Cold blooded murder


So, Cypher is about to leave their lives for good. He doesn't put up much of a fight... if any at all, he just wants one thing in return. He wants a nice, cold beer... but instead gets a dose of coldblooded, premeditated murder.
If we're supposed to believe that it can be reversed, I feel damn sorry for the lady whose hand Randy Goat Boy smashed off.



I think it's a joke

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Leave now.

Life is overrated

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Why?
I've only watched the movie, he seemed like a slimy ass, but not worth murdering.

I think it's a joke

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Jk. I see where you're coming from, but if you read TLT, you'd understand.

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I read the Lightning Thief but I can't remember anything like that happening or him being worse than in the movie. I mean, I agree with the OP, that was pretty distasteful. They could've known he would try to get in there.

"Some motherfvckers are always tryin' to ice-skate uphill."

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It happens in the book too. Percy leaves the head with his mom in case she wants to get rid of Gabe and letter she tells him gabe is gone and she sold her first statue to someone and using the money to get a new place and go back to school. So if anything the book leads you to believe she did it more directly and not just had it sitting around. PErcy did warn him not to open the fridge with the note.

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PErcy did warn him not to open the fridge with the note.
Why put it in the fridge and take the risk? Percy knew that Gave would open it to get one of his beloved beers. Percy was being cruel...to the very man who'd kept him safe throughout his childhood. In other words Percy was a little shït and no hero at all. 

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Wasn't worth the murder, no, and I'm not sure if the warnings on the fridge was supposed to tempt him or whether it was supposed to warn him away seriously.

Believe me, nothing is trivial. - Eric Draven, The Crow.

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When was he murdered?
He was beaten up but he was then later shown on the news talking about the kidnap of his "girlfriend/wife/whatever they were" by her son.

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It was in the very end scene, I think. He opens the fridge and is killed after being warned not to go into it.

Believe me, nothing is trivial. - Eric Draven, The Crow.

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The note honestly was a true warning and all but I agree I think he knew Gabe would ignore it anyway. Might have also been a reminder for his mother too. Out of habit could easily open the fridge and get petrified as well. By that point Gabe was supposed to be gone anyway.

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A note from Percy not to open the fridge is more like an invitation or dare to do so. It is not the same as saying - "there is a lethal weapon in this fridge, and if you open it you will die"

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well in the book its explained that Gabe beat Percy's mom a lot. She's the one who uses medusa's head on him. Now i don't know if you've had any experience with a guy like Gabe in real life but he wasn't going to go away. Sure he "moved out" but chances are he'd be back drunk and angry.

Plus at its heart this story is a Greek Myth and in traditional Greek Myths disgusting creatures like smelly Gabe (cypher) usually get their just desserts.

You will all taste oblivion... Which tastes like Red Bull.... Which is disgusting!

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He deserved it.. meh.

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WTF are you talking about? I don't know about the book but in the film Percy's mom hooked up with Gabe to keep Percy safe, because of Gabe's beer stench. I despise domestic violence, not that there was any real hint of it in the film (sure Gabe was a jerk who treated Sally like a doormat but I don't think it was ever hinted that he hit her or even psychologically abused her), but it seems that Sally only hooked up with him to protect Percy and could easily have left if she wanted to (she even tells Percy that Gabe has done more for him than he knew).

Yes, Gabe was as asshat but Sally was using him from the start, so she was hardly an angel, and once he'd served his purpose she was happy for him to be turned to stone.

This stuff rubs me the wrong way, because it's clear that the underlying subtext, at least as far as it's presented in the film, is that Gabe is a human so he's expendable in the 'greater good' of keeping Percy alive, rather than saying anything specific about punishing men who commit domestic violence. If Sally hadn't made a choice to continue staying with Gabe and was a genuinely terrified/fearful victim of domestic abuse I'd have a lot more sympathy for her final actions, but she apparently could have left at any point and only stayed for Gabe's stench.

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he almost got percy killed by falsely accusing him of kidnapping his mother and using drugs, any way he was warned and killed himself. it would shame if it could be reversed since they cut that poor woman arm in medosa's garden.

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I agree that it's murder. A lot of people always try to justify murder by saying how horrible the victim is. However, it's not about the victim deserving to die or not. Did the suspect kill the victim? A jury should never say not guilty just because the suspect is a good person and/or the victim was like a spawn of Satan.

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Thanks


"somebody used to live here"

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To be fair he did warn him with the note on the fridge, I think it was his own stupid fault, plus it was technically Uma Thurman's character who actually killed him.

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Percy left the note on the fridge knowing full well the guy wouldn't be able to resist. The note may as well have said "open please" and it was Percy that used medusa against her will to kill the guy.
Bit much


"somebody used to live here"

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Don't forget he had to smash a padlock off in order to open the fridge.

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Not to mention all the petrified people Annabeth and Grover smashed with the car. I'm sure if the spell could be reversed the petrified people would have been saved by now, especially as one of them was Grover's uncle.

So yeah, Percy and his mother committed the cold-blooded murder of Gabe, the man who kept Percy safe throughout his childhood. Some hero. They're about as 'heroic' as Luke.

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