Jack Crawford: You're sympathizing with this guy?
Will Graham: Absolutely. My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable. He butchers whole families to pursue trivial fantasies. As an adult, someone should blow the sick fuck out of his socks. Does that sound like a contradiction to you, Jack? Does this kind of thinking make you uncomfortable?
-Manhunter (1986)
I've used this quote once before when talking about Sephiroth. How while the circumstances of his early life were terrible, namely being a genetically engineered test subject since conception, he ultimately became an irredeemable monster as a man. That while his early life was pitiable, Sephiroth was ultimately responsible for the atrocities he committed, and was simply to far gone to be redeemed. This made me think of what I consider to be a similar character in more recent pop-culture, Jon A.K.A. Homelander from the Amazon adaptation of The Boys. Both of them grew up in cold labs instead of with loving families.
But then you get the men who made these monsters, or at the very least the two men most associated with Sephiroth's and Homelander's creation, Dr. Hojo and Dr. Jonah Vogelbaum, respectively. Hojo is proud of how he raised Sephiroth, without a family, without love and without any true human connections. While Vogelbaum feels remorse and guilt over Jon's isolated upbringing, considering Jon/Homelander his greatest failure as a result, or seen in the clip below.
All in all, noticing the similarities and differences between both Sephiroth and Homelander makes me wonder how they'd react to each other in person. Especially the differences between Sephiroth the man (pre-Nibelheim incident) and Sephiroth the monster (post-Nibelheim incident) reactions toward Homelander. I don't see Hojo and Vogelbaum getting along at all though.
Will Graham: Absolutely. My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable. He butchers whole families to pursue trivial fantasies. As an adult, someone should blow the sick fuck out of his socks. Does that sound like a contradiction to you, Jack? Does this kind of thinking make you uncomfortable?
-Manhunter (1986)
I've used this quote once before when talking about Sephiroth. How while the circumstances of his early life were terrible, namely being a genetically engineered test subject since conception, he ultimately became an irredeemable monster as a man. That while his early life was pitiable, Sephiroth was ultimately responsible for the atrocities he committed, and was simply to far gone to be redeemed. This made me think of what I consider to be a similar character in more recent pop-culture, Jon A.K.A. Homelander from the Amazon adaptation of The Boys. Both of them grew up in cold labs instead of with loving families.
But then you get the men who made these monsters, or at the very least the two men most associated with Sephiroth's and Homelander's creation, Dr. Hojo and Dr. Jonah Vogelbaum, respectively. Hojo is proud of how he raised Sephiroth, without a family, without love and without any true human connections. While Vogelbaum feels remorse and guilt over Jon's isolated upbringing, considering Jon/Homelander his greatest failure as a result, or seen in the clip below.
All in all, noticing the similarities and differences between both Sephiroth and Homelander makes me wonder how they'd react to each other in person. Especially the differences between Sephiroth the man (pre-Nibelheim incident) and Sephiroth the monster (post-Nibelheim incident) reactions toward Homelander. I don't see Hojo and Vogelbaum getting along at all though.