Jack (David Hopkins) / Fridge

Fridge Brilliance:
- At first, I saw the idea of going to Hell for comitting suicide as a way to stop people in real life from doing so, but then it hit me. Life is considered by many to be God's greatest gift, and committing suicide would be pretty much tossing God's gift away and being unthankful for it. In short, you go to Hell for committing suicide because you basically said "Fuck you! I don't like your present!" to the Lord by killing yourself.
- The second possible reason is even simpler: "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Nowhere in that line does that exclude yourself. So, from a theological perspective, suicide is nothing more than murdering yourself.
- Theologically debatable; see below.
- Jack immediately coming back from Hell after being decapitated during Those That Run at first seems dreadfully anti-climactic and pretty much a Deus ex Machina. Especially since removing a Sin's head and sending them to Hell had been inferred as a way to keep them there for some time and it was implied to be a big deal for Jack as well. Then I realized that's because Jack is the only Sin that's supposed to be on Earth! The others are unnatural and upset the balance of things whenever they roam among the living, so sending them back to Hell is just course-correcting things, while Jack basically gets a free pass because it'd certainly unbalance things if Death himself couldn't collect souls.
Fridge Horror:
- "I'll head to Taco hell after I check outta here".
- The "NRA Preacher" from the "Angry Brian" arc is a hero for saving the kids, no doubt about that, but one has to wonder... Why was he in school with a gun? Brian mentioned that the kid was also laughed at, quite a bit. Perhaps the NRA Preacher was merely on his way to do what Brian did, and Brian beat him to it?
- God in this series is terrifying. Rather than a wise, loving parent, she's a despotic child who cares more about forcing people to respect her than fairness, mercy, or justice. Her idea of "being strict" with Lucifer "until he's ready to say he's sorry" is giving him free license to manipulate souls on Earth and in Heaven. She condemns people to Hell for the most minor infractions and then robs them of their memories, and dispatches angels to kill those who would change their ways in order to screw them out of their chance at redemption. And yet, she's indisputably correct because she's God, and no one is capable of arguing with her.
  - Considering her approach to 'parenting' where Lucifer is concerned is basically to send him to his room until he's ready to apologize, but she doesn't actually take away any of his toys or his privileges or actually punish him, and instead condemns his victims as being in need of repentance for the smallest things. In other words, she's one of those talkshow-bait pushover moms that lets their kid do whatever he wants, blames everyone else for his terrible behavior, and refuses to take responsibility for the damage she lets him cause.
God is forcing furrykind to relive all of Earth's history and make all of humanity's same mistakes. Let me repeat that: God is forcing furrykind to repeat all of history's wars, tyranny, plagues, and so on, and she is sending people to Hell left and right for their part in it. There is NO free will in Jack. None.
Fridge Logic:
- If the furries were created by humans with genetic engineering, why are there furry veterans of World War I and Vietnam in Hell?
  - Plot holes.
  - The idea was that God restarted Earth and forced furries to re-live all of Earth's history.
- How exactly did a man living under a bridge convince the gas, water, and electric companies to give him their services, especially when he doesn't appear to have a job?
  - They're all powered by rape.
  - Stealing electricity from the grid really isn't that hard.
- How does Hell deal with souls from cultures with a completely different moral compass? It seems kind of harsh that a warrior-type raised his entire life to obey his master without question be sent to hell for something he was ordered to do. Like with Todd's orders, but with a lifetime of indoctrination behind it.
  - It deals with them the same way it deals with everyone. Even the slightest wrongdoing will get you sent to Hell, and it doesn't care what culture you're from.
- During the game of "Musical Holes," why don't the men just 69 each other once they fully realize what the rules are and the women are gone? Some initial reluctance and pride makes sense, but to carry on like that through the entire game seems downright idiotic.
  - Author Appeal, basically. If there's ever a choice between a scene where there could be two people having consensual, mutually-fulfilling sex (even if the actual fulfillment and consent are dubious) and a scene where the same two people could be a rapist and victim, Hopkins will just about always choose the rape.
  - You presume that the men want anyone but themselves to survive. They a) don't necessarily know or like each other, b) would try to play a game like that in the first place (the ones who refused were all killed in round one for obvious reasons), and c) "have been told only the parts that would appeal to them", i.e. that there will be a "winner" with a prize they don't know they in fact really don't want to get. Also, commenter above is missing that in the circumstances, that would be rape either way; they still have to do it or die and presumably don't want to, which is what makes it rape, not whether it's violent.
- Okay: Sheepgod knows her world is unfair and cruel and literally demands pain and suffering from her creations so they can "grow" according to her rules while still demanding they apologize to her for not being perfect, and so she begs her creations' forgiveness. But holding a grudge gets you sent to Hell, so if you don't forgive Sheepgod for being a completely insane psychopathic cunt, then you get punished forever?
Very few current religions consider suicide to be Hell-worthy, for reasons of compromised judgment which we now know about with advances in mental health treatment. Obviously, in the comic, the reason is because if the suicide characters weren't in Hell they wouldn't be able to interact with the story, but one would have thought celestial mechanics would be more advanced in taking mental health into account. It gets more strange when a side strip sequence on the artist's Furaffinity says those who jumped from the falling Twin Towers rather than wait to fall could still get into Heaven, the exact phrasing being "Suicide for self-preservation is not a sin": couldn't one argue that suicide is always for the purpose of self-preservation, even if the threat comes from within one's own mind? Given that real theologists don't have a consensus on this, authors of Bangsian fantasy are rather required to pick an option and stick with it, though.

Fridge / Jack (David Hopkins)

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