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    EdificeComplex: " Try increasing your reputation by doing or saying things that matter to others." Screw thinking for yourself. You must conform to what other people... more »
    Ruthless, If you let me: No go for me until they start paying me for my io9 (and sister site) comments. more »
    ManchuCandidate: Oh boy a famewhore bank! It's just a bullshit metric for the self involved (who luvs them metrics) to masturbate over. more »
    MIster_C: Wolverine is the Classic Catholic He's a monster, he knows he's a Monster, and he hates he's a monster, Murder is Easy for him. but he uses the Guilt ... more »
    Bill-Lee: Could you imagine if this same article were posted on SciFi Wire? The rabid fanboys would eat Charlie Jane alive. more »
    OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: Fun fact: "It was all part of my journey of self discovery" is not a valid defense in court. more »
    Hamslicer: I think part of it (beyond being desensitized) is laziness in writing. Take "First Blood", the first Rambo movie. The only people killed were in the... more »
    Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!: Oh, how could I have forgotten - If you want the culmination of this trend, watch Ninja Assassin. Raizo reclaims his humanity through buckets of ninj... more »
    Cory Gross: I think your last paragraph pretty much nails it, and is a combination of the oldest mythic tropes going all the way back to Gilgamesh... The one is ... more »
    Rasselas: Excellent points all the way down the scroll bar, Charlie Jane. Perhaps oddly, the Internet-Tough-Guy-Fantasy-Comes-Alive-and-Makes-You-Dead trope ha... more »
    Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!: I think we can chalk this up to: Because watching 2 hours of someone reclaiming their 'self' in therapy would make for a really dull movie. more »
    Golem100: I watched all three LotR movies (extended versions) back to back one Saturday. Started at Noon, finished around Midnight. I don't recommend it. more »
    cletar: As an archaeologist, I would like to point out that physicists might know a lot about accretion disks, but they know jackity-poo about how civilizatio... more »
    AngriestGeek: One thing that always disturbed me about the need for a body count was when "falsely accused" good guy killed other good guys. When the The Musketeer... more »
    tetracycloide: don't you see charlie, being human means treating every other human as if they're an inferior being. it's who we are. or is that just me? more »
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