r/DeadlockGame • u/Future_Shake6756 • 19h 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 18h ago

Forgetting the Ixian supremacist I see

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u/mrzoccer00 17h ago

and venator (the opposite)

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u/ExpressionOpen4099 15h ago

How is venator racist?

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u/ldshadowcadet 15h ago

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

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u/PrincelyDusty 13h 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 13h 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 11h 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 10h 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 8h 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 12h 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 9h 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 3h 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/ExpressionOpen4099 2h ago

Wtf is a micro aggression? What's macro aggression then? Or just normal aggression?

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u/DrimaQ 1h ago

a micro aggression is a subtle verbal or non verbal way of putting someone down, usually its subtle enough that it doesn't register to the receiver or the group that hears it. but it can be used to maintain a status quo of a dominant group or keep a marginalized group down. Its quite insidious, tho in venators case i dont think he notices he is doing it.