Message from @jigantie
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can you name when it was introduced in a popular work?
@Somnio literally any myth involving warriors of evil
Hell Lord of The Rings did it
I'm going to say it's Jin Roh
Lord of the Rings
Probably a tad more influential
glowing red eyes and body armor?
actually the right wing death squad must look like the nazgül from LOTR
which lord of the rings did you watch?
>watch
The books you dumb cunt
It's referencing the pagan troupe of balky armored warriors with red eyes
It's an ancient concept
From TV tropes:
the monster Grendel from the Old English poem Beowulf is described as having glowing red eyes: "on fagne flor feond treddode,/eode yrremod; him of eagum stod/ligge gelicost leoht unfæger" ("Across the decorated floor the fiend trod, went enraged in mind; there stood in his eyes a foul light most like to flame").
That literally predates modern western civilization
Not just anime
😂
did Grendel have body armor?
he might as well had
No
then no, that is not the origin of the aesthetic
He was described as having an impenetrable hide so kinda
natural armor is still armor
Find it yourself
This looks like Guts
@Deleted User It's time to clean the floors.
He is the protagonist though
You could also see this troupe in the earliest of D.C. Comics
The villain Black Manta
Black body armor and glowing red eyes
It's very common in anime. But they don't use it as "An easy way to tell a villainous (or sinister) character apart from the protagonists"
They give those to protagonists too
Know what's scary and villanous? Red eyes.
What else.... ARMOR! Big, tough armor.
I'm gonna combine them.
@Somnio even if it was due to anime the Right Wing Death Squad meme draws more from Millennium from Helsing than anything else
So even there you're wrong
you fucking retard
Says the obese trap lover who thinks everything is from anime
Aight