Patton Oswalt (fresh off of a poignant Facebook post about the Boston Marathon Bombing that went viral) reminds us that he's more than just an eloquent speaker on the human condition; he's also very, very funny. He stars as The Penguin in this CollegeHumor sketch that takes on Batman's dicey history of killing his foes (while touting his famous "one rule").
Watch Batman and Commisionner Gordon try to explain to the Dark Knight what happens to people who take a freshly sharpened Batarang to the face:
Batman seems to think that all of the people he kills in fights are merely sleeping. His parents who were gunned down in front of Zorro? They went to "a farm", the same sort of farm that many young children know that their dogs and cats went to.
As the Bat himself explains it "Rich white people go to farms."
Patton Oswalt gave us a monologue worthy of a superhero yesterday on his Facebook page in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. If you haven't read it yet, be sure to check it out below:
Boston. F*cking horrible.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."
But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.
But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."
What do you think of Patton Oswalt's one/two combo of hilarious superhero parody/ real-life superhero commentary?
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