#brooklyn nine nine
This is the real world. Relationships end in unsatisfying ways everyday. People don’t run to each other in the rain.
remember that time when jake found out that women watch porn? that was good.
An iconic moment from every B99 episode: Lockdown 2x07
Honestly I will always be grateful to Brooklyn 99 for giving us “cool motive, still murder” as a quick, no-frills response to all these weak white boy villains with woe-is-me backstories that fandoms inevitably try to woobify.
Honestly, I feel like “cool motive; still murder” is muchmore useful as a response to all the supposed good guys and heroes who do terrible and/or boneheaded things that are then justified because they had good intentions. Because let’s face it, most villains don’t actually have a cool motive for the murders they commit, but supposedly cool motives are used to justify murders (and other shitty stuff) done by the good guys all the time.
I mean, just look how it rolls off the tongue:
- Tony Stark wanted to keep the world safe when he created a psychotic AI who nearly reduced the entire planet to rubble? Cool motive. Still murder.
- Nick Fury planned to use the hellicarriers that can kill any person on the planet to target only terrorists? Cool Motive. Still murder.
- Peggy Carter thought she could control the ex-Hydra operatives she brought in to help build SHIELD? Cool motive. Still murder.
- Barry Allen lured violent metahumans into a fatal trap because they had tried to kill him? Cool motive. Still murder.
- Matt Murdock feels comfortable throwing criminals off buildings because there’s a convenient dumpster at the bottom? Cool motive. Still (probably; at the very least attempted) murder.
- Everything SHIELD has done, like, ever? Cool motive. Still murder.
Seriously, I feel like at this stage I could slap this GIF on the entire superhero genre and it would save a hell of a lot of time.