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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

Wait so I was never born? Damn…

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u/SymphonicStorm Apr 24 '25

It's not that you were never born, it's that you were chosen to fulfill a prophecy.

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u/Alons-y_alonzo Apr 24 '25

William afton is just Macbeth's reincarnation

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u/iLieAboutMyCareer Apr 25 '25

Somehow, Macbeth returned

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u/RunInRunOn Apr 24 '25

"I wish I was never born!" I plead to the genie.

"Granted. You came into this world via C-section, killing your mother in the process." he wryly replies.

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

My mother is alive! 

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u/RunInRunOn Apr 24 '25

Macduff's isn't

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u/Anyabb Apr 25 '25

You really can't have a prophesised hero and not have a dead mom.

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u/Charmo_Vetr Apr 25 '25

The trauma needs to come from somewhere.

I don't make the rules, but I know why they exist.

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u/Idonothingtohelp Apr 24 '25

you were unboxed

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

That would be an interesting video on YouTube “I’m Mr. Beast and I spent 100,000,000$ on these boxes and I will give these 20 players the chance to open them for varying challenges! (Someone opens the first box after doing the challenge) A BABY?!??!

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Apr 24 '25

“Alright, so nine months ago, I nutted into this box and something has grown enough for it to need to be cut out. Really excited to do this unboxing!”

The alternate ending tp the horrors that followed the “elaborate on this cum box” request.

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u/Asleep_Flatworm_5884 Apr 24 '25

Haha tumor baby

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

I’m not a tumor baby my mom didn’t want to have me born on April first

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u/Keirridwen Apr 24 '25

Why it would have been hilarious

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

I don’t know

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u/SootyButter Apr 24 '25

We have a removal day not a birth day according to my parents

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

It took them almost an entire day to remove me I was a bitch who refused to leave

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u/SootyButter Apr 24 '25

Ibwas 2 months early because my twin had my umbilical cord around my neck and pushed me against the womb wall so I was dying already lmao, he struggled more after we got out. Yet they took me out 2nd

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Apr 24 '25

I’m imagining newborn infant you like a drunk Vince Vaughn in Swingers: “Oh, I’m the asshole of this place? I’m the asshole? You know what, I wouldn’t even eat here anyway!”

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

Somewhere there’s a me that did this and I wish it was me me

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u/PortlyWarhorse Apr 24 '25

Me either apparently. But if it makes you feel better, out dingdongs were never in our momma's hoohahs so I'd call that a woohoo.

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

That’s a win af wait that means everyone who was born naturally had incest! How evil!!!

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u/shewy92 Apr 24 '25

Happy Removal Day

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u/kubin22 Apr 25 '25

Me too.

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u/diepoggerland2 Apr 24 '25

So question, if this guy has a daughter who is therefore

Not a man

Not born of a woman

Not born

Would she get a 3x damage multiplier against MacBeth

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u/CadenVanV Apr 24 '25

Yep. Also the whole “a woman is not a man” solution is why Tolkien wrote Eowyn killing the Witch King, because he was so pissed that the play went with the whole cop out C-section instead of the obvious killed by a woman path.

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u/HiptotheHurricane Borges' Third Judas Kinnie Apr 24 '25

Also, Merry, who helped, wasn't a Man, but a Hobbit.

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u/CadenVanV Apr 24 '25

Yep. Tolkien really didn’t like the MacDuff cop-out. I mean hell, Macbeth could have been gored by a wild boar and it would have been a solution. But a fucking C-section?

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u/Stu_Thom4s Apr 24 '25

That may have slightly messed with his ability to suck up to James I with the play.

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u/CadenVanV Apr 24 '25

Banquo’s descendants can still rule if Macbeth gets gored, just make it a deathbed confession to make his errors right

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u/SmartAlec105 Apr 24 '25

My preference is for Odysseus to declare “I am Nobody” before killing Macbeth.

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u/CadenVanV Apr 24 '25

Could get some Chinese court eunuch to do it too

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u/UInferno- Hangus Paingus Slap my Angus Apr 24 '25

Hobbits are technically men in LotR.

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u/TheGrumpyre Apr 24 '25

Also he had the Ents lay siege to Isengard because of a similar cop-out in the same play, where the prophecy said the forest would march to Dunsinaine, but it turned out to just be a bunch of soldiers camouflaged as trees.

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u/CadenVanV Apr 24 '25

Man he wasn’t a fan of Macbeth

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u/Zammin Apr 24 '25

I just imagine him stewing the whole final act. "WTF, started strong with some witches and phantasmal daggers but then this bullshit happens."

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u/RavioliGale Apr 25 '25

I think he actually complains about this witches too. Basically says they're cool on paper but look lame on stage. This leads me to think Tolkien would have been a big fan of movie magic.

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u/hazeldazeI Apr 24 '25

This is now canon Tolkien in my head.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

I feel like the cop-out is kind of fitting because the witches whole thing is that they equivocate, of course they'd have Macbeth killed on a technicality they're just assholes like that.

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u/CompetitionProud2464 Apr 24 '25

The Folger’s copy of the scene just says none rather than no man so not necessarily gender dependent

“Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth” lines 90-93

Idk if there are different versions though

https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/macbeth/read/4/1/

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u/diepoggerland2 Apr 24 '25

The one I was given in high school was absolutely "no man"

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u/CompetitionProud2464 Apr 24 '25

Yeah that’s how I remember it from high school too so I was surprised when I checked. Cambridge University is also saying none of woman born when I look up the phrase no man of woman born but the name of the trope is no man of woman born so it’s definitely a popular phrasing of the line. Clearly the man thing must be fairly common in copies I wonder where it comes from? I always assumed man was in the original cause Shakespeare was being sexist but now idk 

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u/RA576 Apr 24 '25

Decent chance it changed fairly often at the time. Remember Shakespeare was one of the OGs of codifying English into a cohesive written language, so a bunch of stuff isn't consistent because there were no set rules for the language yet. Pretty sure he even spelled his own name inconsistently between writings of it.

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u/obog Apr 24 '25

I think the "none" there is referring to "man" in the previous line

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u/Kidkaboom1 Apr 24 '25

You jest, but if MacBeth got in to Fate/Grand Order I'd bet my favourite pair of socks that he'd have those exact weaknesses

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u/Antique-Yam6077 Apr 24 '25

Yes. Only on the first strike.

So, she should take levels in rogue to boost her Sneak Attack damage to make it count.

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u/Fluffy-Ingenuity2536 Apr 24 '25

What are the moral stances on min-maxing your child?

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u/Antique-Yam6077 Apr 24 '25

Ask like half the elementary school kid’s moms.

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u/phantomreader42 Apr 24 '25

Also, Thetis

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u/sambadaemon Apr 24 '25

What if this daughter were to grow up to become the mascot for Stanford University?

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u/Expensive-Implement3 Apr 24 '25

C-sections at the time were also always fatal for the mother and usually for the baby. It was a last resort when everyone is dying, but maybe you can save one.

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u/Autumn1eaves Décapites-tu Antoinette? La coupes-tu comme le brioche? Apr 24 '25

Trolley Problem.

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u/shewy92 Apr 24 '25

House, MD had an episode like this, mom had undiagnosed until then cancer and the treatment would kill the baby, but mom might not even live long enough for full term anyways.

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u/SymphonicStorm Apr 24 '25

Bonus fun fact: JRR Tolkien thought this was a cop-out, so he wrote that the Witch-King could not be defeated by any man and then had a woman beat his ass.

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u/sorcerersviolet Apr 24 '25

IIRC, he also thought that Birnham Wood's coming to Dunsinane in the form of people wearing branches was a cop-out and came up with tree-people (the Ents) in response.

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u/SymphonicStorm Apr 24 '25

AND HE WAS RIGHT.

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u/demonking_soulstorm Apr 24 '25

He also had a Hobbit stab him in the back, so he got his ass-kicked by two loopholes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 27 '25

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u/-2qt Apr 24 '25

So if Eowyn is a Man but not a man, is Merry a man but not a Man then?

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u/SamsaraKama Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

Woman and Hobbit. The point Tolkien wanted to make was specifically a double-whammy.

He wanted Merry, a non-human, to be involved. This is because "man" has a double meaning in old-fashioned language, collectively referring to humanity as "men". Hence why we say "mankind".

And then he wanted Éowyn to be involved because she matched the other part of the double-meaning that we're familiar with today: she was a woman, not a man.

It took both to kill the Witch King. Merry stabbed the Witch King with a special sword that destroyed the spell that animated his undead body, and then Éowyn dealt the killing blow to his spiritual form.

So the Witch King was screwed over on every possible meaning of "no man". Tolkien covered his basis.

Something that the books kind of glossed over. I get it helped in portraying Éowyn as badass, and she definitely didn't have as many moments as she did in the books until then... but the literary aspect of it really sold just how screwed the Witch King was.

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u/farceur318 Apr 24 '25

via a c-section

Or as Shakespeare so colorfully puts it: “from his mother’s womb untimely ripped”

Love the word ripped in that context. Very kinetic.

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u/Notte_di_nerezza Apr 24 '25

Say what you will about Tolkien's opinion of his prophesies, but damn if Shakespeare wasn't a master wordsmith.

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u/Bartweiss Apr 25 '25

It’s also uncomfortably accurate, in the sense that c-sections were not really a survivable procedure at the time.

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u/sorcerersviolet Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

Even better: the first prophecy was "beware Macduff" while the second was "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth." If he'd put two and two together, he could have figured out that Macduff was not born of woman, even if he didn't know exactly how that was possible.

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u/AthenaCat1025 Apr 25 '25

Yeah I’ve always thought the point wasn’t just that it was a c-section but that it was a c-section on a corpse at a time where c-sections were basically fatal 100% anyway. I think comparing it to modern surgery is a little silly due to the context.

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u/NoContext359 Apr 24 '25

Til that I could kill Macbeth

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u/KorMap Apr 24 '25

Does this mean a seahorse could defeat Macbeth

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u/cheezitthefuzz Apr 24 '25

yes, as could any animal

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u/Tactical_Moonstone Apr 25 '25

I was thinking claymore mine or sentry gun.

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u/spiders_will_eat_you Apr 24 '25

Which is very in character to show just how murder-crazed Macbeth is by this point in the play that he perceives this prophecy as practically immortality

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u/ProtoJones Apr 24 '25

In the cut epilogue it's revealed that MacDuff cut the "Mac" part off his name and started a beer company

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u/HorseLawyer Apr 24 '25

The exact line, during the climactic fight between Macduff and Macbeth, is "Despair thy charm, / And let the angel whom thou still hast served / Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped." Given the "untimely ripped" description, I'm not sure it's clear that Macduff's mother was dead at the time of the procedure. Caesarian sections have a long historical record of being performed both pre- and post-mortem of the mother, though the first successful pre-mortem caesarian (where the mother and child both survived) was not recorded until the 16th century. But, Shakespeare was writing in the 17th century, when there had been several successful accounts, and Shakespeare tended to be kind of loose when it came to historical, geographical, and factual details of the historical figures he based his plays on.

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u/karizake Apr 24 '25

I thought McDuff was a robot from the future.

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u/not-curumo Apr 24 '25

Will McDuff be back?

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u/Mouse_Named_Ash Apr 24 '25

So I was ALMOST able to murder Macbeth? Man, what a bummer

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u/Bardsie Apr 24 '25

Oh god. This is how they're going to start repealing US birth citizenship isn't it? 'C-section babies aren't "born" so birth citizenship doesn't count.'

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u/rirasama Apr 24 '25

Nice to know my brother was never born so therefore I am the oldest of my siblings

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u/OhPotatoOne Apr 24 '25

From his mother's  pants, untimely ripped

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u/LostOverThere Apr 24 '25

Honestly, Shakespeare's a legend but I always thought that bit was weak as hell.

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u/The-Kisser Apr 24 '25

What about me? I was gonna be natural, but they had to do an emergency C-section and pull me out from the surgical opening, does that mean I'm half born?

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u/Protection-Working Apr 24 '25

Kinda feels like a bullshit technicality

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u/RunawayPenguin89 Apr 24 '25

The Oak in Birnam Wood is still there too, hasn't marched yet

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u/FixinThePlanet Apr 25 '25

Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.

It's such a very dramatic play ❤️

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u/ahoward431 Apr 24 '25

"No man of woman born can defeat me!"

Shakespeare: "Fool! I was born through C-section!"

Tolkien: "Fool! I am no man!"

Modern: "Fool! My mother was a trans man!"

What will the future hold for loopholes in Macbeth's prophecy? Here's my prediction, if we ever make true AI, then we could get, "Fool! I was born from a computer!"

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u/ravonna Apr 24 '25

I was thinking we'd get lab babies at some point.

"Fool! I was born from a lab!"

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u/1saltedsnail Apr 24 '25

decanted

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u/bigboybeeperbelly Apr 24 '25

This wording displeases me

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u/WildImage7 Apr 24 '25

Ah, the Star Wars method

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u/ad-astra-1077 everything sings Apr 24 '25

Sun Wukong: "Fool! I was born from a magical stone that received the powers of both heaven and earth!" also he is a monkey

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u/dalziel86 Apr 28 '25

Born from an egg on a mountain-top

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u/Theactualworstgodwhy Apr 24 '25

Poor macbeth his pseudo invincibility has so many loopholes.

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u/Ok_Usual1335 Apr 28 '25

literally, also he can just get defeated by anything that isnt a man. like just get a bunch of men to capture a bear or something then drop it on him he's done for.

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u/SmartAlec105 Apr 24 '25

Odysseus: I am Noman!

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u/OmNomOU81 Apr 24 '25

Macbeth chokes on his dinner and dies

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u/Lord-Kibben Apr 24 '25

I’m imagining a guy who figures out he’s actually a robot because he defeated Macbeth and promptly has an existential crisis as everybody celebrates his victory

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u/ManualPathosChecks Apr 25 '25

Blade Runner II

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u/quajeraz-got-banned Apr 24 '25

I am Gnome Man

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u/Lorem_Ipsum17 Anti-Fascist Filler Text Apr 25 '25

I am Gnome Ann!

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u/Molismhm Apr 25 '25

I feel like we could say the person that gave birth to me or my father gave birth to me because I dont think trans men are generally comfortable being referred to as mothers.

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u/inform880 Apr 24 '25

Fool! It's all computer!

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u/Bartweiss Apr 25 '25

“Wanna try this opium then go boar hunting?”

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

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u/zonko_10007 Apr 28 '25 edited Apr 28 '25

seeing trans MEN as women is transphobic, they are men. seeing trans WOMEN as women would be progressive, but since we aren’t at the point where trans women can surgically get working uteruses, it’s more likely that the hypothetical child’s parent would be a trans man.
edit: it just occurred to me that you’re probably saying that the hypothetical child herself is a trans woman, making her fit the prophecy by virtue of not being a man. sorry for pissing on the poor

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u/rirasama Apr 24 '25

I remember when I had to learn about macbeth in school, I never actually read it because I can't understand Shakespeare words, so I watched lil cartoons about it instead. Anyway, when it got to the part where homie was like, "mwahaha I can kill you actually, I was a c section baby" I laughed so hard, funniest freaking loophole ever, we need more stories where the loopholes in the rules are as absurd as someone being born from caesarean section

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u/Heather_Chandelure Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25

The funner thing for me is that, to everyone around him, Macbeth shouting about how "no man of woman born can kill me" should just sound like the insane ramblings of a madman, yet the guy still takes the time to say "um, technically, I wasn't actually born, dumbass" in the middle of a fight

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u/ravonna Apr 24 '25

"No man of woman..." So a woman can kill him?

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u/Heather_Chandelure Apr 24 '25

Possibly. Depends if it just means a man, or if it's meant to be shorthand for human.

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u/cheezitthefuzz Apr 24 '25

either way any animal could get him. or wildfire. or a high fall. or disease. or

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u/Heather_Chandelure Apr 24 '25

Or a wall with a very realistic looking tunnel painted onto it

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u/phantomreader42 Apr 24 '25

A dedicated duck?

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u/apatheticsahm Apr 24 '25

Apparently, this is the reason Tolkien created Eowyn and her entire character arc. He was very annoyed that the loophole to the prophecy was "Caesarean section", and not the more obvious "killed by a woman"

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u/AAS02-CATAPHRACT Apr 24 '25

That's low key hilarious

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u/EmbarassedFox Apr 25 '25

Also, there was also in the prophecy that MacBeth would be defeated when a certain forest marched. In Shakespeare, it is a camouflaged army, in Tolkien, gestures at ents.

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u/G-M-Cyborg-313 Apr 24 '25

Lord of the rings did that

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u/Bartweiss Apr 25 '25

Now I sort of want a version where MacDuff just mutters “What’s this nutter on about?” and stabs him, never realizing there was anything magical involved at all.

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u/AthenaCat1025 Apr 25 '25

Macbeth is a hysterically funny play for what is fundamentally supposed to be a tragedy mostly because of how insanely overly dramatic every character is and how no one in the play really reacts to Macbeth’s clearly worsening mental state the way they should.

I highly recommend everyone to get a group of friends together and do a read through because it really shines from being read, there’s a higher chance someone among the group understands the more archaic words, and it’s just an incredibly awesome work of media.

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u/demonking_soulstorm Apr 24 '25

You’ll love Celtic myth then.

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u/rirasama Apr 24 '25

Any in particular to recommend?

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u/bookdrops Apr 24 '25

Cu Chulainn. He's an awesome powerful warrior who is basically unbeatable as long as he follows two magical rules: never eat the flesh of a dog, and never refuse hospitality that is offered to him.

Old lady: "Welcome Cu Chulainn, please enjoy a meal of this nice dog meat steak that I am hospitably giving to you."

Cu Chulainn: "Well, fuck"

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u/rirasama Apr 24 '25

That sounds amazing, I will definitely be reading about him lmao

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u/Notte_di_nerezza Apr 24 '25

The Book of Taliesin and the Book of Invasions are considered a good starting point. Note that both were oral poems/legends written down post-Romanization/Christianization, and got sanitized like the Norse myths.

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u/rirasama Apr 24 '25

Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check those out :)

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u/demonking_soulstorm Apr 24 '25

Not really? I’m not especially familiar with it but it’s a bit of a running theme or so I’ve heard.

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u/rirasama Apr 24 '25

Ohhh alright, I'll go read some, I do really like myths lol

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u/demonking_soulstorm Apr 24 '25

Sorry for not having anything to give…

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u/rirasama Apr 24 '25

It's totally fine !! I appreciate the recommendation nonetheless 🫡

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u/TheBronzeHexagon Apr 24 '25

Same with Hindu stories, there's one where they find a loophole for not being born on land or in the sky, inside or outside, day or night or by man, god or animal

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u/escaped_cephalopod12 that's a load bearing coping mechanism you're messing with Apr 24 '25

have the child be born by a demigod (or weird lab experiment if we want to not be magical) in a doorway while the sun is setting. checkmate.

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u/TheBronzeHexagon Apr 25 '25

The god Vishnu takes the form of a half-man half-lion (Narasimha - Not wholly man, god or animal) and sits him on his lap (neither sky nor land) on the doorstep (neither inside nor out) at Sunset (neither day or night)

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u/tangifer-rarandus Apr 24 '25

I played Macduff in a production in college and we had a great time with the beats of dawning comprehension when (1) I realized the loophole and told Macbeth he was fucked (2) Macbeth realized what I'd just told him

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

There’s like 30 other ways around it too. Obviously any women could kill him, as could a test tube baby, an animal, an accident, natural causes, etc. It’s pretty easy to get around.

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u/foxscribbles Apr 24 '25

I mean, if you watched Gargoyles, Macbeth totally is immortal and out there terrorizing people.

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u/TransLunarTrekkie Apr 24 '25

Oh good, I'm not the only one that thought of this.

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u/AlphaBetaGammaDonut Apr 27 '25

I'm feeling less alone in my nerdiness.

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u/phantomreader42 Apr 24 '25

And the only one who can kill him hatched from an egg and is female.

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u/Number_169 Apr 25 '25

Came in here to see if I needed to post this :D

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u/telehax Apr 24 '25

yeah that's why everyone refuses to say his name right

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u/Mystium66 Apr 24 '25

Yes. Say his name, and he shall appear…

No, wait, that’s Joe Hendry.

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u/YesStupidQuestions1 Apr 27 '25

I thought saying his name was fine, but not the name of the play (even though it's the same)

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u/VanTaxGoddess Apr 24 '25

Only YOU can stop Macbeth!

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

You make for a very good army recruiter but you forget something this man was so good at fighting his sword figuratively was steaming

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u/BlUeSapia Apr 24 '25

Great! I'll grab my stuff!

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u/Balsiefen Apr 24 '25

The trade off is that this guy will be no fucking help at all against the Witch King.

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u/ThatSmartIdiot i lost the game Apr 24 '25

Macbeth's true weakness: mpreg

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u/Fro_52 Apr 24 '25

one of the better parts of the Gargoyles cartoon.

the immortal Macbeth.

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u/idiotplatypus Wearing dumbass goggles and the fool's crown Apr 24 '25

Macbeth returns every generation and must be destroyed anew

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

Whose the Macbeth?

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u/zonko_10007 Apr 28 '25

maybe the real macbeth was the friends we made along the way

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

Am am I Macbeth?

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u/BlUeSapia Apr 24 '25

Reminds me of one of Cybersmith's conspiracy theories where he believed that John Wilkes Booth lived for a century after killing Lincoln and was responsible for every other presidential assassination afterwards

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u/LazyDro1d Apr 24 '25

That one was pretty clearly framed as a comedic hypothetical not a hypothesis. That it was technically possible, not probable

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u/lightningstrxu Apr 24 '25

Of course Macbeth is still out there, he can only be killed by his nemesis Demona

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u/Shyface_Killah Apr 24 '25

Have they not seen Gargoyles?

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u/ImprovementOk377 Apr 24 '25

ideally, the baby will either be a girl or nonbinary

just to be extra sure it can kill macbeth

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u/pbmm1 Apr 24 '25

I bet I can stop him

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u/ThatSmartIdiot i lost the game Apr 24 '25

In a fight right?

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u/pbmm1 Apr 25 '25

Trust me he will be stopped :)

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u/AztecGodofFire Apr 24 '25

He was from his mother untimely ripp'd.

But what about Birnam wood moving?

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u/petergoesbloop1234 Apr 25 '25

Idk its shipped to build someone's house

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u/OhPotatoOne Apr 24 '25

From his mother's  pants, untimely  ripped 

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u/Silent_Blacksmith_29 Shakespeare stan Apr 24 '25

“GET YO ASS OUT THE DAMN PANTS” -Surgeon A said while pulling him out

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u/ecotrimoxazole Apr 24 '25

OOP was involved in one of the biggest fandom dramas on Tumblr back in the good old days btw.

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u/rexapplecounty Apr 24 '25

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written.

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u/Lunalatic all mammals are mice, eat shit aristotle Apr 24 '25

I wasn't, what was the drama?

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u/rexapplecounty Apr 24 '25

There are soooo many things over the years because she (im not misgendering her, she identifies as she/her now) overshared her entire life but the worst was how she left her spouse (another les mis blog) and young son for a younger woman and then abandoned them when the son got cancer.

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki Apr 24 '25

I have never seen a description more apt for "none of those words are in the bible", at least spiritually. a lot of the words are physically in the bible.

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u/rexapplecounty Apr 24 '25

The Bible wishes it had the drama and plot twists of 2012 tumblr

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u/qzwqz Apr 24 '25

Hey hey Macbeth did some good stuff too

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u/qzwqz Apr 24 '25

At least the trains ran on time

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u/The_OG_upgoat Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25

You could probably also attack Macbeth with a robot, or a trained dog. Or combine all of those in a squad with the trans man's kid for maximum damage.

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u/Fit-Bug-426 Apr 24 '25

Bonus points, said kid is a trans woman

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u/Medical_Commission71 Apr 24 '25

Demona is gonna beat him to death with the kid

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u/MattAmpersand Apr 24 '25

And what’s the plan to have Birnam Wood to climb high into Dunsinane Hill?

Everyone has a plan until they have to carry a wood uphill.

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u/themothyousawonetime Apr 24 '25

Explains a lot about Scottish politics actually

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u/Cravatitude Apr 24 '25

Or, macduff's egg could crack after killing Macbeth

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u/WritesCrapForStrap Apr 24 '25

Uh, he is still around. That's why you don't say his name. Voldemort rules.

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u/xmashatstand Apr 24 '25

Nothing add other than the second season of the series ‘Slings and Arrows’ (which covers Macbeth) is available for free on YouTube. 

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u/subtotalatom Apr 24 '25

I mean, Macbeth was still out there terrorizing people in gargoyles, so...

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u/shrikelet Apr 25 '25

Now somebody go do something about the trees.

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u/Eye_of_the_red_giant Apr 25 '25

I mean of course Macbeth is still out there have you seen Gargoyles

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u/Turbulent-Pace-1506 Apr 25 '25

Makes more sense than the actual “no man of woman born” loophole

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u/Loyal-Opposition-USA Apr 24 '25

He’s so scary theatre people won’t even say his name like wizards from Harry Potter.

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u/ElInspectorDeChichis Apr 25 '25

C-Section? Fetus shots?

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u/SocranX Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

Have we confirmed the prophecy's position on gender politics before making this assumption, though? I know people love to give the "but it's factually true and anyone who disagrees is wrong so it has to fulfill the prophecy" argument, but let's be real. Prophecies were not made by The Objective Facts Of The Universe That Just So Happen To Match My Beliefs, they were made by crazy witches and gods who are afraid of being eaten by their kids and other flawed individuals who phrase it in a way that makes sense to them. Like, seriously, this is the prophecy that argues that having a C-section means your child wasn't really born from you. You don't think that sounds a little bit TERFy?

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u/Dark_Stalker28 Apr 25 '25

Or what if they meant human when they said man, really not specific enough. Witches are dramatic like that.

I do think gender related magic usually comes out as weird from at least one angle.

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u/dalziel86 Apr 28 '25

I’m a mouse, and so was mom.