>Was it autism?
If you watched the movie recently you may have noticed how his mental health is deteriorating as he is being played with in a wild goose chase that culminates with him being right yet not being able to destroy the robot, he decides to take it on his hands but he's not in a good mental condition to realize he has basically committed suicide.
Reminds me of Frank Grimes
Basically this. He already has the “Us versus Them” mentality, so he gets more and more obsessed with being right. When he proves the Giant is real, but it turns out he’s friendly and the answer ISN’T to wipe it out, he loses his senses because he couldn’t handle the fact that he still lost.
That’s why Mansley is an effective antagonist. He’s not just some evil agent, he’s a guy who feels oddly real, a guy who is so adamant about being right that he screws up on a massive scale.
He was unironically /misc/ of his day. Scared of everything and unable to acknowledge the possibility that something couldn't be the worst embodiment of everything he had been convinced to fear.
He pretty much lays out his motivations in the "Coco Avalanche" scene where he and Hogarth are talking Geo-Politics Over laxative sprinkled Milk Shakes.
The man is so obsessed with the idea of the big powerful enemy from abroad that he sees it everywhere, even when the Giant turns out to NOT be Russian, it doesn't matter, it's not American and therefore it has to be treated as hostile, even when fellow Americans, including the Armed Forces, the guys who hammer out what to do with the Hostile bastards, are standing down. The idea that that's a win, we've avoided a massive violent upheaval, doesn't even occur to him. He's so wound up that he's ready to damn the entire area around the Giant to a nuclear fire-frick-ball and, to be geo-politically realistic; oncoming Nuclear exchange because the Russkies are NOT going to stand by and watch this shit unfold.
Didn't help the Giant, when the chips are down, proved to be every bit as dangerous as he imagined, even if his and the Army's intervention was what set the whole thing off.
There's a weird part of me that wonders what his reaction would've been if the Giant surrendered peaceably.
There's a brief moment where the giant directs a glare at Mansley. This seems to freak him out to the point that he grabs the radio and orders the launch. I don't think Mansley was motivated by hate as much as fear; he was genuinely scared of the giant and its intentions. Nobody knew what it was, where it had come from, or why it was there. It was huge, too. It made sense to be afraid of it. Even sympathetic characters were frightened when they first saw it.
Technically Mansley was right. The giant was built to be a war machine. He was supposed to invade and conquer the Earth.
It was only a matter of luck that the giant got damaged and forgot his original mission.
He's a good tether to parallel the people who go into institutional hierarchy, whether military, federal, industrial, or academic. He makes up the vast majority within each and every single individual participating, dogmatic in their normalized, naturally average sociopathy.
Government agents just aren't right.
>12 Pieces of chicken
>An additional 5
>Tfw no bottomless pit Spook gf
Unironically maybe. High stress can induce autistic traits in people otherwise unprone to such behavior.
>Was it autism?
If you watched the movie recently you may have noticed how his mental health is deteriorating as he is being played with in a wild goose chase that culminates with him being right yet not being able to destroy the robot, he decides to take it on his hands but he's not in a good mental condition to realize he has basically committed suicide.
Reminds me of Frank Grimes
Basically this. He already has the “Us versus Them” mentality, so he gets more and more obsessed with being right. When he proves the Giant is real, but it turns out he’s friendly and the answer ISN’T to wipe it out, he loses his senses because he couldn’t handle the fact that he still lost.
That’s why Mansley is an effective antagonist. He’s not just some evil agent, he’s a guy who feels oddly real, a guy who is so adamant about being right that he screws up on a massive scale.
TAKE ME TO CHURCH
spaghetti fell out of his pockets
I don't know, but now I'm going to go watch Iron Giant again
He was unironically /misc/ of his day. Scared of everything and unable to acknowledge the possibility that something couldn't be the worst embodiment of everything he had been convinced to fear.
He pretty much lays out his motivations in the "Coco Avalanche" scene where he and Hogarth are talking Geo-Politics Over laxative sprinkled Milk Shakes.
The man is so obsessed with the idea of the big powerful enemy from abroad that he sees it everywhere, even when the Giant turns out to NOT be Russian, it doesn't matter, it's not American and therefore it has to be treated as hostile, even when fellow Americans, including the Armed Forces, the guys who hammer out what to do with the Hostile bastards, are standing down. The idea that that's a win, we've avoided a massive violent upheaval, doesn't even occur to him. He's so wound up that he's ready to damn the entire area around the Giant to a nuclear fire-frick-ball and, to be geo-politically realistic; oncoming Nuclear exchange because the Russkies are NOT going to stand by and watch this shit unfold.
Didn't help the Giant, when the chips are down, proved to be every bit as dangerous as he imagined, even if his and the Army's intervention was what set the whole thing off.
There's a weird part of me that wonders what his reaction would've been if the Giant surrendered peaceably.
Was it this?
Was it that?
Is this that?
Is that this?
I don't fricking know. I'm just some guy on a anonymous image board goddamn it!
Exchange of ideas is the base of online interaction.
Maybe you do have the Gran Autismo anon
he just really hated the robot,for some reason
There's a brief moment where the giant directs a glare at Mansley. This seems to freak him out to the point that he grabs the radio and orders the launch. I don't think Mansley was motivated by hate as much as fear; he was genuinely scared of the giant and its intentions. Nobody knew what it was, where it had come from, or why it was there. It was huge, too. It made sense to be afraid of it. Even sympathetic characters were frightened when they first saw it.
Technically Mansley was right. The giant was built to be a war machine. He was supposed to invade and conquer the Earth.
It was only a matter of luck that the giant got damaged and forgot his original mission.
Apparently that youtube link isn't working anymore, meant to post this video:
Is Mansley a good analogy for ANY extremist political belief?
He's a good tether to parallel the people who go into institutional hierarchy, whether military, federal, industrial, or academic. He makes up the vast majority within each and every single individual participating, dogmatic in their normalized, naturally average sociopathy.
>took a general's radio to order a nuclear warhead to be fired on an American town
so he was executed, right?
Traitor.