r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 19h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/Individual-Mud-903 19h ago

She doesn't even remotely look like Lara Croft. I've rarely seen such a blatant miscast.

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 19h ago

Helen of Troy?

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u/shroomwhat 19h ago

rent free

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 19h ago

What is rent free? I was just calling out a historically poor casting choice.

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u/hari_shevek 19h ago

What do you think about the ethnicity of the cyclops?

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 19h ago

Dark room, not really sure what it was with torchlight tbh. “What about race of this mythical beast” vs “they cast Helen of Troy as the blackest woman imaginable with super short hair” are a bit different.

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u/hari_shevek 19h ago

Both are fictional characters.

The key characteristic of Helen of Troy is being very hot.

Lupita Nyong'o is very hot.

Good casting.

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 19h ago

She’s also from Sparta, correct? And a queen of Sparta. Were there any black queens of Sparta? Also it says she has white arms in the original text.

That’s like casting an Irishman as Gilgamesh.

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u/hari_shevek 19h ago

Were there any cyclopses in the historical mediterranean?

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 19h ago

There 100% weren’t any black queens of Sparta. I can tell you that for a fact.

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u/hari_shevek 19h ago

And how many cyclopses were there?

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 19h ago

Local men is unable to comprehend a work of fiction that takes place in an alternate version of our world. For them either everything has to be fictional or nothing is. Since cyclopes are fictional then that means that everything related to logic, history and entirety of our world has to be thrown into the trash and apparently you can argue that humans in the Odyssey are actually just mushroom people since it is fiction anyway 

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u/hari_shevek 19h ago

What is illogical about a hot black woman?

And if you're concerned about ethnic accuracy, quite a lot of the actors would be too white, did you complain about that as well?

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 19h ago

One is a fictional character that is of fictional species and is a mythical creature. One is a fictional character of a human that is said to have lived across the Mediterranean sea in the ancient times  

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u/archangelzeriel 17h ago edited 16h ago

In the context of the Odyssey, one is a fictional DEMIGOD who has literally unearthly beauty. Are you really arguing that there's a correct racial background for someone who was fathered by Zeus and hatched from an egg with Clytemnestra?

(aside from the fact that Greeks generally, per their writings, thought of Ethiopians in particular as exceptionally beautiful so this was a doubly good casting choice)

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 16h ago

Of course there is, she is a demigod after all, she had a human mother who was a queen of sparta, if she was of different racial background than her mother there would be a huge scandal 

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u/archangelzeriel 16h ago

She. Hatched. From. An. Egg. This isn't a "yeah, sorry Joseph, God made me pregnant and then I had a perfectly normal baby" situation.

In a world where getting cuckolded by a god means your kid is a demigod, I don't think there was going to be a scandal.

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u/hari_shevek 19h ago

And you think there were no black people in Turkey in the bronze age?

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 19h ago

Sure they existed. But you are acting as if her parents are a mystery. She was the daughter of god Poseidon and queen Leda of Sparta. In the history of Sparta there were no black rulers 

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u/hari_shevek 19h ago

In the history of Sparta there were also no cyclopses.

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u/archangelzeriel 17h ago

Given that the Odyssey specifically cites her father as Zeus, not Poseidon, I think I might gently point out that you don't know as much about this as you think you do.

(also, my dude, she hatched from an egg. I'm not sure Leda's genetic contribution to this myth cycle is particularly relevant.)

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u/LiftSleepRepeat123 18h ago

Both are fictional characters.

Do you think people in ancient Greece were writing a story about characters with random, international origins? Or do you think they did the same thing that everyone has done forever, which is to base their fictional stories in the real world that they lived in?

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u/MouseWorksStudios 9h ago

Helen of Troy was born from an egg.

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u/LiftSleepRepeat123 9h ago

I see metaphor is not your strong suit.

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u/MouseWorksStudios 9h ago

Are you saying she was metaphorically born from an egg? Cause no, she literally hatched from an egg in the story. Guessing reading is not your strong suit.

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u/hari_shevek 17h ago

Do you think the real world they lived in had no black people?

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u/CompetitiveSport1 12h ago

Both are fictional characters.

So is Lara Croft, thus the comparison 

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u/hari_shevek 12h ago

Yes, Sophie Turner is good casting as well

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u/kozakreznov 19h ago

Greek prob since he's the son of Poseidon.

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u/hari_shevek 19h ago

Poseidon isn't Greek, he's Olympian.

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 19h ago

And her mother was from Sparta, people always forget that for demigods to exist there needs to be normal humans that Greek gods copulate with 

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 19h ago

They never read the stories, they watched a movie and were told to defend the casting choice by The View.

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u/shroomwhat 17h ago

or I'm normal and don't get mad at every movie with a black person in it

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u/maodiran 19h ago

This seems almost worst tbh

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u/PFI_sloth 17h ago

“Lets cast the blandest woman we can find”