Tag: narcissism
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IS PUTIN TOO OLD TO WAGE HIS (WORLD?) WAR? (+COMPARISON WITH STALIN AND HITLER)
Putin’s age might be more significant in this matter than you think. Vladimir Putin is now 69 years old. At the beginning of World War II, in 1939, Hitler was 50, and his then ally, Stalin, was 60. That’s more than a decade less than Putin is right now, and in Hitler’s case almost 2…
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DR DOOM – HIS MOST IRRATIONAL DECISION? (“BOOKS OF DOOM”)
Many Doom fanboys usually highlight Dr Doom’s cold logic, his well-crafted and well-executed plans as some of the reasons they like him, but I, even though I still like Doom as a character, feel an urge to put at the forefront one of his most irrational decisions, featured in Ed Brubaker’s Books of Doom (2005).…
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DR DOOM’S WAR FOR ADMIRATION AND SADISTIC PLEASURE – HIS VILEST DEED? + SOME PARALLELS TO PUTIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE (BOOKS OF DOOM)
Ed Brubaker’s Books of Doom (2005) is an absolute origin-story masterpiece for the famous Marvel villain, and you will probably read about me analyzing different aspects of it through several posts. However, today I feel compelled to highlight Dr Doom’s perhaps vilest deed in a run that didn’t have a shortage of them. I haven’t…
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COLUMBO – “ÉTUDE IN BLACK” (1972) OR HOW HAVING NARCISSISTIC PARENTS PREDISPOSES YOU FOR GASLIGHTING
Lunch with Mom – the sad resignation in the eyes – I just love it! “Just don’t rely on your woman’s intuition. It’s never correct.” Alex Benedict (the murderer of the episode to his constantly gaslit wife) Columbo’s murderers usually seem to be quite high in narcissistic personality traits, so it should not come as…
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THE BIRTH OF A DEMON, STARRING RA’S AL GHUL (OR WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON’T LEAVE A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT IN TIME)
Ra’s himself tells us that the Lazarus pit has power because of the earth in which one digs it, or in other words, because of where it is, because of its environment. The pit has its power because of the environment the enablers create for their narcissist. In a less toxic soil, the narcissist just…