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I would argue that since Olimar only kills animals for the purpose of feeding them to the Pikmin that counts as hunting, not animal cruelty. Also I find it funny how for ages Ridley was excluded from every list but then the most recent two have been "Who's Been To Space?" and "Who's Committed A Crime?", the two things that a "Space Pirate" by definition has done.
In Pikmin 2 you can bring the corpses of the animals you kill in caves to the detachable ship, and those get sold for money. That brings up a lot of question on who and even if the company he works for can sell corpses of previously unknown animals.
@@shadowjmg2the plot of Pikmin 2 is Olimar and Louie are trying to pay off their company's debt by gathering treasure on the planet Olimar got stranded on in the first game.
@shadowjmg2 3 is the one where they finding food for the planet, which doesn't have Olimar as a pc. And there they use the fruit for food, which falls under gathering, which should be legal.
This is only tangentially relevant but my favorite niche piece of Kirby trivia is that when enemies are defeated or inhaled by Kirby, they don’t die, they just poof somewhere else. Doesn’t stop them from getting pinned with assault, theft, and whatever else, but hey! No murder! (also great video btw!!!)
@@Jorpda Kirby can get off with self defense for that one, since Sectonia not only started the conflict by ordering the kidnapping of Dedede and attacking Kirby first, but the laser Kirby hit Sectonia with was one she fired at him first, meaning he used the appropriate amount of force.
Doesn't that only happen when Kirby eats something, cause I'm pretty doubtful that Sectonia took that laser to the face and just blipped somewhere else.
@@castform7 No, it seems to apply to defeating enemies as well, since all of the bosses in Forgotten Land as an example don’t die when you defeat them. The only exception seems to be certain final bosses like Sectonia and Dark Matter, who do die, but that feels more like an exception rather than the rule given everything else.
For those mentioning Sectonia, while that is most assuredly regicide, it’s also the finishing blow of a war that the queen herself started with an act of aggression.
16:00 Also she's the Princess, and Hyrule Castle is her house. It's not illegal for her to just look through a window from the courtyard to watch royal stuff going on.
21:51 in the original japonese text Megaman stops after Willy remembers him that robots can't harm humans, only in the translation that they add the "I'm more than a robot" thing he still wanted to kill Willy, but in the original he decided to not do it by himself instead of being interrupted
@@davidpescitelli8004Yep, simply threatening somebody with violence actually hits the legal definition of assault. When you actually hit/shoot/etc said person you're not committing assault (well, not ONLY) but battery.
I find that interesting because if you take MegaMan X into account, then the original MegaMan provably is not more than a robot. Robots don’t gain true self-awareness in the universe until reploids are invented.
@@VR275KG he can, but that doesn't mean that he does. players have the choice to observe traffic law, and with how Kirby is a paragon of good vibes and good boys in cannon, it's likely that he'd prefer not to jaywalk. In other news the same world that you mentioned does have Kirby gunning down cars with a jet plane, which involves flying above the crosswalk. counterpoint to my own argument, we don't see kirby getting taught crosswalk safety in game, so you argument does hold up on that front. Haltman did come in and force 'modern' situations (as moderns as being made into a robot is) onto the world, during which time kirby was asleep.
14:44 something funny is that when Ice Climber got released in the US they had to change the Topi sprite to what we know today, but in japan Topis are seals, the reason they changed it is because the localizers got concerned that the game could influence kids to hit seals with hammers
@@BJGvideos because seal clubbing as a practice is a very real thing done for sport in some countries which was always a fringe case, but more so now that times have changed, so i don't think Nintendo wants any of that on on their name.
@Nitosa I'm aware of that but they would have to be damn fools to think that random kids would want to emulate that because they saw a video game character do it
@@BJGvideos Honestly at that point, video games were a very new market focused on being more visualized and player-driven than other mediums of entertainment, and there wasn't really any data to disprove the claims that they cause violence, so I don't think it would be unrealistic to have that opinion at that point in time, even if it is seen as unpopular today.
In street fighter 6 Luke states that street fights in universe are essentially a greeting. You can even challenge officers to fights which they agree to
My headcanon for this is that it's unique to SF6 and here's why: - In Final Fight, which is part of the SF universe, Cody got arrested for street fighting after rescuing Haggar's daughter because he became obsessed with finding a worthy opponent (as well as in SF canon, arrested AGAIN for breaking out of jail to bust even more heads) - Haggar is current mayor of Metro City and pardons Cody before the end of his tenure. - Cody eventually becomes the new mayor of Metro City (SF5 lore) - SF6 starts off in Metro City and takes place after SF5 chronologically, thus Cody is still mayor. - Headcanon is his first act as mayor was the legalization of smacking any passer-by in the head to avoid getting thrown in jail again.
This is a pretty good video so far (halfway though) but I feel like a major distinction could be made between "Character canonically does this" and "The player might choose to do this"
Wait, your argument for Cloud is he attacked Sephiroth first, when he's part of AVALANCHE, and the literal first mission of the game is a terrorist attack on a Mako reactor? Feels like the lesser crime. And much, much later.
@@ArhimondEx Fair (although not in order revealed to player). Though I don't remember exactly: Isn't his attack after Sephiroth starts killing people? Pretty sure that killing the active shooter before he shoots at you specifically isn't a crime.
@@acuerden Technically speaking, Sephiroth was no longer actively attacking anyone, and Cloud followed him for the specific purpose of attacking him, therefore Cloud was the aggressor at Mt Nibelheim. Its a similar principle to how in some jurisdictions a homeowner could be charged for shooting an intruder depending on specific circumstances.
@@slarcenist Cloud was not the aggressor at Mt Nibel. He was a soldier that was trying to prevent his commanding officer from destroying a civilian town and power plant and stealing trade secrets from the government. It was an issue of national security.
@@michaelromick9596 Counterpoint, that shows that vandalism is illegal in universe and Mario goes into places and breaks their bricks all the time. I will specifically call out Mario 64 as he doesn't know Peach is kidnapped until the first Bowser fight and he can break bricks in the castle before that.
Specifically Nintendo of Japan, Nintendo of America were the ones being told this by NoJ whilst discussing Samus' character for Metroid: Other M if I recall.
@nathanblackburn1193 true it's been a minute since I've played XB2 (since launch) idk why I had specifically 3 titans in my head. maybe the play by......old blade eater dude with guns I forget his name
17:06 How am I only just now learning that they got this wrong in the Palutena's Guidance conversation?? For those who don't know, Roy is a noble of Pherae, not Ostia. Both are territories of the country of Lycia, but saying that Roy "spends his days as a noble" in Ostia is literally wrong LOL no idea how Nintendo messed that up
13:55 Note on Mewtwo: Mewtwo in Smash is not kept within a PokéBall, and is thus wild, and can not be tried with any trainer’s actions. However, they can be tried for the destruction of Cinnabar Island’s Pokémon Mansion (destruction of property) and quite likely the deaths of the researchers inside (homicide)
@ as far as we know, team rocket merely funded mewtwo’s creation. There’s no evidence that anyone but the researchers were there when mewtwo burned the mansion
Lucario is also not kept in a Pokeball, and Pokemon Trainer acknowledges it as wild in the same way as Mewtwo, so it also can't be included with the crimes of any trainer
Honorable mentions that I'm aware of: - King Dedede is famous for stealing all of the kingdom's food for himself, alongside the occasional revenge plot against Kirby when not brainwashed every Tuesday. - Meta Knight plans conquest in Kirby Superstar, Revenge of Meta Knight. Apparently he wanted Dream Land to get off their lazy butts, so he built a giant airship and hired crew. - If you wanted to count the Pokemon anime, Mewtwo did a lot of things in the First Movie. Mass property damage in labs and such, kidnapping, and almost murdering Ash through petrification. - You could also probably get all general Pokemon Trainers and their Pokemon on assault and mugging. You get seen by a 7-year old, he attacks you, then one of you is gonna cough up your wallet. - If we're generalizing Zelda as being among all games, and helping pirates counts as a crime for Sora, then in Wind Waker, Toon Link is guilty of working with Tetra who is a pirate and also Zelda. I don't recall if Tetra explicitly commited any crimes within Wind Waker though, and I don't know if being a pirate itself is outlawed. Especially nowadays when pirates only illegally download video games and movies. (Similar argument with Falco being part of a gang, but the extent of crimes not being expanded on saved him.)
22:01 HOLD IT! That line was famously a product of faulty localization, therefore it should not count as it is equivalent to a smear campaign, as the original Japanese text has Mega Man conceding to Wily's point that robots cannot harm humans, putting his blaster down willingly and pausing. ... you can argue that he still had his buster up in the first place, but by that point he was used to the possibility of Wily using mechanical decoys as seen in previous games, so that potentially falls into either self-defense or even just mere caution rather than an actual threat.
I do think it still falls under a threat. I know there are cases where people get away with doing harm because of "potential threat", but strictly speaking, I don't think paranoia outdoes the crime of threatening someone with a gun.
@SureyD to be fair Wily is a terrorist with an army of war machines. The whole laws of robotics thing does bother me though. The X series tries to frame it like Robots before Reploids didn't have free will, but that's also shown multiple times not to be the case. Rock chose to become Mega Man, Proto Man chose to go on his own and ignore his creator's wishes in the fear of losing himself, Bass disobeys and even fights Wily all the time, and King tried to lead a whole robot uprising, to give just a few examples. Heck, while Mega Man doesn't shoot Wily, Wily's definitely gotten injured as a side effect of Mega Man's actions before. Wouldn't _that_ in itself be causing a human harm? I mean he explodes Wily Machines with the man inside all the time. (There's also one of the Game Boy games where the dude fires a missile at Wily's spacecraft)
@@brolytriplethreat In defense of some of theses, Rock chose to become Mega Man because Light had programmed him with a moral compass as if he were his own son, Proto Man's directive was most likely to explore the boundaries of his free will given that he was the prototype (and Light never *ordered* him to get those repairs, only suggested, and shows an understanding of Proto's fear of losing his identity to it), Bass has a directive to either be the strongest or to beat Mega Man but Wily gets in the way of that in a variety of ways (so really this is Wily sabotaging himself by failing to think ahead when making Bass), and King was programmed to be a leader exactly to drive suspicion away from Wily and to hide Wily's scheme behind a noble front (sort of like a N and Ghetsis situation from Pokemon, if you will). Most of the Wily Machines can most likely be covered as self-defense, as Wily started the attack first, so Mega Man had no choice but to retaliate regardless of the consequences. Even if we assume robots don't have such rights, Wily being basically a war criminal would also nullify his potential claim. (Can't really defend Mega Man V there though. '^^)
@extremmefan7305 well, at the very least I can't imagine nobody was hurt in the assaults of Wily's robots, especially in the cases where cities are being attacked like the start of Mega Man 7. Even if Rock is bound by the laws of Robotics, Wily therefore likely doesn't care to install such rules into his own creations. Heck, back to Mega Man 7 I think Dr. Light is a bit hurt and on the ground after Bass raids his lab. I guess shooting at what you _think_ is Wily doesn't count if you've been convinced he's actually a shapeshifting alien and not a human(Mega Man 2), so...I guess Mega Man found a loophole there. I suppose you _might_ be able to get Mega Man on the actions of "Quint" or "Mega Man Shadow", but then you get into the ethics of reprogramming a robot, as well as freaking time travel. I don't know my Asimov, is self-defence covered in the laws of robotics? I just know they cannot allow harm, which is a very broad word which could mean anything from "don't kill them" to "if they get a boo boo you must be terminated". The free will thing just kinda seemed weird to me. Heck the Robot Masters in 9 joined Wily because they not only wanted to be useful, but also because they didn't wanna die. Given their "expiration dates" were presumably imposed by law and (begrudgingly) imposed by Light, does _that_ count as disobedience?
@@brolytriplethreat As far as Asimov's laws go, they cannot harm a human _or_ allow a human to come to harm through inaction. In one story from "I, Robot" a robot becomes capable of telepathy, and therefore comes to understand ✨emotional damage✨ and gets tangled up in a web of lies trying to avoid any negative emotions in the humans around it. So yeah, if they get a boo boo and you could have prevented the boo boo, you're robo-screwed.
I love the new setup for the character screen for identifying which characters have been judged. My only request for future videos, since it doesn't apply to this one with no "partially guilty" verdict, is if we can find a different color code for partials and maybes. As a colorblind person, I'm guessing those have been orange while full confirmations have been green, but whatever they are, I cannot identify them. Red stands out enough for me to identify, so those are good, but the others, not so much. If this is just a me problem, then don't worry, obviously, but if anyone else out there has this issue, then that maybe category could maybe use a new color.
Thank you for the feedback! There were no “maybes” or “in betweens” for this video- just green for yes and red for no, with the ones we were currently taking about being lit up their normal colors and the ones we hadn’t talked about being greyed out! But there was also a miscommunication with my editor on this one and the greens turned out way brighter than normal, making them blend into the ones we were talking about far too much, which will be fixed by the next one! 👍👍 If you check out my Smash Bros Instruments vid I do have a middle ground category which is orange- if you wanna take a look and let me know if that’s a good color for any in betweens, I’ll continue to use it for future videos!
@goombanna Actually, I think that on top of using colour, it would be best to also use symbols. For example: a green check for definitely yes, an orange question mark for maybe, and a red X for definitely no. That way, regardless of anyone's colourblindness, it's still possible for everyone to understand the character screen
@@leafymeat8829 Possibly- My hesitance there lies in the fact that the check/X would either have to cover up the character's faces, which is the main identifier people use when looking at the chart, or if the symbols were in the corner not covering the faces then it would look really messy/confusing. With how detailed and busy the chart already is, I'm not sure if there's a perfect solution, and luckily I also verbally say whether or not each one is guilty, so there are both audio and visual indicators, but I'll continue my quest to find the best way to do the chart!
@@goombanna Semi-transparent symbols are another option, as are variations on that idea such as leaving different areas of the image with different color tinting or amounts of color tinting to form the symbol (for instance, leaving an "X" shaped area with more or less red tinting than the rest of the image) while leaving the image visible. Not sure if anything like that would work though
True! Though I believe he trespasses private property and vandalizes several pillars and walls in the Lightning Chariot Tower, whose owner is a neutral party, not a wartime enemy or anything, so he's probably still guilty, unfortunately.
@@CalebWillden in American law there's a concept known as an act of god, an event where no person is at fault, if we wanted to take the wording at face value we could make a case that any crime commited by Palutena or those in her employ cannot be held liable as anything they do could be interpreted as an "act of god" in the most literal sense
Both his body and soul have committed a crime, trafficking and kidnapping of a minor (Chapter 21? Ring Of Chaos, Pit takes control of a little girl under the effects of the titular ring). His body also committed murder of civilians, theft (stealing from treasure chests), trespassing (intensity gates are clearly intended to keep people out)
@@The_Hang3d_Man the Ring I'd argue he isnt at fault as being the ring in question was not by choice, he was turned against his will, the chests may be a grey area though, we dont know how they got there, or if they were sent there by palutena, the intensity gates are a mixed bag, some yes are meant to keep people out, but others seem mor akin to trials rather than restricted areas
There's a video about whether it's possible to beat Fire Emblem 3 Houses without committing war crimes... so breaking it into "war crimes can be avoided" and "war crimes are REQUIRED to get any ending in this game" would be reasonable.
That's Mario's father, who did that. Because the father ape is Cranky Kong, and we know that Donkey Kong didn't meet Mario until he was an adult, which was supposedly close to 20 years later. Also, we are aware from Shigeru himself that Mario is around 24-25 on the first journey to the Mushroom Kingdom and that he settles down there at 26 with his brother.
Little Mac is too young to actually fight in an official boxing match. I don't know if this counts as committing a crime or not but i thought it was worth mentioning.
@@lucakiami8988 not a federal crime but usually a state law. It is definitely a crime for a 17 year old to box men in their 20s. Most states have combat sports commissions.
Little Mac is 17, which in our world is under the age required to box in professional leagues (18), but in the Punch-Out! world where magic and boxers who can demolish buildings and send bulls to the stratosphere and Aran Ryan exist, and where Mac being 17 isn't questioned, it's probably not against the rules. No crimes there, Mac.
He also does a rabbit punch if you hit Super Macho Man after he does the Super Macho clothesline move. Super dangerous and super illegal in real life, but he never gets a penalty for it.
@@padriazozzriaorizifian8672 Then again, such a legal organization has most of the opponents openly cheat and get away with it, except for Little Mac. How did they kidnap DK or persuade him to fight anyways?
Duck Hunt Duo officially includes the dude behind the zapper. (Yes, that Does mean it's not a duo.), and since that's the human player, whether or not they have committed a crime is entirely based on if You have committed a crime.
@@calemr Ah, but (in OoT) he swore fealty to the King of Hyrule and thus all his actions in that game (poisoning the great deku, messing with the gorons and zora, overthrowing the monarchy) are treason!
@@scarletempress2652 Yeah, I dunno how I flubbed the Hyrule/Hylia thing. And that's a good point, at the very least it's a breach of some kind of treaty.
I have to dissent on behalf of poor Olmar. Nailing him for attacking wildlife unprovoked is like charging someone for hunting wild boars while stranded on a deserted island. Also (puts on my pedant hat) I think Mushroom City is a Double Dash course, in which the trophy ceremony is hosted by the chancellor or whatever, suggesting that the entire event and all associated violence is endorsed by the highest government of the land and 100% legal.
Counterpoint: In Pikmin 2, Olimar is not stranded on the planet, he's there on business. And while killing creatures to feed the Pikmin can be classified as hunting, creatures that he kills and collects in dungeons are sold for monetary gain, i.e. poaching. Guilty.
@@Meta289 Is it poaching if you are hunting for food on a long since abandoned planet? Like Olimar finds relics of our civilization and speculates and what our ultimate fate was.
I just love that you mention Cloud assaulting Sephiroth when he is a literal terrorist in his own world xD It was a really great video, I love the way you establish strict rules at the beginning to make sure there is no problem after
The least surprising ones for me was Sonic and Mythra Sonic for all the stuff you said and Pyra/Mythra for committing 3 continents worth of genocide and most of chapter 2 of their game
Major late-game spoilers for Xenoblade 2: Don't worry, Pyra/Mythra definitely still have committed crimes, a GREAT many of them actually, including ones that are pointed out by in-game characters instead of just "they have the ability to commit assault but it's never acknowledged." Mythra's canonically a war criminal! This is just about one small thing mentioned in the video. Considering Blades objects, or more specifically, Blades having less rights than humans, is actually one of Jin's primary motivations in 2, with many other characters including Rex pushing for Blades to receive fairer rights. Even then, Blades are never considered objects in universe and are actually proven not to be. That thing you all hear online about Rex dating his sword is actually complete nonsense. Blades manifest from a core crystal, and while marrying just a core crystal would probably count as marrying an object, when a Blade is summoned from one, the crystal is a part of their biology, one of their organs. The rest of the form is still perfectly alive and sentient. The Architect even states he created core crystals as a replacement for human brain cells, with these core crystals being the basis for the first lifeforms in Alrest, the Titans, who would go on to use the information from these core crystals to evolve over millenia into various other complex lifeforms similar to old Earth, including humans. Also Titans are the latest stage of Blades' life cycle. Therefore, Alrest's humans and Blades are evolutionarily linked, and Blades are not objects, they are also living creatures. And humans do actually contain core crystals, just in a less concentrated form. It's just that the entirety of Alrest is based on an information database pulled from old Earth. Also Flesh eaters and Blade eaters are a thing, and while Flesh eaters are heavily looked down upon because of discrimination against Blades and a belief of human-supremacy and the process of becoming one literally involving a Blade eating human flesh, Blade eaters are simply a harmless form of organ transplants to save and augment humans where they cut out half of a Blade's core crystal and stick it into the human to act as another heart, but it can be pretty costly for the Blade involved. The point is that human and Blade biology can be mixed and matched. To summarize: treat Blades like the people they are, not like objects!
My favorite example of Kirby committing a crime is the start of Squeak Squad where his cake gets stolen (by the Squeaks) and he immediately goes and beats up king Dedede to get it back.
While that was a mistranslation in Mega Man 7, you can still get him for criminal threat for that. Meets all three criteria. He issued a threat, intended it as a threat, and intended to make Wily afraid for his life.
Something else that’s funny for Sora is the fact that KH1 and KH3 try to make a big deal out of not disrupting the world order, implying that it is a crime, but in all the games, they get involved in Disney plots which are completely unrelated to the Heartless, such as fighting Ursula in KH2, or taking a fight with Marshmallow in KH3.
... now I'm wondering where the Deep Jungle fits in on this scale, since there were no Heartless present until Clayton drew them there. (No, seriously. The only enemy you fight before that cutscene is Sabor)
@ Sora gets bailed out of that fight by Tarzan but if they had severely wounded or killed Sabor with no Heartless interference it would have absolutely changed the course of that world so I’d say it counts.
I'd say that the piranha plants attacking mario does count as a crime. the piranha plants might be part of bowser's troops, but mario isn't in the military. in various games you see that peach has guards so the mushroom kingdom does have a military, but mario is just a civilian going somewhere and getting swarmed by an army
@@manfacecat8020because said military and monarch performed a hostile invasion, in some situations takeover, of Mario's home kingdom and kidnapped the main political figure of said kingdom.
How sad do you have to be to outlaw multiple people from marrying one other person? If it’s all consenting parties, I don’t see what the issue is. “Why are you in jail?” “I married multiple women, because we all love each other.”
This is an awesome video and I KNOW an extensive amount of research went into it with the laws plus the characters. Very informative and loved the way the judge costume came out. I think the Lebron edit with the disguise nose was funny lol. The surprising one for me was the Dr. Mario one, I never played it but surprised he's throwing around pills like that lol. Great job AV!
The Megaman thing is a mistranslation to a degree but he could probably be caught on something else given how many games there are in just the classic style alone lol. Also what the heck, this isn't how you always sound? Editing Anna was a bit of a auditory jumpscare. You naturally sound lovely, don't get me wrong, was just shocked and dealing with processing the fact that youre basically voice acting in every video lol
Well, I'm guessing she's not "voice acting", but rather she hasn't been talking/is probably using a different microphone. It's different when you're talking talking vs when you're sitting at a computer recording something short
@@MagillanicaLouM Anna _may_ have been recording certain audio segments in the wee hours of the morning while trying not to wake up other people in the house... Check her out on Twitch if you wanna see what she sounds like conversationally
You forgot how much fun it is to watch these videos when the come out. I will say this about Bayonetta, her fights with the angels are pretty mutual. They want to kill her, she has to kill them everyday or be dragged to hell.
Fun video! I think it would have been useful to have an intermediate category: "does not have to commit a crime canonically, but a player may choose to do so." The Fire Emblem characters could choose not to attack enemy healers, Young Link can choose not to raid houses for pots, etc.
The pottery shown that Pit breaks is placed there by the Underworld Army meant to spawn enemy troops-so it's not vandalism! Though he DOES intrude on private property and break pillars, walls, and such of the Lightning Chariot Tower...so, yeah, still guilty. 😅
Before I even watch the video, I gotta say that Kirby canonically does NOT kill enemies since they all just reappear later on (except for some final bosses but those are like planetary threats). Edit: Yeah I guess it _is_ just assault lol
I would argue that there is a distinct separation between what the character has definitely done (things required to complete the game) and what the player can make a character do (Ness chasing down enemies, e.g.) For example, Salmon Run is a whole game mode that players are encouraged to do, versus villager, who can harm the environment or attack villagers, but there is no incentive to do. Dark Samus has far worse than attempted murder under her belt. Murder, for example. Bioterrorism, grand theft, attacking civilians. Samus absolutely does not explode the laboratory, it self-destructs in response to the SA-X attacking it.
Joker, whose entire character is committing crimes and getting arrested multiple times, is an outlier and should not be counted (joke) Your getup is SSS tier, love the curls
I've committed a crime on a national law. I crossed the street despite a red signal. This is illegal. The punishment: nothing. But still illegal. Crossing the street anywhere outside of pedestrian crossings is legal unless stated otherwise.
I think you have a severe misunderstanding of Xenoblade 2. Blades aren't objects - they're people. In fact this is one of the major themes of the game, there are some people who treat Blades like property, even though they are real people with human emotions. "Blade" is just the name of the species that Pyra, Mythra, Dromarch etc. are. There's also a common misconception that Pyra and Mythra *are* their swords which is simply untrue, they merely have the ability to summon a weapon whenever they need to. Blades' weapons get destroyed multiple times in the game, yet the Blades themselves are totally fine because the weapon is merely an object they can summon, not part of them or anything like that. Also, your whole thing about taking into account the universe's laws and norms is applied inconsistently here. You could say they get animal abuse for attacking enemies that don't attack them, but I think killing random enemies is considered pretty normal in Alrest (and the Bionis) because there are tons of different quests where people ask you to kill enemies or obtain items dropped by them. In the world, it would seem that this would be considered "hunting" and since many npcs ask you to kill animals, it seems to be commonly accepted. That said, Pyra and Mythra are both guilty anyway, because Mythra destroys an entire continent (by accident, but that is still a crime) and Pyra helps Rex to break Nia out of imprisonment, assault Ardainian guards, and destroy a water tower while evading capture from Morag. So yeah they're definitely guilty. Shulk however, I'm not so sure about. Any crimes that are related to the Mechon aren't crimes, since the Homs are at war with the Mechon. If animal hunting is considered legal, which in universe it seems like it is, then the closest he gets to committing a crime is when he is imprisoned by the High Entia, but they realise he's innocent soon after and is released.
One sidequest in XBC1 has the party being tricked into manufacturing and trafficking drugs, so Shulk is accessory to at least one crime. Unawareness of what he did does not make him innocent.
@@NightZap Hmm that's true but I'm not so sure about that. Surely if you're unaware you committed a crime you're not guilty? Also, I feel like optional content should be a separate tier to stuff you have to do to complete a given game. There's characters who haven't done crimes (bottom tier), characters who may or may not do a crime based on player choice (middle tier), and characters who always do a crime (top tier). Would make more sense than a binary yes/no.
The new format of covering entire franchises of characters at once and then lighting them up on the roster is definitely working! Also, surprised at just how much of the cast has done crime. Was half-expecting some of the individual Pokemon to have individual crimes, in all honesty, maybe something for Pichu from the Ukulele Pichu in Pokemon Ranger Guardian Signs? And honestly I expected Wes and Team Snagem to come up for Pokemon Trainer, which is very much theft. Another good video, well done!
This feels like an awkward one: Like, Kirby eating things is supposedly just a temporary thing that causes them to respawn, but it'd count as cannibalism or animal abuse. Hm. Also, animal abuse laws might mean something. Stomping those turtles....
do koopas even legally count as animals? I mean, koopas can talk, and are clearly intelligent enough, they can even host game shows and all. bowser is a koopa too
@@acuerden I don't think it's either, at most it's out of self defense. bowser is sending his military out to attack mario, he is just defending himself on his way so it doesn't count as either murder or assault
@@door-chan either way, in paper mario, you can attack a whacka to get a whacka bump, a creature that did not attack or threaten mario in any way, so mario commit animal cruelty anyways
To be fair, the pokemon trainer commits break in and theft inside of **criminal** organizations like team galactica who usually plan do much worse things like reshape the whole world to their desire by forcing legendary pokemons to do so.
Link stealing from temples is an interesting question, who actually owns those temples/dungeons? If they're temples of Hyrulian religion or whatever, and the sages give Link a quest that involves busting into those temples, then maybe he has permission from a relevant authority? Or hell, maybe all property in the kingdom technically belongs to the royal family and Link can break/take whatever he wants as long as Zelda is cool with it?
In that one storage room in OoT, the guard lets you smash stuff and even advises you should do so for stress relief, so he COULD argue that he was instructed poorly by someone he thought was an authority of the law, since Link was a foreign citizen at the time.
@@BJGvideos Good point, also might Link have diplomatic immunity for some things? If he was sent here by the Deku Tree, who is presumably a head of state..
During Mediveal times, people used to charge real life animals with crimes leading to the infamous photo of a pig entered to court and a cat hung from a rope.
slight suggestion for future videos? Maybe instead of just green for "yes they have" or red for "no they haven't," you could include a third option, "likely but not provable," which is yellow? Like Falco would have been in this video. Just for a little bit more variety
I love the video! As a resident Xenoblade nerd, I'm going to drop a comment I'm sure you've heard before: Technically there's no proof that Rex and Pyra/Mythra were married, and I don't believe having a child out of wedlock is illegal. HOWEVER I am proud to announce that Pyra helps Rex tear down a water tower VERY near a village (which a governmental official later references costing a lot to rebuild), and Mythra sunk an entire continent which had yet to finish evacuating during the war 500 years prior to canon. Fun! As for Shulk, I respect the "attacked enemies meant to be attacked" as part of a video I'm sure you already had to do too much research for, but I want something more fun fore myself. Just off the top of my head, Shulk and his party Definitely trespass on private property/a federally protected site in the High Entia Tomb, wherein I believe they have the conversation "Wait, it's forbidden to interrupt the ritual!" "Well, we're not citizens of this nation, so how will you stop us?" It may have worked out since the royal family wanted them to do it in that case, but I'm pretty sure breaking laws in another country is still illegal, even if they decide not to prosecute. Shulk is a criminal! Thanks for uploading! I really enjoy your content :)
this was extreeemely entertaining you presented it really well and it was satisfying how thorough you were. My only real "objection!" is the Xenoblade 2 blades being considered objects when I think in that world you can pretty easily apply the same rule you applied to animals here (plenty of awareness and control over their own actions) but mostly every other thing you got them on is true anyway!
Hmm... just a thought, but this video could have been MUCH more interesting to look at the *worst* crimes each character has committed. Considering how few didn't ended up with a clean record... yeah, that leads to a lot glossed over answers of "yes, they attacked someone who wasn't initially hostile" without getting into the good stuff. So just some fun quick ones: - Mythra destroying what is essentially an entire country. Also possible regicide against two nations as a result. - Pyra breaking Nia out of prison, who at that point was considered a member of an (ahem) "insurgent group". - Maybe both of them... but presuming they were apart of an event that's simply known as "The Experiment"... uh, pretty sure breaking the laws of physics and killing/displacing everyone on Earth is a pretty big oopsie. - Let's just hit Shulk with "criminal negligence" for not fixing whatever went wrong with Origin in XC3. Okay, that may be slightly speculative, but he was undoubtedly involved. - Samus has multiple counts of "property damage" for blowing up space stations, and a few planets. - Didn't Lucas end the entire world or something at the conclusion of Mother 3? I'm not entirely sure, that one was weird.
Lucas was basically dragged into an arms race. Pulling the Needles will wake up the dragon that ends the world and makes a new one, and who shapes the new world is entirely determined by who's pulled more needles. Only specified individuals even have that power in the first place so it's basically a treasure hunt for the future of the known universe.
while pyra and mithra have definitely committed crimes, there's no indication that anyone has any problem with their polygamous marriage nor that they are trying to hide it which, similar to pokémon battles or hiring fox and falco as mercenaries, implies that this wasn't actually illegal for them. indeed, there's been plenty of societies, especially during time periods similar to what's presented, where marriages just like theirs would be wholly legal. them being objects also seems iffy because they also have all the cognizance of a human so, likely, they would count as people, not objects, under the law. furthermore, bigamy laws generally make illegal the act of marrying more than one, not the act of becoming married to someone already married, so, even if bigamy laws applied, this would only be a crime their husband committed, not them.
@@alexpotts6520 this simply isn't true. there are distinct punishments for bigamy which apply even when you are not married under the law. ofc, there are places and times where bigamy/polygamy was both legal and lawful.
"likely, they would count as people, not objects, under the law." While we know they're not objects, I'd actually be hesitant to say that they _legally_ aren't, especially when one of the people with the biggest influence on laws in Alrest is also possibly the most racist character in the game who absolutely sees Blades as objects. Yes, I'm talking about Amalthus.
The Mega Man 7 thing was actually added in the American release. In true canon, Mega Man does not, and in fact, cannot, commit a crime, due to lacking free will.
@@SentaiYamaneko Megaman was programmed to be a lawful individual, therefore you could argue the fact his programming allowed that action to take place must mean it IS legal in their world
i'd actually argue that in a setting where magic exists attacking healers probably wouldn't be a war crime since they could pose a reasonable threat to your life by immediately healing a wounded soldier who then kills you (not to mention the danger they pose with status staves; berserk alone is at least five war crimes)
thank you for your video, great stuff as always, lemme just quickly add some stuff for specifically inkling bc no sane person not in the splatoon fandom would care enough to research this: Mass slaughter of an intelligent species: ( Salmonids have literal established tradedeals with octarians ) ( Octarian troop type Octoscooter will always try to flee from the player) (I'm not counting the side order enemies as those are all part of the virtual world) Banishing an entire race to live underground after winning the great turfwar (havent read the law but pretty sure causing others to have significantly worse living conditions goes against some kind of Geneva convention or human rights....) Possession of illegal weaponry (The lore reason why some specials from splatoon 1 or 2 dont return is because they have been deemed illegal by whatever entity judges turfwars, probably judd...) and also the whole extortion thing with taking the salmonids babies to use as power supply for a gigant weapon of mass destruction -- i mean... minimum wage.... Misc crimes that don't apply to the entire inkling race: Overlorder: Kidnapping & taking someones free will x10 Grizz: Running an organisation under false premise, Propaganda, Mass slaughter, Attempted murder (is it attempted murder if he only removes the brain but the body lives on??) Tax evasion, False imprisonment, and attempted mass genocide DJ Octavio: Kidnapping & Theft (twice)& taking someones free will Carl Cuttlefish: Racism, False enprisonment & Trespassing Tatar: Mass murder (1007 test subjects to be exact) attempted genocide, attempted murder x2, Kidnapping x??? and lastly how do you even class sanitisation? brainwashing an entire army.... is that a legally classed as a cult??? Marinas missjudgement in leaving an exploit unpatched for the virtual world to just pull users in is probably classed as negligence Pearl; Trespassing, possession of Illegal weaponry and probably a bunch of noise complaints Pretty much every member of the new squidbeak splatoon: Trespassing + destruction of property the greatest minds of humanity: well they took off in a rocket, essentially blowing up every remaining human still alive in alterna sooo... genocide?? or gross neglicence?? Probably missed several things, splatoon nerds rise up and feel free to add to whatever i just said :)
Love these lists! How about which characters have played a video game? (I guess played electronic and mechanical games could be a lower tier, so the slot machines in Dragon Quest would count)
Polyamory being illegal is such a weird law like "No you can't marry more than one person at once!" Like literally why? (I mean it's probably because of the church being stupid)
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according to punchout wii, little mac is actually *too young* to be competing in boxing (ðe legal age to box is 18, while little mac is 17)
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@@kyledavid9415 Explain yourself, what on earth are you talking about?
Falco getting off with no evidence of crimes is some Al Capone energy. 😂
Congress gonna subpoena Falco's tax returns!
And considering just about everyone else got got with some kind of charge makes it even BETTER
Falco's was the funniest to me because he's canonically a wee bit of an edgy shitlord.
Yeah. Wasn't Falco a former gang member as well?
Sonic was absolutely the least surprising because the literal first thing he does in Adventure 2 is escape police custody
He committed regicide too
Though granted, that one was because he was arrested for Shadow's crimes, not for his own crimes
@@grey-c8138 What about all the property damage he did while escaping the city, though?
@@MrAuthor3DSeh average day in San Francisco am I right 🤷
Military custody actually
Well, cloud starts the game doing Eco-terrorism
I was surprised she didn't mention it. He literally starts the game as a criminal.
Haven't gotten to him yet, but we all know Luigi has committed a crime.
Not him, his mansion is the culprit
Luigi Death Stare
He was packing "heat🥵😳" in Mario Tennis Aces
@@Machstorm9 god im so gay for luigi
Being too sexy
Can we appreciate the glorious out-of-contextness of lines like "my first go-to is hiring child soldiers"?
I would argue that since Olimar only kills animals for the purpose of feeding them to the Pikmin that counts as hunting, not animal cruelty.
Also I find it funny how for ages Ridley was excluded from every list but then the most recent two have been "Who's Been To Space?" and "Who's Committed A Crime?", the two things that a "Space Pirate" by definition has done.
In Pikmin 2 you can bring the corpses of the animals you kill in caves to the detachable ship, and those get sold for money. That brings up a lot of question on who and even if the company he works for can sell corpses of previously unknown animals.
@@darmorel549 Don't remember if this was the case during 2 but a huge part of olimars job is finding food for his planet right?
@@shadowjmg2the plot of Pikmin 2 is Olimar and Louie are trying to pay off their company's debt by gathering treasure on the planet Olimar got stranded on in the first game.
@shadowjmg2 3 is the one where they finding food for the planet, which doesn't have Olimar as a pc. And there they use the fruit for food, which falls under gathering, which should be legal.
This is only tangentially relevant but my favorite niche piece of Kirby trivia is that when enemies are defeated or inhaled by Kirby, they don’t die, they just poof somewhere else. Doesn’t stop them from getting pinned with assault, theft, and whatever else, but hey! No murder! (also great video btw!!!)
What about when he lasered Queen Sectonia? That’s murder of a monarch
@@Jorpda Kirby can get off with self defense for that one, since Sectonia not only started the conflict by ordering the kidnapping of Dedede and attacking Kirby first, but the laser Kirby hit Sectonia with was one she fired at him first, meaning he used the appropriate amount of force.
Doesn't that only happen when Kirby eats something, cause I'm pretty doubtful that Sectonia took that laser to the face and just blipped somewhere else.
@@castform7 No, it seems to apply to defeating enemies as well, since all of the bosses in Forgotten Land as an example don’t die when you defeat them. The only exception seems to be certain final bosses like Sectonia and Dark Matter, who do die, but that feels more like an exception rather than the rule given everything else.
For those mentioning Sectonia, while that is most assuredly regicide, it’s also the finishing blow of a war that the queen herself started with an act of aggression.
16:00 Also she's the Princess, and Hyrule Castle is her house. It's not illegal for her to just look through a window from the courtyard to watch royal stuff going on.
21:51
in the original japonese text Megaman stops after Willy remembers him that robots can't harm humans, only in the translation that they add the "I'm more than a robot" thing
he still wanted to kill Willy, but in the original he decided to not do it by himself instead of being interrupted
I also think he would still get in trouble for threatening to shoot Wily even if he did stop.
@@davidpescitelli8004Yep, simply threatening somebody with violence actually hits the legal definition of assault. When you actually hit/shoot/etc said person you're not committing assault (well, not ONLY) but battery.
Still gets criminal threat for issuing that threat in the first place with intent to make Wily afraid.
I find that interesting because if you take MegaMan X into account, then the original MegaMan provably is not more than a robot. Robots don’t gain true self-awareness in the universe until reploids are invented.
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It's less that he decided not to and more that he physically couldn't because of the Laws of Robotics.
While you’re not counting infractions..
King Dedede would jaywalk.
And meta knight would see you jaywalking, grab you and take you back to where you started, and then cross the street together with you
Kirby wouldn't jaywalk at all, but that doesn't excuse the outright crimes mentioned in the video
@@isaacgreen6402 Kirby would ABSOLUTELY jaywalk
He jaywalks in Planet Robobot (I think)
@@VR275KG he can, but that doesn't mean that he does. players have the choice to observe traffic law, and with how Kirby is a paragon of good vibes and good boys in cannon, it's likely that he'd prefer not to jaywalk.
In other news the same world that you mentioned does have Kirby gunning down cars with a jet plane, which involves flying above the crosswalk.
counterpoint to my own argument, we don't see kirby getting taught crosswalk safety in game, so you argument does hold up on that front. Haltman did come in and force 'modern' situations (as moderns as being made into a robot is) onto the world, during which time kirby was asleep.
14:44 something funny is that when Ice Climber got released in the US they had to change the Topi sprite to what we know today, but in japan Topis are seals, the reason they changed it is because the localizers got concerned that the game could influence kids to hit seals with hammers
Huh?
What a strange thing to be concerned with. Do they think that so many kids have access to seals?
@@BJGvideos because seal clubbing as a practice is a very real thing done for sport in some countries which was always a fringe case, but more so now that times have changed, so i don't think Nintendo wants any of that on on their name.
@Nitosa I'm aware of that but they would have to be damn fools to think that random kids would want to emulate that because they saw a video game character do it
@@BJGvideos Honestly at that point, video games were a very new market focused on being more visualized and player-driven than other mediums of entertainment, and there wasn't really any data to disprove the claims that they cause violence, so I don't think it would be unrealistic to have that opinion at that point in time, even if it is seen as unpopular today.
In street fighter 6 Luke states that street fights in universe are essentially a greeting. You can even challenge officers to fights which they agree to
Street Fighter works on Pokémon logic?
My headcanon for this is that it's unique to SF6 and here's why:
- In Final Fight, which is part of the SF universe, Cody got arrested for street fighting after rescuing Haggar's daughter because he became obsessed with finding a worthy opponent (as well as in SF canon, arrested AGAIN for breaking out of jail to bust even more heads)
- Haggar is current mayor of Metro City and pardons Cody before the end of his tenure.
- Cody eventually becomes the new mayor of Metro City (SF5 lore)
- SF6 starts off in Metro City and takes place after SF5 chronologically, thus Cody is still mayor.
- Headcanon is his first act as mayor was the legalization of smacking any passer-by in the head to avoid getting thrown in jail again.
@@BJGvideos Basically. Buuuuuut, you can also cheap shot NPC fighters, which could be argued as assault.
This is a pretty good video so far (halfway though) but I feel like a major distinction could be made between "Character canonically does this" and "The player might choose to do this"
Wait, your argument for Cloud is he attacked Sephiroth first, when he's part of AVALANCHE, and the literal first mission of the game is a terrorist attack on a Mako reactor? Feels like the lesser crime. And much, much later.
Chronologically speaking, Cloud attacking Sephiroth is actually much earlier.
@@ArhimondEx Fair (although not in order revealed to player). Though I don't remember exactly: Isn't his attack after Sephiroth starts killing people? Pretty sure that killing the active shooter before he shoots at you specifically isn't a crime.
@@acuerden Technically speaking, Sephiroth was no longer actively attacking anyone, and Cloud followed him for the specific purpose of attacking him, therefore Cloud was the aggressor at Mt Nibelheim. Its a similar principle to how in some jurisdictions a homeowner could be charged for shooting an intruder depending on specific circumstances.
@@slarcenist Cloud was not the aggressor at Mt Nibel. He was a soldier that was trying to prevent his commanding officer from destroying a civilian town and power plant and stealing trade secrets from the government. It was an issue of national security.
I was so ready to see your shocked expression when talking about how Mario went on trial for vandalism and did time in Super Mario Sunshine.
Yeah, but he didn't do that, that was Bowser Jr
@@michaelromick9596 Oh, right. Still, I love seeing people's reactions to a Mario game having a legal system.
@@michaelromick9596 Counterpoint, that shows that vandalism is illegal in universe and Mario goes into places and breaks their bricks all the time. I will specifically call out Mario 64 as he doesn't know Peach is kidnapped until the first Bowser fight and he can break bricks in the castle before that.
@@oddsmile1234 nope Bowser straight up bost about kidnapping peach the minute you enter the castle
Nintendo doesn’t know what a bounty hunter is they call samus one cuz they think it sounds cool
This is something they’ve actually said
I mean, kind of fair. It does sound really cool. lol
Specifically Nintendo of Japan, Nintendo of America were the ones being told this by NoJ whilst discussing Samus' character for Metroid: Other M if I recall.
@@rotciv557 Retro was told that when they were making the prime games
That's also why it's Donkey Kong because they didn't understand what "donkey" meant?
It’s the 5 minute crafts wig for me
IF ONLY it took me 5 minutes 😭
@@goombanna I clocked it at a bit over an hour
i heard "speaking of the involvement of church in government," looked at the next fighter and was like "...what did mr game and watch DO"
22:54 Mythra also like...sank multiple continents that are also living beings themselves sooooo
and her cooking is a crime
It was 1 titan that Mythra killed, that being the Tornan titan, the others that were killed in The Aegis War were killed by Malos
@nathanblackburn1193 true it's been a minute since I've played XB2 (since launch) idk why I had specifically 3 titans in my head. maybe the play by......old blade eater dude with guns I forget his name
It's because Amalthus used her to cover up him destroying Spessia, where the Tornan refugees were.@@ZenJestr
@nathanblackburn1193 actually, malos only killed Coeia, amalthus killed Spessia.
At the very least, the ending of Torna involved at least one warcrime from Mythra.
17:06 How am I only just now learning that they got this wrong in the Palutena's Guidance conversation?? For those who don't know, Roy is a noble of Pherae, not Ostia. Both are territories of the country of Lycia, but saying that Roy "spends his days as a noble" in Ostia is literally wrong LOL no idea how Nintendo messed that up
13:55 Note on Mewtwo:
Mewtwo in Smash is not kept within a PokéBall, and is thus wild, and can not be tried with any trainer’s actions.
However, they can be tried for the destruction of Cinnabar Island’s Pokémon Mansion (destruction of property) and quite likely the deaths of the researchers inside (homicide)
I would argue that Cinibar Island was a case of self-defense to avoid being forced to join a gang (team rocket.)
@ as far as we know, team rocket merely funded mewtwo’s creation. There’s no evidence that anyone but the researchers were there when mewtwo burned the mansion
Lucario is also not kept in a Pokeball, and Pokemon Trainer acknowledges it as wild in the same way as Mewtwo, so it also can't be included with the crimes of any trainer
Be like Falco, don't leave evidence of your crimes.
Honorable mentions that I'm aware of:
- King Dedede is famous for stealing all of the kingdom's food for himself, alongside the occasional revenge plot against Kirby when not brainwashed every Tuesday.
- Meta Knight plans conquest in Kirby Superstar, Revenge of Meta Knight. Apparently he wanted Dream Land to get off their lazy butts, so he built a giant airship and hired crew.
- If you wanted to count the Pokemon anime, Mewtwo did a lot of things in the First Movie. Mass property damage in labs and such, kidnapping, and almost murdering Ash through petrification.
- You could also probably get all general Pokemon Trainers and their Pokemon on assault and mugging. You get seen by a 7-year old, he attacks you, then one of you is gonna cough up your wallet.
- If we're generalizing Zelda as being among all games, and helping pirates counts as a crime for Sora, then in Wind Waker, Toon Link is guilty of working with Tetra who is a pirate and also Zelda. I don't recall if Tetra explicitly commited any crimes within Wind Waker though, and I don't know if being a pirate itself is outlawed. Especially nowadays when pirates only illegally download video games and movies. (Similar argument with Falco being part of a gang, but the extent of crimes not being expanded on saved him.)
Well Cloud is directly involved in a terrorist attack at the beginning of FFVII so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
22:01 HOLD IT! That line was famously a product of faulty localization, therefore it should not count as it is equivalent to a smear campaign, as the original Japanese text has Mega Man conceding to Wily's point that robots cannot harm humans, putting his blaster down willingly and pausing.
... you can argue that he still had his buster up in the first place, but by that point he was used to the possibility of Wily using mechanical decoys as seen in previous games, so that potentially falls into either self-defense or even just mere caution rather than an actual threat.
I do think it still falls under a threat. I know there are cases where people get away with doing harm because of "potential threat", but strictly speaking, I don't think paranoia outdoes the crime of threatening someone with a gun.
@SureyD to be fair Wily is a terrorist with an army of war machines.
The whole laws of robotics thing does bother me though. The X series tries to frame it like Robots before Reploids didn't have free will, but that's also shown multiple times not to be the case. Rock chose to become Mega Man, Proto Man chose to go on his own and ignore his creator's wishes in the fear of losing himself, Bass disobeys and even fights Wily all the time, and King tried to lead a whole robot uprising, to give just a few examples.
Heck, while Mega Man doesn't shoot Wily, Wily's definitely gotten injured as a side effect of Mega Man's actions before. Wouldn't _that_ in itself be causing a human harm? I mean he explodes Wily Machines with the man inside all the time.
(There's also one of the Game Boy games where the dude fires a missile at Wily's spacecraft)
@@brolytriplethreat In defense of some of theses, Rock chose to become Mega Man because Light had programmed him with a moral compass as if he were his own son, Proto Man's directive was most likely to explore the boundaries of his free will given that he was the prototype (and Light never *ordered* him to get those repairs, only suggested, and shows an understanding of Proto's fear of losing his identity to it), Bass has a directive to either be the strongest or to beat Mega Man but Wily gets in the way of that in a variety of ways (so really this is Wily sabotaging himself by failing to think ahead when making Bass), and King was programmed to be a leader exactly to drive suspicion away from Wily and to hide Wily's scheme behind a noble front (sort of like a N and Ghetsis situation from Pokemon, if you will).
Most of the Wily Machines can most likely be covered as self-defense, as Wily started the attack first, so Mega Man had no choice but to retaliate regardless of the consequences. Even if we assume robots don't have such rights, Wily being basically a war criminal would also nullify his potential claim.
(Can't really defend Mega Man V there though. '^^)
@extremmefan7305 well, at the very least I can't imagine nobody was hurt in the assaults of Wily's robots, especially in the cases where cities are being attacked like the start of Mega Man 7.
Even if Rock is bound by the laws of Robotics, Wily therefore likely doesn't care to install such rules into his own creations. Heck, back to Mega Man 7 I think Dr. Light is a bit hurt and on the ground after Bass raids his lab.
I guess shooting at what you _think_ is Wily doesn't count if you've been convinced he's actually a shapeshifting alien and not a human(Mega Man 2), so...I guess Mega Man found a loophole there.
I suppose you _might_ be able to get Mega Man on the actions of "Quint" or "Mega Man Shadow", but then you get into the ethics of reprogramming a robot, as well as freaking time travel.
I don't know my Asimov, is self-defence covered in the laws of robotics? I just know they cannot allow harm, which is a very broad word which could mean anything from "don't kill them" to "if they get a boo boo you must be terminated".
The free will thing just kinda seemed weird to me. Heck the Robot Masters in 9 joined Wily because they not only wanted to be useful, but also because they didn't wanna die. Given their "expiration dates" were presumably imposed by law and (begrudgingly) imposed by Light, does _that_ count as disobedience?
@@brolytriplethreat As far as Asimov's laws go, they cannot harm a human _or_ allow a human to come to harm through inaction. In one story from "I, Robot" a robot becomes capable of telepathy, and therefore comes to understand ✨emotional damage✨ and gets tangled up in a web of lies trying to avoid any negative emotions in the humans around it.
So yeah, if they get a boo boo and you could have prevented the boo boo, you're robo-screwed.
You forgot the most important character. Random. I bet its caused some atrocious crimes by forcing random people to fight surely that's illegal
I love the new setup for the character screen for identifying which characters have been judged. My only request for future videos, since it doesn't apply to this one with no "partially guilty" verdict, is if we can find a different color code for partials and maybes. As a colorblind person, I'm guessing those have been orange while full confirmations have been green, but whatever they are, I cannot identify them. Red stands out enough for me to identify, so those are good, but the others, not so much. If this is just a me problem, then don't worry, obviously, but if anyone else out there has this issue, then that maybe category could maybe use a new color.
Thank you for the feedback! There were no “maybes” or “in betweens” for this video- just green for yes and red for no, with the ones we were currently taking about being lit up their normal colors and the ones we hadn’t talked about being greyed out! But there was also a miscommunication with my editor on this one and the greens turned out way brighter than normal, making them blend into the ones we were talking about far too much, which will be fixed by the next one! 👍👍
If you check out my Smash Bros Instruments vid I do have a middle ground category which is orange- if you wanna take a look and let me know if that’s a good color for any in betweens, I’ll continue to use it for future videos!
@goombanna Actually, I think that on top of using colour, it would be best to also use symbols. For example: a green check for definitely yes, an orange question mark for maybe, and a red X for definitely no. That way, regardless of anyone's colourblindness, it's still possible for everyone to understand the character screen
@@leafymeat8829 Possibly- My hesitance there lies in the fact that the check/X would either have to cover up the character's faces, which is the main identifier people use when looking at the chart, or if the symbols were in the corner not covering the faces then it would look really messy/confusing. With how detailed and busy the chart already is, I'm not sure if there's a perfect solution, and luckily I also verbally say whether or not each one is guilty, so there are both audio and visual indicators, but I'll continue my quest to find the best way to do the chart!
- Put × in the corner of the box.
- For greyed out, darken them too, so there's more contrast.
@@goombanna Semi-transparent symbols are another option, as are variations on that idea such as leaving different areas of the image with different color tinting or amounts of color tinting to form the symbol (for instance, leaving an "X" shaped area with more or less red tinting than the rest of the image) while leaving the image visible. Not sure if anything like that would work though
for kid iccarus, specifically Pit, those jars spawn enemies, so it can be argued that they were planted there by Medusa/Hades
True! Though I believe he trespasses private property and vandalizes several pillars and walls in the Lightning Chariot Tower, whose owner is a neutral party, not a wartime enemy or anything, so he's probably still guilty, unfortunately.
@@CalebWillden in American law there's a concept known as an act of god, an event where no person is at fault, if we wanted to take the wording at face value we could make a case that any crime commited by Palutena or those in her employ cannot be held liable as anything they do could be interpreted as an "act of god" in the most literal sense
@@cyrus356In the MOST literal sense I feel like she would have to do it herself, not her followers, for that exemption.
Both his body and soul have committed a crime, trafficking and kidnapping of a minor (Chapter 21? Ring Of Chaos, Pit takes control of a little girl under the effects of the titular ring). His body also committed murder of civilians, theft (stealing from treasure chests), trespassing (intensity gates are clearly intended to keep people out)
@@The_Hang3d_Man the Ring I'd argue he isnt at fault as being the ring in question was not by choice, he was turned against his will, the chests may be a grey area though, we dont know how they got there, or if they were sent there by palutena, the intensity gates are a mixed bag, some yes are meant to keep people out, but others seem mor akin to trials rather than restricted areas
There's only one place we can go from here, which Smash Bros characters have committed war crimes?
@@Bill_Door123 We all know Mario has. We've seen the Unraveled video.
Your honor ¿Is It a war crime if it's for the sake of a Hot woman?
@endikaaspeurrutia1013 Or if it's done by a hot woman (Samus)?
Dark Samus started a war between the Galactic Federation and the Space Pirates
There's a video about whether it's possible to beat Fire Emblem 3 Houses without committing war crimes... so breaking it into "war crimes can be avoided" and "war crimes are REQUIRED to get any ending in this game" would be reasonable.
No one ever brings up the fact that Mario once tried to kill a baby ape who was just trying to save his father...
That's Mario's father, who did that. Because the father ape is Cranky Kong, and we know that Donkey Kong didn't meet Mario until he was an adult, which was supposedly close to 20 years later.
Also, we are aware from Shigeru himself that Mario is around 24-25 on the first journey to the Mushroom Kingdom and that he settles down there at 26 with his brother.
Little Mac is too young to actually fight in an official boxing match.
I don't know if this counts as committing a crime or not but i thought it was worth mentioning.
I think that would count as an infraction to the rules of boxing rather than a federal crime.
Also, literally everybody he fights is outside of his weight class.
@@lucakiami8988 not a federal crime but usually a state law. It is definitely a crime for a 17 year old to box men in their 20s. Most states have combat sports commissions.
Thank you Bumble McFumbles
Im pretty sure all of us here watched the bumbles mc fumbles video
Little Mac is 17, which in our world is under the age required to box in professional leagues (18), but in the Punch-Out! world where magic and boxers who can demolish buildings and send bulls to the stratosphere and Aran Ryan exist, and where Mac being 17 isn't questioned, it's probably not against the rules. No crimes there, Mac.
He also does a rabbit punch if you hit Super Macho Man after he does the Super Macho clothesline move. Super dangerous and super illegal in real life, but he never gets a penalty for it.
Not to mention in Wii he fights DK!
@ eh, that one seems to be legally sanctioned by the whatever boxing place thing.
@@padriazozzriaorizifian8672 Then again, such a legal organization has most of the opponents openly cheat and get away with it, except for Little Mac. How did they kidnap DK or persuade him to fight anyways?
@ he was swayed by the promise of more banana… and also whatever value he saw in kidnapping Little Mac.
Luigi and Diddy: Aww shit, here we go again.
Diddy???
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Duck Hunt Duo officially includes the dude behind the zapper. (Yes, that Does mean it's not a duo.), and since that's the human player, whether or not they have committed a crime is entirely based on if You have committed a crime.
Bro Ganondorf committed a crime?? How could he?? I trusted him...
Jokes aside, wow most fighters are criminals
He's a King. Could he not declare diplomatic immunity and/or that he is declaring war on Hylia (The place, not the deity)?
@@calemrHe committed crimes against his own people so I feel like that may depend on who's approaching the matter
@@calemr Ah, but (in OoT) he swore fealty to the King of Hyrule and thus all his actions in that game (poisoning the great deku, messing with the gorons and zora, overthrowing the monarchy) are treason!
@@calemr Oh also the place is called Hyrule not Hylia, Hylia is just the name of the Goddess
@@scarletempress2652 Yeah, I dunno how I flubbed the Hyrule/Hylia thing.
And that's a good point, at the very least it's a breach of some kind of treaty.
I have to dissent on behalf of poor Olmar. Nailing him for attacking wildlife unprovoked is like charging someone for hunting wild boars while stranded on a deserted island.
Also (puts on my pedant hat) I think Mushroom City is a Double Dash course, in which the trophy ceremony is hosted by the chancellor or whatever, suggesting that the entire event and all associated violence is endorsed by the highest government of the land and 100% legal.
Counterpoint: In Pikmin 2, Olimar is not stranded on the planet, he's there on business. And while killing creatures to feed the Pikmin can be classified as hunting, creatures that he kills and collects in dungeons are sold for monetary gain, i.e. poaching. Guilty.
@@Meta289 Like would it have _killed him_ to bring rations? SMH 😔
@@Meta289 Is it poaching if you are hunting for food on a long since abandoned planet? Like Olimar finds relics of our civilization and speculates and what our ultimate fate was.
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GOT EM IN THERE
Immediately, I know Link has. Younk Link committed identity theft (and regular theft) in Majora's Mask
And bank fraud.
I just love that you mention Cloud assaulting Sephiroth when he is a literal terrorist in his own world xD It was a really great video, I love the way you establish strict rules at the beginning to make sure there is no problem after
The least surprising ones for me was Sonic and Mythra
Sonic for all the stuff you said and Pyra/Mythra for committing 3 continents worth of genocide and most of chapter 2 of their game
Major late-game spoilers for Xenoblade 2:
Don't worry, Pyra/Mythra definitely still have committed crimes, a GREAT many of them actually, including ones that are pointed out by in-game characters instead of just "they have the ability to commit assault but it's never acknowledged." Mythra's canonically a war criminal!
This is just about one small thing mentioned in the video.
Considering Blades objects, or more specifically, Blades having less rights than humans, is actually one of Jin's primary motivations in 2, with many other characters including Rex pushing for Blades to receive fairer rights. Even then, Blades are never considered objects in universe and are actually proven not to be. That thing you all hear online about Rex dating his sword is actually complete nonsense.
Blades manifest from a core crystal, and while marrying just a core crystal would probably count as marrying an object, when a Blade is summoned from one, the crystal is a part of their biology, one of their organs. The rest of the form is still perfectly alive and sentient. The Architect even states he created core crystals as a replacement for human brain cells, with these core crystals being the basis for the first lifeforms in Alrest, the Titans, who would go on to use the information from these core crystals to evolve over millenia into various other complex lifeforms similar to old Earth, including humans. Also Titans are the latest stage of Blades' life cycle. Therefore, Alrest's humans and Blades are evolutionarily linked, and Blades are not objects, they are also living creatures. And humans do actually contain core crystals, just in a less concentrated form.
It's just that the entirety of Alrest is based on an information database pulled from old Earth.
Also Flesh eaters and Blade eaters are a thing, and while Flesh eaters are heavily looked down upon because of discrimination against Blades and a belief of human-supremacy and the process of becoming one literally involving a Blade eating human flesh, Blade eaters are simply a harmless form of organ transplants to save and augment humans where they cut out half of a Blade's core crystal and stick it into the human to act as another heart, but it can be pretty costly for the Blade involved.
The point is that human and Blade biology can be mixed and matched.
To summarize: treat Blades like the people they are, not like objects!
My favorite example of Kirby committing a crime is the start of Squeak Squad where his cake gets stolen (by the Squeaks) and he immediately goes and beats up king Dedede to get it back.
While that was a mistranslation in Mega Man 7, you can still get him for criminal threat for that. Meets all three criteria. He issued a threat, intended it as a threat, and intended to make Wily afraid for his life.
Something else that’s funny for Sora is the fact that KH1 and KH3 try to make a big deal out of not disrupting the world order, implying that it is a crime, but in all the games, they get involved in Disney plots which are completely unrelated to the Heartless, such as fighting Ursula in KH2, or taking a fight with Marshmallow in KH3.
... now I'm wondering where the Deep Jungle fits in on this scale, since there were no Heartless present until Clayton drew them there. (No, seriously. The only enemy you fight before that cutscene is Sabor)
@ Sora gets bailed out of that fight by Tarzan but if they had severely wounded or killed Sabor with no Heartless interference it would have absolutely changed the course of that world so I’d say it counts.
I'd say that the piranha plants attacking mario does count as a crime. the piranha plants might be part of bowser's troops, but mario isn't in the military. in various games you see that peach has guards so the mushroom kingdom does have a military, but mario is just a civilian going somewhere and getting swarmed by an army
And so a civilian killing a monarch,and fighting the military.
@@manfacecat8020because said military and monarch performed a hostile invasion, in some situations takeover, of Mario's home kingdom and kidnapped the main political figure of said kingdom.
I would argue Mario is very much part of the military. I don’t know what non-military operation involves hijacking airships, castles or factories.
@@dejinnthedjinn5311 you know Mario isn't from the Mushroom Kingdom, right?
@@Tyranitar. Terrorism? I don't recall Mario ever holding a military rank.
How sad do you have to be to outlaw multiple people from marrying one other person? If it’s all consenting parties, I don’t see what the issue is.
“Why are you in jail?”
“I married multiple women, because we all love each other.”
This is an awesome video and I KNOW an extensive amount of research went into it with the laws plus the characters. Very informative and loved the way the judge costume came out. I think the Lebron edit with the disguise nose was funny lol. The surprising one for me was the Dr. Mario one, I never played it but surprised he's throwing around pills like that lol. Great job AV!
The Megaman thing is a mistranslation to a degree but he could probably be caught on something else given how many games there are in just the classic style alone lol.
Also what the heck, this isn't how you always sound? Editing Anna was a bit of a auditory jumpscare. You naturally sound lovely, don't get me wrong, was just shocked and dealing with processing the fact that youre basically voice acting in every video lol
Well, I'm guessing she's not "voice acting", but rather she hasn't been talking/is probably using a different microphone. It's different when you're talking talking vs when you're sitting at a computer recording something short
Yeah, he still gets criminal threat for that. He issued a threat, intended it as a threat, and intended to make Wily afraid.
@@MagillanicaLouM Anna _may_ have been recording certain audio segments in the wee hours of the morning while trying not to wake up other people in the house...
Check her out on Twitch if you wanna see what she sounds like conversationally
You forgot how much fun it is to watch these videos when the come out.
I will say this about Bayonetta, her fights with the angels are pretty mutual. They want to kill her, she has to kill them everyday or be dragged to hell.
Fun video! I think it would have been useful to have an intermediate category: "does not have to commit a crime canonically, but a player may choose to do so." The Fire Emblem characters could choose not to attack enemy healers, Young Link can choose not to raid houses for pots, etc.
I feel like Cloud trying to stop Sephiroth would be like an official of the government with combat training stopping a traitorous murderer.
Cloud is literally a terrorist.
Definitely appreciate how we’re going over characters who happen to be in Mario kart individually.
“I promise there is a polite way to do that” is so real 😭😭
The pottery shown that Pit breaks is placed there by the Underworld Army meant to spawn enemy troops-so it's not vandalism! Though he DOES intrude on private property and break pillars, walls, and such of the Lightning Chariot Tower...so, yeah, still guilty. 😅
Before I even watch the video, I gotta say that Kirby canonically does NOT kill enemies since they all just reappear later on (except for some final bosses but those are like planetary threats).
Edit: Yeah I guess it _is_ just assault lol
I would argue that there is a distinct separation between what the character has definitely done (things required to complete the game) and what the player can make a character do (Ness chasing down enemies, e.g.)
For example, Salmon Run is a whole game mode that players are encouraged to do, versus villager, who can harm the environment or attack villagers, but there is no incentive to do.
Dark Samus has far worse than attempted murder under her belt. Murder, for example. Bioterrorism, grand theft, attacking civilians.
Samus absolutely does not explode the laboratory, it self-destructs in response to the SA-X attacking it.
Now that BDG isn't doing unraveled anymore, this is where I get my over researching video games fix. Thank you, Anna.
I would have guessed Kirby would be guilty of identity theft 😂.
Joker, whose entire character is committing crimes and getting arrested multiple times, is an outlier and should not be counted (joke)
Your getup is SSS tier, love the curls
I've committed a crime on a national law. I crossed the street despite a red signal. This is illegal. The punishment: nothing. But still illegal. Crossing the street anywhere outside of pedestrian crossings is legal unless stated otherwise.
0:15 it is not lust for violence. It is lust for JUSTICE.
For me is the Fun of it in a alt we get how canonlity eat tacos
I find it funny you mention Cloud is a merc but opted to not mention he participated in multiple counts of terrorism lmao
I have to imagine that the sheer amount of ducks shot in duck hunt exceeds what a hunting license allows
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Your paper wig is amazing 😂
I think you have a severe misunderstanding of Xenoblade 2. Blades aren't objects - they're people. In fact this is one of the major themes of the game, there are some people who treat Blades like property, even though they are real people with human emotions. "Blade" is just the name of the species that Pyra, Mythra, Dromarch etc. are.
There's also a common misconception that Pyra and Mythra *are* their swords which is simply untrue, they merely have the ability to summon a weapon whenever they need to. Blades' weapons get destroyed multiple times in the game, yet the Blades themselves are totally fine because the weapon is merely an object they can summon, not part of them or anything like that.
Also, your whole thing about taking into account the universe's laws and norms is applied inconsistently here. You could say they get animal abuse for attacking enemies that don't attack them, but I think killing random enemies is considered pretty normal in Alrest (and the Bionis) because there are tons of different quests where people ask you to kill enemies or obtain items dropped by them. In the world, it would seem that this would be considered "hunting" and since many npcs ask you to kill animals, it seems to be commonly accepted.
That said, Pyra and Mythra are both guilty anyway, because Mythra destroys an entire continent (by accident, but that is still a crime) and Pyra helps Rex to break Nia out of imprisonment, assault Ardainian guards, and destroy a water tower while evading capture from Morag. So yeah they're definitely guilty.
Shulk however, I'm not so sure about. Any crimes that are related to the Mechon aren't crimes, since the Homs are at war with the Mechon. If animal hunting is considered legal, which in universe it seems like it is, then the closest he gets to committing a crime is when he is imprisoned by the High Entia, but they realise he's innocent soon after and is released.
So...Blades are...Anthy from Utena?
One sidequest in XBC1 has the party being tricked into manufacturing and trafficking drugs, so Shulk is accessory to at least one crime. Unawareness of what he did does not make him innocent.
@@NightZap Those damned Red Pollen Orbs...!
@@NightZap Hmm that's true but I'm not so sure about that. Surely if you're unaware you committed a crime you're not guilty? Also, I feel like optional content should be a separate tier to stuff you have to do to complete a given game. There's characters who haven't done crimes (bottom tier), characters who may or may not do a crime based on player choice (middle tier), and characters who always do a crime (top tier). Would make more sense than a binary yes/no.
So calling the blades "object" is dehumanising and basically what slаvеry was based on? (For example: black people are objects not people?)
The new format of covering entire franchises of characters at once and then lighting them up on the roster is definitely working!
Also, surprised at just how much of the cast has done crime. Was half-expecting some of the individual Pokemon to have individual crimes, in all honesty, maybe something for Pichu from the Ukulele Pichu in Pokemon Ranger Guardian Signs? And honestly I expected Wes and Team Snagem to come up for Pokemon Trainer, which is very much theft.
Another good video, well done!
Wes is a single named character though. "Pokémon Trainer" isn't.
22:47 Oh boy, don't even get me started on this can of worms. Those girls are GUILTY
Banjo and Kazooie have also committed straight-up murder of sentient beings. R.I.P. George and Mildred Ice Cube
🎶In the arms of the angel... 🎶
21:28 I have an objection. Stepping on a butterfly is not a crime.
You’re massively bigger than the butterfly and can do it on accident. The butterfly is bigger than olimar and alph so attacking it is unwarranted.
@goodhelmetjunior3399 Objection again, unlike cows and moles, butterflies can't feel pain. Therefore, they're unable to be abused.
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I'm pretty sure killing butterflies is legal regardless of it being by accident or not.
@@An_Entire_Lime just sayin' this is a pretty creepy line of discussion on the "killing butterflies is fine" side 😅
this kinda dedication deserve a follow.
This feels like an awkward one: Like, Kirby eating things is supposedly just a temporary thing that causes them to respawn, but it'd count as cannibalism or animal abuse. Hm. Also, animal abuse laws might mean something. Stomping those turtles....
do koopas even legally count as animals? I mean, koopas can talk, and are clearly intelligent enough, they can even host game shows and all. bowser is a koopa too
@@door-chan True. So is he murdering or just assaulting koopas and goombas?
@@acuerden I don't think it's either, at most it's out of self defense. bowser is sending his military out to attack mario, he is just defending himself on his way so it doesn't count as either murder or assault
@@door-chan either way, in paper mario, you can attack a whacka to get a whacka bump, a creature that did not attack or threaten mario in any way, so mario commit animal cruelty anyways
To be fair, the pokemon trainer commits break in and theft inside of **criminal** organizations like team galactica who usually plan do much worse things like reshape the whole world to their desire by forcing legendary pokemons to do so.
Link stealing from temples is an interesting question, who actually owns those temples/dungeons? If they're temples of Hyrulian religion or whatever, and the sages give Link a quest that involves busting into those temples, then maybe he has permission from a relevant authority? Or hell, maybe all property in the kingdom technically belongs to the royal family and Link can break/take whatever he wants as long as Zelda is cool with it?
In that one storage room in OoT, the guard lets you smash stuff and even advises you should do so for stress relief, so he COULD argue that he was instructed poorly by someone he thought was an authority of the law, since Link was a foreign citizen at the time.
@@BJGvideos Good point, also might Link have diplomatic immunity for some things? If he was sent here by the Deku Tree, who is presumably a head of state..
@m_chupon5131 Great Deku Tree seems more like a guardian god than a head of state but good luck explaining that to the average homeowner
During Mediveal times, people used to charge real life animals with crimes leading to the infamous photo of a pig entered to court and a cat hung from a rope.
slight suggestion for future videos?
Maybe instead of just green for "yes they have" or red for "no they haven't," you could include a third option, "likely but not provable," which is yellow? Like Falco would have been in this video.
Just for a little bit more variety
She already did that at first and actively chose to remove it
Awesome video lol Also that Sonic line was in my head all the way until you got to him lol!
I love the video! As a resident Xenoblade nerd, I'm going to drop a comment I'm sure you've heard before:
Technically there's no proof that Rex and Pyra/Mythra were married, and I don't believe having a child out of wedlock is illegal. HOWEVER I am proud to announce that Pyra helps Rex tear down a water tower VERY near a village (which a governmental official later references costing a lot to rebuild), and Mythra sunk an entire continent which had yet to finish evacuating during the war 500 years prior to canon. Fun!
As for Shulk, I respect the "attacked enemies meant to be attacked" as part of a video I'm sure you already had to do too much research for, but I want something more fun fore myself. Just off the top of my head, Shulk and his party Definitely trespass on private property/a federally protected site in the High Entia Tomb, wherein I believe they have the conversation "Wait, it's forbidden to interrupt the ritual!" "Well, we're not citizens of this nation, so how will you stop us?" It may have worked out since the royal family wanted them to do it in that case, but I'm pretty sure breaking laws in another country is still illegal, even if they decide not to prosecute. Shulk is a criminal!
Thanks for uploading! I really enjoy your content :)
Thanks for the lore drop!
Didn’t expect there to be few enough law abiders to count on my hands
Well L. Mac is actually 17 so you could give him a charge for boxing ad a minor so it’s possible he is a law breaker
this was extreeemely entertaining you presented it really well and it was satisfying how thorough you were. My only real "objection!" is the Xenoblade 2 blades being considered objects when I think in that world you can pretty easily apply the same rule you applied to animals here (plenty of awareness and control over their own actions) but mostly every other thing you got them on is true anyway!
In regards to the ‘animal abuse’ it’d be the event organisers that’d be the guilty party, not the racers (same as it would be in rallying).
Imagine her google search history 💀
The FBI are all over me 😰
Follow-up collab with LegalEagle pls to fact-check the legal side and to tell us the max sentence for each crime
(Great vid 💖)
Falco is the type of guy that I feel is very annoyed that he didn't get a crime assigned to him.
He is the type to want recognition 😆
Hmm... just a thought, but this video could have been MUCH more interesting to look at the *worst* crimes each character has committed. Considering how few didn't ended up with a clean record... yeah, that leads to a lot glossed over answers of "yes, they attacked someone who wasn't initially hostile" without getting into the good stuff.
So just some fun quick ones:
- Mythra destroying what is essentially an entire country. Also possible regicide against two nations as a result.
- Pyra breaking Nia out of prison, who at that point was considered a member of an (ahem) "insurgent group".
- Maybe both of them... but presuming they were apart of an event that's simply known as "The Experiment"... uh, pretty sure breaking the laws of physics and killing/displacing everyone on Earth is a pretty big oopsie.
- Let's just hit Shulk with "criminal negligence" for not fixing whatever went wrong with Origin in XC3. Okay, that may be slightly speculative, but he was undoubtedly involved.
- Samus has multiple counts of "property damage" for blowing up space stations, and a few planets.
- Didn't Lucas end the entire world or something at the conclusion of Mother 3? I'm not entirely sure, that one was weird.
Lucas was basically dragged into an arms race. Pulling the Needles will wake up the dragon that ends the world and makes a new one, and who shapes the new world is entirely determined by who's pulled more needles. Only specified individuals even have that power in the first place so it's basically a treasure hunt for the future of the known universe.
I love the new layout! You should keep it the way you made it in this video
while pyra and mithra have definitely committed crimes, there's no indication that anyone has any problem with their polygamous marriage nor that they are trying to hide it which, similar to pokémon battles or hiring fox and falco as mercenaries, implies that this wasn't actually illegal for them. indeed, there's been plenty of societies, especially during time periods similar to what's presented, where marriages just like theirs would be wholly legal.
them being objects also seems iffy because they also have all the cognizance of a human so, likely, they would count as people, not objects, under the law.
furthermore, bigamy laws generally make illegal the act of marrying more than one, not the act of becoming married to someone already married, so, even if bigamy laws applied, this would only be a crime their husband committed, not them.
@@alexpotts6520 this simply isn't true. there are distinct punishments for bigamy which apply even when you are not married under the law.
ofc, there are places and times where bigamy/polygamy was both legal and lawful.
Bold of you to assume their polyamorous marriage isn’t mutual across all members.
"likely, they would count as people, not objects, under the law."
While we know they're not objects, I'd actually be hesitant to say that they _legally_ aren't, especially when one of the people with the biggest influence on laws in Alrest is also possibly the most racist character in the game who absolutely sees Blades as objects. Yes, I'm talking about Amalthus.
OK I loved this but that improvised bench wig is genius!
The Mega Man 7 thing was actually added in the American release. In true canon, Mega Man does not, and in fact, cannot, commit a crime, due to lacking free will.
He technically still did. Criminal threat. He issued a threat, intended it as a threat, and intended to make Wily afraid.
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Megaman was programmed to be a lawful individual, therefore you could argue the fact his programming allowed that action to take place must mean it IS legal in their world
7:10 yeah it’d be funny to watch you game blindfolded 😂
18:42 if the bishops are evil and attack u first it can be seen as self defense
I mean, most if not all of the games you can attack and presumably kill unnarmed clerics...
i'd actually argue that in a setting where magic exists attacking healers probably wouldn't be a war crime since they could pose a reasonable threat to your life by immediately healing a wounded soldier who then kills you (not to mention the danger they pose with status staves; berserk alone is at least five war crimes)
@ryangallagher9723 Well, agreed on Berserk staff. Hate that stupid thing. Ofc the strongest units you have are also the ones with worst res...
In echoes of wisdom Zelda also escapes jail twice
True, we've got a habitual offender
thank you for your video, great stuff as always, lemme just quickly add some stuff for specifically inkling bc no sane person not in the splatoon fandom would care enough to research this:
Mass slaughter of an intelligent species:
( Salmonids have literal established tradedeals with octarians )
( Octarian troop type Octoscooter will always try to flee from the player)
(I'm not counting the side order enemies as those are all part of the virtual world)
Banishing an entire race to live underground after winning the great turfwar (havent read the law but pretty sure causing others to have significantly worse living conditions goes against some kind of Geneva convention or human rights....)
Possession of illegal weaponry (The lore reason why some specials from splatoon 1 or 2 dont return is because they have been deemed illegal by whatever entity judges turfwars, probably judd...)
and also the whole extortion thing with taking the salmonids babies to use as power supply for a gigant weapon of mass destruction -- i mean... minimum wage....
Misc crimes that don't apply to the entire inkling race:
Overlorder: Kidnapping & taking someones free will x10
Grizz: Running an organisation under false premise, Propaganda, Mass slaughter, Attempted murder (is it attempted murder if he only removes the brain but the body lives on??) Tax evasion, False imprisonment, and attempted mass genocide
DJ Octavio: Kidnapping & Theft (twice)& taking someones free will
Carl Cuttlefish: Racism, False enprisonment & Trespassing
Tatar: Mass murder (1007 test subjects to be exact) attempted genocide, attempted murder x2, Kidnapping x??? and lastly how do you even class sanitisation? brainwashing an entire army.... is that a legally classed as a cult???
Marinas missjudgement in leaving an exploit unpatched for the virtual world to just pull users in is probably classed as negligence
Pearl; Trespassing, possession of Illegal weaponry and probably a bunch of noise complaints
Pretty much every member of the new squidbeak splatoon: Trespassing + destruction of property
the greatest minds of humanity: well they took off in a rocket, essentially blowing up every remaining human still alive in alterna sooo... genocide?? or gross neglicence??
Probably missed several things, splatoon nerds rise up and feel free to add to whatever i just said :)
so much lore
Also great example of sharing information without being a dick about it 😁
Love these lists!
How about which characters have played a video game? (I guess played electronic and mechanical games could be a lower tier, so the slot machines in Dragon Quest would count)
12:28 EXACTLY YOU GET IT
i think there should've been a yellow tier for "requires player input to commit crimes"
So... they'd all be yellow? 🤔
I’m so glad to see you’re back!!
Polyamory being illegal is such a weird law like "No you can't marry more than one person at once!" Like literally why? (I mean it's probably because of the church being stupid)