All of those things are very disturbing. But when we see Hit Girl as Mindy, I don't think those things come out very well, because we really end up liking this child.
She comes across quite charmingly, doesn't she? And because she and her father do clearly love each other, it's easier not to be disturbed.
It's not like the bad guys weren't excruciatingly awful too, so I guess when everyone's engaged in ultra-violence, it's okay. :\
The worst part for me was the man in the car crusher.
I'm sorry it pops up so often I can say this, but somehow, people getting crushed is always the worst D:
I also want fic where she meets Wolverine from the X-men, and he's disturbed by her. B/c nothing disturbs him and he's trained young girls to be brutal fighters, just not... that brutal.
Oh, yes. I'd read the hell out of that.
It's not like she just been trained to defend herself, or to take an enemy out - she's been trained to kill them dead. No leaving them for the criminal justice system to deal with...
Though saying that, it occurs to me there's actually a thing with young boy characters who kill people 'innocently', because otherwise that person could always hurt them again... I'm thinking like in Ender's Game, but I'm sure I've seen it elsewhere. And somehow I'm sure it never generates the same moral outrage.
I'd actually be really interested in reading that sort of critique.
I might have to ask him what he was actually reading, because it's not something I've stumbled across either. Hmm.
In so many others, she doesn't seem at all childlike, but she didn't seem like an adult either.
Yeah - you believed she was a child still, even if you hate the thought of a child going around killing people. She didn't seem like a grown-up played by a child, or older than her years or anything... she just seemed like the product of her upbringing. Her scary, scary upbringing.
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Date: 2010-05-07 05:26 am (UTC)She comes across quite charmingly, doesn't she? And because she and her father do clearly love each other, it's easier not to be disturbed.
It's not like the bad guys weren't excruciatingly awful too, so I guess when everyone's engaged in ultra-violence, it's okay. :\
The worst part for me was the man in the car crusher.
I'm sorry it pops up so often I can say this, but somehow, people getting crushed is always the worst D:
I also want fic where she meets Wolverine from the X-men, and he's disturbed by her. B/c nothing disturbs him and he's trained young girls to be brutal fighters, just not... that brutal.
Oh, yes. I'd read the hell out of that.
It's not like she just been trained to defend herself, or to take an enemy out - she's been trained to kill them dead. No leaving them for the criminal justice system to deal with...
Though saying that, it occurs to me there's actually a thing with young boy characters who kill people 'innocently', because otherwise that person could always hurt them again... I'm thinking like in Ender's Game, but I'm sure I've seen it elsewhere. And somehow I'm sure it never generates the same moral outrage.
I'd actually be really interested in reading that sort of critique.
I might have to ask him what he was actually reading, because it's not something I've stumbled across either. Hmm.
In so many others, she doesn't seem at all childlike, but she didn't seem like an adult either.
Yeah - you believed she was a child still, even if you hate the thought of a child going around killing people. She didn't seem like a grown-up played by a child, or older than her years or anything... she just seemed like the product of her upbringing. Her scary, scary upbringing.