Couple of take aways from this video. A quite reductionist view of history, judging the character of figures in the past through a modern western lens, and book citations without page numbers or passages give off a "I read it in a book just trust me." sort of feeling. We do heavily romanticize historical figures though.

The narrator is unbearable

Just about any hobbit is CMHB.

"Then resumes to throw Cyclops at odysseus" tbh valid 😂 given how much posidon

My favorite Columbo scene is from the military academy episode, "By Dawn's Early Light". During a conversation, Columbo breaks through the colonel's ironclad composure, and finds a man who is deeply lonely and struggles with the futility of establishing peace and order in a world filled with humans who make such a thing impossible. Killing the victim was the only way he could keep control over the school, his own little fortress and time capsule in a world with no other need for him. He says something like, "I'll hang up my coat when there's no more war. And I suppose you'll hang up your coat when people stop hurting each other." Columbo is about to talk about how he struggles with those thoughts too, how he talks about it with his wife, which is more of a genuine look into Columbo's personal philosophy than we've seen in the entire rest of the show- Then the phone rings, the colonel's armor is back on, Columbo is back on the trail, and the world comes crashing back in. Just that one, quiet scene of two professionals briefly abandoning their uniforms and being honest about how they really feel is SUCH good characterization. Anyway, my favorite Trickster Hero is Lupin III. Cool as hell.

1:20 Sandy, this isn't Russia. You can't carry the horse! Lmao The only horse I could ever literally pick up was a 15 pound newborn mini Shetland Pony.

Objection you said the most famous trickster hero is spiderman when it is infact superman who very much was a trickster hero in the golden age and early silver age

Red, if you havent watched it yet, im sure youd love The Owl House. Multiple people are confirmed queer and its shown in the show, and the villain is a ultra-religious asshole who tried to do mass genocide and has murdered people before, cant say more without horrible spoilers but hes an all around horroble guy and its an amazing play on how SOME modern religious people hate on queer people while doing horrible acts themselves to people around them. Often huritng loved ones or 'loved ones', while relozing they are doong so or not.

This is just making me think of zuko and iroh, as well as Trigun anime(the older anime, not the newer one. I havent seen it yet)

1:50 JOCAT GOBO

Why is the first example of this trope that I think of B.E.N. From Treasure Planet

Everything about this myth sounds like something pulled out from one of those anime that you can't tell if they're for kids or teens bc of the random unexpected ecchi content 💀 but one thing is for sure, he shouts the name of his magic powers and goes into 20min monologues

2:40 Well, Sun Wukong actually has the Power of Taoism/Daoism Magic on his side, but I still get what you mean...

that shit is bananas yo.

PH < Classical Aphrodite paintings

18:09 of course, you've also seen Reboot & Animated DC

I would love it if you could start a series where you explore in detail some of the series you use in your videos. I've seen a ton of your videos where you use shows like Columbo, The Last Airbender, She-Ra, Transformers, etc, as examples of the trope you're discussing. I'd be interested to hear you discuss each of your favorite media in detail, going over the storyline, lead character archetypes, maybe touching on the key tropes

I get the whole superman doesn't kill and why he doesn't kill, but it is very frustrating for the villain to straight up say "I murdered a superhero who only sought to do good in the world, I wont be punished for it, and I'm going to do it again" and he's completely right. I can't fault superman for executing luthor after he executed the flash on live tv. The rest of that time line with the justice lords is not a good thing, but someone like luthor who the system cannot or will not lock up, shouldnt be alive. It's just a failure of the justice system. I'm incredibly against the death penalty IRL, but this is in a fantasy world with superpowers where supervillians who murder hundreds of people and they escape every month or so. If Luthor or the Joker can't be contained so they stop killing thousands of people, they have to be removed from society. Also I really cannot fathom the idea that sending people to a hellish realm where they can't age or die to suffer for eternity is a better solution than just killing them.

Corinthian… corinthian… where have I heard that one….

I miss read the thumbnail and thought its was memes... -Kie

What bothers me is how people are so quick to prescribe a certain personality to liking grimdark. I like depressing stories. I read Sin City, and Berserk, I play Dark Souls, and I watch Warhammer 40K lore videos. I like atmosphere and nuance and occasionally outright misery porn. And yet, against all odds, I don't spend all of my time in my mom's basement crying about how unfair the world is. I work a job, I take care of my kids, I have non pessimistic hobbies and interests. Crazy, right?

A while back I went on to IMDb, and apparently this isn’t the first time a Superman actor also played Sephiroth. There have been in total about 2 or 3 actors who played both Sephiroth and Superman.

23:28 “recently” meaning, “as soon as Laura Bailey got ahold of it and went nuts.”

Awsome

Joseph Joestar is such a trickster hero the narrator had to reassure readers his tendency to run away was actually courageous

Lupinnnnnnn!

"What happens in Albania stays in Albania" -Reyna from Heroes of Olympus

Sui empire enters the chat: "its me, Im here, I am HIMOTHY"

My name is loki so 😏

1:22:15 My biggest WW2 Pet Peeve is when people call Nazi's Fascists, They were National Socialist, Fascists were a different form of Nationalistic Socialists, They directly opposed the Jewish Capitalists and the Marxist Socialists who they considered a Jewish Conspiracy and therefore not real Socialists. Fascist = National Socialist National Socialism ≠ Fascism It's like Squares and Rectangles Further Clarification: Nazi = National Socialism National Socialism ≠ Nazi The Nazi were a form of Nationalized Socialism but they also just called themselves "The National Socialists" It's like how Stalin = Communist but Communism ≠ Stalinism

I can thank Red and Red only for my taste in women, thank you for being a positive female role model in my teens. (A fat sense of humor is superior to a fat ass. -Konfucius, maybe)

Would love a part 2, my man!

Yes

Rome overrated, embrace Celtic civilization.

The Greek Gods and other entities don’t have a family tree; they have a family circle

So....Five Nights at Freddy's in a nutshell?

Dbz be like: Goku cant beat enemy= get yellow hair and beat enemy Goku cant beat enemy= get blue hair and beat enemy Goku cant beat enemy= get red hair and beat enemy

Comments here are saying that if you like grim dark then you're a Linkin Park listening emo that cries in your mom's basement over how unfair the world is. And I can't react to that without proving them right.

All I’m hearing is Hephaestus invented BDSM

Awesome 🤩

“Mother, wouldst thou truly lordship sanction in one so… bereft of light?”

Once is Happenstance; Twice is Coincidence; Three Times is Enemy Action

You should mention that Prince Rurik as real as Rome and Remul or as Hercules

Sekhmet in her calm and benevolent form is Bastet 🧿🦁🍄🍷💤🐱🪬

WHATS THE SONG THAT PLAYS AT 4:20 IN THE BACKGROUND

I’ll never get tired of red saying Bolgia wrong and Blue getting so mad, it’s so funny!

Reminds me of the opening of Kill Bill, where Beatrix kills Vernita Green, and her daughter sees it. Beatrix is fully aware of this trope, and tells the kid to come find her if she's still feeling sore about when she grows up. Beatrix knows the collateral damage is probably going to come back to haunt her one day, but she's just so pissed off at Bill & Co., nothing stops her.

Oh fuk.. the dragon is a white horse. This casual fact has great significance to me. Thanks so much for this series. Its delivery and scope is amazing. No really. Good shit.

Count Dooku is means Count Of Ass in brazilian portuguese, so they dubbed as Count Dookan

great video I keep coming back to watch this series every so often and get really hyped when the next part comes out tho just out of curiosity at 4:21 who are those characters I recognize sesshomaru and Dai Gui but the other 2 I don't really recognize