Who did it better?
Who did it better?
Lucas Mitchell
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Cooper Rogers
my dad
Parker Sanchez
I'm sorry to hear that user
Samuel James
It's a good cartoon, but Courage the Cowardly Dog is better, that episode is more tragic and emotional, although I'm personally a fan of lapis
Daniel Rivera
Not a fair comparison since The Mask is probably one of the best episodes of a show already with a ton of great episodes.
SU in comparison is a show with great moments but you have to slog through mediocrity to eve get there.
Matthew Foster
The bottom one, it actually had good writing
Adam Murphy
So did Lapis basically rape Jasper or what?
Carter Bailey
The Mask portrays Mad Dog as the sole abuser while Bunny is completely innocent and free from blame.
Malachite was a two-way street, both abused each other, Jasper wanted her power, Lapis wanted a punching bag.
I don't know which is more realistic in real life, I often hear that mutual abuse is a myth
Jackson Edwards
Jasper wanted it
Oliver Campbell
Yes basically. But Tumblr in 2016 solely targeted Jasper for the following line:
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Jace Campbell
SU couldn't really decide who the abuser in the relationship was so it's metaphor got pretty muddled.
Courage knew the story it wanted to tell and told it well. No real contest.
Jacob Roberts
No it wasn't, it just let you decide for yourself which given the target audience is actually pretty ballsy. Steven's POV paints Lapis as the better one because Steven likes her, that's all. If your mark for "good writing" is "it told me what to think" then maybe reevaluate your standards.
Nathaniel Perez
Ending the episode with one getting water fisted out shows a clear bias
Jayden White
In my experience. Women are better at abusing people. It's almost like its in their blood.
Asher Perry
Na they just are allowed to get away with it. Male on female abuse is typically physical and obvious to spot, female on male abuse is usually psychological and harder to notice.
Aaron Ortiz
me
Cameron Morris
>Male on female abuse is typically physical and obvious to spot, female on male abuse is usually psychological and harder to notice.
Makes you wonder if one lead to the other in a never ending cycle of pain and dead.
David Clark
Makes you wonder if one leads to the other.
Carson Perry
Courage
Ethan Butler
>consensual love hate relationship vs blatant domestic abuse
such a great way of comparing things OP.
Christopher Thompson
>top
Done in a cheap way even when you can do more stuff in tv now
>botton
Unironically a good to amazing writting episode with tons of subtle things trying to no hold punches
Colton Russell
>MD
>Male Dominance
Jacob Garcia
>love hate relationship
Is this... Is this what lesbians believe is a healthy relationship?
Colton Perez
Colton Mitchell
Lapis lashes out at Jasper in the form of forced fusion because she is angry at everyone who kept her trapped in the mirror and due to being imprisoned for so long she wants something to have control over and only cares about self preservation. Jasper acts self destructively and is willing to go back to a fusion where she was abused just to be stronger because she is constantly trying to make up for her feelings of worthlessness and inferiority due to being from a failure of a planet and failing the purpose and diamond she was made for. Lapis was technically the rapist/abuser but it is mutually toxic and codependent.
James Fisher
No one told it was healthy. But it had nothing to do compared with rabbit's situation.
Nolan Diaz
Are these the only two abusive couple relationships in cartoons?
Luke Cox
Jasperfags often seem to ignore that both lapis and jasper treated each other like a cumrag in malachite's fusion.
Levi Hall
God, Courage was an underrated show, unlike SU, where it's worshiped on a pedestal like a crappy cult.
>Bun kept against her will as a sex slave to a violent gang-banger
>"Don't you like the pearl necklace I got ya" sexual implications of actual violent rape in a kids show
>Heavy implications of being raped by other members of the gang and heavy physical abuse
>Lesb. gf gains hatred for all dogs, an allegory for partially justified racism
>Happily ever after with Kitty relinquishing a lot of her hatred for dogs, aka, racism
Meanwhile, space rock lesbian forced metaphorical dance sex that's vague on it's own world functioning.
Samuel Collins
No, Jasper couldn’t go anything to Lapis in Malachite because she was held down.
Oliver Gomez
Man, it was so out of character for Courage to just beat the ever loving shit out of the two dog thugs. But it was really funny.
Zachary Murphy
Jasper never hurt nor intended to hurt Lapis and didn't even have any opportunity to hurt Lapis when she was being forced to stay in the fusion and being drowned in their rape chamber mind space and Lapis is an overpowered oceanbender. Lapis is shown keeping Jasper chained up, forcing her to stay fused, and admitting to torturing her and liking it. Lapis had the control and abused that control over Jasper. Lapis is the abuser who likes having a punching bag. Jasper is the victim who goes back to their abuser because she's dependent on them, in this case for strength, which happens again with Steven after he murdered her.
It is a more complicated and subversive portrayal of an abusive relationship than the one in courage, but because the plotline was never addressed in depth again after 'Alone At Sea' and neither Jasper or Lapis got closure the message behind the arc was botched.
Anthony Scott
Oof, yeah i've been there too
Isaac Evans
it was consensual rape