Realistically speaking , what would you do in this situation?

>>211702422 (OP)
dodge his attack and then cut him in half with my katana

>>211702422 (OP)
He was right, their only opportunity to put a stop to this kid's shit was while he was distracted with wishing him away to the cornfield.

>>211702506
Based

I let the kid take things in his direction. See where it ends up. Adults have buttfucked humanity for thousands of years, let's see what ideas this lil' fella can bring to the table now.

>What's on your mind, fella?

>>211702422 (OP)
i still stand by the idea to try and groom him into something like a classical greek god. it's probably the closest you're going to get a stable, omniscient and omnipotent entity. you either finally wear him down at some point and you can raise him to at least view everyone as subjects rather than worthless playthings, or he tires of your lecturing and prattling and makes you disappear forever, hopefully sans cornfield limbo or a horrific wind up jack-in-the-box toy styled mutation

>>211702422 (OP)
Call out his Antisemitism! It doesn't matter if he is a child or not, you have to nip this sort of thing in the bud whenever and wherever you see it!

>>211702422 (OP)
Nothing suggests he’s omniscient. You could just shoot him in the back of the head or poison him.

>>211702422 (OP)
Sip my peach brandy and listen to my Perry Como records.

>>211702585
>heh, you're about 100 years too early to messing with the tape clan samurai

>>211702695
>Perry Como

>>211702685
He can read everyone's thoughts though. Not sure if he can hear all thoughts at once or if he has to focus on one person to read their thoughts though, I assume he has to focus on one person to do it because how could everybody in town control their thoughts about this psychopathic go child 24/7?

>>211702640
>>211702422 (OP)
>All girls should be killed for having cooties.

>>211702685
he can 100% read thoughts and intents, that's one of the most horrific parts of the town. even when he randomly decides to make it snow, killing all their subsistence crops, they still have to pretend to be happy about it even when he's not around

poison is too slow and shooting him in the head - IF you can somehow not think about it the whole time - still has that 1% chance he survives long enough to will you into an eternal hell and resuscitate himself

>>211702422 (OP)
ask him to wish us all back to 1950 and then wish all the quotient on the earth into the heart of the sun

>>211702774
A terrible sacrifice, but one worth considering.

>>211702739
>>211702787
No, he can only hear thoughts within a specific diameter of himself which is why that farmer clams up at the beginning. You could theoretically take out Anthony by placing a bomb + timer (similar to ending of the movie Village of the Damned) and then have it blow up before he realizes what is happening.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KEZ0Mr9N1G4

>>211702422 (OP)
sneak up on him while repeating banana phone in my head

>>211702739
>>211702787
That’s why you have to be spontaneous. You could close your eyes and shoot blinding into the room. I’m sure that would work unironically.

Hey Bill
Have we talked yet about the JQ?

>>211702928
No, that would be stupid. Village of the damned was basically same scenario as this episode. The ending is how you would beat Anthony

>>211702914
i'm sure they can whip that up in a village of like 5 square miles of corn fields and shacks, floating in the void, in the 50's

>>211702928
okay and then you miss every shot and then he turns you into a sentient pile of dogshit that can only feel pain and thirst

>>211703032
>>i'm sure they can whip that up in a village of like 5 square miles of corn fields and shacks, floating in the void, in the 50's

They were able somehow to buy that guy Perry como records for his birthday???

gridman should have leaned harder into this girl being an evil anime waifu version of him

>>211702422 (OP)
it wouldn't be my first time handling a brat

>>211702422 (OP)
All you need to do is outsmart a kid.
You could probably reverse psychology him in to creating something dangerous enough to kill him

>>211702422 (OP)
>Realistically speaking , what would you do in this situation?

HEY KID IN 50 YEARS THERE IS GOING TO BE THIS THING CALLED ANIME
AND LET'S JUST SAY YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO SEE WHAT THE FUCK THAT'S ABOUT

surely he couldn't control everyone while he was asleep

>>211702649
that's a good idea. explain that he is god and worship him as one and hope that he has mercy on you

>>211702422 (OP)
I wouldn't do anything. I'd listen to what he had to say. Which is what no one else did.

>>211703346
Akane was shit. Dynazenon was better than Gridman

>>211702787
>God fucks you over and you have to pretend to be okay with it
This show is too real sometimes

so what was the cornfield?

rape my boss

>>211702422 (OP)
Say "I bet you can't give me your powers" and see what happens

>>211703346
I tried to watch gridman and found it unbearably boring.

>>211702928
>That’s why you have to be spontaneous.
Agreed, which is why he was begging anyone at the party to kill the kid while he was distracted with turning him into a jack in the box. The whole town was already buck broken by the kid though and too terrified to actually do anything and risk getting killed themselves.

>>211702422 (OP)
learn to love corn

>>211702422 (OP)
trump rn frfr

>>211707098
>I wouldn't do anything. I'd listen to what he had to say. Which is what no one else did.
Beat me to it

>>211707346
Whatever you want it to be. Maybe just an infinite cornfield where you only have corn to eat and slowly die from malnutrition.

>>211702422 (OP)
>Realistically speaking , what would you do in this situation?

Spill boiling water on his face while he's asleep

>>211702787
People there in the room with the kid were visibly upset by him and were clearly thinking about how wrong the things that he was doing were. The kid cannot hear thoughts otherwise he would have known that the guy who freaks out wanted him dead and would have confronted him or disposed of him, thoughts come before actions.

>>211707098
>>211708898
Wtf are you guys talking about? The whole town waited on him hand and foot, they'd sit around and praise him for everything and were forced to listen to him any time he spoke.

>>211709137

https://youtu.be/QxTMbIxEj-E?si=jpvbDxt0kdQVMww7&t=179

That's exactly what happened. Have you guys even seen the episode before??

>>211709514
I haven't, I thought he was actually sending people to a cornfield and the problem was that it was a long inconvenient hike back like in the johnny bravo episode
the powers being described in this thread are surprising me

>>211709031
Oh man, instant "Carandiru" flashback. Great movie, but that scene... fuck.

>>211709664
Yeah, it's never fully explained what the cornfield is but it's clear once you get sent there you can never return, so I assume it's some sort of alternate dimension or something. Like Australia was for the british.

>>211702422 (OP)
The kid is an analogy for the influence of Israel over the USA

>>211709514
it's literally a 5 minute episode and i've spent a supermajority of my time in this thread explaining it to complete, drooling retards trying to argue with me - and they haven't even watched it lmao

>>211709820
The cornfield is just Oklahoma

>>211710054
>it's literally a 5 minute episode
Okay so nobody in this thread aside from me has ACTUALLY watched this before

>>211709347
It's an old meme about Hitler listening to what Marilyn Manson had to say (or vice versa, I can't remember)

>>211710187
okay i fucked myself there but in all fairness these morons could easily watch those 5 minutes alone and understand everything we've been discussing. i'm not exactly sitting down to rewatch disparate twilight zone episodes from almost a century ago so my bad for not remembering the runtime. if you've actually read my posts you'd clearly be able to tell i've watched it

Why don't they make interesting tv shows like this anymore?

easy peas, just turn him into a zombie

the little shit has to sleep sometimes
just bump him (off) in the night

Why didn't someone just shoot him with a sniper rifle?

>>211702422 (OP)
> hehe... nothin personal, kid

>>211709514
The guy freaks out and the kid calls him out for his freakout, the kid says that the guy "keeps thinking bad thoughts" but this means nothing as the kid shows no signs of being able to read thoughts otherwise he would have known beforehand what the guy was going to do, the kid does not have precognition, the kids powers are limited to what he can see and hear as evidenced by the logic the episode follows.

The powers that a character displays and the powers that the writers write for the character to display are not the same, one has evidence while the other doesn't

This is why Marvel's crappy superman clone Sentry is a bad character because he is said to have the power of "10 million exploding suns" and yet he never displays this level of strength because the writers don't know how to handle their BS.

>>211702422 (OP)
Tell the little fag not to think about blowing up his own brain and naturally he’d do that just to spite me then instantly kill himself

>>211711378
it's so crazy it just might work

>>211702422 (OP)
>Rural 1960's town
>Nogunz
What did they mean by this?

>>211711321
>The powers that a character displays and the powers that the writers write for the character to display are not the same
I feel like this may be intentional. The real threat of the episode is the fear the people feel about the kid. They've basically mentally broken themselves worrying about what he can do. It's pretty clear that they could have ended the little shit while he was distracted, but their fear led to inaction and doomed everyone.

>>211708753

>>211702787
Get the most violent person in town really drunk and then surround him with guns and heavy objects. Bring the kid in. He’ll never see it coming

>>211711535
That's a good point.

>>211705660
Pretty much this. I'd conjure alot of images of how fun car surfing is.

>>211708971
he would know before you even pick it up
then what smart guy

Is the the short story any good?

>>211711757
What about a car surfing werewolf? That's a pretty dangerous thing to imagine.

>>211702649
>i still stand by the idea to try and groom him
nonce

>>211712059
*nice

what was his problem

>>211712119
Not enough tendies

>>211702914
although the distance isn't specified, he's able to kill the neighbor's dog and in a farming community that could be acres away

As someone who works hard labor I've mastered basically auto pilot where I can literally be physically doing one thing but mentally somewhere else. Like my body is a machine going through the motions

So like a well oiled machine I could mechanically get a gun ready while I'm thinking about whatever bullshit

>>211702422 (OP)
I would use my superior adult intellect to reverse the accusation, debate the kid, and convince everyone the kid was a demonic entity who needed to be destroyed immediately.

I don't think he can dodge a machine gun

>>211702422 (OP)
Anal rape the little boy before he can even comprehend whats happening and make him my little omnipotent bitch

M O O N that spells gonna kill this little shit. Laws yes!

>>211712172
he could literally will a tendie golem into existence with bbq sauce blood to serve him tendies growing like a bunch of grapes if he wanted

>>211712240
my nigga.
Aim for the head

>set a trap to the left
>think about how I want to push him to the right so he'll fall into a trap
>he reads my thoughts
>thinks he's so smart
>like the dumbass he is he goes right and falls into a punji pit

>>211712359
He wanted mommy to make him tendies because she wanted to make them for him, he didn't want to have to force her.

>>211702422 (OP)
be his friend and just tickle him all the time

>>211712831
And touch his pp?

>>211702422 (OP)
sex of course if you know what i mean

>>211713010
No, you sicko. Just keep him laughing.

>>211702422 (OP)
have multiple thoughts at once so he gets overwhelmed

>>211702422 (OP)
Call him a little faggot and die free rather than live as a slave.

>Hey kid, you know what would be really funny?
>If you doubled the size of all these women's breasts.
>Haha, yeah see, it's funny right?
>Now give them fatter asses. It'll be hilarious.

>>211713167
based

>>211702649
lol how the FUCK are going to acomplish that lolol
"Just like, make him be good! Like groom him into being a calm god!"
Thanks sherlock holmes
Thanks for your valuable contribution

>>211711549
Don't make me send you into the cornfield...

>>211716687
Gridman is just gonna FIXAH BEAMU himself out of the cornfield

>>211703346
It's also kind of what Haruhi was.
>>211710187
I watched it with my mommy over the holidays last winter. She laughed at me because my first exposure to it was the Simpsons episode.

>>211708966
Sounds like FDR's wet dream

>>211709664
Nigger, how is a Jack n' the Box supposed to hike back to town with no legs?

>>211711321
To be fair, the episode isn't really about the kid's powers at all, but about the terror the kid's mere existence inflicts upon the town. Mentally and emotionally he's an ordinary kid who just happens to have these strange god-like powers, which is the problem, he's far too immature to handle power like that responsibly. When he doesn't get his way or something he doesn't like goes on, he makes it go away, like any child would if they had the ability to do so. Also throughout the episode it's implied that nearly everyone/everything he wishes away into the cornfield has repeatedly upset him before he decided to do something about it, so he's not necessarily some tyrannical maniac who automatically punishes everyone for every little slight, which is why he only wished the guy away at the end of the episode when he freaked out on the kid, the kid had had enough and decided he wanted him gone. Although he does threaten everyone to wish them away if they think bad thoughts about him too, he likely doesn't actually realize that everyone is terrified of him and only acts nice to him because they don't want to die, he's just a kid who wants to be happy, and just happens to have strange powers that nobody can do anything about. His powers are never fully explained because, again, the story isn't about his powers, it's about the effect that him having these powers has on the people around him. Trying to do a full breakdown of his powers is pointless, I'd say if the writers implied he can read thoughts then that's what he can do, it's not about his actual ability to read thoughts, it's about how the rest of the town reacts to knowing, or believing, that even one wrong thought can get them killed.

>>211711321
>>211717709
While I don't think the kid himself is a dictator, the story is obviously an allegory for what living under a dictatorship is like. They mention how they miss cities so somehow he has cut off access to the rest of the world for the people in his town, yet they can still get things like brandy and music records, so there likely is still an outside world that exists, alluding to the idea of the people living in a dictatorship being cut off from the outside world, as well as there being no tv left aside from the tv he creates, alluding the idea of only having access to state approved media. They details of his powers weren't clearly defined because they don't matter to the story, yet that same lack of clarity about his abilities arguably makes him more terrifying.

>>211711535
>The real threat of the episode is the fear the people feel about the kid.
I didn't realize someone else already pointed this out lol.

>>211702422 (OP)
>tfw you get to travel the world torturing as many innocent people as you want with your daughter wife.

>>211702640
Based and try to redpill him pilled
>so Jesus called them the synagogue of Satan and...

>>211702422 (OP)
Ask him politely if he could turn my body into the body of sydney sweeney. Then i would play with my boobs and finger myself all day.

I like the part in the short story where he gets mad at a rock and sends the rock to the cornfield

>>211702649
>>211717918

I’d snap his little neck!

you just kill the kid by not warning him about obvious danger
>you want to play with the toaster in the bath
>thats real good kid real good
Hes not wise enough to avoid accidentally dying

>>211711942
absolutely essential to the arguments from anons who only saw the episode. he is a demiurge that creates and destroys nature at will with a distaste for humans.

>>211720311
thats what he is, hes a monster in the form of a little boy

>>211719001
That cyanide you’re drinking makes TV even better kid

>>211711940
No he wouldn't. He can only read my active thoughts, not intent. If i intend to shoot a dog with rabies, how would he know i was counting him as the dog with rabies?
Better yet, id give myself schizophrenia and just follow him around all day. He'd end up killing himself anyway.

>>211702422 (OP)
wait until he falls asleep then kill him

>>211702422 (OP)
>ctrl + f
>"sit down and listen"
>0 results
none of you would sit down and listen to what they had to say? i mean that is what nobody did

>>211725398 see >>211707098

>>211702422 (OP)
>>211702515
This. I pay a homeless guy to distract him. While he's distracted I sneak up and bonk him on the head or shoot him from some distance.

>>211702649
he'll just turn into caligula, idiot. if he has the inclination if evil and jest already he wont change. he's born stupid

>>211702422 (OP)
You guys know theres a sequel to this episode right?

I'd rape him. What's he gonna do?

>>211707098
he didnt sit down

This kid can literally fuck your wife and you have to say
>thats real nice you fucked my wife real nice
and you HAVE to like it or he will kill you

>>211712421
vietcongpilled

>>211702422 (OP)
I would befriend him and then convince him to send the entire population of Israel to the sun.

>>211715508
>Doesn't understand subtlety or social engineering

>>211702787
Grab him and never let go
Forces him into the rows he forces you into

>>211702515
He has to sleep at some point. That'd be the only chance to get him. It would gave to be a 100% chance of success and very quick. You couldnt let anyone else know or they'd rat you out from fear.

>>211717157

Okay Greamer.

>>211707346
Nobody answered this and I’m surprised, because “taken out to the cornfield” is a Midwestern euphemism for killing someone. It’s a variant of, “taken out behind the barn.” This euphemism would’ve been understood by the people watching the show when it aired, since the Midwest was still economically important to the country.

>>211732112
They just cease to exist. Pretty obvious.

>>211702640
what a stupid post

>>211732130
Yeah, and you can tell that pretty well from watching the episode. People being confused or discussing the details of what the cornfield might be are fooling themselves. Cornfields, especially in the heartlands, are endless fields where people go to die.

>>211732130
>>211732361
its an actual cornfield though. Its basically a living graveyard for all the abominations the kids creates. The adults convinced him to do it so they dont have to see the hideous flesh horror things he makes.
Whether its actually the outskirts of town in a cornfield or another dimension that is just a cornfield thats unknown.

Try to destroy him emotionally by stating that every single person in town actually hates and fears him, that as much as they pretend to care, they only do it in hopes of living another day, and that, in the end, he is truly alone, with no one to call friends. Even if I get sent to the cornfield, my words will never leave the little fuck's mind and he'll never be able to look at his suck-ups the same way.

You trick him by saying
>Hey kid you ever been to the cornfield? No? why dont you go check it out

>>211730400
SAHREE GAYDUH

>>211702422 (OP)
that kid is Lennier from Babylon 5 btw

>>211702649
>>211705895
That's a bad idea. Making the kid think he's a living god would just turn him into a selfish despot like Nero or Puyi since he already has a mean streak.

>>211702422 (OP)
Bash his brains in when he sleeps. His mind reading seems to be easily avoided with smiles. He'd just know I'm genuinely happy and soon as he turns his back it's lights out. The mom could have ended this shit a million times over by snapping the kid's neck.

>>211732420
i need a spin off movie from the point of view of those diverse abominations living in the cornfield.
also a 2.5 hr R rated adaptation of the Chrysalids with it's similar theme of the mutants in the 'fringe'

On a related note, this is probably the greatest 250 bucks I've ever spent on media. I really don't need anything else.