amusingly, "chosen one" trope is anathema to both left of center folks (like @Hugo_Book_Club ), and tech-com right-of-center libertarians types (like me). Lefties want everyone to be equal-ish, and libertarians want folks to be unequal...via choices made w free will & hard workhttps://twitter.com/Hugo_Book_Club/status/1455724159107928065 …
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Totally get that. I’m thinking more of the ‘chosen’ but reluctant or ‘chosen’ but effs it up somehow and ends up having to rely on grit not part of the expected plan. Of course, I can’t think of an example offhand so chances are I may just be full of shit. Hah.
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By the rules of story karma, a chosen one only works if being chosen entails a commensurate sacrifice/burden. Easy to see in Dune. Luke Skywalker has to go through weird ego death to become a Jedi. Harry Potter has to die or whatever (I only saw the movie). Et cetera
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Garth Ennis has a pretty enjoyable comic about the antichrist, whose attitude toward being chosen to destroy the world is a sort of bored contemptuous "No, fuck you, I *like* the world," followed by an incredulous "What *possible* incentive would I have to go along with that?"
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I don't think it was his strongest effort- characters were a little weaker, and I think it went a little too far with the gross-out humor. Or maybe it just had a worse grossness:substance ratio, so the gross bits felt more pointless than normal and also kind of boring.
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This is why Neo's best moment is when he's told he's *not* The One, yet goes to fight for Morpheus to the bitter end.
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