We're not in Kansas anymore, muthafuckas
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I'm tired of these motherfucking slippers on my motherfucking feet!
The official term is involuntary manslaughter, but it would only be applicable to the Witch of the West, however it would require recklessness or negligence, neither of which were present. Then again, when Dorothy's house falls on the Witch of the East, although it's basically a death from natural disaster, she proceeds to steal a family heirloom, the ruby slippers, from the deceased witch and refuses to give them back to her kin, the Witch of the West, so there's some degree of instigation. That does not excuse how Dorothy is kidnapped and detained, plus there's the criminal intent the witch has to kill Dorothy. It's a shit show all around, but that's Kansas for you.
The first one was, at worst, manslaughter. The second was premeditated, but at the insistence and manipulation of one of Oz's super powers, so she could probably get a plea deal if she's willing to dish on Glinda.
It would be great to have a show like Drunk History and Robot Chicken and Harvey Birdman where famous characters are put on trial for their various crimes
Wizard of Oz is an isekai
It is. I tried once to make the argument that Jurassic Park is, too, but I get yelled at.
What's your argument? I'm all for twisting shit to make stuff isekai but jurassic park is just an island on planet earth with revived dinos.
The dinos are the isekai.
"I woke up as a copy of my 65 million year old self in a land of apes."
They had no prior memories, they were born there
They're also not technically dinosaurs due to the heavy amounts of DNA splicing they had to do to make them viable, being more like a designer monster that resembles a dinosaur. There's a ton of non-dino DNA in them.
Thank you! No one else gets it.
That's also cyberpunk from the dinos' standpoint.
a bit of nitpicking
But that would contradict trying to be at least vaguely scientific-like because no memory would have been preserved
Star wars is also isekai
Because to make that argument, you have to reduce the definition to the point of uselessness. Jurassic Park isn't Isekai/Stranger in a Strange Land because the island isn't a strange, unknown land. It was created by the same people/culture the main characters are from. Isekai needs an independent culture with it's own history and people.
But then SAO also isn't an isekai because all it's inhabitants are just visitors from the real world and was also created by the same people/culture the main characters are from
You're right. SAO isn't isekai. It's just "Trapped in the game". Although the Alicization arc is isekai.
LOTS of popular western classics are isekai. Alice in Wonderland, Peterpan, The Chronicles of Narnia, Gulliver's Travels all come to mind.
And here I thought that a key aspect of isekai was being completely unoriginal in every way
Well she wasn't exactly controlling where that house would land, was she?
That's for the jury to decide
If she wasn’t white, guilt would be certain.
Hehe.
She doesn't really "meet" the wicked witch of the east, and it's hard to argue that she "kills" her, either, considering that was an act of god which Dorothy didn't really want to be a part of.
I remember Ted Lasso very differently
RIP Lee Winfrey