Talk:Metroid: Mother?/@comment-7706473-20140711112915/@comment-1196539-20140723133704

It's not really trying to be justified. The protagonist isn't the rapist. And if you're saying that rape is something that has no place in the literary world, I have to strongly disagree with you there. Anything that exists in the real world can and should be used as a vessel in the literary, to various effects.

How it's used, however, is up in the air. It's not THAT it's in the story, but HOW it's in the story. In this case, it comes in out of nowhere and doesn't really contribute, in my opinion. I find it redundant, not offensive. Finding out that the main character went through an abortion is already enough to explain and tie together the whole of the story--even if she made the choice herself, most women still find it a very difficult choice and might feel a lot of guilt afterwards. Adding the rape revelation at the same time just kind of feels like pushing too hard.

Kind of like Grave of the Fireflies. I couldn't do anything but laugh at that movie simply because its entire reason for existing was to make the viewer feel bad. Like every second on screen there was someone in the corner shouting "FEEL BAD" at me. It's just kind of hard to actually do so when it's being emphasized to such an unnecessarily hammy degree.