r/AskScienceFiction

Hey, yall. Dumbass here.

So I wanna know if there's been any villains who are very supportive of their heros despite being the legit devil?

Dor example, a villain who praises the hero for their growth and strength and even saves them from death. A villain who will have pleasant conversations with the hero of the story despite just nuking a developing civilization and more. A villain who would kill everyone and everything ever but never wanna truly harm or kill the hero?

Anyone fit this bill? or nah not possible?

The big reveal in The Da Vinci Code is twofold:

1. Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene, and their children became the Merovingian kings.
2. Mary Magdalene is buried underneath the Louvre pyramid.

The first is already widely known in-universe before the novel starts. Robert Langdon knows the secret from page 1. He's made documentaries about it with Teabing. It's not yet accepted by historians, but it's not by any means a secret.

The second part is the only real discovery of the book. But let's assume the Priory went public and revealed Mary Magdalene's bones to the world. What would it prove?

DNA could show it was an ancient Judean woman, but not who. It would be very difficult to authenticate these bones as the real Mary Magdalene - it could be any lady from first-century Judea.

And the Jesus bloodline? That would be impossible to prove. We have no DNA of Jesus. Heck, we've never even extracted Merovingian DNA from any of their bodies. The most you could ever prove was that this first century Judean woman was the ancestor of Sophie Neveu.

Even if the Priory has ancient documents asserting a marriage, they would be no more definitive than any ancient apocryphal gospel.

So in reality, if the Priory went public, the Catholic Church would rejoice! Bones of Saint Mary Magdalene! No genetic proof of a Jesus bloodline. And the fact that the Priory does NOT have the bones of Jesus would only strengthen the Church's case!

In Frozen, Prince Hans of the Southern Isles attempted to forcibly marry Princess Anna of Arendelle, and then murder her sister Elsa, thereby making himself King through an illegal scheme. He came very close to killing Elsa, as well as leaving Anna to die and blaming her death on Elsa. Given the context of the setting, it stands to reason Hans ought to have been executed for this.

But the next time we see him in Frozen Fever, we see that his punishment apparently consisted of shoveling out the royal stables. That's unpleasant, no doubt about it, but it's a surprisingly light sentence for the things he did. Considering he attempted two murders, one of which was on the monarch of another country, why wasn't Hans given a more severe punishment?

I often like to quip about how just about every superhero I could name needs a therapist. The end of Invincible's fourth season has the eponymous hero decide to seek help because of the trauma from the defeat Thragg handed him.

However, seeing a mental health professional isn't magic, especially since the best thing Invincible would be to stop being a superhero which he can't exactly do with the position Earth is in.

So, how much can a professional actually assist someone in a position where they have to keep doing the thing that is bad for their mental health?

The molotov bottle smashed and the fuel ⛽️ burnt on the surface of the hay but it didn’t even discolour the hay. I have fought in some fake settings before but this looked like real hay. So what happened?

And more broadly, what is Rainbow Quartz's opinion of Greg Universe at the time? I know they were only fused for a few seconds but the question has been in my head for a while.