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** It was established to ''the audience'' that Jack doesn't care about the Bakers Dozen. That doesn't mean ''Goldi'' knows that.
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*** Alternatively, they may've been loving parents but were otherwise as villainous as Jack is or they may have been loving, if a bit distant. Since we don't really see 'em flashbacks (and them flashbacks are told from Jack's view), who knows?
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*** Alternatively, they may've been loving parents but were otherwise as villainous as Jack is or they may have been loving, if a bit distant. Since we don't really see 'em flashbacks (and them the flashbacks are told from Jack's view), who knows?
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*** Alternatively, they may've been loving parents but were otherwise as villainous as Jack is. Since we don't really see 'em flashbacks, who knows?
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*** Alternatively, they may've been loving parents but were otherwise as villainous as Jack is. is or they may have been loving, if a bit distant. Since we don't really see 'em flashbacks, flashbacks (and them flashbacks are told from Jack's view), who knows?
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***Alternatively, they may've been loving parents but were otherwise as villainous as Jack is. Since we don't really see 'em flashbacks, who knows?
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Goldilocks and the three bears describe themselves as a crime family, indicating they're mobsters like Jack. So why do they act like mercenaries instead of ''hiring'' mercenaries?
* They are specifically a ''small'' time crime family. They don't have any mercenaries to hire (yet), so they have to do everything themselves. And they don't work for other people, only themselves: In the movie, the bears (minus Goldi) are trying to get the wish to become a big-time crime syndicate ("Not a big time crime syndicate, love, a big time crime ''family''"), and in the The Trident short, they are getting the trident to make their porridge just right.
* They are specifically a ''small'' time crime family. They don't have any mercenaries to hire (yet), so they have to do everything themselves. And they don't work for other people, only themselves: In the movie, the bears (minus Goldi) are trying to get the wish to become a big-time crime syndicate ("Not a big time crime syndicate, love, a big time crime ''family''"), and in the The Trident short, they are getting the trident to make their porridge just right.
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* Goldilocks and the three bears describe themselves as a crime family, indicating they're mobsters like Jack. So why do they act like mercenaries instead of ''hiring'' mercenaries?
* ** They are specifically a ''small'' time crime family. They don't have any mercenaries to hire (yet), so they have to do everything themselves. And they don't work for other people, only themselves: In the movie, the bears (minus Goldi) are trying to get the wish to become a big-time crime syndicate ("Not a big time crime syndicate, love, a big time crime ''family''"), and in the The Trident short, they are getting the trident to make their porridge just right.
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** It could also be that he was asking what specific thing caused him to go from just being bad to irredeemably evil.
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** It could also be that he was asking what specific thing caused him to cross the MoralEventHorizon and made him go from just being bad to irredeemably evil.
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Goldilocks and the three bears describe themselves as a crime family, indicating they're mobsters like Jack. So why do they act like mercenaries instead of ''hiring'' mercenaries?
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** Perhaps their devotion to Jack is more akin to a CultOfPersonality. The Baker's Dozen demonstrate a deep commitment to him to the point of being Jack's best enforcers, so it's quite possible that the loyalty stems from an unhealthy and one-sided devotion. After all, when one dies during the fight against the Flowers, he begs Jack to avenge his death, which means that the Bakers Dozen are convinced, at least on some level, that their loyalty is reciprocated and Jack actually cares about their lives. Jack never insults them to their faces, and his lack of consideration for their lives is only ever mentioned out loud to the Ethical Bug, as if its something he doesn't want the Bakers Dozen to know. It seems like a typical case of an abusive authority figure fostering some level of affection with their underlings when it's clear that the affection is heavily skewed.
** [[https://www.tumblr.com/animatorrader/708104272503554048/id-like-to-think-that-the-bakers-dozen-were-all?source=share One theory]] on Tumblr brings up the idea that the Bakers Dozen are all orphans that Jack adopted ([[BadBoss to use for child labor, of course]]), and that they all see him as a father figure. Which, if true, makes their deaths due to his actions even more tragic.
** [[https://www.tumblr.com/animatorrader/708104272503554048/id-like-to-think-that-the-bakers-dozen-were-all?source=share One theory]] on Tumblr brings up the idea that the Bakers Dozen are all orphans that Jack adopted ([[BadBoss to use for child labor, of course]]), and that they all see him as a father figure. Which, if true, makes their deaths due to his actions even more tragic.
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** There's a theory going around that Jack kept Bug around for so long to torment the poor creature, supported by the fact that it wasn't until Bug gave up and declared Jack Horner "an irredeemable monster" that Jack flicked him off.
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** They are on a quest for a wishing star and their boss wants ultimate cosmic power sans itty-bitty living space; perhaps in their minds if they demonstrated enough utility loyalty etc Jack would just undo whatever befell them.
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** The thing is, Mama and Papa actually ''do'' just that. When they get to Mama Luna's, Goldi orders Baby to sniff out Puss, and Baby protests because "you (meaning GOldi) don't tell me what to do." Mama tells him to follow his sister's orders, Baby replies with "She's not my sister, she's a fugitive orphan," to which Papa immediately responds with a whack over the head and a "She is your sister, and you do as she says." Couple that with the fact that they always take Goldi's side in any arguments ("No, son, you do. You do have dingleberries.") and I'm honestly surprised that ''Baby'' wasn't eager to wish for a 'proper family'.
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** The thing is, Mama and Papa actually ''do'' just that. When they get to Mama Luna's, Goldi orders Baby to sniff out Puss, and Baby protests because "you (meaning GOldi) Goldi) don't tell me what to do." Mama tells him to follow his sister's orders, Baby replies with "She's not my sister, she's a fugitive orphan," to which Papa immediately responds with a whack over the head and a "She is your sister, and you do as she says." Couple that with the fact that they always take Goldi's side in any arguments ("No, son, you do. You do have dingleberries.") and I'm honestly surprised that ''Baby'' wasn't eager to wish for a 'proper family'.
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** The thing is, Mama and Papa actually ''do'' just that. When they get to Mama Luna's, Goldi orders Baby to sniff out Puss, and Baby protests because of the odor. Mama tells him to follow his sister's orders, Baby replies with "She's not my sister, she's a fugitive orphan," to which Papa immediately responds with a whack over the head and a "She is your sister, and you do as she says." Couple that with the fact that they always take Goldi's side in any arguments ("No, son, you do. You do have dingleberries.") and I'm honestly surprised that ''Baby'' wasn't eager to wish for a 'proper family'.
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** The thing is, Mama and Papa actually ''do'' just that. When they get to Mama Luna's, Goldi orders Baby to sniff out Puss, and Baby protests because of the odor. "you (meaning GOldi) don't tell me what to do." Mama tells him to follow his sister's orders, Baby replies with "She's not my sister, she's a fugitive orphan," to which Papa immediately responds with a whack over the head and a "She is your sister, and you do as she says." Couple that with the fact that they always take Goldi's side in any arguments ("No, son, you do. You do have dingleberries.") and I'm honestly surprised that ''Baby'' wasn't eager to wish for a 'proper family'.
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** There's also the possibility that dying is an automated process. Death only intervenes in unique cases. And if it's true that Death is only there for respect, Death isn't trying to actually kill Puss. The whole problem seems to be Puss "laughing in the face of death", mocking him. Or this Death is personally created by the individual.
