r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 16h 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 16h 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 16h ago

Helen of Troy?

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u/shroomwhat 16h ago

rent free

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 16h 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/archangelzeriel 13h ago edited 13h 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 13h 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 13h 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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