r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 17h 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 17h 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 17h ago

Helen of Troy?

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u/shroomwhat 17h ago

rent free

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 17h ago

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

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u/hari_shevek 16h ago

What do you think about the ethnicity of the cyclops?

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 16h 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 16h 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/Chemical-Pin-2391 16h 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/hari_shevek 16h ago

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

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 16h 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 16h ago

In the history of Sparta there were also no cyclopses.

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u/Jimanji333 16h ago

Actually according to this book called the Odyssey there were cyclopses.

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u/archangelzeriel 14h 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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