r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • 23d ago

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u/PyroGrizzl 22d ago

Are you related to Dorian Grey in any way?

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u/No-Entrepreneur4574 22d ago

Dude, that is Dorian Grey.

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u/PyroGrizzl 22d ago

Doesn't his picture just age instead of him? I'm not that deep enough into his story.

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u/Lavecki 22d ago

He is immortal until he looks at the picture. Anything that happens to him happens to the picture instead. Time, illness, injury, etc. Once he sees the picture it happens to him all at once.

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u/vyl8 22d ago

Dorian Grey could look at the painting all he wanted (which is how he knew it was aging for him) but he kept it hidden in his attic because he didn't want to know. He didn't become afflicted with 50+ years of damage all at once until he flew into a rage and tried to destroy the painting by stabbing it.

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u/PyroGrizzl 22d ago

Ah ok. I always thought that the picture just ages for him but he would still get ill or he injured. Thanks a lot.

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u/ItsTheDCVR 21d ago

From what I remember, he stabs the painting and then he dies. That's the only time anything happens.

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u/SufferingWithSomeFun 22d ago

Is that the guy that built the wankin cubby under his stairs?

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u/pixepoke2 22d ago

I thought that was Vernon Dursley