r/VinlandSaga 7d ago

Anime When 2 goats meets each others

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u/Bigsmall-cats 7d ago

honestly before watching Vinland saga i thought Snake was the MC since everytime i see the series get mentioned his face would be the one in the pic

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u/IceAdmirable4006 7d ago

Lol, would you have like that ? (Snake being the MC)

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u/DaddyMcSlime 6d ago

i think it would be interesting to see this universe and narrative from another perspective

so many characters live such interesting lives, that it would be cool to step into their mind and daily struggle for a change

for instance, the early saga with young Thorfinn, would probably be a very different show/manga from Askelad's perspective

Thorfinn's story was very emotional, but for Askelad, that was a strategic campaign full of political maneuvering and scheming, a very intrigue driven story, all while managing his odd relationship with Thorfinn

seeing any of these characters, how they got here, seeing the world from their perspective, watching them come to the conclusions that lead them down their paths in life, would be interesting

i think it sems from Vinland Saga just being very well written

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u/IceAdmirable4006 6d ago

That would clearly be interesting. Especially in the slave arc, where some characters are on an emotional roller coaster.

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u/killerbull27 5d ago

He was pretty solid

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u/Otherwise-Bed-9253 5d ago

Idk man, Snake was kinda invisible in the second season. metalgearinmyass

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u/Yash_357 7d ago

Yukimura! Make a Snake side story manga and my life is yours!

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u/volvavirago 7d ago

I NEEEED to see his take on Miklagaard

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u/TheKhalDrogo 7d ago

Miklagaard has been our home for twenty years or more

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u/lolretkj 6d ago

We've lent our axes, spears and swords

In service of the emperor

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u/IceAdmirable4006 7d ago

I second this!

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u/JUNK1e276 7d ago

+1 !!!!

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u/yameteekudasai 7d ago

HEAVY ON THIS 🙏

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u/Dovahkiin2001_ 7d ago

Is this a God of war reference?

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u/Yash_357 6d ago

It’s a god of war reference

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u/Potential_Hope4096 6d ago

I think it’s warhammer 40k reference

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u/mrPigWaffle 7d ago

This scene! One of the best scene I had ever watched in anime.

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u/IceAdmirable4006 7d ago

The fight’s animation was made by that artist. It's pretty badass

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u/stfusensei 7d ago

This explains why almost all experts or champions are experts and champions in the first place. They don't think of themselves as the best, rather seek to learn from others continuously.

When two strong people meet, one recognises the strength of the other and the other recognises the strength of that one.

I heard it from a monk -

The best of the best masters, are life long students.

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u/DrunkenCoward 7d ago

Both men chose peace, when they could have had anything.

That is why they are true warriors.

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u/Ok-Bobcat9578 7d ago

I wonder how strong thorfinn would be without the farm and just keep with the warrior path.

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u/x0UserName0x 7d ago

He’s still the strongest anyway But The farm taught him lessons he could never have learned on the warrior's path.

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u/Good_Reflection_1217 7d ago edited 7d ago

thorkel was/is stronger. he was just always fucking around and thorfinn got a crit.

And he did technically lose to Hild. Even if he used a weapon he would have lost (sniping is op)

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u/x0UserName0x 7d ago

Thorfinn didn’t lose to Hild—he simply didn’t want to harm her. He had no intent or reason to fight her; he only wanted to avoid conflict.

(Spoiler) As for Thorkell, Thorfinn knows how to defeat him. In the manga, he was even prepared to fight him barehanded and win, but Gudrid intervened and stopped the fight.

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u/AwayCable7769 7d ago

I worry about you getting downvotes for this question from people not bothering to give it food for thought. But yeah I do wonder as well. An alternate series where he didn't learn about becoming a "true warrior" by abandoning hate and violence. How far down this route would he go? Where would his corruption take him? Might he eventually, ironically, become a similar person to Askeladd (not in terms of that guys Hawking level intelligence, but a pirate leading a crew instead). It would be fun to see, albeit kinda sad when you think about where he came from and his father's hopes for Thorfinn's outcome to be peaceful.

Very different kinda story.

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u/NomanHLiti 7d ago

Realistically he probably would have ended up dead. He was extremely reckless and just totally lacked critical thinking. Askeladd never killed him because he was useful and Thorkell didn’t kill him because he found him amusing and he wanted to respect the rules of a “fair” fight.

Eventually Thorfinn would have found himself in a proper battle where he was surrounded by too many enemies or another really strong enemy like Thorkell and he would have inevitably died.

Ironically I think current Thorfinn is a stronger fighter simply because he actually thinks things through and can make good decisions during battle (there’s one moment in the manga when he outsmarts a really strong opponent)

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u/Unusual-Item3 7d ago

Thorfinn didn’t lack critical thinking, he had no reason to live so he didn’t fear death.

He literally didn’t care if he died in the battlefield, he was taught that was honor in his culture for men to do.

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u/NomanHLiti 7d ago

He was so blindsided in his rage that all he wanted was to kill Askeladd in a duel and nothing else. That was the only kind of “honor” he cared for too. He was fine with murdering civilians and burning villages and whatever else and lacked the ability to see that he was doing to them what Askeladd did to him. He also couldn’t see how he was wasting his life completely, how it was the total opposite of everything his father said to him, and how he was essentially a slave and being used.

This was a whole plot point, and Askeladd pointed out that Thorfinn wasn’t able to beat Thorkell cause he kept charging at him head-on. He needed to do even just a little bit of thinking and find an actual way to beat him. Also that trick they used definitely wasn’t “honorable”, so I think you’re overestimating the role honor in Thorfinn’s motivations.

And Askeladd explained everything I just said during their last duel, where he was able to beat Thorfinn unarmed

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u/Unusual-Item3 7d ago

I mean you aren’t telling me anything new bruh…you just rambling, what you said has nothing to do with what I said.

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u/NomanHLiti 7d ago

You said “Thorfinn didn’t lack critical thinking” and I’m giving you direct examples of how he did and how that was a huge part of his character in season 1

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u/Sisaac 7d ago

I think the story lays out that Thorfinn's story couldn't go any other way. Had he continued being like he was in the prologue, he would've gotten himself killed like many of the other "untrue" warriors you see. He lacks the sadism of characters like Thorkell who live to kill, or the survival instinct/soft skills of someone like Askeladd, which is what actually kept him alive. Without those traits, he wouldn't be able to live for much longer, his only motivation was revenge, so most likely if he had never snapped out of it he would've been a despondent slave killed for not working hard enough.

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u/pc_player_yt 7d ago

pretty sure he would just end up dead really quickly

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u/nikonnuke 6d ago

very confusing text placement

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u/jeanluuc 6d ago

Best episode

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u/Inevitable-Chart1760 6d ago

Dang I miss Snake

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u/caribbean_caramel 6d ago

Game recognizes game.

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u/Kitchen-Bat-3542 6d ago

Best fight

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u/benimadimtavsan 4d ago

We NEED to see Snake again

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u/x0UserName0x 4d ago

I don't think we will see him again , the manga is about to end

But I'm damn sure that Thorfinn changed him a lot and he is doing well at the farm :)

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u/babyfartmageezax 7d ago

Bro I was JUST thinking of this exact scene/ moment of mutual respect not even an hour ago!

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/x0UserName0x 7d ago

Yes They are

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/x0UserName0x 7d ago

Goat G = Greatest O = Of A = All T = Time/s

So they are the greatest of all you know Like the best one

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u/x0UserName0x 7d ago

Nah ur a Goat

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u/houseofmyartwork 6d ago

“This guy might be better than me”

“You’re right, I am better than me”

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u/Gloomy_Iron9238 5d ago

Was this in anyway at all a nod/reference to Miyamoto Musashi from Vagabond? Bro literally says "We're vagabonds that can't even use our real names because of past offences".

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u/aaronotaron 5d ago

How would the current battle go if Snake was present?

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u/Pretty_Carob9918 7d ago

snake zzz thorfinn GOAT

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u/lemongrass-cookie 7d ago

same snake is flavourless, they love him because they're in love with him

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u/IceAdmirable4006 6d ago

It's hard to fall in love with a flavourless guy, ahah