"Ask a historian, 'What was mankind's greatest invention?' Fire? The wheel? The sword? I would argue it's history itself. History isn't fact. It's narrative, one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pen strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero, a lie becomes the truth."
Gaal Dornick - Foundation (Season 1 episode 9)
“I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you,” is one of the rawest lines in all of fiction and it pierces me like a blade every time I hear it
MATT MURDOCK + Reddit Comment Reactions to that One Iconic Matt Tweet
BONUS:
Lee Pace as Ned the Pie Maker in Pushing Daisies (2007—2009)
You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.
Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.
Kill the censor in your head.
At least Born Again holds to the metric that if I’m having a bad day, Matt Murdock is having a worse one.
Aragorn protecting the hobbits from the Nazgûl: