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The Anti-Nihilist

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The Anti-Nihilist	comment	Basically, an Anti-Nihilist or Existentialist/Optimistic Nihilist is someone who decides to be nice, moral, heroic, caring, loving and/or compassionate for the same reasons the Straw Nihilist decides to be The Cynic, Chaotic Evil or an Omnicidal Maniac. The Anti-Nihilist is someone who knows how terrible the world is, but instead of succumbing to despair, decides to create meaning, values and purpose in life out of it. This is the sort of character that goes by doctrines along the lines of "Don't cling to pain. Don't expect happiness. Don't fear loss. Accept reality as it is. Enjoy the good. Endure the bad. Don't make a big deal out of anything. Be selfless, and unconditionally kind and just, without ever expecting a reward. We're all going to end up as piles of dust, so why not be nice to each other and get those pleasant fuzzies?" Instead of angsting all the time about "Life is short, we're all gonna die and you can't stop it forever, thus we might as well start killing each other right now", this type thinks more like "Life is short, we're all gonna die and you can't stop it forever... so why not make each others' lives worthwhile and enjoyable? The only thing that matters is letting people know that you care about them, because whatever someone is, has, or can do doesn't mean a damned thing in the end." Compassion, love and empathy — these may be denounced by the pessimists as nothing but fictional lies, but even if they are, to the anti nihilist, these fictions are almost as good as true. The Anti-Nihilist is very likely to adhere to a Utilitarian morality to work For Happiness, although this isn't a universal rule; there are Anti-Nihilists whose morality might border on self-made Blue-and-Orange Morality. Expect this declaration of nihilism to be uttered as a form of shutting up other nihilists' breaking lectures on Despair and how Humans Are Morons. Thus, very likely to take form as a "No More Holding Back" Speech or Patrick Stewart Speech. It will likely include Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers! because this guy is enjoying himself while the other guy wallows in misery. Fictional Anti-Nihilists generally come in three major flavors: The Idealistic Nihilist: Basically someone who strongly oppose the belief that life is without meaning, purpose or point, by displaying a strong sense of moral responsibility, advocating for justice, equality, and the greater good, while still acknowledging that the world they live in is horrible, instead of simply giving up on life. Likewise, they acknowledge the challenges and hardships that life presents, but refuse to be defined by them. Instead, they actively seek to create meaning and purpose in their own lives and the lives of others. The Knight in Sour Armor: The second type which despite their cynical views, decides to be a good guy not because of the beliefs that it can change the world for better, but just because is the right thing to do. Likewise, their resilience and determination allow them to persevere, reminding others that even in the face of adversity, it is possible to find meaning and purpose, eventually embracing a more optimistic and purpose-driven outlook on life. It could even apply to a Knight in Shining Armor who isn't naive about the world and is self-aware about it but insists on following a code of nobility in direct defiance to despair and hopelessness. The Hope Bringer: The most powerful and optimistic type which these characters bring hope to the world and its inhabitants in its darkest hour. They tend to do so many ways: boosting the morale of their allies, persistently keep fighting their enemies even though they are almost going to die, and proving cynics wrong about their own jaded ideals. They reject the idea that morality is purely subjective or arbitrary, instead adhering to a set of principles or values that guide their actions, with their unwavering commitment to these principles serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration for others, encouraging them to also strive for a more meaningful existence. Another distinguishing feature of the Anti-Nihilist is their tendency to consider concepts like "fate" and "destiny" complete hogwash. After all, if the future is set in stone, they're already going to do what they plan on doing, so it doesn't matter anyway. Might as well have fun with it and do some good. This very attitude may even make them Immune to Fate by simple virtue of not giving a flip about what the normally Self-Fulfilling Prophecies say. Some anti-nihilists manage to Screw Destiny in the face of an ironclad prophecy via Loophole Abuse, and may do so simply for the joy of eliciting a Flat "What" from the Fates and cynics. Compare Determined Defeatist, who is pessimistic not about the world, but about their own chance of success, who regardless has a similar "let's try, anyway" mentality. See also Ãœbermensch for the type of person who believes in creating their own meaning and morality, but may not be quite as caring or considerate of others in the process. May choose to be a Small Steps Hero; since they don't believe there's any real "Bigger Picture" to fight for, that means the little pictures are more important. It's important to note that, despite the trope's name, the Anti-Nihilist is still a nihilist. A character who is optimistic and life affirming and isn't a nihilist would likely be listed under Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!. Benevolent examples of The Hedonist are also likely to fall under this trope. I Am What I Am is the process of embracing the Anti-Nihilist worldview. The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is closer to this trope than it is to The Theme Park Version of nihilism described under Straw Nihilist. See Existentialism for the philosophy that encourages living in Real Life as this character.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_111d19bd	comment	The Overstory has Douglas Pavlicek, a Neitzsche fan who will go on about the pointlessness of humanity's endeavors, who also stands out as one of the most idealistic and determined to do good in the world out of a cast full of characters like that.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_11d0af1	comment	The books of His Dark Materials end up coming around to this theme, more or less, with a bit of a Fantastic Aesop courtesy of Dust. But it's former nun Mary Malone who first reaches the conclusion: that though once she felt that no God meant no purpose to the world, the need to keep Dust alive, that is, wisdom, curiosity, education, and kindness, gives the worlds purpose. In other words, "There is now!"
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: Despite being batshit psycho, Rorschach is a textbook example. Instead of abandoning rules and discipline due to a nihilistic outlook, he decides that his rules and principles are all the more important in a world that has no more meaning than the one we impose on it — not unlike the Inkblot Test that he takes his name from, the only meaning of which comes from what people impose on it. Though Dr. Manhattan spends most of the book as a Straw Nihilist, he has become this by the end of the story. While he believed that humanity was unimportant because life isn't important enough to give other planets a chance, he also believes that the sheer improbability of any relationship, especially one so horrid as Laurie's parents' (adoptive and biological), resulting in any one person makes that person's existence a miracle, since so many factors could have gone to either create no life at all, or a different life. Jon in fact becomes so anti-nihilist that he decides to create human life somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy just to study it. In the sequel Doomsday Clock, Jon ends up in the mainstream DC universe instead and sets out to Make Wrong What Once Went Right as a Secret Test of Character for The Paragon, Superman. He ends up so inspired by his Incorruptible Pure Pureness that he decides to fix things in both universes and Fling a Light into the Future by creating a son with his powers capable of relating to humans. Rorschach's therapist, Malcolm Long, who becomes influenced by his philosophy, also comes to a similar conclusion. When his wife tells him not to intervene in a street fight, he says: "I have to. In a world like this... I mean, it's all we can do, try to help each other. It's all that means anything..." And then they — and half of New York City — die. Not exactly a subversion, but certainly tragic. However, his sacrifice and dedication to helping others inspires his son to take up both their mantles and become the second Rorschach. Rorschach describes the Comedian as being someone who understood the pointlessness of life and never let that fact stop him from trying to make it better. In truth, the Comedian was a Practically Joker Straw Nihilist who felt that life being meaningless made morality meaningless as well and gave him an excuse to do whatever he wanted, including raping and murdering people.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_1331990c	comment	In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Madoka, although exposed by the Incubators to the pitiless Crapsack World that fed on despair, chose in her sacrifice, and also as a reply to Mami's claim that death would be easier and her apotheosis would be a Fate Worse than Death, to instead believe that if somebody told her that it's wrong to hope, she'll tell them they're wrong countless times. As long as they can remember her, they were not alone. Homura Akemi also grows into this kind of character to honor her sacrifice. In Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion Homura has a conversation with an Amnesiac God Madoka, which makes Homura believe that Madoka only sacrificed herself because she had to and not because she wanted to. This, as well as the journey through her own subconscious, actually causes Homura to reject her previous position. (For the record, her subconscious includes girls shouting "Gott ist tot!" while throwing tomatoes, which indicates Homura has really resented Madoka's sacrifice.) At the end of the movie Homura becomes an Ãœbermensch and undoes Madoka's sacrifice...because she believes that it's what Madoka really wants (and also because it's what Homura herself really wants).
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_13d39329	comment	"Land of Confusion" by Genesis describes a Crapsack World; however, the chorus says:
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_17e6cb15	comment	Bojack Horseman: In Mr. Peanutbutter's own words, life is largely miserable, and the best way to deal with that is to distract yourself from it as often as you can, enjoying every moment until you die. However, it's gradually subverted the more and more the series goes on; it becomes clear that for PB, this doesn't mean "accept your mortality and insignificance, and move on with the things that really matter." Rather, it means "deny anything that's wrong and focus on the exciting parts", which is just a more hedonistic form of nihilism itself. As of Season 3, BoJack Horseman himself seems to have become one.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Related to the example from The Killing Joke, in issue 172, Scourge (formerly "Evil Sonic") tries to steal the Joker's line: "All it takes is one bad day and you'd be just like me". However, Sonic turns it around on Scourge then and there: "All it would take is a bit of selflessness... a little bit of decency... and you'd be just like me." Scourge, not expecting Sonic to actually have a response to that, is left speechless in the moment and is still brooding over it twelve issues later.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_18d56fb8	comment	Nobody Here: The whole point of "Life". Life may be miserable and a waste of time, but it sure is fascinating!
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_1a12bbee	comment	Despite hanging out with various Norse gods and calling Thor "oathbrother", Beta Ray Bill qualifies.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_1ad1e0d2	comment	Imperial Radch: Breq gives a speech to this effect in Ancillary Mercy.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_1b7f85df	comment	Shiro in K, who's in a lot of ways a Lighter and Softer version of Lelouch, has this philosophy, and it ends up sort of becoming the philosophy of the series — see the end of Season 2 where Shiro tells Nagare that he's okay with destroying the Slates because all they really need is a warm meal and friends to share it with — and Nagare realizing as he loses that he also would have been happier enjoying that than trying to upend the world.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_1bdbda2a	comment	Dechs of Antihero for Hire once got a medium-sized lecture from a mercenary out to kill him (during the fight), about how his morals are meaningless and the people he protects would not return the favour and so on. Eventually the mercenary left, making it clear that he probably could win, but it wasn't worth the risk; but it left him rattled and doubting everything. At the end of the chapter, Wrench shakes him out of it by simply asking "does it matter if it matters?".
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_1e7bc8cd	comment	This is the primary aesop of Sonic X: Dark Chaos. Despite the extreme Crapsack World and Jerkass Gods around them, Sonic and friends decide that helping others is the only hope to make things better.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_1e9b9579	comment	Ralph, Piggy and Simon in Lord of the Flies. The primary theme of the novel is the regression of humans when removed from the rules and order of society. Ralph and Piggy ruminate on the fact that structure and meaning of the "real world" doesn't apply to their island, but they still commit themselves to maintaining order and peace. All the others, without anything to control them, quickly fall into anarchy and violence.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_1f13fcb9	comment	Kurzgesagt: Cheerful, colorful videos that frequently describe with brutal honesty how harsh and uncaring the universe is, but always with an eye toward reminding the viewer that the lack of purpose in the universe means that each person is free to find whatever meaning they can, and that time is precious. They call this "optimistic nihilism", which they explain in this video. It's the idea that if universe doesn't have any plans for us and we don't know what happened before we were born and we won't be sentient once we'll die, there's nothing scary about being dead. Also, because we only get one chance, we might as well use that time to be happy and help others. And finally, because there's nothing after death, the bad things that happen to you during your lifetime do not matter.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_21938c93	comment	In Avengers: Age of Ultron (directed by Joss Whedon, whose TV work also embodies this philosophy), Ultron claims humanity is doomed no matter what happens, so there is no point in protecting them. Vision admits that he agrees humanity will one day be gone — perhaps quite soon — but it's still worth delaying the inevitable in exchange for seeing the beauty they are capable of.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_2212773a	comment	The Angel example above had far reaching impacts on at least one Russian woman who came out to protest for LGBT rights in Russia after the country instituted sweeping bans on LGBT people.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_2275c659	comment	House is this, in his own way. As another character points out, he may hate his life, but at least he enjoys hating life.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_26e8b0fd	comment	Near the end of The SpongeBob Musical, SpongeBob sings that if they only have seven minutes left to live, they should make them the best seven minutes of their lives instead of arguing with eachother.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_29069d62	comment	Costa McClure of Lovely Little Losers.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_291e9857	comment	The Dark Souls series has traces of this outlook. The game setting is described as apocalyptic, with the world falling apart, and there being no signs of positive outcomes, no matter how much you preserve and struggle, but despite the bleak circumstances, the character carries on anyway, because in doing so, they carve meaning out of meaninglessness.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_29d81ef8	comment	Play for laughs in Play It Again, Sam, Allan's philosophy is quite close from an existentialist one:
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_2a984a83	comment	In the final episode of Season 5 of Arby 'n' the Chief, Arbiter has some shades of this in his words to Trent Donnovich, who he discovered to be having an affair while engaged to his friend/love interest Claire. Doubles as a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_2baa7b2e	comment	On the subject of Batman, The Killing Joke offers a similar philosophy, with the Joker as a Straw Nihilist and Batman and Commissioner Gordon as this trope. The Joker firmly believes that "one bad day" is all it takes to shatter a person's perceptions of morality and order, driving them just as crazy as he is. To prove it, he shoots and paralyzes Barbara Gordon (while Commissioner Gordon watches), then kidnaps the elder Gordon and drags him to a dilapidated amusement park, where he's stripped naked, beaten, and forced to view gigantic photos of his daughter's nude, crippled body. When Batman arrives, the Joker delivers a long speech about how, by driving Gordon insane, he's proved that all of humanity's struggles are ultimately pointless — life is simply a "monstrous, demented gag." But as it turns out, Gordon is fine — he not only managed to resist going crazy, he even insists that Batman capture the Joker "by the book" to make a statement about law and order still working. Batman, for his part, remarks that he's heard the Joker's "gag" interpretation before (presumably when his parents were killed), and still doesn't find it funny. In short, both Batman and Gordon acknowledge that life is sick and twisted, which means that imposing structure on it through principles like justice and kindness is all we can do. Batman illustrates this further by showing a degree of forgiveness for the Joker, despite the latter's horrific crimes, and offering to help the Joker in his madness — however, the Joker sadly remarks that it's too late for him.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_2fee008d	comment	The main conflicts in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann have shades of this, with the Hot-Blooded main characters representing this trope while their opponents appear to be Straw Nihilists. There's more to them than that, but they're still very depressed people.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_30b4f7fa	comment	This is ultimately the main message of Nemo Ramjet's web-novel All Tomorrows; taking us through the overarching history of mans' future and then; when it's all over, saying that the important part isn't how things ended up, but in those individual moments of life throughout our history.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_32fb0c3a	comment	In Avenue Q, the main character, Princeton, starts off as a fresh-out-of-college idealist searching for his purpose in life. By the end of the play, he still hasn't found it and fears he may never find out why he even exists. To comfort him, the other characters say that very few people, if any at all, find their purpose, and the best thing to do is just enjoy life as it comes, because nothing is going to last forever.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_332cb317	comment	Sonic's rival Shadow displays this attitude in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). When Mephiles tries to tempt Shadow to join the dark side by explaining that the world will turn against him in the future, Shadow's response is to basically say Shut Up Mephiles and explain that even if the world does betray him, he will continue to fight for what he believes is right.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_33acebd8	comment	Guilty Gear: Raven develops into this by the end of Xrd REV 2. After spending this game and the previous game as a nihilist Death Seeker whose immortality has left him weary to life, his friendship with Asuka allows him to shake off that mindset and gain a more optimistic worldview. Happy Chaos from -STRIVE- is a villainous take on this trope. His entire mindset is based around finding joy in existence and making life interesting. It just so happens that his way of achieving those ideas involves flip-flopping between committing great acts of charity and atrocity on a whim. His Image Song, "Drift", heavily focuses on this worldview, showing that Happy Chaos finds beauty in humanity's struggle and their ability to overcome adversity.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_33c44f28	comment	Anargrin, the main character of the The Angaran Chronicles is this incarnate, as well as many of his colleagues in the Hunters. They find purpose by opposing the repressive theocratic regime of the continent of Angara.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_3464e2b9	comment	"Dance In The Graveyards" by Delta Rae states that We All Die Someday, but it won't stop us from dancing in joy before or after we die.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: In the final episode of Volume 4, Ruby reveals herself to have developed into this in her letter to Yang; she's now aware of the bad things in the world, but has resolved to continue fighting the good fight anyway. The theme is also expressed in the Volume 4 theme, "Let's Just Live", and continues in the Volume 5 theme, the heroes may have suffered and lost, but they can resolve to fight on regardless. After the revelations about Ozpin's past in Volume 6, the group becomes this outright. They know that it might not even be possible to defeat Salem but keep going regardless. Notably, Ruby's anti-nihilist worldview helps her partially resist the Apathy's mental compulsion, which makes victims more traditionally nihilistic to the point of giving up and waiting to die.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_36795c0f	comment	In Falling Down, Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist Martin Prendergast was this. He was a foil to Villain Protagonist Bill Foster, as both were middle-aged has-beens who lost loved ones and were betrayed by the system they served. While Bill experienced Madden Into Misanthropy, Prendergast focuses on the greater good he provides and persevered.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron: Similar to Planescape's Bleak Cabal, this is also canonically the attitude of the faithful of the Blood of Vol. People of Khorvaire know for a fact that the afterlife is a dreary, gray wasteland known as Dolurrh where the best they can hope for is for their soul to slowly fade away into nothingness. The gods are unresponsive, and angels and fiends can't say whether they even exist. Despite that, the Blood of Vol teaches that life is for living and people should find meaning in creating the world they'll leave behind. Nearly every other religion's teachings have a hard time with this truth and include some idea about how their faith will let them escape Dolurrh.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_3b08dfc9	comment	A life philosophy for many characters in Pillars of Eternity, including a player character with a Philosopher background. One particularly important end-game Walking Spoiler who sees the world this way is Iovara, who was executed by the Big Bad and his inquisition when she discovered the "gods" were artificial creations and the universe was, in fact, devoid of inherent meaning. She believed kith would be better off knowing the truth and making their own way in the world.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_3b45421d	comment	Isle of Dogs: Chief is a gruff and proud stray dog who doesn't sugarcoat the fact that life on Trash Island is terrible. In spite of this, he still encourages the other dogs in his pack to not give up and survive the island's terrible conditions.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Mikasa Ackerman of Attack on Titan openly acknowledges that she lives in a Crapsack World, but keeps fighting because, as long as she has Eren, she has something to live for.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_3f214754	comment	I'm the Grim Reaper: Chase admits that even if the world is too broken to be saved, he wants to try to make it a better place anyway. He attempts this by teaming up with Scarlet to help her take out sinners.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_3f3abe9	comment	At the end of episode "Rick Potion no. 9" of Rick and Morty, Morty Smith is positively traumatized by the events: After Rick ruined the whole planet beyond repair, they jumped dimensions to a reality where everything turned out fine but both of them had died soon afterwards, allowing main!R&M to bury their own corpses and blend in. In the later episode "Rixty Minutes", however, we see on two occasions that he has coped with it in an anti-nihilistic way: First, when the rest of his family choose to use their new interdimensional TV channel package to look for realities where they were famous and successful, Morty says "I don't care about myself" in a relaxed, indifferent manner. Second, when Summer is about to run away from home from finding out she was an unwanted pregnancy, he stops her with a heartwarming speech talking about his earlier experience. Jerry Smith (Morty's father) may also be one, given that he keeps going despite his entire life being terrible. The quote "Life is effort and I'll stop when I die!" sums it up. Doofus Rick (an alternate version of Rick), Like other Ricks, he believes that life is "dangerous and complex and unyielding," but while other Ricks choose to use this as an excuse to inflict cruelty on whoever they need to for the brief aggrandizement of themselves, Doofus Rick does the opposite, reasoning that even just trying to get by is winning in and of itself.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_400469e	comment	In one particular strip of Calvin and Hobbes, the duo is relaxing under a tree when Calvin starts questioning if there is no afterlife. Hobbes simply shrugs, and comfortably says he'll take it anyway. In another strip he says fall is his favorite season because it reminds him that the fleetingness of life is what makes it beautiful.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Sir Sanya is an atheist (later an agnostic), despite being a former Knight of the Blackened Denarius (host of a Fallen Angel) and a current Knight of the Cross. He points out on more than one occasion that the Archangel Michael — who met him and gave him his sword — and other Angels could quite easily just be Sufficiently Advanced Aliens, the powers of the swords simply similarly advanced technology. However, as he also points out, it is worthy work (that meets his Trotskyite principles of serving the community): fighting evil and protecting those who cannot protect themselves. And to him, that is ultimately all that matters. Harry Dresden is the Knight in Sour Armor whose whole life is a Trauma Conga Line and who is rarely short of a lengthy description of just how much the world sucks. This is the reason why he always does the right thing. His inner monologue from Ghost Story, in the wake of seeing another bystander mauled by a supernatural nasty, sums it up nicely.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_429fe663	comment	This philosophy shows up again the sequel Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. Eothas himself believes that the kith do not need the gods and smashes the Wheel, forcing kith and the other gods alike to find their own way.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: It features this with SCP-1281, which is a message from a dead alien race. The SCP Foundation's world also has Gamers Against Weed, a group of anartists who looked at AWCY's philosophy and flatly rejected it. Bluntfiend, one of the founders, outright states that yeah, the universe is meaningless — but that just means that you have to give it some meaning. This philosophy (and a lot of Homestuck) is also what caused Eli and Lyris to decide not to blow up the Earth.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_43576f5	comment	Dean Winchester of Supernatural to some extent, at least up until Episode 2 of Season 4. He becomes one again in Season 15, after he recovers from the shock of learning how badly Chuck has been manipulating the Winchesters.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari grows into this trope at the end of End of Evangelion. With all he's put through, and with the horrifying End of the World as We Know It, it would make sense that he would jump into the Despair Event Horizon and become an omnicidal Straw Nihilist, especially when Rei gives him control over the fate of humanity. Nevertheless, he lets the Assimilation Plot fail, and chooses to live life as an individual. Based on how you interpret it, Evangelion itself is loaded with Existentialist themes, like Jean-Paul Sartre's "Hell Is Other People" (in Eva, the so-called Absolute Terror Field surrounding all souls), but at the same time affirms that being alive and suffering are parts of life and that happiness can be achieved. In Rebuild of Evangelion, he takes it even farther and comes out of the Despair Event Horizon optimistic for man's future, becoming a Hope Bringer. Kaji also has very strong traits of it. He knows more about what's going on than almost anyone else, yet he's the only character who appears genuinely happy. During one very close battle against an Angel that appears to be the final moments before the end of the world, he is watering the melon patch he is growing, with the battle being visible in the distance. If the world does not end on that day, then the melons need to be watered. If it does, then it won't matter what he is doing in the final moments anyway. Either way, he can't do anything to change what's going to happen in the next ten minutes. Yui Ikari is also revealed to have been an optimist despite everything she knew about the darker secrets of the world. She believed that, so long as you were still alive, it was possible to find happiness no matter what. Similarly to Yui and Shinji, Rei develops this attitude by the end of the series. Being a faultily-produced clone made with the sole purpose of serving as an Apocalypse Maiden for Gendo to re-unite with the woman she was used as an emotional substitute for, she was initially willing to accept being killed numerous times and treated as a doll by Gendo, but gradually comes to the realization of herself as an individual actor despite the chaotic and nihilistic nature of the world and comes to the conclusion to go against Gendo in favor of Shinji, staying with her own self-perception even after being physically killed.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_45b21df3	comment	In the famous final scene of Monty Python's Life of Brian, the cast cheerfully sings about the importance of always looking on the bright side of life even in our super-shitty world. While being crucified.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_468bebb0	comment	Many Discworld books have this theme, especially ones focusing on Death and Sam Vimes, which reflects Terry Pratchett's Real Life views. This is a significant plot point in Hogfather: Death is convinced that the real reason for concepts like the Hogfather (and the reason the Auditors want to destroy them) is training - if you learn to believe in the little lies, you can believe in the big ones, like, for example, justice or mercy. Susan affirms her belief in the necessity for this belief, and, Death agrees: Lord Vetinari (the most competent and benevolent tyrant Ankh-Morpork could ever hope for) might well be one, as he repeatedly gives cynical speeches about the inherent evil/stupidity of people, yet the very first time he gives such a speech (at the end of Guards! Guards!) Vimes immediately points out that he still bothers to get out of bed in the morning. Vetinari indirectly explains this later (much later) on in Unseen Academicals, when, while extremely drunk, he explains to Ridcully and Henry (formerly the UU's Dean) that he realised the true nature of the universe's cold cruelty when he was travelling in Uberwald as a young man and saw a mother otter drag a female salmon out of the river and her pups feasted on the unborn salmon roe. "Mother and child, feasting on mother and child." He then goes on to add that he realised that if there was a supreme creator, it was the duty of every sentient being to become their moral superior. Stated most succinctly by Brutha in Small Gods. When Om points out that they'll all be dead in a hundred years, he replies: "But here and now, we are alive!" The golem Dorfl, the first of his kind to gain autonomy, decides that the only sane response to being responsible for one's actions is to only take actions you can be proud of.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_487e0909	comment	In The Martian, Mark Watney has this ideology through and through. He admits that the odds of him surviving are extremely low and that the universe will constantly find ways to screw with him, yet despite setbacks or bad luck, he never throws up his hands and gives in, and states that should he die, it will be in service to a great cause, leaving him with no regrets. In the extended edition, when the rocket carrying supplies that would allow him to survive explodes, he reacts to the news by running the experiments that were cut short by the mission abort. He even finds a way to send what little data he can send to NASA, making it clear that he's not going to spend his remaining time doing nothing.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_49a88442	comment	In Final Fantasy XIV, by the expansion Endwalker, Zenos yae Galvus has somehow managed to come out the other side of Straw Nihilist into a deconstruction of this trope: asserting that it's up to the individual to impose meaning on the meaninglessness of existence, his preferred way of doing this is to be The Unfettered Blood Knight, in a demonstration of what happens when someone espouses this kind of philosophy but finds genuine joy and fulfillment only in fighting to the death instead of lifting others up.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_4d9653ef	comment	Planescape: The Bleak Cabal is canonically an example of this. Life is meaningless and cruel so hey, no need to add more meaningless cruelty to it by your own actions. The Bleak Cabal runs Sigil's soup kitchens and asylum, and are at a whole a rather decent bunch even if most of them are insane to one degree or another. Sure, their actions won't make any difference in the long run (but in their view, nothing does anyway), but it helps today. They may be the only example on the page that exist in the afterlife, surrounded by evidence of gods, and still hold to this philosophy. Beholding a being of divine power and acknowledging it as an empirically superior being are two different things. A 2nd Edition Planewalker's Handbook described three "archetypes" for Bleakers, of which the middle one fits this trope well (and the first not at all):
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_500bac67	comment	In Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion Homura has a conversation with an Amnesiac God Madoka, which makes Homura believe that Madoka only sacrificed herself because she had to and not because she wanted to. This, as well as the journey through her own subconscious, actually causes Homura to reject her previous position. (For the record, her subconscious includes girls shouting "Gott ist tot!" while throwing tomatoes, which indicates Homura has really resented Madoka's sacrifice.) At the end of the movie Homura becomes an Ãœbermensch and undoes Madoka's sacrifice...because she believes that it's what Madoka really wants (and also because it's what Homura herself really wants).
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_518cf6ff	comment	Happy Chaos from -STRIVE- is a villainous take on this trope. His entire mindset is based around finding joy in existence and making life interesting. It just so happens that his way of achieving those ideas involves flip-flopping between committing great acts of charity and atrocity on a whim. His Image Song, "Drift", heavily focuses on this worldview, showing that Happy Chaos finds beauty in humanity's struggle and their ability to overcome adversity.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_530296a4	comment	The Scootertrix the Abridged incarnation of Pinkie Pie also has this world view. As she is very well aware that she and everyone else exist in an abridged series, that their lives are being guided by a human written script, and they can all just be snubbed out of existence by a cease-and-desist. But despite this, while she isn't exactly cheerful about it 24/7, she does still try to make the best of her situations, while allowing the rest of pony kind to remain blissfully unaware of the nature of their existence. Best shown after Twilight forces Pinkie into revealing this to her and is entering an existential crisis. Pinkie helps calm her down. Even saying that while script guides them, their character does affect what direction the script goes. note Which is true on a meta level. And if you know a bit of behind the scenes knowledge of the show, actually did happen in regards to Pinkie's character arc, as the creator realized his original plan for her didn't line up with her actions.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_53dc3731	comment	Atomic Robo admits to being one to ALAN, acknowledging that he'd rather fight for a better world when there is no higher power than believe in a higher power and give up his agency in favor of holding out hope for an unseen, incomprehensible plan.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_547f3f50	comment	The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: Emmet keeps up a chipper attitude in spite of everything becoming a Crapsack World, in stark contrast to Rex Dangervest, his future self, who became a Straw Nihilist after spending years abandoned and left to meditate on the existence of the LEGO Worlds.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, Durkon gives a poignant Shut Up, Hannibal! speech to Vampire Durkon after the latter is shaken and confused by the sight of Durkon's mother's selfless sacrifice of all her wealth to raise five complete strangers from the dead.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: Solid Snake adopts this outlook. He doubts whether or not his actions will make a difference in the long run and knows how brutal and senseless life can be, but still devotes himself to the cause of creating a more just, peaceful world by stopping the proliferation of superweapons, especially the eponymous Humongous Mecha. Snake's predecessor, Big Boss, once had a very similar philosophy, but became a Well-Intentioned Extremist and one of the series' main antagonists when he took romantic notions of being a soldier too far, though it's hard to blame him for it. He eventually returns to anti-nihilism at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, ending his long and storied life with a very fitting Dying Moment of Awesome: He reconciles with Snake and reaffirms that world peace is Worth Living For, performs a Mercy Kill on a comatose old friend who had unwittingly become the keystone of the War Economy, enjoys One Last Smoke, and salutes the grave of his mentor (who was also an Anti-Nihilist who sacrificed her life and reputation to make the world a better place) before passing away. His last words? Senator Armstrong of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has a sideways version of the Snakes' philosophy. He sees a world full of citizens pacified by empty principles and soldiers dying for causes they don't believe in, but rather than a world of peace, he wants to create a world of freedom — one where people can choose their own principles and fight for their own causes. He may not be able to end all war, but at least he can make sure that those who put their lives at stake are doing it for their own good reasons.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_5921531a	comment	Persona 3: This is shown to be an overarching theme of the game, which makes sense considering that the Final Boss is the literal incarnation of death. This is framed primarily in the conflict between SEES and Strega, the two teams of Persona-users. Having grown up on the streets only to be abused and crippled by the Kirijo Group, the Strega members became Straw Nihilists who see their lives as having no meaning at all. When they learned of Nyx, the avatar of death, they, especially Takaya, saw Nyxâ€™s coming as a blessing, and as such, actively worked to bring about the Fall, seeing the Fall as inevitable. The SEES group, by contrast, comes to believe that thereâ€™s little they can do to prevent the Fall, but they choose to resist anyway, even after Nyxâ€™s messenger, Ryoji Mochizuki, offered to wipe their memories and leave them ignorant of the approaching Fall. Mitsuru sums it up to Nyx, saying that life is about looking death in the face. This comes to a head in the gameâ€™s epilogue, â€œThe Answerâ€�. In â€œThe Answerâ€�, SEES discovers the true power behind the Fall: a monstrous being called Erebus, the living embodiment of humanityâ€™s desire for death. The gameâ€™s protagonist sacrificed himself to act as a seal between Nyx and Erebus to prevent the Fall, and Erebus attempted to break that seal, only to be defeated by the SEES group. Metis informs them that as long as even one human desires to die, Erebus is immortal and can never be killed permanently. The SEES group, while they admit that theyâ€™ll likely never be able to do so, vow to try to change the world in their own ways to help humanity find joy in life, in the faint hope of seeing their lost friend set free. They even hold onto their Evokers, the special guns that let them use their Personas, as a testament to that vow. The following game, Persona 4, hearkens back to this. After the end of Persona 3, Elizabeth, one of the attendants of the Velvet Room, chose to leave her duties there, having been so moved by the efforts of the hero from 3 that she wanted to find a way to free him. In 4, her sister Margaret, who takes her place in the Velvet Room, says that Elizabethâ€™s goal is pretty much impossible, but acknowledges her resolve to undertake it. Interestingly, the Game Over quote, which is a small speech from Igor, follows this theme. It speaks about the inevitability of death, but how life should be undertaken with hope, for the sake of those youâ€™ll leave behind when you die.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_5921531b	comment	The following game, Persona 4, hearkens back to this. After the end of Persona 3, Elizabeth, one of the attendants of the Velvet Room, chose to leave her duties there, having been so moved by the efforts of the hero from 3 that she wanted to find a way to free him. In 4, her sister Margaret, who takes her place in the Velvet Room, says that Elizabethâ€™s goal is pretty much impossible, but acknowledges her resolve to undertake it.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_5c9b7531	comment	In Collateral, Max starts the film as an idealist and a dreamer, contrasted with Straw Nihilist Vincent. Throughout the night, he's treated to a series of lectures from Vincent, arguing that life is meaningless, the world is indifferent, and death is inevitable. In the end, Max throws this back at him, telling him that, if his life is meaningless, he has nothing to lose by trying to stop Vincent.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_5cf8a4e8	comment	Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, in Phoebe and Her Unicorn, cheerfully notes that the universe is devoid of all meaning or purpose. But it's okay, because not only is she a fabulous unicorn, she also has sparkles.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_5d354f8	comment	Dave Lister from Red Dwarf is a surprisingly touching example, he's an atheist (despite becoming a god for an entire race of cat people and actually meeting Jesus or least someone he thought was Jesus Christ) and doesn't believe in a larger plan of the universe, yet despite being more or less alone in deep space and for most of the series being the last human alive... Lister always finds a reason to push on and be chipper about things. He can even enhearten those who've given up completely as beautifully shown in the Red Dwarf: The Promised Land when Rimmer was at a Despair Event Horizon over the fact he's not really alive or "real" as a Hologram and is prepared to just let his light bee drain out.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_5e150650	comment	The more idealistic characters in Exalted. Sure enough, the world is gangbanged from all directions by undead, Wyld mutants, demons, and other awful things. The folks in charge of defending it are too busy politicking. Heaven is a sham and a scam, and the patron god of heroism is a crack addict. But — and this is a massive but — you're a hero, possessed of a power to drastically change the world. And by "hero", it's hero in an archaic Ãœbermensch sense: you get to decide what is right or wrong, answerable only to your own conscience (or the lack thereof).
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_5e9ea81e	comment	In Black Panther (2018), T'Challa recognizes that Kilmonger was right about the damage white people have done to black people and that Wakanda should've done something about it and that maybe it is too late to truly fix all the problems. While he doesn't completely open the doors of the country to the world, he decides to use its resources to help however he can.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_6059ad6b	comment	There is a xkcd strip in which the white beret guy uses this trope when confronted with a more typical nihilist.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_63bbbaf7	comment	In Hannah and Her Sisters, Mickey decides to kill himself, because he feels that existence is meaningless. After he bungles it, he goes to the streets, and eventually wanders into a movie theater, where a Marx Brothers film is playing. After a while, he starts enjoying the film.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_66f1bebd	comment	In The Zero Theorem, the son of management, Bob, believes in the Zero Theorem, the idea that everything ultimately adds up to nothing (meaning life is ultimately without any actual higer meaning) but sees it as a source of joy and reassurance opposed to Qohen who finds this idea depressing: But as he says so himself, he's young enough to believe anything, even that it might be wrong.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_68d5ac34	comment	Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain: What Emperor Mollusk and the Pluvian Philosopher Kings agree on is that while entropy will always win out in the end, it's one's strive to one day overcome it that is the prime initiative of sentient life. A universe without life would be entirely pointless, in contrast to a universe with life being mostly pointless. So the idea that he would be able to create a Quantum Certainty Generator, a machine that would allow anyone to control all probability in the universe in spite of entropy, should clue you in that the Council of Ego actually didn't build a Quantum Certainty Generator under Mollusk's instruction.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Knights Radiant in The Stormlight Archive. Their philosophy centers around the idea that since everyone dies eventually what matters is not your fate, but how you got there. Hence what they call their First Ideal:
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_6bef8832	comment	Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate III is a complicated example. She's a Cleric for a Religion of Evil worshipping the God of Darkness Shar, patron deity of Straw Nihilists everywhere with Always Chaotic Evil devotees. However, she acts as a Token Heroic Orc who in spite of this and occasional selfish behavior typically advocates for the moral and compassionate options. In order to reconcile this dichotomy between her beliefs and actions, she uses the Balance Between Good and Evil as an excuse and accuses Shar's Good Twin Selune of upsetting that balance.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_6c1d09b4	comment	In Fallout 4, Nick Valentine has shades of this, especially in regard to his identity. His neural patterns are based off of a real, pre-war police detective of the same name, but he was considered a failure by the Institute and ended up in a trash pile. Meanwhile, he still has memories of the original Nick Valentine, including the murder of his fiancÃ© Jennifer Lands. While the crime took place over 200 years earlier, he suspects the culprit, crime boss Eddie Winter, is still alive and sets out to finish him. After he does so, while he initially believes that it was just his way of tying up a lose end from the original Nick's life, the Sole Survivor can convince him that what he did was about justice. Nick concludes that, even if doing good and bringing criminals to justice is the only thing he can ever truly claim as his, he'll accept it.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_6cd3b44f	comment	Black Lagoon: Fabiola Iglesias, as a counterpoint to Revy's nihilism is this; she acknowledges that the world does suck, but it is not a justification to act on pointless violence, and believes that there are things that can be solved without said violence. Both Revy, and Rock tell her to shut up (though the former ironically doesn't respond well to the latter's current attitude). Rock appears to be becoming this at first, namely when he finally stands up to Revy. Revy, herself a Straw Nihilist, sees Rockâ€™s attempts at sticking to any morals while living in Roanapur as stupid and foolish, saying thereâ€™s no â€œRobin Hoodâ€�. Rock turns this around on her; if thereâ€™s no Robin Hood, why doesnâ€™t she become Robin Hood, instead of wallowing in self-pity? That said, Rockâ€™s attempts at living up to his words over the course of the series keep blowing up in his face. Just ask Hansel, Gretel, Yukio, or Ginji. These failures slowly start purging Rock of his morals and hopes to the point where, by the end of the Yakuza arc, Rockâ€™s become a Straw Nihilist. Rock admits as such to Balalaika at the end of that arc, saying that for him, being good isnâ€™t about any kind of morals or principles or even necessarily out of the goodness of his own heart; for him, itâ€™s just a hobby. The â€œEl Baile De La Muerte" arc explores the implications of this; part of his reason for trying to save Roberta is to win a bet with Mr. Chang, he outright refers to the whole affair as a â€œgameâ€�, and heâ€™s willing to use Garcia, a child, as a pawn to fulfill his goal. Tellingly enough, when heâ€™s confronted by Fabiola, who is an example of this trope, Rock dismisses her the same way Revy did.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_701f0ece	comment	Guts from Berserk is a cynical man living in a bleak, dark world, but that doesn't mean he's willing to just lay down and surrender himself to its whims. He's spent the majority of his existence struggling against the odds, even before he was properly born, and it's this ridiculous willpower along with his extreme battle prowess that drive him to reject his "destined fate" of dying at the hands of demons, instead determined to live and go by his own rules. However, it took him quite a lot of Character Development to be the kind of Determinator he is now, as he started out believing that because there was no just and caring god (at least not in his universe), then nothing ultimately mattered. He flipped this around after enough time, believing instead that if there was no god to give the world meaning, then he would give it his own meaning and fight for it. Ironically, his perspective is similar to what Big Bad Griffith adopted prior to crossing the Despair Event Horizon and becoming a member of the Godhand and a Straw Nihilist, but with the intrinsic selfishness in his belief system expunged. As such, the relative positions between Guts and Griffith flipped as time went on.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_70814599	comment	Implied by Oma Desala in Stargate SG-1.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_7149a731	comment	Wonder Woman (2017): Despite Steve's more overt cynicism, at the end of the day he falls squarely here. When confronted with the idea that Humans Are Bastards he doesn't deny it, instead he concludes that that doesn't change the fact that humanity is still worth saving. It's his Heroic Sacrifice that inspires Diana to adopt a similar mindset.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_7288f27	comment	In Cultist Simulator, a Hunter, agents trying to bring the Villain Protagonist to justice, can develop the grim or idealist traits, which provide immunities to certain kinds of psychological attacks, but vulnerability to the others. Grim hunters are not impressed by the glorious lore of Lantern, but can be broken by Winter, while idealists maintain their composure in the face of Winter but are easily tempted by Lantern. A hunter who is grim and idealistic falls into this trope, and are immune to both schools of lore.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_72f8201c	comment	Takumi Nishijou from Chaos;Head becomes this by the end of the story. Despite being the polar opposite initially as someone who wanted nothing more but to be constantly happy and not face any struggle or strife in his peaceful life. After the nightmare he's put through and facing his own Despair Event Horizon upon realizing his life is a lie and that he technically isn't real, he understands all too well how horrible the world really is, but comes to realize that with the support of other people who are struggling and traumatized the same way he is, and with someone to live for, he can survive in this world and make something of his life, and be happy despite it. His life, despite being a delusional one, is still worth living, and he is his own person that can take control of said life, and instill the worth in it.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_78621bac	comment	Contestant Nightbirde from Season 16 of America's Got Talent had cancer with a 2% chance of survival. Despite this, she was still hoping to make a difference and told Simon Cowell that you shouldn't wait until life stops being tough before you choose to be happy. Tragically, she would die on February 2022.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_791e7b7f	comment	Zootopia introduces ZPD Chief Bogo as a textbook example of Da Chief - cynical, short-tempered and having exactly zero patience for NaÃ¯ve Newcomer Judy. However, it slowly becomes apparent that he has Hidden Depths that are in line with this trope, as well as Knight in Sour Armor. When a dismayed Judy confesses to feeling like she "broke" the city by accidentally helping ignite a new flare-up in racial tensions, he comforts her with uncharacteristic gentleness.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: This is the life philosophy of the geth. The usual philosophical conundrums of organics are easily answered by the geth: Why do we exist? What happens after death? For the geth, they were created to be menial labor for the quarians, and their memories are archived after "death". Since they are no longer performing their original task and have been "disowned" by their "gods", they have created their own purpose: total unity of their Mind Hive in a single giant Dyson Sphere platform (though a more accurate analogy would be a Jupiter Brain). The true geth (which Legion is from) want to do so on their own terms along technology paths they find themselves, while the heretic sect took an easier, more controlled path under the command of the Reapers. Javik eventually has to face the prospect that he may outlive the chance to get revenge on the Reapers and will need a new purpose in life. Unless you suggested he use the Memory Shard. In which case he will kill himself.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman, Depending on the Writer. The victim of a seemingly random and meaningless tragedy, young Bruce Wayne could have decided that life itself was meaningless and succumbed to depression and nihilism. Instead, he chose to focus on what his parents meant to him and to Gotham, re-inventing himself as a force for order and justice, which stands in direct opposition to the Joker's strain of chaos and destruction. There's actually a surprisingly deep (if unsubtle) quote in Batman & Robin which captures the existential nature of Batman's character. On the subject of Batman, The Killing Joke offers a similar philosophy, with the Joker as a Straw Nihilist and Batman and Commissioner Gordon as this trope. The Joker firmly believes that "one bad day" is all it takes to shatter a person's perceptions of morality and order, driving them just as crazy as he is. To prove it, he shoots and paralyzes Barbara Gordon (while Commissioner Gordon watches), then kidnaps the elder Gordon and drags him to a dilapidated amusement park, where he's stripped naked, beaten, and forced to view gigantic photos of his daughter's nude, crippled body. When Batman arrives, the Joker delivers a long speech about how, by driving Gordon insane, he's proved that all of humanity's struggles are ultimately pointless — life is simply a "monstrous, demented gag." But as it turns out, Gordon is fine — he not only managed to resist going crazy, he even insists that Batman capture the Joker "by the book" to make a statement about law and order still working. Batman, for his part, remarks that he's heard the Joker's "gag" interpretation before (presumably when his parents were killed), and still doesn't find it funny. In short, both Batman and Gordon acknowledge that life is sick and twisted, which means that imposing structure on it through principles like justice and kindness is all we can do. Batman illustrates this further by showing a degree of forgiveness for the Joker, despite the latter's horrific crimes, and offering to help the Joker in his madness — however, the Joker sadly remarks that it's too late for him. Harley Quinn is an unusual example in her post-New 52 series. While the Joker's motto seems to be "Life is meaningless, so might as well be as much of a dick as possible", Harley is more akin to "Life is meaningless, so might as well have fun while it lasts", and she seems to have just as much fun helping people as she does beating people up.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_7c537173	comment	Destiny 2: Emperor Calus appears to be this at first. Calus was the previous Cabal Emperor and leader before Dominus Ghaul came to power. He was deposed by Ghaul, who was aided by Caiatl, Calus' daughter. Due to Calus' popularity amongst the Cabal, Ghaul and Caiatl couldn't just execute him, instead choosing to exile him and his remaining loyalists aboard the Leviathan. Calus plunged into despair as a result, desiring only to wither away and die. The Leviathan then drifted on, until it reached what was believed to be the edge of the universe. Looking into it, Calus learned that the universe was on track to be completely erased, later revealed to be due to the actions of the Witness. This actually reunited Calus' will to live, as it convinced him that his way of living solely For Happiness was truly correct after all. and fostered in him a desire to survive to be the very last one in the universe to go out. Compared to most Destiny antagonists, Calus seemed genuinely affable and cordial with the Guardians. He also showed scorn towards the Hive, who he saw as merely hypocrites who's cruelty concealed their fear of death. However, as Calus' backstory and true motives was gradually brought to light, it's shown that Calus is a subversion of this, leaning towards being a Straw Nihilist. For one thing, he was hardly the compassionate, benevolent emperor he portrayed himself as, using the Red Legion to suppress any dissent towards his rule and being an Abusive Parent to Caiatl, meaning he's the one who turned his daughter against him in the first place. The final nail in the coffin was his conversion into a Disciple of the Witness, the being actively working to bring about the end of the universe. His true goal, as it turns out, was to aid the Witness in doing so as he believed that it would result in the birth of a new universe, one beholden to him. In other words, Calus' anti-nihilist philosophy was nothing more than a shallow excuse he used to justify his cruelty and hedonism to himself.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_7f633196	comment	Delain: In "The Tragedy Of The Commons" and "Danse Macabre", the narrator talks about the futility of their efforts and the inevitability of death but decides to live and fight. In "Masters of Destiny", the narrator suspects that the higher powers are playing her, then decides to make her own choices anyway. "To Live Is To Die" says life is short, urges the listener to be kind and asks, "Tell me how you'll fill the void / Screaming sorrow or screaming joy?"
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_81692f99	comment	Inherent in Star Trek. The Federation — or at the very least, Earth — is a whole society of Anti-Nihilists. Since there is no scarcity, the acquisition of wealth is pointless.note But whatever you do, don't tell the Ferengi that. They'll burn you for heresy! Since they've Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions, religion is irrelevant. And since the universe is big enough for everybody, there's no reason to conquer or force people to serve you. Life is focused on individual accomplishment and/or happiness. People go out and find their own purpose — whether that might be exploring the galaxy, making great scientific discoveries, or just starting a farming colony.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_82aff0d1	comment	Makina from Corpse Princess. The final scene in the anime is of her repeatedly punching her archenemy Hokuto (a fellow fighting-zombie) in the face after all is lost: it's the first time she ascribes meaning to her existence.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_8424e37b	comment	In Immortality Syndrome, Blossom and Buttercup become Straw Nihilists after they die and are brought back to life. Once it happens to Bubbles though, she decides that yes, there is pain and suffering in the world, but that's all the more reason to spread love and joy rather than kill everything to end it all.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI, this is the game's moral message juxtaposed against the antagonist Kefka who is a more traditional nihilist. At the end of the game, Kefka declares that everything lives only to die, and that most people will live lives devoid of any genuine meaning or impact on the world, then die and be forgotten one day. To him, all life is meaningless and insignificant. The party, particularly Terra, tell him it doesn't matter; the day-to-day struggles and triumphs, the love of friends and family, and the hope to improve one's lot in life, give life a meaning all their own and make it worth living.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_86e51bb5	comment	Merle of The Adventure Zone: Balance summarizes his general life philosophy as being one of finding happiness and making others happy because "no one's getting out of this life alive anyways."
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_877bfaf7	comment	Better Bones AU: Spottedleaf has an attitude that nothing in life matters and everyone will all die and be forgotten anyway, but it's still important for her to save lives in her job as cleric and earn that little bit more time for other cats.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_880abdb2	comment	Raven develops into this by the end of Xrd REV 2. After spending this game and the previous game as a nihilist Death Seeker whose immortality has left him weary to life, his friendship with Asuka allows him to shake off that mindset and gain a more optimistic worldview.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_885e1bec	comment	Harry himself, in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. He knows that there is no God or meaning to the universe, so he decided to become God, and... optimize things. This is also the fundamental difference between him and this 'verse's Voldemort. Voldemort saw an uncaring world and said "Why not be evil?" Harry saw an uncaring world and said "Why not be good?"
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_8c383909	comment	The character Panaru in episode three of Boogiepop Phantom is respected for having this philosophy and teaching it to others.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_8e68cca9	comment	When the Shadowchild asks her what the importance of being good is, Digger has this reply:
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_9004922f	comment	This is a significant plot point in Hogfather: Death is convinced that the real reason for concepts like the Hogfather (and the reason the Auditors want to destroy them) is training - if you learn to believe in the little lies, you can believe in the big ones, like, for example, justice or mercy. Susan affirms her belief in the necessity for this belief, and, Death agrees:
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_909b004d	comment	Optimus Prime becomes this in The Transformers (IDW). This might also be a case of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome as to the effects of being at war for millions of years would have on one's psyche.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_914ddbfd	comment	Phil in Groundhog Day, eventually. Nothing seems to keep the day from repeating, not even suicide, so he might as well help out.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_915ec0bc	comment	In The Tarot Cafe, immortals tend to find themselves jaded and disgusted with life. Pamela proves herself to be this trope when she talks to Belus (actually the very crazed and angry demon Bellial) at the end of the series.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_920bdb7c	comment	Kill Six Billion Demons: YISUN was once asked by their disciples "What is the ultimate reason for existence?", "How can a man live in perfect harmony?'" and "What is the ultimate result of all action?". YISUN replied "Self-deception", "Non-existence" and "Futility", respectively. When the disciples then asked how to serve YISUN's will, they replied "Kindly ignore my answers to the previous three questions". Allison evolves into this trope in Breaker of Infinities. Through interactions with Jadis, Allison learns the universe is pre-determined and everything has already been set in stone. She is going to die in thirty-five years and her remaining life is going to be harsh, brutal and full of suffering because of her nature as The Chosen One. Allison is nonetheless determined to go on, putting one foot in front of another, enjoy what's left of her life, and not letting her knowledge of the future get to her.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_989506be	comment	Lestat de Lioncourt from The Vampire Chronicles. Lestat essentially summarizes this philosophy when he says he can accept the lack of God, Satan, or eternal rewards or punishments, but not the idea that acts of human kindness lack value.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_9bb469a4	comment	The Book of Mormon plays with this trope. At the end, the cast concludes that Mormonism, as with all religions, most likely isn't true. However, if it spreads good morals and makes people happy, than there's no harm in believing in it anyway.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_9d7ec380	comment	The Good Place: This becomes a key plot point midway through Season 3. The humans have discovered the true nature of the afterlife — meaning their motivation is tainted, and it's impossible to selflessly earn enough points to make it into the Good Place. They are destined for the Bad Place, and there's nothing any of them can do about it. Michael and Janet write a manifesto in the hopes that someone will be inspired to change the afterlife system after they're gone, while Eleanor convinces everyone that even if they can't make it into the Good Place, they can help other people get there.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In One Piece, while Zoro would be the last person to talk about the inherent beauty of the world, he's still deeply invested in protecting his crew and honoring the memory of his friend, he's just as much a Romantic as the rest of his crew, he just doesn't happen to go on about as much. This also overlaps with some Buddhist ideology. He also started as a guy who didn't care about anything but his own strength.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_a0ae46e	comment	In Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear experiences a major Heroic BSoD when he realizes that he's a toy and not a real space ranger. This trope comes into play when he accepts who he really is and what he can do.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Bender, depressed at learning that as a robot, he has no Free Will and can only do what he was programmed to do, seeks solace at a Robot Monastery. The Ab-Bot tells him that his order has accepted this, but rather than be depressed about the fact that their purpose in life is pre-determined, they choose to revel in fulfilling that purpose to the best of their ability.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_a4e6a00a	comment	Skies of Arcadia: The legendary pirate Daccat was apparently one. After Vyse and co. are separated, put through Hell and back and coincidentally solve each others' half of a deathtrap dungeon, Daccat's vast treasure is a single gold coin and a note reminding the finders that their friends are the real treasure. It's possible he spent his vast fortune before he died to make the most of it and then decided to leave others with An Aesop instead. It all seems like a heartless prank at first, but it turns out that reporting the discovery behind the legend is enough to make Vyse and co. a lot of money anyway.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order has this as a major theme as the main characters repeatedly rebuke the Big Bad for believing that humanity's endless suffering and fleeting lives means that all of their accomplishments are meaningless if they keep suffering and cannot live to see the end result as this myopic viewpoint ignores just how far humanity has come to reach the present and everything done to enable that. By the endgame, Mash Kyrielight is on the verge of death but refuses an offer to become immortal because her struggle with her terminally short lifespan has led her to the conclusion that every moment was worth living to the very end. Fergus is described as having this mindset, but it's usually overshadowed by his hedonism.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_a5549ed0	comment	King Solomon, traditionally considered the writer of the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, plays with this trope. Although the book does reference common spiritual elements like God Himself, eternity, and final judgement, the subjects of the book, life and everything on Earth, are treated as "vanity" or "vapor" or "a striving after wind." The book doesn't shy away from detailing the futility of human life or the acts of humanity as a whole, noting that the good can suffer, the wicked can prosper, pleasures fade and everyone dies. God's plans are also referenced, but noted to be inexplicable to man. However, it also emphasizes that the joy to be found in various aspects of life and doing good makes life worth living.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_a5d88e5c	comment	In Annie Hall, a number of Alvy's opinions on life and relationships reek of pessimism and nihilism, best exemplified by the film's opening lines: "There's an old joke, um... Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life — full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."This, however, is turned around when Alvy shares another joke at the very end of the filmnote This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." and rationalizes that he has a reason to endure all of the absurdity and suffering "because he needs the eggs". The theme is also exemplified through Dr. Flicker's viewpoint in his talk with young Alvy and his mother, when young Alvy had concluded that nothing is important because the universe is expanding and everything in existence will fall apart.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_a7a0b48b	comment	NieR: Automata has you become this. Yes, you, the player. By the end of Route C/D All of humanity is dead, the alien threat is non-existent, the entire war is worthless, the YoRHA project itself is a joke, and all the characters we've come to love died horrible deaths. But still, The pods' newfound consciousness and your empathy for the plight of A2, 9S and 2B make you want a happy ending for them. That's a tall order, and the game straight up taunts you but with the combined strength of everyone else who've been through the same troubles, you are able to finally give them a future for themselves.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: Arguably, the Abzan clan, from the Plane of Tarkir. Yes, life is tough and food is scarce... but that just means it's all the more important to look after each other and what little nature exists in the desert that they live in. They prioritize family, and every family has a tree that they protect with their lives. This stems from their colors: primarily white (emphasizing community) with some green (emphasizing nature) and black (emphasizing pragmatism). The more sympathetic interpretations of the Black color in general fall under this. All the other colors focus on ways to shape the world to one end or other, but Black encourages its followers to live the best lives they can in a harsh, cruel, unreasonable world that cannot be meaningfully improved or changed. The Aetherborn, introduced in Kaladesh, take Black's stand on this (above) to its extreme. They are born with the knowledge that their lives are very short, and so are determined to live life to the fullest. This even extends to their deaths, as rather than holding a funeral, an Aetherborn near death will hold a party, with mandatory attendance of friends and associates.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_ac4fcd09	comment	Solatorobo: Red the Hunter has Red Savarin grow into this mindset by the game's ending, stemming from his pre-existing Downplayed Knight in Sour Armor attitude. He knows that the Caninu and Felineko have done many terrible or foolish things just like the humans before them, but nevertheless affirms that even if all of them are failures in some way, they can and have still chosen to look out for one another and help each other learn and grow.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_ac7fd385	comment	During Hatoful Boyfriend, Yuuya is revealed to be this. A terrible thing he did as a child weighs on him enormously, but he uses it to drive him forwards and can be incredibly kind and thoughtful. Part of the plot of Holiday Star is him using his acceptance of what's happened and his refusal to reject the memory or the deed to drive away a soul-absorbing spirit thing, and spreading some of that sentiment to others.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_aef6c6f9	comment	The main point of Kino's Journey: "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is".
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_af05da7	comment	In The Seventh Seal, Block ultimately becomes this. He can't find God or any meaning in life, so his final quest is to perform some meaningful act to validate his life. He attempts to distract Death to let Mia and Jof and their young child escape alive by overturning the game of chess that could result in his death. Death simply resets the pieces, saying he is glad that Block got some joy out of the altruistic gesture, but also implying that it changed nothing.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_b0a9ed90	comment	According to Rufus in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the entire future will be based on this:
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Syrio Forel: Daenerys strives to be a fair and just ruler in a world that laughs at the very notion. Her principles and empathy for the downtrodden make her malleable and vengeful to those who harm her "children", and she is in pursuit of a high ideal in a world that only respects strength and cruelty, and those are only temporary shore-ups of authority. Therefore, although from a family renowned as conquerors and although a good portion of the city she just escaped from would like nothing more than to see her dead, she still wants to immediately head back because doing good is in her blood and her people need her.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_b367e0fd	comment	In Stardust Memories, Sandy Bates is a director of many comedy films who started to tell more serious stories because he started finding life to be too miserable and full of suffering and nothing seemed funny to him anymore. His latest movie is about delivering a message along the lines of "No matter who you are or what you did, your life is headed for a garbage dump." He desperately searches for meaning in life, discovering that he'd find it in love and enjoyment in such, despite maintaining that everyone is just headed for the metaphorical "garbage dump".
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic himself expresses such a view at the end of Sonic and the Black Knight. As he puts it, every world will eventually end; the only thing you can do is live your life to the fullest in the time you have. This exact outlook of his, unknowingly to some, was established all the way back in the very first game in the form of a Tagline on the Japanese box art: Similarly, his Image Song "It Doesn't Matter" claims: Sonic's rival Shadow displays this attitude in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). When Mephiles tries to tempt Shadow to join the dark side by explaining that the world will turn against him in the future, Shadow's response is to basically say Shut Up Mephiles and explain that even if the world does betray him, he will continue to fight for what he believes is right.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_b5ae56f9	comment	Sonic himself expresses such a view at the end of Sonic and the Black Knight. As he puts it, every world will eventually end; the only thing you can do is live your life to the fullest in the time you have. This exact outlook of his, unknowingly to some, was established all the way back in the very first game in the form of a Tagline on the Japanese box art:
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_b5e3fd5f	comment	In Madlax, the eponymous heroine is a gun-for-hire in a civil war-torn country, yet this only makes her more appreciative of life and its small everyday joys; e.g. she visits her client and target (same person) on the night before his assassination to comfort him. In the end, it is she (or the part of Margaret corresponding to her) who defeats the Straw Nihilist of a Big Bad.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_b9b796cf	comment	In Fate/stay night, Shirou lives his life by this sort of doctrine, even though he doesn't realize it. The "Unlimited Blade Works" route causes him to actively seek it, as he realizes his life is empty and the only thing he finds meaning in is selflessly sacrificing himself for others.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_baa97a52	comment	In Tenet, Neil's experiences with time travel has left him a fatalistic outlook that most, if not all, things are predestined. Despite that, he inverts the usual resulting beliefs by instead deciding that this means anything he does is worthwhile, since it must happen.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_bb8d2f1a	comment	The plot arc of the first two Hitchhiker's books is a large argument for this. '42' is supposedly the Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything. However, '42' is just a random number Douglas Adams chose, a placeholder for the idea of 'meaninglessness', but at the same time is so ridiculous that you can't help but laugh and have fun with it. The characters spend the best part of the series searching for some kind of meaning to the madness, but in the end realize that the universe is random and silly, like the number '42'.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_bc7dd4a6	comment	In Tattered World, the Dollmaker of the Shadow Stage sums it up nicely:
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_bccaf14c	comment	Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: Kaito Goshikida states that there are terrible things, but that shouldn't mean that people wait till things lighten up before they be happy.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_bf4abb02	comment	Harley Quinn is an unusual example in her post-New 52 series. While the Joker's motto seems to be "Life is meaningless, so might as well be as much of a dick as possible", Harley is more akin to "Life is meaningless, so might as well have fun while it lasts", and she seems to have just as much fun helping people as she does beating people up.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_bff01809	comment	Nurgle, the Chaos God of disease and despair in Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 is, surprisingly enough, like this. Yes, all things will eventually die and rot, and you will most likely never achieve your dreams, but does that matter? Instead of angsting over it or spending you life trying to reach an impossible goal, you should just be happy with what you have. Nurgle loves you no matter what you do. He is the god of disease, so while he genuinely does care for you, his idea of caring involves "gifting" people with terrible diseases... Diseases are made out of millions of lifeforms. Someone needs to love those, too.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_c34f83b2	comment	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Nagito Komaeda is a Byronic Anti-Hero whose entire philosophy is anti-nihilism. His existence has been marred by a maddeningly turbulent sense of luck which has given and taken enough from him that by the start of the game he's seeking meaning in his life by whatever sort of hope he can leave behind, at absolutely any cost (with his final free-time event revealing that he doesn't have long to live and therefore has nothing to lose). Even if that turbulence informs a shaky definition of "hope". In Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, Monaca probably best sums him up as "fighting for hope despite falling into despair."
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_c56a28f0	comment	Seems to be part of the meaning of "No Promises" by Icehouse: even though life might give you things like like gold and gems one moment, nothing is certain, and you have to make sense of things yourself.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has Harry eventually become this in the sequel, after a brutal Trauma Conga Line led to a period as a bitter Knight in Sour Armor, leading him to decide that there is no mercy or justice in the universe... so he had best create some. He ends up a Knight In Shining Armour once more — albeit a sarcastic, pragmatic one.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_c9a98ba0	comment	Rust Cohle in True Detective has a deeply nihilistic and pessimistic outlook on life, and thinks that perhaps it would be best if the human race voluntarily extinguished itself. However, he still works as a detective. At the end of the series he looks at the stars, and realizes that once, it was all dark.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_cd8905f6	comment	Elmer C. Albatross of Baccano! has this exact outlook. The guy had a horrible childhood and as a result adopted this sort of unsettling Stepford Smiler personality and obsession with happiness. He feels the world sucks so much that it's important to be happy.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_cfd860dd	comment	It's not too uncommon for Nasuverse protagonists to be Anti-Nihilists. In Fate/stay night, Shirou lives his life by this sort of doctrine, even though he doesn't realize it. The "Unlimited Blade Works" route causes him to actively seek it, as he realizes his life is empty and the only thing he finds meaning in is selflessly sacrificing himself for others. Tsukihime's protagonist, Shiki, holds a similar view. The main difference between his and Shirou's outlooks is that Shiki sees everything as meaningless because of his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which force him to see the world and everything in it as being as fragile as cardboard, and as such can derive meaning for himself simply from living a good life in what little time he has (and he has even less than a normal person, also as a result of his powers). That said, Nasu himself has come and said this small difference is enough that Shiki and Shirou would never get along.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_d11c45fe	comment	In Jasper in Deadland, Gretchen is perfectly aware how meaningless her "life" is, and knows that spending an eternity in Deadland with Ghost Amnesia and Afterlife Angst could easily give her an Identity Breakdown - but rather than dwell on her fate, she genuinely enjoys having a good reason to fill her existence with fun distractions. She's also much more easygoing than Jasper, even though he can still live a fulfilling life.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_d194b2db	comment	Death Stranding has Amelie Strand, the Extinction Entity, become into this by the end of the game. As an Apocalypse Maiden, she is destined to destroy mankind, and sees little point in prolonging this since it will eventually happen. However, Sam, and the connections he's made, causes her to change her mind and prolong as long as she can, because humanity means something to those living it.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_d1e1037f	comment	Night in the Woods: Mae's speech to whatever is living in the depths of the abandoned mine reflects this mindset, saying that when life sucks, she wants it to hurt, because that means it meant something. Angus has an interest in the supernatural, but in a "why do people believe what they believe" kind of way. Ultimately, he believes that whether or not there's a God, people have the capacity to be good to each other.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_d2091b03	comment	The Internship: Cooper of all people begins developing into this halfway through Volume 3. Having yet another argument with River over them being so generous to him, River inadvertently ends up spilling about their own issues. As it turns out, like Cooper, they've had problems tied to their own sexuality, and part of why they're trying to connect with him is because they can empathize with him on being an outcast and a loner. In other words, River's not as cheery or perfect as they let on. Coop then gives himself a moment to laugh, realizing that A), he's not as alone in the world or in struggling as he previously believed, and B), he's found someone who, in his words, is "as messed up as I am". This finally causes Cooper to start becoming self-aware about his situation. He ends up relating a bit to River about his dad, who was the root cause of most of his issues. He realizes, for the first time, that his dad's sad ending doesn't have to be his own. He says that, in the end, even if life is "bullshitting to the grave", he at least wants to enjoy his life and improve himself. River outright calls him a nihilist as a result of this. It turns out to be major Character Development for Coop, as he starts to think positively for the first time and start taking decisive steps towards taking control of his life.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: Numbuh Three comes across as this throughout the series. The show runs on Growing Up Sucks, with nearly every child terrified of the concept of turning thirteen and leaving the KND, but knowing there's nothing they can do to stop the inevitable aging process. Numbuh Three, however, remains cheerful and positive despite being fully aware that her time as a kid is limited, and seems dedicated to having as much fun and experiencing as much joy as possible before she grows up, even if she won't remember any of it. As such, she often seems to be the best-adjusted member of the team, which is part of why she's The Heart.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_d6f9b009	comment	The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Insomniac," the sardonic Mittens eventually discovers what has been behind her chain of nightmares, thanks primarily to having just watched Hannah and Her Sisters. Taking a cue from the character of Mickey from the film, she accepts that she won't learn the answers to life's biggest questions of existence, but decides to accept this, enjoying the rest of her days best she can and not worrying about it.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_d73353ba	comment	Jigoku no Gouka de Yakare Tsuzuketa Shounen: As an orphan from outside of the shaman village with no friends, no family, and no knowledge of the world outside of it, Flare never expected his life to amount to much. He's thankful to his master for taking him in and letting him live as long as he does and marches into the Gates of Hell with a smile on his face for the sake of saving the world. His cheer only fades when the excruciating pain of having his body instantly turned to charcoal and getting his soul torched by all the fires of hell drives him to madness for a time. But once he manages to somehow spring back to life, he's all smiles again.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_d861bfb	comment	Several loopers in The Infinite Loops become this. Throughout all their repeats, even through some awful Crapsack World versions of their homes or other loops, they always want to try to make things better. The ponies are the best example, to the point where they have openly declared their loop a sanctuary for all other loopers to recover.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park, in the episode, "All About Mormons". The town is introduced to a family of optimistic and kindhearted Mormons. When the family tells Stan of the story of Joseph Smith, Stan yells at them for believing in something so ridiculous and factually incorrect. Later, Gary, the family's youngest son, tells Stan that he's willing to (and, to a large extent, does) have doubts in Mormonism, but it doesn't matter, as everything good in his life is because of his family's Mormon beliefs. Incidentally, Trey Parker and Matt Stone would later go on to create The Book of Mormon.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_db67cf72	comment	DEVILMAN crybaby has Akira Fudo. While he can be idealistic at times, he's not too naive to believe that love and peace can solve everything, and he becomes aware of what a harsh reality the world actually is after becoming a Devilman. Nevertheless, he still chooses to fight demons, and despite being gradually broken by the countless losses he experiences, he doesn't lose faith in the will of humankind, believing that when faced with the impossible it's better to fight back than do nothing.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_dcdb5ca9	comment	Tsukihime's protagonist, Shiki, holds a similar view. The main difference between his and Shirou's outlooks is that Shiki sees everything as meaningless because of his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which force him to see the world and everything in it as being as fragile as cardboard, and as such can derive meaning for himself simply from living a good life in what little time he has (and he has even less than a normal person, also as a result of his powers). That said, Nasu himself has come and said this small difference is enough that Shiki and Shirou would never get along.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_df073316	comment	All-Star Superman turns Superman into one. Due to his advanced senses, he can actually see the way the universe works: a vast, intricate mechanism of connections. The universe merely chugs along indifferently, and the only thing that matters are our connections to each other. The only thing in this vast machine worth protecting is life. When Luthor temporarily steals his powers, he experiences this for himself and is moved to tears.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_dfc5ad2f	comment	AFK: Serena expresses this viewpoint, that life has no meaning or divine oversight and is ultimately pointless, but people can make it for themselves nonetheless.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_e11715a2	comment	The Perfect Run: Almost everyone dismisses Ryan as an immature jackass, and his actual friends are worried that he might be literally insane. The truth is that his time-looping ability means that he knows there is no point to the universe, so he may as well have fun and help people out. This revelation came to him after he died of old age, which he had assumed would kill him permanently, and he just restored right back to his old save point.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_e22d1efb	comment	In the ContraPoints episodes "Incels" and "Envy", Natalie examines hopeless ideologies that drive to misery and evil, and argues against them. She's pointed out flaws in "black pill" incel ideology that claims incels are doomed to never be with women while noting that there is usually a problem with their effort or conduct that makes them unsuccessful, and in "Envy", she advocates for pro-oppressed ideologies rather than anti-oppressor ideologies since the latter may be wrapped up in a feeling that the status quo cannot truly change, such as political lesbianism, which co-opts a real sexuality as a performance under the assumption that heterosexuality is broken and unfixable rather than trying to address the issue.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_e6267766	comment	The Star Wars Legends novel Dark Rendezvous actually depicts the wise, eight-hundred-something-year-old Yoda in this light. Specifically, when a Padawan expresses angst regarding Asajj Ventress's nihilistic philosophy, Yoda claims, "Right she is!"... then softens to "Maybe," and says that he's gone back and forth on whether or not there's a higher meaning and concluded that one should live their life to the fullest anyway. The point where he says, "suppose there is no Force" sounds ridiculous on the face of it, considering that this is strong-in-the-Force Jedi Master Yoda talking — but also sounds suspiciously like an author's views on the implications of whether or not God exists, with "the Force" substituted for God. Or it could be that he means that "The Force" is a false concept, like calling lightsabers Light and blasters Dark. This also shows up in Matt Stover's Star Wars Legends works, perhaps most concisely at the end of his novelization of Revenge of the Sith.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_e6276055	comment	"Kill Your Heroes" from Awolnation is a tract for this philosophy.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Jack Rakan. Fate Averruncus appears to be growing into this. Thanks a lot, Rakan-san.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_e795ecba	comment	Niles in Palm Springs shows definite shades of this. While he's become comfortable with the fact that nothing he does has any long-term consequences, good or bad, he deliberately avoids doing anything that would hurt anyone, and makes some effort to bring people joy, knowing full well that it will all vanish when the timeline resets, because "the pain is real".
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_e7bb061c	comment	Everything Everywhere All at Once: Waymond Wang, Evelyn's husband, in contrast to their overtly nihilistic daughter. Appropriately, it is embracing his philosophy of finding joy in the small things even if nothing else matters that allows Evelyn to combat Jobu Tupaki.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly: Mal fought for freedom and honor in The War Of Government Aggression. He lost, and has come to terms with that. But at the same time, he refuses to be a slave or a thug — even when the entire 'Verse insists that he has to obey a higher authority or act against his principles to survive, he remains Captain Malcolm Reynolds. And he aims to misbehave. Simon also has something of a tendency toward this. He specifically states that acting morally means even more out in the black without an authority to impose it. River recognizes that all meaning is "imbued" and thus there really is no "meaning" to begin with. River has a surprisingly positive outlook on life, and sees things in a very innocent way (i.e. the loaded gun everyone was freaking out about took the form of a harmless stick in her mind). "Objects in Space" is actually an exploration of these two character types, juxtaposing River against Jubal Early, who's definitely a Straw Nihilist. Faced with the same realization as River, Jubal's response was to become a complete psychopath who tortured his puppy.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_e8327120	comment	Rorschach's therapist, Malcolm Long, who becomes influenced by his philosophy, also comes to a similar conclusion. When his wife tells him not to intervene in a street fight, he says: "I have to. In a world like this... I mean, it's all we can do, try to help each other. It's all that means anything..." And then they — and half of New York City — die. Not exactly a subversion, but certainly tragic. However, his sacrifice and dedication to helping others inspires his son to take up both their mantles and become the second Rorschach.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_e8a4037a	comment	This is the eventual moral outlook of Roger from The Behemoth.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_ec9155b1	comment	Stated most succinctly by Brutha in Small Gods. When Om points out that they'll all be dead in a hundred years, he replies: "But here and now, we are alive!"
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_ee221a4e	comment	The Transformers (Marvel) has this as an Informed Attribute of Grotusque. Sure, he was constructed as a soldier in a ten-million-year-long war, he stands a very real chance of dying in said war, his friends die regularly, and his alternate mode is ugly (and fat), but the way he sees it you can either mope and gripe about life or to try and enjoy something as long as you're here anyway. Grotusque chooses to find humor in the absurdities and keep making friends rather than become a bitter loner like the other Monsterbots, and the fact that he's the only Monsterbot whose company is welcome among the Autobots vindicates his decisions.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f10a65b	comment	Legends of Tomorrow: Sara Lance has suffered a lot over the course of the Arrowverse, losing family and friends, suffering the life style of the League of Assassins, even dying and violently coming back. Despite this, however, the most she ever suffers is the occasional Heroic BSoD, never permanently sinking despair. This is probably best shown in the penultimate episode of Season 5, where the Fates trap the Legends in TV shows based on their deepest desires. While several of the others are tempted to just give up, Sara refuses to abandon a sometimes hard life for the sake of an easy fantasy, choosing to keep fighting the good fight.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f193c2c2	comment	Misery Index addresses this with "Gallows Humor" and "The Weakener": while falling into apathy and nihilism as a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that the world is full of awful things and horrible people is very easy to do, those horrors won't care about your lackadaisical, "so it goes" attitude when they're at your doorstep, and furthermore, the infectious quality of those attitudes is extremely harmful when something terrible is rising before your eyes and the people who see it for what it is are drowned out by the people who have chosen not to care. The essential gist of the two songs is that while nihilism is a very attractive way to deal with the fact that the world sucks, it's also very, very dangerous.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f3ae2950	comment	Senator Armstrong of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has a sideways version of the Snakes' philosophy. He sees a world full of citizens pacified by empty principles and soldiers dying for causes they don't believe in, but rather than a world of peace, he wants to create a world of freedom — one where people can choose their own principles and fight for their own causes. He may not be able to end all war, but at least he can make sure that those who put their lives at stake are doing it for their own good reasons.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f3cbb86a	comment	Tyalie from BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm puts a neat meta spin on this. Near the end, she explains to the player that she knows she's a fictional character. She's known all along that her entire world is just a "trashy freeware game". But has she ever let that break her spirit? No. Instead, she chose to throw herself into her role with all her heart, hoping to make the experience as fun as it could possibly be for you, so that maybe — just maybe — you'll remember her when it's over. It's pretty clear that she was written this way as a direct response to the "angsty" meta-aware characters that had become popular at the time.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f4abd380	comment	BlazBlue: Jin Kisaragi grows into this character eventually. He was a rather extreme example of a Broken Ace, talented, handsome, and admired by many for his efforts, but due to his extremely troubled upbringing, Jin himself found no meaning or pride in any of his accomplishments and grew up to believe nothing in the world mattered except death itself. He soon realizes that the problems of the world are a lot bigger than he originally thought. He never lets go of his nihilistic views, but decides that it's better to fight against the corruption that plagues the setting than do nothing. The speech he gives sums it up.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f74b5f80	comment	From Babylon 5 we have Ranger Marcus Cole, who is always eager to annoy the relatively straight-laced military characters of the show with his input:
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f7d93e4a	comment	The Assassin's Creed: "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." There is no God. There is no Devil. There are only Flawed Humans, the children of flawed Precursors. So if we wish to live in peace, prosperity and freedom, we must build a civilization that permits those things.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f7f16fbc	comment	In Midnight in Paris, Gil finds his reality to be unsatisfying and his work as a Hollywood screenwriter to be worthless. He wishes to escape it all, and he does. However, he later concludes that there is no escape as life and present-day realities are always unsatisfying for everybody, and one has to live with it. The story concludes with Gil, having decided to leave his "Golden Era", finally finding meaning and joy in his own contemporary era.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f8df4747	comment	The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Minor character Ore was killed in the first issue, the annual (coming out between issue 8 and 9) has him temporarily revived, and his dialogue reveals him to be one. At one point Swerve asks if he's a believer of any scientific or religious answer to life.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f8ede3da	comment	Meursault, the protagonist of The Stranger. An incarnation of the philosophy of the Absurd, Meursault has concluded during his time as a student (precisely when he dropped his studies) that life was ultimately futile, as everyone has to die at some point or another. As such, Meursault considers everything as pointless and doesn't care about his image, his relationships or love, and always speaks his mind truly. While the Prosecutor and the Chaplain, opposing Meursault, find the idea of a completely meaningless and final life soul-destroying, Meursault really doesn't mind and is perfectly content to live through his daily and pointless routine, enjoying life's sensual pleasures as they come, but not really yearning for them. Once imprisoned and deprived of all his immediate pleasures (swimming in the sea, lying on the sand, women, smoking cigarettes, etc) and his freedom, Meursault quickly learn to adapt and be happy with this life as well, occupying his time between sleeping and minutely re-examining his memories. At the end of the novel, having spent his lasts weeks fearing for his near execution, Meursault (after his confrontation with the Chaplain) finally makes peace with his death and the insignificance of human existence and ceasing to hope for another life, concludes that he is happy with his life and realizes that he always has been so. If this guy isn't the best example of an Optimistic Nihilist...
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_f95ad640	comment	"Save Your Serpent...---..." by Ego Likeness encourages this attitude:
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_fc1d6ac6	comment	Geralt of Rivia, from The Witcher, does not believe in the gods (although he once came face to face with a Physical God), does not believe in fate (although fate has intervened several times in his life) and is convinced that in the end, he will die in a violent and lonely way. Yet he continues to kill dangerous creatures (if only for money), he remains faithful to his friends, and remains true to his principles and his own code, which prevents him from killing harmless or intelligent creatures.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_fc56095f	comment	Monk & Robot: Mosscap's view on the world. The universe is chaotic, random, and ultimately meaningless, which is exactly why life and consciousness is a gift to be cherished; the odds were so stacked against it happening that simply being alive is a reason for joy.
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The Anti-Nihilist / int_fe1b5414	comment	Mob Psycho 100: Reigen's life philosophy is that, even if fate's dealt you a bad hand, you can still make something with your life. Also, just because there's Always Someone Better than you at something does not in any way invalidate your own talents. And Reigen says all of this despite having no psychic power of his own. This philosophy and outlook on life helped Mob start having his A God I Am Not tendencies.
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