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https://www.yahoo.com/style/critics-are-calling-out-disney-1460766368210998.html

>According to New Zealand politician Jenny Salesa, the body shape of Maui is cause for concern. “When we look at photos of Polynesian men and women from the last 100-200 years, most of our people were not overweight and this negative stereotype of Maui is just not acceptable,” she writes on Facebook. “No thanks to Disney.”

Seriously... they're bitching adding a fat person is fat shaming?
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He's not even obese, he's strongfat.
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>>84145228

Man, not even fucking Tumblr is bitching about this, guys. How the fuck is a government official more hypersensitive than the internet.
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I want those fucking people dead, holy shit.
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dude doesn't even look fat, just like he's a mountain of muscle
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>>84145228
>New Zealand politician
Which just goes to prove that the only people in the world who care about this are either Westerners or expats living in the West.
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>>84145228
But that looks like every generic tank character
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I think it's kind of fair. Disney certainly has a male lead template they generally follow. Straying from that on his design is a bit questionable.
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I only watched the trailer, but isn't this guy the male lead, athletic, confident and a literal demigod superhero?

How is that a negative steoreotype?
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>>84145228
>The character also has a giant hook
How appropriate
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>>84145480
>Pacific Islander
>Culture revolves around the ocean
>Main source of meat when living on island is fish/crustaceans
Kind of makes sense for the demi god to have a giant fish hook to be revered by the people as a man who is strong enough to bring in a fish the size of an island and feed people for many months
>
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>>84145228
Who cares though, I mean really?
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In most cases I would think this is bullshit, but they have a point here. "Fat islander" is a common stereotype. I think they intended for him to look like a mountain slab of muscle in a stylized way, but it can easily come off as a poor depiction.
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>>84145554
I meant for large bait
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>>84145480
>>84145554
Given those fish hooks are made from bone and Maui seems to be a Primarch sized, I'm wondering just what the fuck he killed to make a hook that huge.

Did he hop over to the atlantic and kill the Coinchenn or something?
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>>84145228
>Seriously... they're bitching adding a fat person is fat shaming?

No...they're bitching that the fat character is a 'fat Polynesian' stereotype.

Whatever your thoughts on the character and how acceptable it is to you, you have to acknowledge that 'fat Polynesian' is a stereotype.
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>>84145228
Thats not how shame game works.

Polynesians are lower than fats in oppression
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>>84145480
Is he a one-man apocalypse?
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>>84145228
>Writes a thin protagonist
>But muh diversity

>Writes a chubby protagonist
>Fucking American pigs and their racism
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>>84145228
The fuck? Maui is based as fuck.
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>>84145829
For a good reason.
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>>84145568
they changed Tiana because of bitching.
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>>84146067
White people food. before then, it was pretty much just fruit n' shit.
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>>84145288
This.
FFS
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>>84145288
>>84145353
T H I S

Holy fuck, muscular people don't all look like Superman
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>>84145228
I lived in Hawaii for 5 years.
Poly men and Women ARE THAT BIG.
Not all, but ones who are big ARE THAT BIG.
That critic has no fucking idea what shes talking about.
They're mostly muscle too, had 2 move in my stuff in my apartment, they got in done in record time because they could man handle furniture that would take 3 people to move on their own.
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>>84145228
REMOVE
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>>84145228

As a former marine, I've met samoans who are exactly like Maui.

Big, tattooed and huge. These were walls of fucking muscle and were tall and tatooed.

Maui is a FUCKING PARAGON for how they look in real life.
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>>84146370
>>84146266
ITT: people who can't read that was addressed already.
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>>84145228
next thing they are gonna say is that their people was originally white, blue eyes and long blonde hair but racism turned them brown. fuck new zealand, I hope it goes into the bottom of the ocean soon.
also I always thought Maui looks like IZ and I was happy because of it.
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>>84145228
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>>84146406
public board, we can say what we want friend.
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>>84145228
I'd say Dreamworks should sue Disney for ripping off their signature facial expression, but in this case it fits cause it's The Rock who's voicing Maui
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>it's a no one knows what actually fucking strong people look like irl because all that's ever depicted in media is the usual bodybuilder physique episode
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>>84145228
>“When we look at photos of Polynesian men and women from the last 100-200 years, most of our people were not overweight
literally looking for the word samoan in google gives you pics and pics of buff strong muscular dudes that look like Maui. do they have internet in New Zealand? hell! do they even have cameras?
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Maui is fat and ugly WAAAHH WAAAHHH
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>>84145228
>A politician from the country that gives life in prison to people that create secret gardens just to tickle the balls of corporate farmers.
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>>84146592
>google this, expecting the usual hyperbolic or even straight up bullshit bait
>mfw it's actually true, you can go to jail for having a backyard garden

what the fuck
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>>84145663
It's common because it's true though
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wat

HAVE THEY FUCKING SEEN SAMOANS

Samoans are fucking PROUDLY fat

God damn sjws
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>>84146807
I think they reason that it's for "health concerns" since you might not wash your vegetables correctly
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>>84145228
> “When we look at photos of Polynesian men and women from the last 100-200 years, most of our people were not overweight and this negative stereotype of Maui is just not acceptable,”
They are natural rugby players. Lomu was polynesian. The Rock is half polynesian and shit's huge. Embrace your strongfat blesses genes, you stupid whore.
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>>84146860
Also, fun story.

I went to a high school in Seattle. One day, I was getting my sports equipment out of my car in the parking lot after school. I see a massive amount of Samoans surrounding on a car. They're yelling over something, telling the driver to get out.

Then the driver fucking floors it and runs over like 4 Samoans.
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>>84145228
So let me get this straight, when Disney makes a character who is intentionally designed to be obese and then make that character into a cheetah, everyone is completely okay with it.

But when they decide to make a character who is designed to look "big" yet strong, a design that many Disney films have done before at some point, then people start losing their fucking minds?

Yeah. Yeah, sure that makes TOTAL fucking sense.
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>>84146515
absolutely beautiful
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>>84146970
did he die?
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>Synopsis
>In ancient Oceania in the South Pacific

>men and women from the last 100-200 years

what?
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>>84147118
>it was extremely painful
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I don't care if I get called a furry or whatever, but this is the reason why I prefer working with animal/non-human characters in my works. Less likely to get shit like this from people when not using humans.
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>>84147149
yiff in hell, hitler.
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>>84147118
No, they're Samoan. They're built like tanks.
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>>84145228
>When we look at photos of Cheetah males and females from the last 100-200 years, most of these cats were not overweight and this negative stereotype of Clawhauser is just not acceptable
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>>84147198
>it's okay cause he's gay
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>>84146120
You aren't bright
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>>84146532
All New Zealand has is kiwis, and all the evolutionary offshoots of said. Anyone who tells you different is an asshole.
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>REMOVE MR INCREDIBLE YOU PRIVILEGED NON-CAUCS HOW DARE YOU CREATE AN OBESE DISGUSTING FAT CHARACTER WHITE YOU RACIST PIECES OF SHIT
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>>84146970
wat
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>>84146120
They ate poultry, reptiles and lots of starchy root vegetables as well as lots of heavy seafood and, in later eras, pork and macaroni dishes (white people stuff).
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>>84145395
But he looks fucking awesome and templates are a bad thing. Maybe this will start a new trend with less same-face. Unlikely cause Moanna still has it.
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>>84145228
Half of /fit/ would kill a man to have those gains.
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>>84145228
So, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson doesn't have an issue with him. Want to know why? He knows the power behind muscle fat and also knows history.
If you were successful and rich, you were a bit overweight. It showed you had ample food but hey, what do I know...
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>>84146899
That is such a bullshit "reason". Governments and the corporations that own them hate small farms and gardens and are constantly trying to pull that shit.
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>>84145228
But Polynesians are fat and this is part of their evolution, this is so dumb, they critic because it's accurate
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>>84147452
>He's not fat
>it's muscle fat
it's not even muscle fat.
It's that his muscles are so large in comparison to his height, that his muscles stand out more
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>>84147542
>doesn't understand the term
Musclefat/strongfat means your BMI is higher. It doesn't mean you are fat, just that you aren't starving and dehydrating yourself to show off each individual muscle. Google it cunt.
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>>84145228
Most people in America have never even heard of this supposed Polynesian fat stereotype.
She just sounds really defensive to me.
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>>84147310
Samoans, man. Don't fuck with them ever. Luckily, they're one of the friendliest people if you have them as friends. I was getting jumped one time and this big Samoan kid in high school threw them like ragdolls.
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>>84145305
That's because they're too busy bitching about the worldbuilding for the Harry Potter universe's Wizarding America indulging in too much cultural appropriation of Native religions.
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>>84147145
That's the most accurate picture of 4chan ever created.
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>>84145228
>create chubby female character
>joyful tears from empowered femmes around the world
>Put a li'l chub on a male character
>screams and consternation

Double standards?
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>>84145829
so is fat American..
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>>84146532
>“When we look at photos of Polynesian men and women from the last 100-200 years

Why the hell is she tossing out that timeframe restriction when the subject is question is from ancient mythology?
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So even on Facebook it seems like normies know this is ridiculous. Hopefully we won't hear about it much after it stops trending this week.
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The princess for this movie is fat too.

Why is no one complaining about that.
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>>84147966
Because she isn't you fucking idiot. You're probably one of those guys who thinks any woman over 100 pounds is fat.
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>>84147984
She's visibly fatter than the standard Disney princess.
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>>84145228
I want this shit era of over sensitivity to end.
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>>84147984
>any woman over 100 pounds is fat.
>implying thats not true
Don't be a faggot
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>>84145963
Go ahead. Say 'bacon' again.
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>>84145663
Is truth something to deny in order to not offend over sensitive twats?
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>>84147086
The difference is this is a Disney Princess movie.

Seriously, the only reason nobody gave a fuck about Clawhauser is because nobody expected anything from Zootopia. But Disney Princesses are a multibillion a year franchise with high public visibility.

So whenever one comes out, allllll the little fringe groups come out of the woodwork eager to get their five minutes of fame by stirring up controversy.
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>>84147587
We're also discussing a demi-god here, so he can probably look like whatever the fuck he wants.
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>>84145480
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>alot of ancient Polynesians would sometimes canoe across the sea for countless hours to get to different islands
>because of rigorous work like this with a lack of food, ancient polynesians developed genetics in which their bodies store more fat
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>>84148130
I guess if you don't like any cushion for your pushin' whatsovever, yeah 100 lbs is ideal.
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>>84145228
I mean this isn't fat...at all. This is bear mode.

But whatever starts the snowball of killing fat acceptance is entirely fine with me. Fat should never be on screen in any capacity unless the character is a pitiful absolute joke.

If this snowball means losing a bear for an otter, it's worth it.
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>>84148018
Not "fatter" per se, but she isn't Barbie Doll skinny. Girl got a booty, nothing obese about that.
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>>84148200
He turns into a fucking bird in the trailer.
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>>84148228
Someone already made this joke.
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>>84148325
Exactly! I thought this whole rib-showing, flat ass thing went out in the 90s.
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>>84148308
Your so cool man, fuck the fatties yeah
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I searched "world champion weightlifter" on Google Images.

Looks pretty similar to me.
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>Don't smoke. It's disgusting and causes cancer
>Don't do drugs. You can OD and have a heart attack.
>Don't drive drunk, you could hurt yourself or other people.
>LOL it's okay to have a BMI of 40. Healthy at every size!
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>>84147669
...but the Ilvermorny story was bretty gud.

A lot better than Cursed Child, jesus christ.
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>>84148811
>tfw Hermiones a nigger now and most vocal HP fans are lib girls so you can't find anyone to complain with.
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>>84145228
He looks like a power lifter with a bit of pudge, look at his fucking forearms he could rip off a car door. Retards
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>>84148846
Did they recon the books? Will there be special edition for the movies?
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>>84145400
played by the Rock...
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>>84145228
If only critics would rage over this instead. Imagine what kind of future we'd have.
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>>84149025
Rowling said Hermoine was never described as Caucasian when the books directly contradicted her. But if they ever do reboot HP she probably will be black.
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>>84145829
So all copies of Wall-E should be burned because it perpetuates the fat American stereotype?
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Remember when the name 'Madison' was called racist for Princess and the Frog? It's just stupid shit like that.
People love bitching about shit, no matter how far they need to reach.
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>>84145288
This. Seriously thought it was a given. He's built like a house for a reason.

So having a "fat" character is fat shaming now?
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>>84149099
>Top right

Isn't that just a face the character makes in the movie? Looks like a movie still. Only posters, cover art, and advertisements should count.
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>>84146592
>>84146807
>>84146899
>>84147510

Illegal New Zealand gardens is literally a reddit meme.
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>>84145228
he's not even fat? and isn't he a god?

and anyways, who the fuck cares! It's not like he's eating a tub of ice cream, he's holding some bad ass hook weapon.
Holy shit jenny, what are you doing?! How can one woman be this stupid, let alone a politician. My brain just exploded. This makes literally 0 sense.
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>>84149141
But Americans are privileged and it is therefore impossible to stereotype them.
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>>84149187
Not including fat characters: people cry because muh representation.
Including fat chracters: people cry because fatshaming.
This is the world we live in.
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>>84149132
{spoiler] I'm sorry [/spoiler]
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>>84149488
fuck

whatever
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"I've never seen a fat samoan before!" - Idiots
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A guy like that would be a able to do super kicks, diving splashes and belly to belly suplexes in the span of 10 seconds
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>>84148435
I'll do you one better.

This is Louis Cyr.

This is the strongest man who ever lived.

And he's a Fat Fuck.
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>>84149488
I honestly don't give a shit about a black Hermione, it's the fact this is all being treated like some huge fucking crusade against racism that pisses me off.

The only reason anyone ever race bends in Hollywood is to fucking pander. That's literally it, and the fact people fucking fall for it every god damn time pisses me off to no end.

It's like the new Ghostbusters, but a different situation. People who think they cast an all female cast to be progressive and not just pander to the most vocal audience to make more money are stupid as hell.
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>>84149613
>Umaga will never return and give Ramen Rings the samoan spike
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>>84149751
>Three Minute Warning will never come back to take out the Usos
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So this is the world we've made, the world we will leave our children.
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>>84148107
We need to shame them all back into hiding
They weren't out in public bitching when they were still rightfully afraid
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>be strongfat

>be minority

>trigger Tumblr just by existing

works for me.
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>>84145228
Working in construction, this is what most guys look like. What is so hard to understand?
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>Every Maui/Polynesian I've met has been a short strongfat ball of muscle.

I know one half white half Maui and he's huge.

I've been hit by these fuckers in rugby. They're like wrecking balls.

Tell the fool to stfu.
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>>84149751
>>84150129

We still have big Keesh
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>>84150812
What's that on his stomach? That doesn't look like a surgical scar.
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>>84150860
It is iirc he got stabbed or some crazy shit during the 90s
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>>84149646
My folks knew a man down in the valley who could pull a tractor by his teeth. Also a big fella
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>>84145353
he has the bodytype The Rock has
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>>84150860
>He explained that the scar on his stomach was from a drive by shooting that left him clinically dead for three minutes
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>>84150860
Drive by
whatculture.com/wwe/10-wrestler-scars-you-need-to-see?page=2
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>>84149099
This is always the stupidest thing to complain about, especially since it uses examples that don't apply.
I get it,
>half-smile
>raised eyebrow
It's overused, but Dreamworks doesn't monopolize the expression, pic related.
Also, a lot of the faces pictured aren't that; Peabody and Sherman have an even smugger expression, Donkey, Will-smith-fish and Egyptian girl are just smiling, Moses is barely smiling, Tulio just looks worried, and the horse has thickly drawn eyebrows and that's about it.

>>84149188
Z (Antz, top left) and Moses (top center-left) too.
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>>84145228

wait so is being fat bad again?
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>>84149649
I disagree, I don't think it's the only reason.
Black Nick Fury works extremely well, and the choice between SLJ and someone-not-SLJ is pretty stacked from the start. Heimdall wasn't bad either.

Race-bending as a main feature (a la Ghostbusters), though, is always terrible pandering. If it's any consolation, Ghostbusters will likely tank if it's anything like its trailer.
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>male's body is a body image issue
>female's body is a female issue
foreal?
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>>84148811
>the Ilvermorny story was bretty gud.
>The magical imp friend she made is still there 300 years after her death
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>>84148308
>Fat should never be on screen in any capacity unless the character is a pitiful absolute joke.

You got something upsetting you, anon?
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>>84147922
Because cameras that produced photographs weren't around before the 1800s...
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I had the privilege of seeing Samoa Joe wrestle a few weeks ago. People has no idea about body types. I just fear people taking this the wrong way and thinking actual lardys are physically strong.
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>>84149099
Half of these aren't even The Look.

Is this bait or just autism in action
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>>84151418
>Race-bending as a main feature (a la Ghostbusters)

Nigga what? Original Ghostbusters was 3 whites and a black. New Ghostbusters is 3 whites and a black. Or are you just stupid and consider women to be a different race than men?
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>>84151828
Sorry I meant general diversity pandering, that one is gender-bending. I used it as an example because the post I replied to used it.
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>>84147922
To win the argument. By narrowing the focus or changing the question when a given point is countered, it's easier to 'win' the debate.
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>Why isn't The Rock voicing literally cartoon The Rock?
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>>84151871
The problem with the movie isn't that they changed the gender of the main characters. You can have a successful movie with all female leads. The problem is the ones they picked are shit.
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>>84151914
>roman reigns
>hot
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>>84145228
>female character
>why'd you make her thin? fat people need representation too

>male character
>what the fuck's with this fat shit? make him hotter
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>>84148189
Increasing and diversifying the variety of *dude* body-types in a Princess movie? Are ya nuts? That's not how the game is played.
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wow and some people complain why disney doesn't do more movies with poc characters
it always causes butthurt drama, same with Princess and the Frog
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>>84151962
Roman Reigns isn't really an actor. Unless he's gotten some direct to DVD work.
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Living in LA you meet a lot of Polynesians and trust me some of them are huge. Even the women can be as big as the men
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>>84151828
Wonder if they'll go for some meta-humor and Leslie Jones will demand to have more than three lines during their adventure.
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>>84151914
>Roman Reigns
>Hollywood

I didn't know he's an actor now. What movie/s is he in?
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>>84145751
>>84145554

If I remember my hawaiian mythology, he actually stole it from his mother's skull, and used it to hook the sun.

>>84148180
5 out of the 10 fattest countries in the world are in Oceana. We're talking like a 95 percent morbid obesity rate on some.

>>84146411
He looks like a skinny version of iz.

>>84147452
And also, he has at least a half dozen relatives in the pro wrestling industry with the EXACT same build.
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>>84149649
>>84151418

Meanwhile Creed shows us how you can do a modern sequel that puts the main character in a supporting role and has the MC be someone of a different race.

Really so many movies can learn from this film
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I don't think his size is the actual issue here. He's just ugly, too ugly to be a main character
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>>84152098
"How to ruin a career in 4 months"
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>>84152098
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2359325/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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>WAAAAH WE WANT AN OVERWEIGHT PERSON AND A POC AS THE STAR OF A DISNEY MOVIE!!! MUH GOOD ROLE MODEL!!! MUH REPRESENTASHUN!!!
>Ok, so you'll LOVE Moana, see the male lead is this badass God like figure, with all these mystical powers, and h-
>WAAAAH HES FAT!!! THATS RAYCISS!!!
There's no pleasing these people.
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>>84152435
Except this isn't teenage tumblr white girls, it's the actual people being represented.
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>>84152435
They're not exactly the same people in this case.

>>84152525
>Except this isn't teenage tumblr white girls, it's the actual people being represented.

Not quite. A better analogy is say, Speedy Gonzalez. There's hispanics bitching, but they're MECHA chicano activists in America, who aren't even a significant part of their own community.

Mexico, and latin america actually loves the fuck out of him.
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>>84145829
No i dont.
I didnt even knoq fat Polynesian was a stereotype
And neither did the rest of tbe world.
So maybe they need to look at themselves to why they think they are fat.
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>>84152098
The rise and fall of WWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20s8u_iPm-w
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>>84152606
I'm glad you cleared that up with that last sentence.
>early 90's CN (I think?) removes Speedy Gonzalez to avoid offending Hispanics
>Hispanics throw a fit because of his removal
Fucking glorious.
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>>84151914
Samoans are the cheap vodka of Ethnicities.
They're not really good unless you mix it with something.
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>>84151473
Don't complain if you're white and male though!
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is Disney gonna cave on this, too late to effect the movie itself but it can still effect it regardless, or are they going to tell SJWs in the most Disney way possible to fuck off?
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Wouldn't Maui's design be considered strong and beautiful by his own cultural standards? I thought Polynesian warriors like Samoans were supposed to be huge strongfat dudes.
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>>84152946

I'd say he looks kind of dad mode. ala Mr Incredible.
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>>84145288
Yeah, one needs to be either stupid or blind to think that's fat. This guy is fucking huge in the good way
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>>84152796
Disney's not direct like that. What they COULD do is give some of the most famous islanders around a sneak preview, and let them hype it up. I imagine they grabbed the highest profile ones to already do voices in the thing so it can't be that hard.

I think they might cut a fat joke or two, or include a little more warrior badass from him, but I don't see them going all Princess and the Frog bland.
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>>84146005
Guess what: You're not going to please everyone. Some people will probably praise this movie for featuring Polynesians and different body types. They'll make comments and think pieces about it. Some will be upset that this movie feeds into the multiculti agenda. They'll make comments and think pieces as well.

Yet this movie will probably make boatloads of money. Does that mean that creators should just throw up their hands and not care if people are offended?

No creators should at the very least make sure their decisions are well reasoned and their characters are more than caricatures.
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>>84153463
>Does that mean that creators should just throw up their hands and not care if people are offended?

Sometimes, yes, that is exactly the correct thing to do.

>>84153463
>No creators should at the very least make sure their decisions are well reasoned

I disagree. The decisions don't necessarily need justification. The creators DO have good reasons here, which is sort of besides the point.

>and their characters are more than caricatures.
And I think you've lost the plot. Cartooning is literally the art of caricature.
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1) These people are retarded because having your super-strong, super-powerful, super-prominent, super-demigod legend figure built like a brick house is literally the opposite of "fat shaming."

2) He's not fat.
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I think this is the first time Tumblr and /co/ can agree on something. This guy isn't fucking fat, he's built like a fucking mountain. A guy that can pull islands out from the sea with a giant hook isn't going to look nice and cut like superman, he's going to look like a giant bear.
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>>84153229
The voice of Moana at least isn't anyone famous. Just a teenage girl who walked in, did an audition, then got called back in.
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>>84145228
>Disney reacts to the critics by having a promotional bumper where Moana or some other character poke him in the gut, only to find it is rock solid
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Dude has hands and feet the size of dinner plates. I'm pretty sure his physique isn't supposed to be completely realistic.
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>>84154942
Ironically, superman's build was originally supposed to mirror strongmen originally. He just roided up over time
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>>84154942
Well technically he can look like whatever the fuck you want, since that's not in the human range of doable
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>>84155372
Would a strong demigod look believable with the figure of George Costanza? I think not.
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>>84145395
Not always.
Ans nobody gave a shit back then.
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>>84145228
>WE WANT TO BE REPRESENTED
>get representation
>M-MUH SHAMING!

these motherfuckers, i swear
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>>84145480
In the mythology, he cast a magical fish hook into the sea, and it hooked the ocean's floor, and he and his brothers pulled so hard that it raised the islands of hawaii.

i'm really shortening the myth here, it involves considerably more rowing than i'm letting on.
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>>84156147
Those asshats want attention not equality get used to it
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>>84146936
Here in eagleland, we call them Natural Offensive Linemen...
>Sheds a tear for Polumalu
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>>84145228
That's like saying Wreck-it Ralph is fat shaming because Ralph is fat. While we're at it, why not we have Emperor's New Groove fat shaming because Pacha is overweight?
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>>84150860
That's where Ryu took the cheap shot.
>Sagat 4 lyfe
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>>84151409
When a character in popular media is fat, it's bad.
When a "person" on Tumblr with exotically colored hair is fat, it's good.
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>Critics
Critic.
New Zealand politician Jenny Salesa specifically.
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>>84145228
>New Zealand politician Jenny Salesa

and i continue to be ashamed to be from new zealand

also her political party and webpage supports fat shaming too.
.
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>>84156147

This is never just about representation but dominating the discourse. So much easier to win the discussion, whatever that might be, if you have a trump-card handy to make sure you always win; e.g calling racist/sexist.
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>>84156316
>While we're at it, why not we have Emperor's New Groove fat shaming because Pacha is overweight?

That was before the dark times of gender studies majors calling for thought control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmeSGwVBoao
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jenny also shames fat people by posting their fat shame on her twitter account.
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>>84145228
>All that muscle
>Fat
SO... THIS... IS... THE POWER... OF... AMERICAN EDUCATION......
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>New Zealand
Avenge me, Disney!
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>>84156667
He's muscular and fat in a way that is highly stylized. He is still at risk of heart disease, but whatever.
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>>84156667
it's the... power of... over government funded American Colleges
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He doesn't look fat. He looks retarded.
Really, I don't like that face.
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>>84150129

3 minute warning was the perfect example of how to do a monster stable without being literal monsters.

They were fast, strong, and efficient.
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>>84156667

You moron, if it was pure muscle, you'd see the detail of musculature.

This is called bear mode. Bulking without cutting. Strength for function not looks. There's a layer of fat over his muscles but his muscles are still mchuge.
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>>84156626
>that qt's face as the whale behind her spazzes out
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>>84145228
It's princess and the frog all over again.

>Disney does an ethnicity "accurately"
People bitch that it's a racist charicature

>Disney does an ethnicity "on model"
People bitch that it's whitewashing

>Disney does a movie with no minorities
People bitch that there were no minorities and want the characters to be fat/gay/etc.

They can't win. People love to get fucking mad. It's why I'm here right now
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>>84145228
If those critics took a tour of buffet restaurants and supermarkets for Polynesian men they're going to find a LOT more bulky examples as opposed to those hunky movie stars they happened to post.
When critics get mad about Disney Princesses being a departure from real life, they kinda need to shut up when Disney decides to swing the pendulum in the other direction.
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>>84145228
This should be shown in every school in every westren nation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX-p9WOZbu4
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>>84147624
They are real life wookies.
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Well statistically, Maori are the most obese group today in NZ.
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>That's not how [Race/Ethnic Group] looks!
>Look at these celebrities! This is how all [Race/Ethnic Group] look!
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When we look at Polynesian birds from the last 100-200 years, most of our people were not overweight and this negative stereotype of Maui is just not acceptable
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>>84157972
Funny enough everyone they chose was fucking mixed.
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>>84151711
Aren't live nxt shows the best?
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>>84145228
>literally all muscle coupled with being stylized and animated
>only half human anyway
Fuck off
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>>84157989
>when we look at pictures of Polynesian birds, we see that they do not have thick eyebrows and are stereotyped as looking like Jack Black
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Has anything good ever come out of New Zealand?
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>>84152606
>MECHA chicano
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>>84149646
>While several of Cyr's feats of strength may have been exaggerated over the years, some were documented and remain impressive. These included:
>lifting a platform on his back holding 18 men for a total of 1976 kg
>lifting a 534-pound (242 kg) weight with one finger
>pushing a freight car up an incline

Jesus fucking christ. For a manlet shorter than his mother, this guy was nuts.
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>>84156667
It's New Zealanders and Oceanic people getting upset you dumbfuck.
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>>84145228

What a bunch of jokers.
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>>84158140
That one vampire movie, what we do in the dark, I think it was called, is pretty amazing.
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Islanders are like 95% obese. It's not like a movie pointing that out is going to make it 96%.
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>>84145228
I assume this falls more under "racist" than "fat shaming". But either way it's a stupid complaint.
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>>84149646
abraham lincoln was strongest man ever
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>>84145228
Reminder that Dwayne "The Maui" Johnson had breast reduction surgery because Polynesians are genetically predisposed to man-tits.
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>>84159699
What We Do In The Shadows
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>>84145228
>fat
I thought that he was bearmode
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>>84156626

you know, i want to thank you for this anon, this is fucking beautiful.
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>>84145228
>most of our people were not overweight
Roman Reigns pls go
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I love it when they turn against each other

Death to Disney, though
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>>84152688
>>84152606
We all loved Looney Tunes but like every fe episodes there was like a Jewish con-artist that gets his head bashed in by a hammer having his teeth fall out by a piano tune so clearly they tried to get rid of it as quickly as possible. Atleast the memories are still there.
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>>84161654
>Jewish con-artist
who?
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>>84161681
Con-artists* sorry. Just watch it every few episodes a smug Jew gets rekt. Hillarious man.
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>>84152202
Creed was pretty good but I'm not sure if I'm down with them making sequels

mostly cause I know Rocky's gonna croak soon
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>>84161694
> Jew gets rekt
Oh man, I will love it
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>>84145228

>It's a /co/ judges a country by it's leftwing politicians episode

Come on guys. We all know they're crazy

Polynesians take the piss out of themselves all the time. I can prove it with /co/ material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vTE9CbY3Z0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWzZ54_Dft8
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>>84161713
Yes. It's pretty much always an allegory on racewars. Also constantly mocking Africa and niggers generally. Rip comedy.
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>>84148283
science is racist, my non-gender specific person(s)
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>>84152435
This assumes they were some kind of hivemind.
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>>84145829
there's a fat polynesian stereotype?
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"I'm a Samoan, just out for a stroll."
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>>84163041
I read that in Gantu's voice
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>>84146532

They are not fat. they are strong. You want a true definition of unfit obesity, look at the neck and belly. An unfit FAT person would have an overly huge belly fat hanging down and their neck would have multiple skin folds at the back.
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but Disney isn't fat shamingm the critics are.\ they are right though.
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>>84146532
is your brain sick ill enough to think OP is an accurate stylization of your pic? Get help.
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My brother lives in new zealand and he says that maori people are fucking huge
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>>84145228
>Get the most famous islander ever to play a character.
>Base the giant character on the giant actor.
>People complain it's unrealistic.
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>>84149132
>Approved cover art for all books showing her as white
>'Hermiones white face poked out from the trees.'

Lying cunt.
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>>84145288
I'm fucking pissed that people, especially the critics, doesn't realise this. Holy fuck, I wish I was built like that.

That's a body of function, not the type you see in the gym with people focusing more on how they look than strength.

My first thought when I saw Maui was "He's fucking strong" and that's not been my first thought when I've seen Superman or similar heroes/characters.

Superman looks good.

Maui looks like a force of fucking nature that can break you like a goddamn twig and I love that.
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>>84145480
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>>84145288
I don't know why they can't see that. Look at Maui's arms, he looks like he can pick up a boulder with relative ease.
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Looks like being Disney is suffering when you fanbase is full of SJW and nu-males that probably won't watch the movie anyway
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>>84145305
its usually rare when Tumblr complains about Disney
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>>84165199

I bet he'd make crushing rocks look such a breeze.
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>>84151418
Black Nick Fury only works because based Samuel L Jackson makes it work, and because is script was decent

I guarantee if it was a less-talented actor, Marvel would get a lot of shit, just like Fox got an earful by making Johnny Storm black. Not saying Michael Jordan is bad, he made an awesome job on Creed, but he's just a decent actor, and his script was garbage and the race-bending thing actively changed the entire established backstory of the Fantastic Four
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>>84145228
>Overweight
>Clearly muscular as FUCK
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>>84145228
>The mothefucker is a god with a giant bone hook who can transform.
What a weird way to think shameful
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To some people being fat is shameful.
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>overweight

He's a hulking tank of a man, in what way is he fat?
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