I definitely think there’s Something ™ to say about the portrayal of “off-human” characters in modern media adaptations as having (particularly facial) deformities and/or learning disabilities.
Robert Louis Stevenson was fully like “this is my OC, Hyde, who represents a comete lack of caring for your fellow man. There is nothing extraordinary about him except that his rancid vibes make people uncomfortable which adds to the core theme of the role of morality in humanity, so its really important that he’s physically normal so the audience can recognise that it’s what’s inside that’s most important,” and every film adaptation was like “mmkay. Yeah, no, I’ve got it. We can show that he’s evil by using prosthetics and making him non/semi-verbal, which, as we all know, are the True Measures of Evil.”
[ID: An image of a white sporty-looking car with a high spoiler on the back; a woman is sitting on the trunk of the car, legs through the spoiler, using it like a narrow table to eat soup off of. She also has what looks like a coffee drink and possibly some french fries nearby.]
[ID art of a leather jacket with text that reads, “I thought that my life would suddenly improve if I got a leather jacket and I was literally 100% totally right.”]
You are constantly mocked for having such a weird superpower by all the other heroes. “The power to make anything into perfectly cooked soup”… One day, a massive meteor is barreling towards earth. As all the other heroes are panicking, you wait perfectly calm, at the impact zone, bowl in hand.
