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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

nothing wrong with being an unnamed background character.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

The novel Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is a neat story about a self-described "generic Asian man" who is stuck in the "background Oriental male" role while aspiring to be the "kung fu guy"

[–] Daft_ish 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I always liked at the end of Starship Troopers it was Zim who ended up capturing the brain bug after taking a demotion to fight on the front lines.