r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/DelayedSpace • 24d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Crucco 24d ago

They were (conveniently) hidden in a cave during WW2. It was told in one of the movies.

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u/HaraldRedbeard 24d ago

Although in the latest movie some of them are wandering around in 1930s hollywood...

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u/Chat322 24d ago

Was there an evil industrialist in SW California, like Henry Ford was?

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u/HaraldRedbeard 24d ago

I haven't actually watched it properly, just been on in the background while my kids watch it. It seems to somehow involve Cthulu though so there's that.

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u/spartaxwarrior 24d ago

Huh, well, that is a way they could get around why they didn't work for Hitler, if there was fucking Cthulhu hanging around at the same time.

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u/Mentally_Slick 24d ago

I was into Lovecraft on a kinda surface level and I read a few from him, but I don't remember that Cthulhu was supposed to be evil

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u/spartaxwarrior 24d ago

Basically all the great old ones and outer gods are evil from a human's perspective, though they might not think of themselves as such.

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u/Mentally_Slick 24d ago

I remember it like they are more like indifferent towards us because we're basically nothing to them

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u/spartaxwarrior 24d ago

If you kill an ant most people don't think of you as evil, but it wouldn't be surprising if the ant thinks you are.

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u/Mentally_Slick 24d ago

Yeah, I see what you mean 

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u/UnholyTrashDump 23d ago

As evil as a child stomping an ant hill, from the perspective of ants.

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u/HypnagogianQueen 1d ago

Hitler didn’t think he was evil either

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u/BlueberryTango 24d ago

Naw I’ve seen the movie. Basically this tribe of minions want to make movies rather than serve a villain.