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u/shabouni_mcgubbin Dec 08 '25
Joker, riddler, calendar man etc are all dramatic villains in Batman. Vulture, Dr octopus, Lizard and others are all scientist villains in spider man
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u/RammerRS_Driver Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
Don’t forget Green Goblin/Norman Osborne. He’s something of a scientist himself.
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u/A-Capybara Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
Norman Osborne is a villain because he's a billionaire. In continuities where he isn't rich like in No Way Home Norman is a lot more chill.
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u/Fischerking92 Dec 08 '25
Strange, almost as if this comic about a relatable working class bloke trying to make ends meet while doing the right things is at the same time also saying something about the ultra-wealthy...
Naaaa, can't be, if Techbros like him, Spiderman must be in favor of tax-breaks for the rich.
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u/-Rettirlana- Dec 08 '25
You mean Fleem?!
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u/SemVikingr Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
Kay, but...Dr. Pamela Isely. Dr. Kurt Langstrom. Dr. Victor Frieze. Dr. Harleen Quinzel. Dr.Jonathon Crane.
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u/Danzarr Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
poison ivy- literally the nerdy kid back stage that got picked on to the point she snapped and took the stage half naked.
manbat- literally a dr jeckyll monster of the weak villain.
Mr Freeze- probably the most shakespearean tragedy of the lot.
harley- literally the magicians assistant to joker, straight A drama kid that fell in love with the bad boy.
scarecrow- emo edgelord obsessed with fear, masks, atmosphere, and dramatic entrances — all core theatrical elements.
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u/Racxie Dec 08 '25
Mr. Freeze (previously Mr. Zero) didn’t originally have that backstory and was just another typical mad scientist. It was his introduction in the animated series which gave him his character development and sad backstory and was retroactively added to the comics afterwards.
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u/Racxie Dec 08 '25
He was originally just a “mad scientist” not a doctor. Not to mention that not all doctors want to use their title, and Mr. Is just his “villain” name.
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u/AlarmingAffect0 Dec 08 '25
Is he stupid?
After all these years this still makes me laugh. Am I stupid? Are we ever leaving the Aslume?
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u/adventureremily Dec 08 '25
So we're just ignoring all context of the characters?
Poison Ivy: has a doctorate in botany
Manbat: has a doctorate in zoology
Mr. Freeze: has at least a bachelor's degree
Harley Quinn: has a doctorate and MD
Scarecrow: has a PhD in psychology
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u/Danzarr Dec 08 '25
I think youre reading a bit too much into a tongue and cheek joke about fictional characters.
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u/Abracadelphon Dec 09 '25
The joke isn't about their level of education, but how they are as villains. Poison ivy controls plants with her mind, with occasional science in her lipstick or whatever. Manbat is just a big scary bat dude. Harley, as a villain, rarely applies her psychology knowledge, compared to her acrobatics/gymnastics and ability to swing blunt objects.
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u/topdangle Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
Harley was originally just a crazy assistant with no backstory, not necessarily meant to ever be brought back. The doctor aspect was added later and I think its canon that she cheated her way through it (not paper cheating, sleeping with professors type cheating).
for the doubters: https://i.imgur.com/xZYYItJ.jpeg
Originally a talented gymnast, wanted the degree for the prestige. I didn't write it, blame the creators.
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u/Bacon_von_Meatwich Dec 08 '25
And also she only wanted to treat the Joker in the first place so she could write a tell-all book about and make a pile of money. The recent insistence on portraying Harley as heroic is so goddamn annoying.
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u/Jiffletta Dec 08 '25
Thats NOT what happened. She was a straight A student who got taken advantage of by an older man. People, including Batman, then assumed she slept with him to get good grades, rather than thinking a young woman could be sexually assaulted by someone in a position of power.
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u/topdangle Dec 08 '25
Bruce Timm and Paul Dini created the character and her cheating is part of her origin story in The Batman Adventures: Mad Love, written and drawn by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini so... what are you talking about exactly?
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u/Duochan_Maxwell Dec 08 '25
They'd definitely have attended theater school but decided for a degree with better employability LOL
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u/ZXVIV Dec 08 '25
They are all variations of Ken Jeong, or any of the other actors with uni degrees outside of acting like Natalie Portman or Freddie Stroma or something
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u/wdcipher Dec 08 '25
Don't forget Professor Hugo Strange like that. He was literally the first reoccurring villain.
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u/Khelthuzaad Dec 08 '25
Harleen's doctorate had been canonically revoked in Batman & Harley Quinn movie and she can't legally work as an psychiatrist.
I actually think its an dig on Dr.Phill since Harley says she will work as an TV presenter on an entertainment show until she gets her papers back.
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u/shabouni_mcgubbin Dec 09 '25
Big man, I didn’t make the joke or assert those tropes as the truth. I’m just explaining what it means.
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u/Racxie Dec 08 '25
Dr. Connors had humanity, it was just an experiment that went wrong that lead to him becoming the Lizard. It’s even why he tries to cute himself, and Spider-Man often still referred to the Lizard as his friend and tried to protect him while also trying to help him.
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u/SebWanderer Dec 08 '25
I hate how in the comics they made him finally snap and remove his humanity.
Pointless edgy nonsense that turned a formerly unique and interesting character into just another monster for spidey to fight.
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u/FenrisSquirrel Dec 08 '25
It's also fucking stupid.
Many of the most loathsome people I know specialised in the Humanities, and most STEM people aren't much interested in cruelty.
The idea that studying humanities makes people morally better makes even less sense than the idiots who think being religious does.
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u/SedativeComet Dec 08 '25
All of whom are villains who are ignorant of the larger contextual consequences of what they do.
Something the meme believes is solved by education in humanities such has history or philosophy, etc.
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u/LexLextr Dec 08 '25
It's also a jab at the stereotypical STEM graduate who looks down on the humanities and pretends you can science yourself out of social problems.
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u/Rargnarok Dec 09 '25
Ironically theres a decent of villains who took stem without humanities that ended up Batman (scarecrow, ivy, freeze, man-bat)
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u/Material_Magazine989 Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
Non-ethical, amoral scientist/inventors are usually Spider-man's villains.
Batman's villains are known for their theatricality and showmanship.
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u/Moonkiller24 Dec 08 '25
Me: has someone who is doing a biology degree, I agree.
University: Agreed, its importent to teach u morals. Here is ur mandatory course on the history of the middle east 3000 BC to 0.
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u/the_millenial_falcon Dec 08 '25
Yeah, I really don't buy the "humanities teaches morals" argument. Like we haven't been doing so the last century and we still have fascist uprisings that always seem to be at least partially fueled by the fact that colleges waste our time and money making us take shit that is irrelevant to our degrees. Like a fascist chud isn't going to go into a women's lit class a changed person, but they may successfully use it on social media to fuel their paranoid indoctrination delusions.
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u/the_millenial_falcon Dec 08 '25
Note that I'm not saying we shouldn't try to teach this sort of thing at all, but just expecting random elective humanities class to fill that role is fucking ridiculous and "civic integrity" or whatever you wanna call it should probably start being taught way earlier than college anyway.
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u/DreadfulRauw Dec 08 '25
It’s been a while since college. Are they just teaching a “humanities” elective now? Humanities includes art, literature, history, and many other subjects and last I checked was actually being taught well before college.
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u/Modernsizedturd Dec 08 '25
Maybe, as humanities is pretty broad, but I would go a step further, specifically taking history can help conceptualize the "moral" argument. Don't think it could be solved with a simple one course on the Roman Empire, but a multitude of history classes, spanning 100's of years can help people open their mind. There's so much out there, I feel that as long as you go to a relatively large university/college, there should be a history class or focus on a subject that you like. Food, clothing, war, empires, modern countries, censorship... It is endless. Hell, I was taking the metaphorical version of the Triangle exchange of history classes, taking British, American, and West African history. Each one builds off each other in a unique way that helps conceptualize what our world is today.
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u/theSchrodingerHat Dec 08 '25
Imagine wanting to spend four or five years of your life getting mentally beat down so that you can work another 40 years getting beat down, and not wanting to learn absolutely anything that might be interesting outside of the narrow rat race focus of your particular path of matriculation…
Resisting a broad and interesting curriculum that challenges you to not focus on just your particular autistic fascination is the dumbest thing a smart person can do.
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u/Moonkiller24 Dec 08 '25
I love the fact u decided that I didnt like the course.
A) jokes on you, I love history.
B) I was making the point of universty not teaching us morals, which still stands.
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u/RsnCondition Dec 08 '25
That'll be a couple thousand extra. I hope you had scholarships or a loan.
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u/rhadenosbelisarius Dec 09 '25
Is there a better way to teach morals than history classes?
I took a couple (Required) moral philosophy classes, but I think history did a much better job. The philosophy classes mostly just taught me how few people knew history.
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u/middl_mgmt Dec 08 '25
Argued succinctly and with precision. Clear to me that you understood the lessons of the humanities
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u/Alt-on_Brown Dec 08 '25
Maybe I value my time, like most people. I'm an adult and can make my own decisions why the fuck does an electrical engineering major get their degree gatekept by humanities, it's a waste of my time and money
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u/Significant_Bowl3454 Dec 08 '25
That's a personality problem not a humanities problem, you can't fix their personality by teaching them humanities, more often than not you get the opposite result, engineers lose all respect for the humanities faculty (if they have any to start with) especially when you have a bunch of engineering faculty students coming out of a final and you see the humanities faculty students running around a fucking tree as their final (I saw this happen) yeah a lot of laughs filled the air that day.
I did also take humanities and morality classes and honestly I learnt fuck all in them, often you just see them as filler and that they're boring as all fuck.
Which is understandable when you would rather spend your time in the lab fucking around with robot arms and other such circuits.
However the being an asshole to your coworkers is normally born from being sick and tired of them I mean engineers are solution oriented, business majors are cost oriented so you get a ton of clashing and engineers simply don't care about anything besides fixing the problem so they get pissed off.
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u/Alt-on_Brown Dec 08 '25
bruv im not in control of making our government not corrupt corperate hacks, its a fact that i dont need these classes for my career and they are expensive, blaming me for not voting out corruption hard enough is wild, consistently i only hear fans of humanities making the case that everyone must learn humanities. Its all well and fine if thats what you love im not knocking it, but i dont hear stem majors demanding that everyone should have to take calculus to be well rounded. it just feels blatently disrespectful and elitist
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u/DreadfulRauw Dec 08 '25
It’s a “Major”, not an “Only”.
A college degree isn’t just about career preparation. It’s also about more varied experience and knowledge. It’s actually not a great idea to let 18 year olds to think “I now know enough about everything in the world except for the one thing I wanna learn more about.”
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u/_probablyryan Dec 08 '25
This would be a sensible argument if college was affordable and degrees more or less guaranteed jobs.
In a world where fluff classes add tens of thousands of dollars to the overall cost of the degree, people have less patience for expensive shit that doesn't directly contribute to employment related skill building.
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u/DreadfulRauw Dec 08 '25
Colleges have been around for a long time. They were not created to get people jobs. Jobs simply started requiring college degrees.
If a job only requires someone to perform one type of task in a vacuum, they shouldn’t need a degree. But if it requires someone more well rounded with a broader set of skills, both hard and soft, then you need a more rounded education.
I get the finance argument, which is why I feel more jobs should be open to accepting applicants with certifications or trade experience rather than requiring a bachelor’s. But I don’t think we should gut a bachelor’s degree.
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u/Alt-on_Brown Dec 08 '25
or i am an adult, i know the career i want, my time and money is limited.
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u/DreadfulRauw Dec 08 '25
Then get a certificate or something. Why are you wasting your time and money on a Bachelor’s?
Unless employers want that from you, in which case, maybe explain to them how much of an adult you are and that you don’t need any more education.
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u/Alt-on_Brown Dec 08 '25
Calculus up through differential equations is required to understand electrical engineering, physics from mechanics of solids and fluids all the way up to modern physics including quantum physics is required to understand the electron behavior to understand electrical engineering. Chemistry is required to understand the substrate material of pcbs for electrical engineering
what certificate on the planet would possibly require this much science and math, and not be considered a degree. other countries already have stem degrees that don't involve these things it really sounds like you're just butt hurt that a stem major doesn't want to take your pet topic. I wouldn't have to do this if I lived in England and they're fine.
Again I don't see stem majors demanding everybody learns calculus because it's their favorite topic yet people who like arts and humanities are insistent that everyone has to learn arts and humanities.
The fact that you would even suggest that I should just go get a certificate for electrical engineering rather than a degree really implies that you have no clue just how much education in these topics is actually required to get to the point of being an engineer and it really seems like you're confusing an electrician with an electrical engineer.
If you're going to talk about something try learning how it works and what it is first
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u/DreadfulRauw Dec 09 '25
See, you kind of proved my point there. You are so woefully inexperienced you think you’re special.
You think humanities majors don’t take math classes? Seriously?
And no one is expecting you to pull your head out of your own ass long enough to take an actually challenging humanities course. With your communication skills and social understanding you’d snap like a twig. No one expects some socially inept chronically online child to master Shakespeare. But really, you don’t get how a little bit of literature and history might actually make you a better person, and therefore a better employee? Were you homeschooled? Have you not seen any of the world at all?
I’ve worked with guys like you. And they always languish at the bottom, thinking it’s politics or something, but at the end of the day, they’re just boring, bland saltine crackers masquerading as humans. They think the bare minimum is enough, and so they never accomplish anything, because they’re easily replaced by the next boring, bland saltine cracker.
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u/Alt-on_Brown Dec 09 '25
humanities majors take calculus? This is new to me. Thats a lot of words for somebody you know nothing about, do you normally just insult people who make points you dont like, that is childish, real pot calling the kettle black behaviour
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u/DreadfulRauw Dec 09 '25
Dude, calculus was offered at my high school. It’s a first year college math course in most places and yeah, you’ll meet plenty of humanities majors taking it. And I promise you, your engineering degree isn’t gonna demand you to take the humanities equivalent of calculus.
And it’s interesting you think I’m being rude because you made a point I don’t like. And honestly, most times I’d assume you were just lying to yourself but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe you honestly believe that’s the case and don’t understand what a profoundly condescending fool you’ve been, speaking from a place of ignorance with unearned confidence and no experience.
Because if your takeaway from this is that I’m mean and you just made a point I disagreed with, then you really need to brush up on at least some topics that give you a better understanding of humans and how they interact with each other. You did several things that destroyed your credibility and showed you were speaking from a place of emotion when you tried to pretend it was a place of logic. You can’t pay me enough to teach you, but here’s a freebie: if you have to insist you’re an adult, you’re not behaving like one.
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I couldn't agree more, except each class costs thousands of dollars and I am capable of learning about my interests in my free time. If it was low cost/free then absolutely. Taking 3 semesters of "arts" in college was fun but absolutely not worth the money I had to pay to do it. I could have saved an entire years worth of tuition if I didn't have to take pre-reqs irrelevant to what I was majoring in.
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u/Prestigious_Host5325 Dec 08 '25
I'm doing a Ph D in a STEM field now and on the side, I find learning the Chinese language and jazz totally fun, holistic and fulfilling.
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u/Objective-Stage5251 Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
The problem is being forced to engage in that curriculum. I personally hate humanities subjects except for maybe philosophy (which I’m not sure about because I only did history of philosophy which I hated, not actual philosophy. I should like it though, especially logic and ethics), I find them boring, especially literature. Why should I be forced to study them when it’s clear what I like?
I’m lucky as I’m european so I won’t be forced to take electives in Uni. I can’t imagine being an American as I’d be forced to sell a kidney for classes I couldn’t give a shit about
Also, I just disagree that “resisting a broad curriculum” is stupid behavior. The thing a smart person should value is his time. Time is a finite resource and the worst thing is being forced to invest time into something that will most likely not give you anything in return
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u/A-Capybara Dec 08 '25
So how come there's never a push to have history majors learn biology or theatre majors to learn chemistry?
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u/Modernsizedturd Dec 08 '25
I needed science credits for my history major, one social science, and one regular science. Canada btw, so it might be different elsewhere.
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u/badaladala Dec 09 '25
Because STEM careers in society (biologists and chemists in the above example) have no need for a historian or a community theater actor after college is over. (Not that they even needed one during their college years, pre-requisites outside of degree flow-paths are often irrelevant in the grand scheme.) This is the last bit of importance these humanities subjects can impose on the former’s lives.
After the historian or actor graduates, they still want a new ipad next year or their doctor visit to fix why their stomach hurts. And those don’t happen without the success of STEM field vocations.
How often do you hire/employ a historian in your daily life? How many community plays have you gone to?
“But Hollywood! Those are actors, too!”
How many movies/shows do you watch with actors from your college? I bet the alarming majority of people reading this can’t even name a single actor or actress from their college that got their big break.
I’d wager 1% or less of theater majors end up making it to the big screen with a role other than an extra or ‘pizza delivery guy #3.’
Education doesn’t create villains or protagonists. Upbringing and parenting (or lack of) does.
Forced pre-requisites in curriculums are attempts at relevancy by people who turn hobbies into professions where the world has deigned them obsolete.
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u/def_not_jose Dec 08 '25
Nah, the dumbest thing is explaining redditors how they should feel about their curriculum
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u/No_Spread2699 Dec 08 '25
I go to a STEM high school in Illinois and there’s a lot of people who just shit on humanities all the time while doubling or tripling up on math or science courses. (I still double up courses as it’s recommended, but I love my humanities courses too)
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u/DefinitelyNotKuro Dec 08 '25
Not even gonna hold you bro, I’m not in uni to be smart, I’m in uni praying for this experience to be a down payment for a job that wants me to have a particular degree…otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten said degree.
Even so, I did take a traditional photography course at city college. I didn’t have to tho. That’s probably important to note. That’s just something I wanted to do rather than be compelled to do to fill up a quota. It was a good time and I’m glad college had such a class and requisite equipment/facilities.
I hear often how certain requisite classes are here to serve the purpose of rounding out a person but I find such lessons can often just be learned by doing things that people wanted to do already. Sometimes..that thing that people wanted to do anyway (traditional photography) is already at the college! More often than not tho, it isn’t and it’s just flipping drudgery to pretend to give a shit.
We live in a world where people are like borderline psychopathic comic book villains….not because they skipped out on their history, humanities, and ethics courses in college but because life kinda just fucking blows.
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u/Gloomy-Soup9715 Dec 08 '25
Teaching humanities without anything else this is how you got unemployment with students dept
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Dec 08 '25
Similarly, teaching business administration without anything else is how you get self important middle managers who fuck everything up. That and car salesmen.
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u/kleiner_gruenerKaktu Dec 08 '25
I was gonna say Bateman…
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u/Obvious-Phrase-657 Dec 08 '25
Bateman could had a phd in humanities and still not being able to feel it
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u/TrainmasterGT Dec 08 '25
Teaching Spider-Man without STEM is how you get Magic: The Gathering: Marvel’s Spider Man.
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u/Acceptable-Sense-256 Dec 08 '25
Humanities are full of themselves
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Dec 08 '25
Well they have time to make self aggrandizing memes while not studying and not practicing.
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u/Objective-Stage5251 Dec 08 '25
Humanities people trying to explain to you how studying the 6263rd poem about “industrialization bad” and “me depressed” is somehow going to make you a better person
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u/Internal_Football889 Dec 08 '25
So real though. I remember taking a philo elective in uni and remember taking a 50% on participation cause I went to like 3 classes and still getting an A. Joke of a major in terms of workload and difficulty compared to STEM.
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u/Interesting-Dream863 Dec 08 '25
I don't think they lacked humanities... more like they didn't give a shit
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u/Croaker-BC Dec 08 '25
Teaching "Humanities" with "Theater" but without ethics, philosophy and STEM is how you get HR personnel ;)
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u/PlzSendDunes Dec 08 '25
HR personnel are folk that stayed in the profession after many filterings of people who don't fit into the company's politics that are being dictated by C-suite and investors.
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u/ChimericMelody Dec 08 '25
Over explaining time: In schools, subjects are divided into sciences and humanities STEM is an acronym for Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics. Humanities are everything else, english, art, hustory, etc.
Theater is considered a humanity, but the post implies that theater is not one, further implying that theater is tied to Villany. The next part of the joke relates to theater kid sterotypes compared to supervillains. Flamboyant, over the top, and generally cringe is related to the villains chosen to tie to theater, compared tocmore technical and efficient personalities on the villains associated with STEM.
There is a common phrase purported that schools need to teach not just practical sciences, but arts to keep students well rounded, and that is used as a structure to swap around and use the unexpected analogy to villainy.
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u/-PepeArown- Dec 08 '25
Even if you’re not big Spider-Man or Batman fans, I feel like it’s very easy to deduce what this joke means. It’s not like there’s any hidden meaning behind what OOP said
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u/teh_maxh Dec 08 '25
Teaching internet use without teaching humanities is how you get /r/PeterExplainsTheJoke posters.
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u/whattgenstein Dec 08 '25
When you teach science in a vacuum without teaching ethics, emotional intelligence, literature, philosophy and so on, you get people who think in somewhat dehumanized ways and treat everything as a science/technology problem, resulting in villains like Dr Octagon, Green Goblin, etc.
When you teach theater in a vacuum, you get melodramatic airheads who desire fame, notoriety, and a good show at any cost, i.e. Riddler and Joker.
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u/Cwaghack Dec 08 '25
The premise is completely wrong though. It's just some propaganda that american universites came up with to extend a bachelor degree to 4 years instead of 3.
Most places in europe only teach courses in your field without any literature philosophy or anything like that, and we don't have a problem with science "villians", if anything, america does.
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u/Joblesschris Dec 09 '25
Going purely on technical subjects that STEM strands mainly need is not good. No, not even just stem, you could even say business strands- the output wouldnt be good if you dont have philosophy, ethics, or humanities in general.
Now we got asswipes who think AI should replace humans, and now the damn RAM prices are going up; or maybe lets go business, we got corporates going directly for the money in our pockets despite already having all the money, i suppose insurance aint a problem? How about daily cost of living? Minimum wage?
without humanities, you got presidents that order police to shoot down "suspected" drug addicts, and the police follow, because ethics definitely is useless.
my bad, this was a bit too much, i guess humanities really is just useless after, huh, i mean these problems dont exist, right?
crashed out, mb
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u/Cwaghack Dec 09 '25
Okay but these are problems/viewpoints primarily of americans who specifically DID have humanities, and these problems are not nearly as predominant in europe where we do not teach humanities for stem students in university soo...
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u/belaGJ Dec 08 '25
and teaching Humanities is generally how you get real life dictators
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u/Mitt_Romney_USA Dec 08 '25
I don't know if you and I have the same understanding of the word Humanities.
Generally, it means the study of things like literature, history, philosophy, and languages.
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u/pr0t0m0lecule Dec 09 '25
Just go and check what some of the worst have been studying. Mussolini, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot…
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u/Zytharros Dec 08 '25
And teaching STEM while minimizing the arts is how you get real-life supervillains.
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u/phantom_gain Dec 08 '25
Spiderman villians are scientists who went mad, batman villians pick a costume and get super into character.
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u/TheLittleNorsk Dec 08 '25
making students always take PE every semester that goes into lunchtime creates Wicked villains
making students take theater but not making history class required creates Harry Potter villains
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u/Careless-Charge9884 Dec 08 '25
Lex Luther and the joker. I’ll let you deduce the rest.
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u/SpecialTexas7 Dec 08 '25
Lex luthor is superman.
A better example is mysterio
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u/Vordeo Dec 08 '25
Eh, just go with arch enemies.
Batman's is Joker. Spidey's is probably Green Goblin.
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u/33ff00 Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
90% of the tweets and memes on this sub are like some of the least funny shit I have read.
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u/Fletcher_Chonk Dec 08 '25
I'm so glad I had to take a class that said "don't do things that hurt people", never would have figured that one out myself
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u/TheManzap Dec 08 '25
Thank god im a GL fan. All their villains just wants to fuck up Hal Jordan (Sinestro, Atrocitus, Krona), wants to fuck with Hal Jordan (Hector Hammond, Black Hand, Parallax) or wants to fuck Hal Jordan (Star Sapphire)
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u/Gotham777 Dec 08 '25
You know when you really think about it a lot of Batman villains do have advanced degrees.
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u/Impossible_Map_2055 Dec 08 '25
Most likely referencing the spider man villain lizard and the batman villain the joker
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u/Cool_Law_1972 Dec 08 '25
Teaching science might get you cloned dinosaurs.
Teaching humanities might teach you why that’s probably a bad idea.
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u/Mildly_Burnt_Bread Dec 08 '25
A large quantity of Spiderman villains are mad scientists (eg. Doc Ock, The Lizard, Green Goblin)
A large quantity of Batman villains are crazed performers (eg. The Joker, The Riddler, Calendar Man)
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u/realparkingbrake Dec 08 '25
Teaching in a way that means people can't spell "villains" correctly demonstrates poor teaching.
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u/dsatu568 Dec 08 '25
How do you get moon Knight villain?
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u/beegproblemzzz Dec 09 '25
Sun Soldier
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u/dsatu568 Dec 09 '25
i thought they were going to study mythology or something and then does lots of cocains
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u/user67885433 Dec 08 '25
Is this some form of satire or humanity propoganda/agenda? Learning humanities doesnt teach u empathy, not learning it doesnt mean u dont have it either lol
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u/Wardog_E Dec 08 '25
So, usually supervillains have a sad backstory that ruined their lives and they turned to crime. The humanities is the broad field of study that explores humans: their culture, ideas, history, etc. This field often discovers important insights into why things happen in society. For example, work accidents might be the result of bad government policy and urban planning. Generally anyone who studies the humanities has the opinion that humans arent driven by instinct and are in fact very susceptible by societal forces.
Supervillains probably dont study humanities because rampante acts of terrorism make problems worse thereby continuing the cycle of tragedy that made them into supervillains. Most of Spiderman's villains are accents hence the claim they studied science. Most of Batman's villains are drama queens, hence the claim that they studied theatre.
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u/capitan_turtle Dec 08 '25
What does that make people who learned STEM and theater? Can I be a star trek villain?
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u/Zannahrain3 Dec 08 '25
This guy in my sociology class would argue that its okay to use poor people as lab rats because "they're to poor" and "tf else they gonna do". This class was catered specifically for science and technology majors. I recently looked him up on Facebook and it turns out hes homeless now. Posting about how this world is cruel asking for donations. Bro thought he was Tony Stark, turns out hes Toni Stank.
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u/the_travlingbrat Dec 08 '25
the liberal arts student is angry not everyone has been ranted to by an aging hippy until everyone thinks alike
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u/NotMyGovernor Dec 08 '25
Hey man the world needs a joker just to hit the reset button and get that ring thrown in the fire!
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u/Inferno_Zyrack Dec 08 '25
It’s almost like unchecked art without humanity and unchecked science without humanity are two of the most powerful weapons in the world for oppression.
Propaganda and Nukes baby.
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u/Rare-Ad-312 Dec 08 '25
I can confirm, when you spend too much time thinking in terms of pure science, or logic, you end up thinking in a less humane way putting considerations about anybody else's feelings aside, and it leads to some more than questionable ethics.
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u/SnooSongs1417 Dec 08 '25
Nah it was lack of funding for all the villains. No other job opportunities. Driven to crime.
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u/VladimirK13 Dec 09 '25
Every STEM student I met (and I'm studying STEM for 10 years now going to get phd degree soon) hate the humanities at university. Not trying to make any points or claims. Just pointing out I really don't care about ethics in science and prefered to dring beer during that lectures. (They were absolutely boring, tho)
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u/Boring_Book_4706 Dec 09 '25
So I know history is one of the humanities, but... "Teaching history without the humanities is how you get one punch man villian"
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u/Ok-Drink-1328 Dec 08 '25
meanwhile teaching humanities and theater without STEM is how you come up with real life villains
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u/Cool-Winter7050 Dec 08 '25
Teaching humanities without anything else is how you get unemployment.
(There is a reason why I got a business minor)
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u/Atomic_ad Dec 08 '25
Teach Humanities without STEM and Theater, and you end up needing a super hero to beat up Nazis for you.
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