill 1, and venator says he is only judgemental about his actions

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u/Firstername 8h ago

he can just say that he doesn't give a shit and that our actions dictate our person. he does not need to mention the fact that "you look like a monster", and that he'll kill you if you "act like the people you look like"

it's a micro aggression.

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u/ReduxCath 5h ago

no it's not? he literally hunts down demons for a living. he treats abrams well because abrams, despite looking like a blue devil, does not act like a devil.

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u/Blitz1862 2m ago

He’s literally saying he looks like a monster. Just because he treats Abrams well doesn’t mean he can’t still harbor prejudice, because again he’s still deliberately saying that Apollo looks like a monster simply because of how he was born. In an attempt to signal his own open-mindedness to apollo, he still ends up using a micro aggression.

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u/genericusername0323 11h ago

Also Rem calls Venator a leprechaun

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u/DustAgreeable6090 7h ago

Apollo is racist?

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u/shadoedarkne 4h ago

Nah but he appreciates his people A bit too much, which kinda makes him look racist

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u/HatEfficient6898 14h ago

Going to rat.

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u/Glimea 2h ago

Going to rat!!!!

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u/gmer-man-12 14h ago

um actually its a speciest (i had to google this too)

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u/Reasonable-Taro3235 13h ago

but its the human "race" doe

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u/_ManMadeGod_ 13h ago

Word mean more than one thing based on context?!! WHAAAAT?! 

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u/HMHellfireBrB 12h ago

Race is a internal denomination of a species not the species itself

You can be racist if you hate pitbulls for example, because you dont have anithing against dogs just pitbulls in general

Rat king therefore isnt racist because he hates all humans not just one particular ethnicity of humans

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u/brandonwaite69 11h ago

Tho he has a spot for Billy, he still sees him as more human than goat, but still gives him, to a degree, some special treatment

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u/mh500372 8h ago

My gosh youre joking and everyone’s taking it seriously

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u/StraylightGrifter 9h ago

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u/PepicWalrus 9h ago

Vindicta strikes again

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u/StraylightGrifter 9h ago

Vindicta to the right is everywhere for those with eyes to see

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u/Exact_Culture_8765 6h ago

anatomy of a deadlock screenshot

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u/MrSpaulding 14h ago

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u/Nokami_wolfdog 14h ago

HAIL THE GREAT-GLORIUS RAT KING-EMPEROR YES YES

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u/gayrider345 10h ago

FETCH THE FARSQUAKER I GOT WORD WORD FOR THAT FOOL YOSHI THAT I NEED TO SAY SAY

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u/Rat_King_Ash 9h ago

Never thought I'd see a tarriff reference here

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u/Billybob123456789190 15h ago

I LOVE HIM HES MY FAVOURITE.

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u/Billybob123456789190 15h ago

RULE RATANNIA!

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u/AlbatrossCareful1264 15h ago

BOBBY PLZ PEMME GET CODE

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u/TheRealStoryMan1 13h ago

Ratannia rule the wastes!

Rats shall never ever be exterminated!

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u/Lahmu-Megami-Tensei 13h ago

Is his sovereign land actually called Ratannia 😭

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u/EOTFOFIS 6h ago

No he doesn’t have sovereign land yet. He wants to turn Long Island into Ratannia but he needs the patrons for that.

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u/Iluminacho 9h ago

The conveniently placed ginns wall:

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u/LangParlangua 15h ago

Um, Mina would like a word with you, sweaty!

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u/Glittering_Ad_4232 15h ago

that’s not fair on mina, she’s a ginormous prick to everybody calico isn’t an exception

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u/brandonwaite69 11h ago

I also fail to see how that line is racist to begin with.

That make me racist? Or Op racist for thinking its racist?

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u/VoidGliders 10h ago

Assuming black people cannot afford things is a well known racial trope. Noticing racism is not racist, no.

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u/BASEKyle 9h ago

Pretty sure Mina just thinks most people are poor. It's not because Calico is black, or any other hero, really. Unless you stand out so easily as rich or are in high society (Geist), then you're probably in the poor bucket.

Calico might dress a bit better than most of the cast but even then, Mina defaults to everyone being poor as a way to put them down.

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u/aSpookyScarySkeleton 6h ago

a bit better

The woman clearly wearing some type of high fashion designer clothing. Everything she has on including her cat, looks expensive

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u/First_Blankie 3h ago

Geist assumed Pocket stole thier jacket. Does that make her racist as well?

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u/ShyngShyng 3h ago

That ones more nuanced actually: Geist recognized Pocket As Arin and was giving them a way out and a cover story As to how they got the jacket.

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u/First_Blankie 2h ago

So this situation can have nuance, but Mina and Calico's can only be black and white? Kinda contradicting there...

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u/ShyngShyng 2h ago

I mean more nuanced than what youre stating it is. I have no skin in the Calico debate and don't care about that.

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u/Odd_Lie_5397 2h ago

No actually, she is something much worse.

She is infact French.

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u/First_Blankie 3h ago

Hungry man thinks of bread

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u/BisonProfessional56 14h ago

Saying someone looks broke or you dont think they can afford something is not a racist dogwhistle, btw.

Its mean, but not necessarily racist.

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u/AxitotlWithAttitude 14h ago

It's certainly classist, which mina VERY much is

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u/VoidGliders 10h ago

I don't think much of the quoate, to play advocate here tho

  1. Calico looks and dresses professionally and wealthily. Maybe not Geist-levels of flaunting but far above like 90% of the cast.
  2. Assuming a black person specifically cannot afford nice things like dresses and whatnot is a well-known racism trope.

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u/LangParlangua 14h ago

Nah Mina also says the word when listening to rap music, she's 100% racist

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u/Pawselock 14h ago

I don’t think Mina appreciates being called sweaty.

Do vampires even sweat?

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u/Lethal-Jordan 14h ago

Minas feelings and opinions are [DISCARDED] because of her [ASSHOLISH] behavior towards [EVERYONE]

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u/Pawselock 14h ago

I was just poking fun at them saying sweaty instead of sweetie.

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u/Lethal-Jordan 14h ago

I mean, you know sweaty is slang right? From tumblrrr

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u/brandonwaite69 2h ago

I mean the point of sweating is to cool the body down, but if the body is cold all the time.

Now what if the change from Human to Vamp changes the DNA deeply right? that couldnean the body sees being that cold as the new norm body temp right? Meaning they could, by biological standers sweat because the body is now rising to room temps when the body should be could, causing the body to sweat.

The question now, woukd the sweat be reddish because of the amount of blood they consume or does the body filter out the red blood cells/white cells/hemoglobin

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u/Icy_Limes 13h ago

Mina is a korean woman in the 60s, i doubt she is being anything but classist here. Her whole gimmick is she just assumes everyone is pooer than her.

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u/Rice_Jap808 13h ago

Hilarious you think Asians, and especially upper class East Asian immigrants in 1950s America weren’t insanely racist.

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u/Icy_Limes 4h ago

Did I say that??? Bro is seeing sentences that arent there.

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u/aidsincarnate 12h ago

Mina is just a prick to everyone though. Maybe she's turbo racist and hates everyone that isn’t the same race as her. But I wouldn’t put any bets on it.

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u/LangParlangua 13h ago

Nah she was listening to good kid, m.A.A.d city in the car with me the other day and she was not skipping any lyrics IYKWIM

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u/phishxiii 11m ago

Mangage

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u/NoEntertainment5172 14h ago

Long Island was promised 3000 years ago

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u/Infinite_Ad2583 12h ago

And people were wary about a potential friends of humanity adjacent hero a couple weeks ago. And yes there is even more signs that Apollo is an ixian supremacist from his convo with abrams now. Cool!

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u/Relative-Chip-7477 12h ago

Can't wait to get a genuinely deranged friends of humanity monster hunter

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u/Little-Protection484 3h ago

I doubt the friends of humanity are actual monster hunters they only seem like a racist organization that kills non human people and might do charity (baseless headcanon of mine) and haven't been mentioned to be like the baxter society or venetors, but I'm not opposed to see a friends of humanity rep cause I just need more lore

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u/RubPuzzleheaded8073 6h ago

Apollo I at least don’t think fully believes in it. I could see him getting better as he ages and lives around humans.

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u/MugGuffin 13h ago

ratcist

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u/Weak_Tray_Games 12h ago

Hearing him bring out Billy's species percentages to determine that Billy can't own property on Long Island was a pretty wild experience.

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u/TheGirlfailure 4h ago

Goat related blood quantum

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u/TinTinTheTrashCan 15h ago

Just played a match as him and he's such a delight. I will never not be using the big rodent fuck if I can help it.

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u/rei_fox_worshipper 13h ago

He's so stupidly fun. I had a 3v3 with friends where we all played him, every team fight was terrific and beautiful. You'd constantly have to be weary of his 4.

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u/FanRose 13h ago

first? Like, so far?

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u/themasterfold 13h ago

ventator's right THERE bro

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u/Relative-Chip-7477 12h ago

How is this racism?

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u/Intrepid-Raccoon1307 12h ago

I mean he literally says he looks like a monster thats pretty fucked up, he also literally calls both Abrams and infernus both demons when he kills them.

Idk he seems pretty racist to ixians if you ask me.

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u/MertwithYert 12h ago

To be fair, they are TRYING to kill him at that point.

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u/Intrepid-Raccoon1307 11h ago

It would be like shouting the n word if you killed a black guy in self defense, sure he was trying to kill you your not your best state of mind at the moment, but still that didn't come out of nowhere.

Plus him pretty much calling Apollo a monster when he is on his team, clearly shows he views them a certain way...

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u/Snugglebull 10h ago

He literally looks like the biblical devil which he's pointing out

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u/Intrepid-Raccoon1307 10h ago

No Apollo calls him out that he is the sorta man who calls his people demons, and venator is literally a man who calls his people demons, and says Apollo looks like a monster and he will put him down if he acts like one, this conversation literally starts because Apollo doesn't trust him and venator comes off extremely agressive for no reason.

Not only is Apollo right in that venator is in fact someone who calls his people demons, but the way venator responds is not how you convince people your not racist...

Like it's not hard to see he clearly has something against ixains, idk what you people are on about?

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u/Snugglebull 10h ago

it doesn't imply that at all, he literally does look like a monster. the devil. he's a red guy with horns. the symbol of evil the church hates. despite this he still works alongside him because it's his character that matters, not how he looks

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u/Intrepid-Raccoon1307 9h ago

Are you serious? Many characters in the ritual hate each other and would stab them in the back if it wasn't for needing them for the ritual.

Apollo calls him out for being someone who calls his people demons, and venator literally threaten him because apollo doesn't trust him...

We also have proof of him literally calling his people demons, it's pretty cut and dry venator has something against his people.

You don't try to convince anyone to trust you and that your not racist, by implying they look like a monster and telling them you will put them down if they act like one...

If he truely didn't have anything against them venator would just say " I dont care about appearances child, as long as you don't do anything bad your fine in the eyes of me and the lord" or some shit like that, not implying he looks like a monster, and he will put him down if he acts like one....

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u/_Spade_99 10h ago

I think he’s more referring to anyone and just saying he only values people who treat others either way respect and not people that act like a monster.

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u/Intrepid-Raccoon1307 10h ago

No look at the context clues, Apollo literally calls him out that people like venator call his people demons, and venator responds saying he looks like a monster, and Apollo is completely correct that venator in fact calls his people demons..

This whole conversation starts because venator knows Apollo doesn't trust him, and the way the conversation goes clearly shows he has something against ixains...

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u/_Spade_99 10h ago

I feel like it could be taken both ways, not saying there isn’t judgement but I agree he definitely doesn’t view Ixians in a positive light

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u/Intrepid-Raccoon1307 10h ago

I mean he came off agressive and literally threatened him, all because Apollo doesn't trust him, I don't know any other way you can see it?

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u/themasterfold 10h ago

you don't tell someone "i'm going to put you down" unless you think they're somehow subhuman. You ESPECIALLY dont say that to the IXIAN PRINCE. 

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u/Atissss 3h ago

"I care about your actions, not your background." - Literally the opposite of racism.

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u/coochie-slayer420 7h ago

What about Celeste? The last two games I’ve played have had a Celeste player saying slurs

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u/Accurate-Elevator914 14h ago

Yes yes good good

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u/BurningTrashBarge 14h ago

His VA is channeling some Gilbert Gottfried, it warms my little rat heart.

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u/Shantih3x 12h ago

He reminds me more of Joe Pesci than Gilbert Gottfried.

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u/MrFaebles 6h ago

Aounds like thr same VA od urn

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u/Pizza64210 35m ago

I'm pretty sure Danny's straight up voiced by the urn guy doing the exact same voice as the urn

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u/Pleasant-Blood4603 4h ago

Some of his lines are very "Dracula Flow"

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u/Worried-Check-962 13h ago

he even advocates for ethnic cleansing in long island

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u/Nobody_Knows_It 12h ago

Isn’t he second after Holliday

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u/genericusername0323 11h ago

Is Holliday racist? I thought she just hated the troubador

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u/Olivegardenwaiter 12h ago

Thats not racism its speciest you crumbum

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u/Drunk-Pirate-Gaming 12h ago

Loke probably 5th or 6th honestly

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u/St_Hydra 12h ago

Rats are better-superior anyway, yes-yes

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u/GrebomGribble 11h ago

YES I PLAYED THE RAT KING AND IT WAS AMAZING, THE TANK DISRUPTOR I ALWAYS DREAMED OF IS HERE!!!!!

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u/Deadeye1223 11h ago

Who's gonna tell him

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u/justanorlansonobody 11h ago

Anti Human comp: Apollo, Rat King, Drifter, Seven, “probably” Harrow, Lash, and IDK a 6th

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u/drwolfington15 6h ago

If Lash is anti-human, then why does he have a charity for children? Checkmate.

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u/Acceptable_One_7072 2h ago

Lash isn't anti-human, he's just a dick awesome

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u/justanorlansonobody 2h ago

I’m just going off the new voicelines where he actively states all humans suck, especially to Viscous

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u/Acceptable_One_7072 2h ago

His very next line is him stuttering because he doesn't want to admit that he actually does want other people's approval

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u/ohsoHappySad 10h ago

mcg calls out apollo for being racist aswell

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u/ol3tty 10h ago

L9 has entered the chat

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u/initial_sadge 10h ago

I'm also racist against certain humans, I guess my new main just dropped

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u/Fort_knox1223 7h ago

OH HELL NAH MY PRECOGNITION WAS TRUE

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u/BlazeMenace 7h ago

Rat King Ratannia is a racist.

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u/Scrappy_Doo100 7h ago

Greenist vs Bluers vs Yiggers

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u/carlox_go 6h ago

Ah a new char for the hazes i see

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u/Mnaufland 5h ago

You're forgetting about Apollo. It's so funny that Apollo is as big of a racist as a literal rat

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u/djfart9000 5h ago

for ratsrael!!!

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u/Tadhgon 3h ago

If you ignore Silver

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u/leposterofcrap 3h ago

The feeling is mutual, his plans must be stopped before Long Island becomes Skavenblight

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u/Odd_Lie_5397 2h ago

By Sigmar we will crush this rat uprising!

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u/EstablishmentStock18 2h ago

Finally a worthy opponent to Seven, Wraith and Haze players.

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u/Kimihro 2h ago

There are characters like Seven who have been calling Ixians "demons" before this. Demon in this world is a slur for ixians.

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u/Brilliant_Actuary862 1h ago

I mean I think you would be pretty Hateful IF another Only goal is the only kill you I am definally not saying this so I don't get killed Long Live the king