Talk:San/@comment-39368975-20191010024930/@comment-25563752-20191016003742

Oh trust me, I was a big fan of the show as a kid. And got into it again years later. I still have my VHS copy of the movie (which is realy just the first couple episodes spliced into a movie). And yes, but Demona's prejudices were there even without a cause for it because she always thought gargoyles were superior. Even the quotes you posted show this and how different she was from San.

“Have you no pride? No sense of justice? We save their lives and they repay us with contempt.”

The humans feared the gargoyles, and so shunned them, but still tolerated their presence. This is different from what the humans did to San. They tore her home down and killed her family and friends out of greed. Demona was angry because her kind wasn't getting the respect she felt hey deserved, especially since it was from a species she felt was inferior. we're comparing Demona's desire for genocide because the humans she interacted with were ungrateful and disrespectful with San's desire to kill only the humans who she was at war with because they were destroying her home and killing her family and friends.

“Can you forgive the humans for what they did to our kind?”

This is big talk coming from her considering she was the one who sold out her own kind to a group of thieves and murderers. She betrayed both her kind and their human allies, but refused to accept her part of the blame and just pointed her finger at the humans. And again, she's blaming all humans, whether they were involved or not, and seeked complete and total genocide. Not just of the humans, but of any gargoyle that called a human friend as well. This is very different from San and the animals, who only ever attacked those who defiled the forest and attacked them first. This is eveident when she let Ashitaka go when they first met, because he wasn't involved with the war with Iron Town. San and her allies only killed humans who were their enemies while Demona killed anyone who was human or friends with humans, even her own kind. And unlike San, who was simply fighting a war, Demona absolutely relished in the carnage. Remember when she turned everyone to stone? She was having a field day going around killing them one after another.

“Then their descendants shall pay! I will have blood for blood!”

Same as I said before. San and the gods only killed the humans causing them trouble (though the boars were a little more open to killing other humans as well), but Demona wanted to kill all humans purely out of hatred. And again, it was Demona's fault her clan was killed. She betrayed their human protectors out of hatred, allowing them to be killed.

“Humanity is a poison that must be purged from this planet!”

Yes, both demona and San have a low opinion on humans, but there's a clear difference. Demona's was prejudice and a superiority complex, even before her clan was killed. San's was because humans are greedy and destructive. And again, Demona wanted all humans dead because she hated them. San never wanted all humans dead, just those those who were attacking the gods and destroying the forest. She just wanted them to leave her and the forest alone. And lets not forget, San did want peace and accepted it between them all at the end. Demona does want peace, and has turned her nose up at it several times, even at the cost of her mate and daughter.