Oct 30 2008Man Wants To Marry Comic Book Character
A Japanese man has started a petition to allow humans to marry comic book characters. And no, it's not The Superficial Writer. Just kidding, it totally is.
I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world. However, that seems impossible with present-day technology. Therefore, at the very least, would it be possible to legally authorize marriage with a two-dimensional character?
Amazingly, he's not the only one. In his campaign to collect a million signatures, he's run across several other nutjobs.
For a long time I have only been able to fall in love with two-dimensional people and currently I have someone I really love," one person wrote. Even if she is fictional, it is still loving someone. I would like to have legal approval for this system at any cost.
Wow, just wow. And also, WTF! I'm not sure if the character in the picture is the one of interest, but if it is, well, the dude's gay. Which will probably require some more legislation. Now, where do I sign?
Japanese man petitions to marry comic-book character [yahoonews]
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Reader Comments
1. Clark - October 30, 2008 2:53 PM
So once again, the Japanese strike with some completely peculiar social issue...
If the bill does pass though... Man- he's gonna get some papercuts where I don't even wanna think about... Wonder if you can bleed out from that? I guess we may find out!
Primero?
2. mamadough - October 30, 2008 2:56 PM
i once gave my invisible friend a handjob.
3. C-Basstian - October 30, 2008 2:57 PM
wow... well by there logic of loving something/someone even if it/he/she doesnt love you back i could marry a hot actress... its cool man... i love her... she doesnt have to know me or love me back
4. Gizmoduck - October 30, 2008 3:00 PM
I'm married to Toki Wartooth. So what?
5. Andrew - October 30, 2008 3:00 PM
WTF?? who's the crazy who actually thinks these 2D figures are people?? newsflash...some middle-aged man is the one who drew your love interest...and she's not real...and she never will be....and even if you do marry this piece of paper, she's gonna be cheating with any other asshat who picks up a comic book....ridiculous
6. Moose Knuckle - October 30, 2008 3:02 PM
Does that mean you have to photoshop yourself into the wedding pictures..?
Hope you get the shadows right.
pewbbq
7. mamadough - October 30, 2008 3:03 PM
OMG, i want to be a japanese comic book writer. i would so have the comic book girl f*** everything in sight. panda rape, giraffe rape, whatever; while saying that she will never love him because she's not F***ING REAL. then she'd shoot herself in the head and i would go the extra mile to have the printing people poke little holes in the paper where her head is.
8. C-Basstian - October 30, 2008 3:03 PM
will the artist make him a character in the comic???
9. MTWTF - October 30, 2008 3:05 PM
Well, if youre going to let the gays marry, you might as well let everyone do it.
ZOMG pew pew pew MTWTFBBQ!!!
10. Gizmoduck - October 30, 2008 3:06 PM
WAT
11. davo - October 30, 2008 3:14 PM
I married my toaster.
PEW PEW ZAP OMG!
12. jonar - October 30, 2008 3:15 PM
they should add this in right alongside with prop 8.
put marrying animals for people into bestiality legal also.
Yay for prop 8.
13. davo's toaster - October 30, 2008 3:15 PM
ZAP ZAP BOOM
14. mamadough - October 30, 2008 3:16 PM
@9, your name reminds me of the aqua teen hunger force episode that has the robot rabbit that sings "monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday....."
15. Moose Knuckle - October 30, 2008 3:17 PM
You married a Frakkin Toaster!!! Traitor!!!
(Unless it looked like Grace Park, she is teh hawt)
pew pew the cylons
16. MTWTF - October 30, 2008 3:22 PM
@14. Oh yeah, well your name reminds me of that scene from Never Back Down where Momma was making pizza dough! Pew Pew
Your mom goes to college. Teh he.
17. Oscello - October 30, 2008 3:26 PM
If he knows the thing he wants to marry is fictional, his marriage should be also be fictional.
18. Daisy - October 30, 2008 3:27 PM
Fake!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong.
Its just like the scene in the movie Never Back Down, where Max tells Baja life would be so much easier if we could only marry cartoons.
19. mamadough - October 30, 2008 3:34 PM
@16, i wasn't making fun of you. and my mom did go to college. is your mom still charging by the hour?
20. Douchie Mc Bagman - October 30, 2008 3:36 PM
Can you divorce her when the pages all get glued together after the honeymoon, or do you just buy a new issue?
21. C-Basstian - October 30, 2008 3:38 PM
haha ... the court says that he can marry her just as long as she says i do and signs the marrage cert.
22. LSDiesel - October 30, 2008 3:39 PM
@5, thank you captain obvious.
The only REAL issue here is monogamy. Can I marry a comic book character if he/she/it is already....um....claimed?
No matter. I'm already dating Samus, and let me tell you she is WILD in bed.
23. Lieutenant Bob - October 30, 2008 3:48 PM
In the ongoing saga of Daisy, she now links to dodge.com.
I'm speechless.
Also, wow.
24. Meaty Urologist - October 30, 2008 4:18 PM
Is Psylocke still single?
25. Nugaloopagus - October 30, 2008 4:24 PM
Sweet news bro! If prop 8 fails in California you can marry anyone or anything you want! Two wives, your dog, Satan or even a comic book! It's all good bro! And best of all, big name celebrities will think your cool and really "modern." You can't loose!
26. finfan - October 30, 2008 5:00 PM
Is it me or is he pointing to Naruto??!?!?!!
27. William Gibson - October 30, 2008 5:00 PM
Idoru
28. Ray - October 30, 2008 5:01 PM
The guy in the comic book is Hiruma Youichi from Eyeshield 21.
And I would marry him, even if it makes me gay. He's just damn awesome.
29. luciddreamer99 - October 30, 2008 5:05 PM
"I love you, She-Hulk!"-Chris Griffin
30. luciddreamer99 - October 30, 2008 5:08 PM
This raises the question: To marry a comic book character, would the character have to share your sexuality? In this example, if one were to marry a male character as a man, would it have to be Northstar from Alpha Flight or say Ultimate Colossus from Ultimate X-Men? Let's not forgot the Authority's Midnighter. He's totally Butch.
31. LC - October 30, 2008 5:10 PM
#25 you sound like closeted homosexual 12yr old
32. Jim Jones - October 30, 2008 5:21 PM
I'm sure so long as they're not marrying same-sex comic book characters the religious right will be ok with it.
33. luciddreamer99 - October 30, 2008 5:27 PM
I guess the next step would be allowing fictional characters to be homosexual at all, despite the verisimilitude it would promote, seeing as how homosexuals exist and everything? haha
This is some opponents to homosexual marriage fuel against it: well, if you can marry a man, why not a goat or a comic book character? Preposterous. The Midnighter would only cheat on with another fictional character.
34. I'm a Computer - October 30, 2008 6:11 PM
I always wanted to marry Babs Bunny.
35. xaan - October 30, 2008 7:54 PM
Well, to be fair, Japan doesn't recognize same-sex relationships on a legal level AT ALL.
If one wants to say "letting gays marry will lead to this!" we can say "NOT letting gays marry leads to this, and we have spurious evidence!"
Also: perhaps this is what happens in a culture that favors men over women, and thus has a higher ratio of men to women. (although that ratio is evening out according to the 1995 Japanese census)
36. Eddy - October 30, 2008 10:33 PM
I'm not sure how the cartoon character can legally say "yes." You can propose, but how can she sign the papers?
37. RIMTUCK - October 31, 2008 12:30 AM
i want to marry a Goomba
38. Antonio - October 31, 2008 2:38 AM
If you can mary a fictional character in a book, then can i marry a fictional character in a tv show? Because if i can, then #13 from House is mine.
39. NVG - October 31, 2008 3:11 AM
If you want to live and marry in a 2D world, don't ask for legislations or stuff.
Just have yourself run down by a steamroller, then our 3D world will be a better place.
40. Mort - October 31, 2008 4:33 AM
Daisy is Fake!
She was photoshoped last night to look like the actress from the movie never back down
41. Adra - October 31, 2008 6:37 AM
At last!!!!
Belldandy you will be mine!!!!
Gx
42. pew - October 31, 2008 10:36 AM
well they make those anime characters so damn sexy!!! who wouldn't!
43. JohnnyIrish - October 31, 2008 3:17 PM
Marry them?!? Thats rediculous!
I prefer just to "date" them.
*walks into the other room to play patty cake with Jessica Rabbit *
44. J - November 2, 2008 5:49 PM
A person and a comic book character can fall in love, but where would they live?
45. luciddreamer99 - November 3, 2008 6:25 PM
Do I get the Golden Lasso on alternate weekends when I divorce Wonder Woman?
46. Sakura - November 9, 2008 4:37 PM
No, if thats the guy he is pointing at, it can't be true.. Naruto can't marry, he's only 17 years old!! xD
haha..
47. Dandi <> - December 9, 2008 12:39 AM
....
If he gets to marry a comic book character I dare say gay people have a good case.
48. Kawai - January 17, 2009 10:34 AM
If someday in Japan there is an AI robot girl, with very realistic --uh-oh -- V##INA, and is capable to "make it", doing B##W JOB, cook, and can talk just like real human, with face just as pretty as Hollywood star, etc...
there the question is simple, would you marry her? ^^
49. RDK - March 2, 2009 12:01 AM
This is great for people who can't get girls cause there B!tches, the 1 female rule that every guy knows is only love a guy that is Hansom, rich, has a huge cock or all of the above. Felicia will be mine
50. LPbloomy420 - April 5, 2009 5:51 PM
Leon Kennedy from resident evil is mine.
51. Triangle Man Smites Posers - October 1, 2009 11:23 AM
@31
You sound like a ghetto poser. FOAD.
52. Nick Sydney - October 28, 2009 7:07 PM
well i would do it with the pokemon Gardevoir
53. Livia - November 1, 2009 2:18 PM
Comic book characters can't consent to marriage and so can't legally marry, is the first thing that came to mind >.>