I'd never heard it, went in knowing the trick from these posts, & it still had me laugh-crying. That's craft!
Also yes that was my feeling as well: if you're going to make a joke out of stuff like this, it should be in good spirit. (Contrasting with when it *should* be ruthless, e.g. RNC REPRISE.)
![screenshot from the english wikipedia article for senyru:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senry%C5%AB
Form and content
Senryū is named after Edo period haikai poet Karai Senryū (柄井川柳; 1718–1790).[2] A typical example from the collection:
泥棒を
捕えてみれば
我が子なり
dorobō o
toraete mireba
wagako nari
When I catch,
The robber,
my own son
This senryū, which can also be translated "Catching him / I see the robber / is my son," is not so much a personal experience of the author as an example of a type of situation (provided by a short comment called a maeku or fore-verse, which usually prefaces a number of examples) and/or a brief or witty rendition of an incident from history or the arts (plays, songs, tales, poetry, etc.).[5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rgz3zuopjje2tbh2pjgib4uk/bafkreifmxmhumrrizpnqc7skh5eibtzvdwitlw6cupwtavb3g32cr7ipa4)
![text from the hybrid heaven wikipedia article
Development
Hybrid Heaven took roughly three years to develop, with the battle system being the most time-consuming element.[4] Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka designed Hybrid Heaven as an answer to Konami Computer Entertainment Japan's Metal Gear Solid, an attempt to better their fellow Konami team's top tier title in development.[5] Elements of the game were inspired by the film Blade Runner.[4][5]
The team wanted the battle system to capture real fighting's combination of thought and action.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rgz3zuopjje2tbh2pjgib4uk/bafkreic7deaptdrmohwjuozjntka4i5a5yezkgo6ldxi22aka3ws6fckqq)
![some text from wikipedia's article on dr doom:
Before leaving for America, young Victor uses his mother's inherited "magic potions and strange scientific secrets" to steal from corrupt aristocrats and give the proceeds to his own people as a Robin Hood figure.[138] Johannes Valentin Korff argues this makes Doom unusual for the period, being a "Gypsy" figure written as the protagonist of his own origin story rather than a supporting character or a hero's obstacle.[139] Korff places the choice inside a broader pattern at Marvel in the mid-1960s of building new superhumans out of persecuted backgrounds, pointing to Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver's same-year origin, in which they flees a village pogrom, and the 1966 debut of Black Panther.[140]
Korff also argues that the story avoids stereotyping vengeance as a trait unique to Victor's Romani heritage. Instead, violence is distributed across the entire cast; Latverians, Romani, Victor, and the baron are all trapped in an escalating cycle of revenge.[141] He connects this to how the story handles Doom's later authority, drawing on literary historian Klaus-Michael Bogdal's concept of the "Gypsy Empire," a stock setting in older fiction where a "Gypsy" ruler's menace comes from operating at society's margins. Korff argues Doom inverts that convention by ruling from the center of a modern state rather than its edges, so that his threat comes from an excess of science and civilization rather than a lack of it.[142]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rgz3zuopjje2tbh2pjgib4uk/bafkreifhlfggowkk5w6zootkumc3owpiiiri3e2mxcbkwpm7madfkrajy4)
