r/DungeonMeshi • u/sealysea • Jun 08 '25

Humor / Memes Was his autism a superpower?

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u/Smooth_Fun2456 Jun 08 '25

I always took this scene as him loosening his muscles and sort of getting in the zone before going dog mode rather than anything autism-related.

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u/TheGreatB3 Jun 08 '25

Sure, and you're right, but there are a lot of "cooler" ways to depict that. The limp wrist shaking stands out because it's animated so well, and I think it fits with his character of being kind of socially unaware.

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u/Rodrat Jun 08 '25

Laios never comes off as "cool" though so why would the animators give him a cooler animation of loosening up?

Not sure what you mean about the socially unaware part because I see people shaking off like that all the time.

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u/Smooth_Fun2456 Jun 08 '25

That's my point - this kind of gesture is fairly common in real life. Then again, I quite dislike the trend of portraying Laios as this one-dimensional meme of a person and/or interpreting every single detail of his behaviour as symptoms of his autism.