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-->-- "Who's Who", "[[http://mightygodking.com/2010/11/11/thursday-whos-who-mr-mxyzptlk/ Who's Who]]", '''Mightygodking.com'''
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-> ''Mr. Mxyzptlk is a great character because he effectively inverts the entire Superman storytelling model.''
-> ''Superman stories are in many ways about God. Superman can be capricious ([[{{Superdickery}} as he often was with his tricks in the Silver Age]]). Superman can be [[ThouShaltNotKill merciful.]] Superman can be [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre compassionate.]] Of course, the Superman-as-God metaphor has been stretched awfully thin at this point so I won’t go into further detail on that score, but you get the point: most Superman stories are about a being more powerful than humanity ever can be.''
-> ''Superman stories are in many ways about God. Superman can be capricious ([[{{Superdickery}} as he often was with his tricks in the Silver Age]]). Superman can be [[ThouShaltNotKill merciful.]] Superman can be [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre compassionate.]] Of course, the Superman-as-God metaphor has been stretched awfully thin at this point so I won’t go into further detail on that score, but you get the point: most Superman stories are about a being more powerful than humanity ever can be.''
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-> ''And then Mxyzptlk comes along [[AlwaysABiggerFish and now Superman isn’t squat.]] This is because while Superman is a dandy metaphor for God, Mxyzptlk, for all practical intents and purposes, [[RealityWarper is God.]] Mxyzptlk can’t be beaten, stopped or destroyed; he only goes away when you satisfy the rule he made up on a whim. And, like God, he’s basically unknowable; [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm you can see aspects of Mxyzptlk but never the whole.]]''
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'''David''': The Great Gazoo from TheFlintstones.WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones. \\
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-> ''And then Mxyzptlk comes along and now Superman isn’t squat. This is because while Superman is a dandy metaphor for God, Mxyzptlk, for all practical intents and purposes, [[RealityWarper is God.]] Mxyzptlk can’t be beaten, stopped or destroyed; he only goes away when you satisfy the rule he made up on a whim. And, like God, he’s basically unknowable; [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm you can see aspects of Mxyzptlk but never the whole.]]''
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-> ''And then Mxyzptlk comes along [[AlwaysABiggerFish and now Superman isn’t squat. squat.]] This is because while Superman is a dandy metaphor for God, Mxyzptlk, for all practical intents and purposes, [[RealityWarper is God.]] Mxyzptlk can’t be beaten, stopped or destroyed; he only goes away when you satisfy the rule he made up on a whim. And, like God, he’s basically unknowable; [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm you can see aspects of Mxyzptlk but never the whole.]]''
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->'''246''': David, who is the most evil cartoon character ever created? It was before 2000, a long time before. \\
'''David''': Well, I’m guessing it would have to be someone who is doing or did something really bad. \\
'''246''': Yes. \\
'''David''': One of those people who destroyed the earth? Or tried to, like Marvin the Martian. \\
'''246''': We’re not on earth, so that wouldn’t affect us. \\
'''David''': Someone who destroyed, or would have destroyed something. \\
'''246''': You’re getting warmer. \\
'''David''': Everything. Someone who destroyed, or could have destroyed the universe. \\
'''246''': Uh huh, and who might that be? \\
'''David''': Damn, this seems so familiar. Oh shit. It just hit me. I wouldn’t have thought of it otherwise. You think backward, as you say, so it wouldn’t be someone really vicious, it would be someone cute. And I can only think of one character that fits those qualifications. \\
'''246''': And whom do you get? \\
'''David''': The Great Gazoo from TheFlintstones. \\
'''246''': Why? \\
'''David''': He got sent to earth as punishment for creating a machine that could annihilate the entire universe. \\
'''246''': You got it. \\
'''David''': Sure. But I don’t understand why you consider him the most evil cartoon character. \\
'''246''': You pointed it out exactly. ''Because'' the character of The Great Gazoo is cute. He looks harmless. Hidden evil is much worse and more dangerous than obvious evil. Now, I might have given him a pass on being ‘evil’ except that he knew what his device would do and he knew what the consequences of his actions were.
->- InstrumentOfGod
