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Guy got his arm cut off by his own mom btw and beaten up until near death

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When a character's actions carry a great deal more consequences that it would be reasonable for them to know/assume they would, for better or worse. Mixed because the fandom (and sometimes the story itself, sadly) can choose to ignore the fact that it doesn't make sense to consider the character to be fully responsible for something they did without knowing the full implications of their actions: Imagine wishing upon a star for there to be total global peace on Earth, and the wish resulting in all living beings dying immediately because that's the only way global peace can be achieved.

1. Bear wishes for Nikki to love him (Obsession): Well executed, in my opinion. The wish is innocent enough in principle, but it carries horrific consequences when you take it to its fullest extent (and make it the premise of a horror movie). The big payoff comes in the fact that, when confronted with the real consequences of his wish, Bear... doesn't back down. Turns out he maybe was deserving of the consequences of it lol.

2. Marcy Wu making her friends open the Calamity Box (Amphibia): Mixed, in somewhat of a good way. Basically, she learns from a book that there's a magic music box that can take her and her friends to a magical world... where she can conveniently escape the reality of her parents splitting her apart from them by moving. I kind of dislike it because the show makes a big deal about Anne and Sasha finding out about her actions, making her seem deceitful, and a section of the fans blame her for the whole ordeal, when in my view, that'd be the equivalent of blaming a kid for wanting to travel to Narnia and making their friends enter a closet, when there's really no evidence the act could be anything but wishful thinking. The fact that she egged her friend Anne to steal the box redeems the idea a bit in my view though, by showing that Marcy wasn't all that innocent in her actions, which I rather like.

3. Jax pressing the button (The Amazing Digital Circus): Mixed too, but in a different way. Long story short, the cast is trapped in a digital world ruled by a rogue AI, and they're offered a once in a lifetime chance to escape, along with an assurance they'll never get to and will be trapped forever if they refuse it. For personal reasons, Jax panics and presses the button that traps them, convinced the AI is trying to trick them, as the others debate what the right choice to make is. The twist? The AI never meant for them to escape, it only wanted to test their loyalty. Jax chose the right option. *Unbeknownst to him*. What I didn't like was the reaction of the cast in the next episode, where most of them just sort of forgive Jax for LITERALLY CHOOSING PERPETUALLY BEING TRAPPED IN DIGITAL HELL for all of them. What I did like? The final episode puts Jax in a similar situation, where he gets to judge someone else that messed up and fucked it all up for everybody. As the ass he is, he brutally blames him for it, and expects all the others to back him up. But nobody else in the cast does. They all forgive the guy, just as they forgave Jax, making him look an absolute hypocrite.