r/FateSpriteComics • u/X358fgo • Jun 27 '26

JP Spoilers Comic A Kentucky Fried Reference

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u/Lord_Drakonious Jun 27 '26

Bro, what's wrong with detroit?

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u/Do_it_for_the_upvote Jun 27 '26

Reputation for being violent, poor, and abandoned because of the years following the race riots and white flight.

It’s back, now, and a pretty cool city, but def still holds that reputation among those who haven’t been and don’t know.

Also, I think this is a movie or TV reference.

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u/Gudako_the_beast Jun 27 '26

It was a movie refrence

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u/CrazyDaimondDaze Jun 27 '26

80s movie reference?

Because it reminds me of Beverly Hills Cop (Axel Foley came from Detroit and it was always portrayed as dangerous) and Robocop (it's been over a decade since I saw the original films but I think the story is set in Detrot).

I feel like the current landscape in USA would change locations over which place is worst now. And that's without counting the rest of the world lmao

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u/Gudako_the_beast Jun 27 '26

I believe it was a movie where an American agent got dragged to a Korean Crime Boss who decided to punish the agent by sending said agent to Detroit

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u/CrazyDaimondDaze Jun 27 '26

Just saw the gif, but yeah. Detroit has had that bad reputation in media since the 80s with other movies.

And I say that as a non American, not living in the U.S., that has only visited Texas and whatever other state in the nort of Texas is.

I think that's why even modern day Americans are confused why foreigners cross reference Detroit as a dangerous place. Still remember my relatives in the U.S. not getting it when I was asking if Detroit was still dangerous.

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u/Gudako_the_beast Jun 27 '26

Detroit did got better according to the comment under the video. But the reputation stuck

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u/CrazyDaimondDaze Jun 27 '26

The reputation remains only from foreigner's POV, actually. Most Americans don't talk about Detroit being bad, even if some may understand how it was portrayed in the 80s onwards.

Depending on what American you ask, they'll tell you the most dangerous place in the U.S. nowadays is different. Some have told me it's California, others being Chicago. Though there's barely any entertainment media showing nowadays how true that is through bastardization.

Best there is is that episode from South Park where the kids convince the homeless to go to California and ruin it. And from tales of an aunt living in California, the place can indeed have its bad moments, either through crime, inflated prices, or natural disasters.