• Garlan_Tyrell@alien.topB
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    I never bought the temporary insanity, I think Cecil put him on some advanced psychopharmaceuticals and cured his insanity.

    Geniuses don’t become monsters just because they’re right and need to go to extremes to prove it, and monsters don’t become docile just because they’re given funding.

    That being said, his character survives the downfall of the GDA, so I think he was cured for good, and it’s not an ongoing thing.

    • DeficiencyOfGravitas@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      cured his insanity.

      He didn’t cure his insanity. He treated it. Sinclair was not cured. He was treated.

      It’s a very important difference when it comes to mental illness. There are no cures. Only treatment.

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      Geniuses don’t become monsters just because they’re right and need to go to extremes to prove it, and monsters don’t become docile just because they’re given funding.

      But this does seem to be a common sentiment, at least in-universe if not the comic itself. Robot’s utopia largely operated on hearing would-be villains out

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      1 year ago

      Yeah Sinclair has one of the best arcs in the series: from villain to useful genius to rebel hero to… based on the end when he had switched his lab coat for a suit… one of the leaders of the GDA.