Doesnt even take that...how many times have you heard on the news "My baby would never harm anyone" in a story about a guy being arrested for murder, burglery and other shit.
I think it's honestly meant to reflect on the mental state of denial many mothers go through when they discover their child is a killer, etc. His downfall into continuing killing starts like the traditional serial killer. Likes gore, harms animals, no empathy or remorce, and moves on to people.
I like how this movie (unlike the superman movies) accurately depicts what actually happens when something indestructible comes flying at you at top speed
Superman has his own gravity and some sort of electromagnetic force field. How do you think he flies up under falling people and catches them without outright ripping right through them.
What I personally like about how they show Brandon's use of powers is how feral they are. Normally with superheroes, you see them using fighting techniques for out of the box thinking to defeat their opponent using their powers. But with Brandon, it's almost feral with his usage. It's brutal, quick, and messy, which would be obvious for a child who hasn't had any experience fighting. But it's still a cool thing to see and a nice change to how powers are used.
I actually find the mom's actions very interesting, from like a psychology perspective. She's so desperate to have a family that she dismisses everything odd about Brandon, explaining or excusing it away, pretty much right up to the end. It's a very blinded version of a mother's love, tragic in a way
@@patrickward7412 Yeah, but children suck. Everyone gets that; it hardly seemed to bother him. Of course, he seemed completely emotionless for most of the movie.
Her not acknowledging her kid's evilness isn't her just be unaware. It's the, "My child would never bully your kid! You're lying!" parent taken to the extreme of making excuses for a supervillain. She's in denial for most of the movie and only after he's murdered his own father and has absolute proof from his own notebooks he's responsible for everything does she accept reality.
Ok but she should have at least questioned it a _little bit._ There's a big difference between the child you gave birth to and the one you plucked out of a red glowing spaceship/meteor. xD
It's all just motherly instinct. She desperately wants to hold onto the idea that her little space baby could just be a normal kid. She DEFINITELY knows somethings up but just keeps giving him the benefit of the doubt
Chris' Channel Him never bleeding doesn’t mean he can’t die. I mean have you ever heard of a drowned victim? Oxygen starved victim? How about people dying in bed? Organs can be shut down. Sure the kid can’t bleed but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have regular organs that work like anyone else’s. So as best as the father could do he tried killing him with a bullet. As we the audience know that won’t kill him the father doesn’t and that was his best shot at trying to kill him. What else was he supposed to do? Just let his son kill or have his son just kill him without trying to do anything. What would you have done in that moment without any of the knowledge you have over Superman? He doesn’t even know he got cut by the meteor thing either so that’s out of the options. Even Xenomorphs are susceptible to bullets. The Father was most likely hoping that he could still kill him by shooting his brain, I mean have you ever heard of shooting someone in the head? Yes he can’t bleed but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have organs functioning like our own. Remember the audience knowing things doesn’t mean character choices are stupid because they don’t know said things. Lastly the father knows a gun can kill and he’s killed with it before. He’s not going to go all Tcm on the boy because why do that when you can have a gun that works even better with a better explanation to why he has a gun instead of a chainsaw. He knows guns can kill and that’s all he really has to use so it’s like a last stand situation.
Feel like that would be a better way to do it. He is supposed to be like evil Superman, but while Jor-Els messages had some effect on him in some versions. Superman is a Hero because his environment rather than because of some messages from the ship.
If his spaceship landed in Japan, he would have been raised by a monk named Gohan dropping him from a mountain hitting his head became a good boy and taught him martial arts
As someone who's mothers used to be in denial over their sibling not being who they used to be anymore Tori's actions and reactions are actually pretty accurate to me
@@mysticalspace2596 It certainly depends, but it is very likely that him being a hero is off the table if he is indeed a sleeper agent. It's in his DNA to subjugate the planet for whatever reason, so him being good just does not work ... At leas this is what I'd take out of the movie with the little background information we get of him. The only way his parents could have survived, is if they'd accept that their adopted son is a mass murdering alien with superpowers ... instead they betrayed him ...
@@OrangeAceGaming Goku does not have it ingrained in his DNA though. Sure, the nature of Saiyajins is violent, but that is not comparable to being a sleeperagent that gets activated. Goku lost his violent nature, due to hitting his head. Brightburn couldn't hit his head and even if, it would not have changed the message activating him.
For those who want to know the December killcount schedule: Dec. 13th: Ready or Not Dec. 20th: It: Chapter Two Dec. 24th: Better Watch Out Dec. 27th: Cabin in The Woods Dec. 31st: It's a surprise episode! it's one that James has been mentioning a lot in his kill counts.
Well personally thats what i think makes a grounded horror. I think you mean dumb decisions for the sake of convience like the mother here refusing to acknowledge how messed up her kid is. My favourite horror is Strangers Prey at Night (unpopular I know). I thought all the dumb decisions made sense in that film like the son losing the gun because he placed on the table so he could bandage his sister's arm and then the killer rams a truck through the trailer knocking the table down and the gun is someone amongst the carnage but they dont have time to find it due to the killer. Dumb characters are a core team in horror but they have to have an understandable reason of why they do stupid things.
People have said they would've preferred if he wasn't a sleeper agent but honestly that's the most unique thing Brandon has going for him compared to other evil supermen. Outside of maybe Homelander being a lab baby.
Also in the beginning of the movie when his Biology class talks about the difference between bees and wasps and Brandon gives a long explanation about how some sorts of wasps lay their eggs in other insects nests so they would be raised by them and after growing up they take those nests for themselves it was a huge foreshadowing for his fate because that seems to be exactly what his kind does
I think this movie fails to capture the nuance this type of story requires I would've liked it better if he wasn't a sleeper agent but just a kid with godlike powers doing whatever the fuck he wants because nobody can stop him or hell have him have a bad upbringing anything is better than the severely overused sleeper agent plot
Doesn’t matter what type, the thing that should’ve cut his hand or whatever (been a while) earlier should’ve tipped him off. Plus he’s an alien. Idk what the logic is about people trying to shoot at things when it clearly won’t work (such as robots)
@@gvan11ian with robots they're built by man, unless otherwise. And there are weapons that can destroy strong alloys like such, plus no one as of right now. Is having the insane thought of creating extremely durable robots, because what do you do when they revolt?
@@DondonII In any media when robots revolt or say something like iron man or even Hulk, they just use simple bullets, see it doesn’t work, and keep using them.
@@LeadTheWeak Akira Toriyama: "A couple of concerned parents fearing for the future of his planet send his son to earth where he becomes a superstrong hero, I'm very creative!"
Everyone is shitting on Tori but like 😭 I understand her character. She believed the universe gifted her a baby and saw him as a miracle. He was her son and she loved him unconditionally like any mother would. I mean she raised him and got to know him for 12 years. So I think it makes perfect sense she was in denial for so long
Father:Just got shoved hard enough to shatter an entire furniture to mere pieces by a 12 year old kid Mother: How could brandon kill Noah and make it look like an accident
The ironic thing is that at the end, she actually might have been able to talk him down and bring him back to the light since he shows that he still loves her and is willing to listen, but because she tried to kill him, she basically ruined any chance of that.
I would have liked this movie so much more if they dropped the whole alien sleeper agent angle. There was no outside influence. Maybe Brandon's real parents had nothing but innocent intentions. I think it's just far more frightening to think of what would happen if a child with godlike powers came to a simple realization: no one in the entire world can ever tell him no.
Agreed, not the biggest fan of the use of mind control or possession in most stories. It just seems much more interesting if characters act of their own beliefs and volitions
While that is true, I think it’s more than that. I like the story “Irredeemable” for this because it tackles an evil superman very well, it was the influences and upbringing that defines everything about an individual. Superman’s heroics are only second to the heroism that his parents gave to him, I think that it’s a better story if the parents were assholes and so this god grew up to be one too
"The kid has never bled a day in his life here!" "Okay, got him out hunting. Time to use this gun which I already stated won't work at all. Good plan."
MrAcrum what else could he do in this situation? He doesn’t exactly have any Halo-style energy weapons lying around. MAYBE he could’ve grabbed a piece of the ship/meteor thing, but he probably overlooked it in his distressed mindset
Someone had to try something at least. Needs to be a hero at some point in the movie. Can't just have every character acting like a total oblivious moron and letting him just do whatever the fuck.
6:03, With how we tend to here Brandon's movement's, at least when he's not flying or interacting much with surfaces (as his flight allows him to move silently, while his speed walking later at the diner is audible), I'd say this was telekinesis. Given the electromagnetic interference and extreme temperatures he can cause with his presence, it seems to suggest that much like Brandon himself, his powers have as much in common with that of a Saiyan (or more specifically, Goku) from Dragon Ball as that of a Kryptonian from DC Comics, as the former are able to generate energy and affect their environment (and themselves) with their minds to a degree, but the main reason they and other Dragon Ball characters tend to not use it combatively is due to concentration, as it's relatively far easier for them to focus on their own bodies and movements (hence their enhanced physicalities and ability to fly) than that of whatever external thing they are focusing on. And even more interestingly than that is that there is another original supervillain origin film called Chronicle with characters that are explicitly telekinetic. That or he’s just using his flight to move fast enough to close the laptop and leave before being seen the way he got behind the police woman from outside the house in a matter of seconds without a sound.
Tori : Perhaps we should see a specialist? Talk about it? Kyle: To tell him what? Hello, we found our son in a fuc**** spaceship in the woods? Yeah… I kinda agree with him there. lol
I think this movie would have been much more successful if it was made like 10 years earlier because back then superhero movies were still a fresh sub-genre and people were more receptive to new and different ideas like this one, I heard James Gunn actually wanted BrightBurn to have it’s own Universe and make a franchise out of it or something but I guess now he is working at the DC reboot he is going to get way too busy the next few years to worry about this, or maybe he will remember it and give it a sequel when he gets some free time from Warner, time will tell
I love how she literally needed to read a children's book and see the pictures to get the hint that maaaaybe it's her Alien son that was doing all the alien stuff.
You know the term “enabling” is anti-euphemistic. LoL. His parents were flat out clueless. They were humanly incapable of raising a good kid. This film is amazingly fitting for these times.
"How can he kill him and make it look like a car accident" This is the same words from a person who literally saw him float, took him from a crater in an alien space ship. lol
Not to mention she literally just saw her son shove her grown husband into glass so hard that it shattered but making murder look like a car accident no that's so unbelievable(sarcasm)
i think james gunn has said he is interested in bringing brightburn back , but at the moment he was busy working on the suicide squad(one less i guess) and guardians vol 3(still to be seen) so maybe after guardians 3 comes out we will see if brighburn does come back
Noahs kill was actually pretty cool, the way his mouth hits the wheel and then you see it detach while hes laying there helplessly watching Brandon walk up to him is something i wont forget for a while lol
Yeah that one was actually pretty gruesome, because it had some realism to it. And I've seen actual footage of soldiers in Afghanistan getting blown up from IEDs
I always felt this movie was an idea that never took off. I mean, the idea is "what if Superman was a psychopath" and it stayed there. There's no plot, no character development, no nothing. It's amazing how you know everything about this flick just by reading one sentence.
You don't need "character development" for a good story. What did you want? The boy to find empathy in the last moment and feel sorry? Would that made it better for you? The boy actually did have character development. He started out as a good boy and turned more and more into a total psycopath. The mother also eventually turned around and was willing to kill her child for the greater good. So yeah, character development was there. You just didn't like it. Also, you don't need a sad backstory of child abuse to justify a villains actions. Some people are just deranged psycopaths.
Thought I’d note this at the beginning of the video before the kills: I love the intros James, hearing your thoughts and all the behind the scenes stuff draws me in every time. Don’t let some negative feedback dissuade you, I’m in it for all the content, not just the bloody goodness. Stay awesome.
The scariest part to me is how Brandon’s mom is so unwilling to see the truth until it’s too late I’ve seen that sort of thing happen irl, people who can’t handle reality and will ignore any amount of evidence... it’s scary, like talking to someone with a brain parasite
Brandon came to save the world, humans like you just forgot that that the world doesn’t revolve around humanity, even as humanity does its best to abuse it and force it to.
She let him down emotionally so he let her down literally EDIT: I just found out there was another comment of this I’m sorry didn’t mean to take it Ano a d a edit 999 likes rn
As someone who lives in and has grown up in Kansas, I can confirm that this happens probably twice a year. We’re really tired of getting alien super heros and villains in our fields, so maybe the coasts could take one for the team and take the next one?
I feel like it would’ve been interesting to add a sibling to the mix- maybe one they adopted after Brandon is staring to become off. It might develop good character depth for Brandon, maybe seeing him as an a bad guy but still wanting to do “good” in the end (if that makes sense.) What I’m meaning is, flesh out the story more! Sure, the movie would be longer, but that’s the whole point, give the story more depth and more detail to personality!
this is barely an origin story this is just activated alien baby. like superman was good because he was raised very well, like if Brandon wasn't raised well and was treated horribly growing up would've been more interesting to see
The thing that sucks is the film feels unsure what to do with it The movie plays with the whole “sleeper agent” concept but there’s also the idea he’s always had this ability and his parents just raised him poorly (that scene talking about birds and the bees)
There was so much wasted potential in this movie. I thought Brandon would become a sympathetic villain like Andrew from Chronicle, from the unfairness of the world around him because he was being bullied and no one accepts him, that stuff. But no. And the parents are terrible.
Dude - that's literally the PLOT of Brightburn. He's bullied, nobody tries to understanding him - instead, disregarding everything about him and betraying him. The ENTIRE plot was him being mistreated.
That does prove that he is just overtaken by a program or something because he loves her mother and knows he could have easily dodged that and just let her be. Instead the program saw it has threat to the host and removed the threat.
There was nothing she could have done to stop him Brandon from going full evil at that point. If anything I feel like Brandon was gonna let her live peacefully alone because he did love her but once she tried to kill him he said aight you're dying too. He did love her right before that moment tho
Even though most of the people in horror movies that are terrible get killed like Annie Wilkes from Misery, I feel sad and bad about it but this is the black sheep of the bunch, Brandon was just a narcissistic tapeworm A-hole that fell out the sky.
“ Sorry guys, the movie is nearly over and we have a low kill count “
Me: oh god he’s gonna blow the planet up
If that did happen I doubt any other kill count could top 7+ billion
That's exactly what I thought was gonna happen
It would have 7 billion if the planet blew up
that would've be sick lmao, i thought the same when he said that
Is your entire profile a jojo reference
James: adds 268 kills
Final Destination: hurry up and end this damn kill count
I bet James Gunn watched final destination before this movie was made
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Lol
@@thiccychiccy1157 just that.
@@bananatank9048, it has to be that possible motive.
Brandon: *kills everything/everyone*
Tori: whatever it’s ok
Foxy - TheMemelords I think she’s crazy because if I saw what my alien son did I would scared
She SOOOOOOOOOO FRUSTRATING
On a smaller scale there are a lot of mothers just like her that dismiss the actions of their children
@@saharasafari4529 but she by far is the one that pisses me off the most
@@brandonfarley2228 The real ones that do this are worse
I actually thought Tori's complete denial was pretty in character for someone who would willingly raise an alien baby
No she’s just the standard weird woman
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Average post wall woman.
Agreed
Doesnt even take that...how many times have you heard on the news "My baby would never harm anyone" in a story about a guy being arrested for murder, burglery and other shit.
Brandon: *kills each and everyone*
Tori: I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that.
her safety : am I a joke to you?
Ima edit that out
I think it's honestly meant to reflect on the mental state of denial many mothers go through when they discover their child is a killer, etc. His downfall into continuing killing starts like the traditional serial killer. Likes gore, harms animals, no empathy or remorce, and moves on to people.
Toris death is sad. Considering she falls because of her son.
Laurakate64 more like idiocy
Teacher: "Brandon where do you think babies come from?"
Brandon: *"Meteorites."*
Optimistic Beam
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Lol
Lmao 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Good lord 😂
Motha socka ｍｏｔｈａ ｓｏｃｋａ ｌｏｃａ ｌｏｃａａａａａａ ｍｏｔｈａ ｓｏｃｋａ
Tori comes face to face with reality: her son has been hiding his artistic talent and cosplay desires
IM FUCKING WHEEZING
Fuckin desgustin!
That's too funny. 😂🤓
Deadass
Well her husband tried to tell her. She just kept believing that he was an evil Mastermind willing to take -over- the world until it was too late >:
I like how this movie (unlike the superman movies) accurately depicts what actually happens when something indestructible comes flying at you at top speed
So does A-train in the boys
I mean...in superman movies, he presumably slows down before actually hitting anyone. Cause, like...he's superman. And doesn't want to kill anyone.
Doesn’t Superman have an electromagnetic field that answers why that doesn’t happen?
@@theberserkerarmor6511 superman has telekinesis which prevents him from crushing people while saving them
Superman has his own gravity and some sort of electromagnetic force field. How do you think he flies up under falling people and catches them without outright ripping right through them.
I love how the kid is like "I'm more Superior than all of you" then demonstrates this by slamming himself into the wall over and over
When you fly through a wall and don't get scratched, I would take that as a sign of superiority.
@@robertnelson9599 that is a valid point. However it reminded me a lot of Ed from Ed Edd and Eddy. "I am a woodpecker! Except with a house!"
It's like that scene from Megamind where the guy gives himself a wedgie while saying " can't feel a thing " 😂
@@jtwatts7990 ironic considering how much both have in common
Kok
Dad: *Shoots his “Son” in the head*
Also Dad: I’m sorry
Brandon: YOU WANNA DIE?!
Brandon it is but a scratch
lol sorrrry thought the pin was still in woospie!
I saw a deer behind you and I missed
bruhhh
"wHat tHe FUcK tORI???"
the whole movie basically
@FixedOnGaming Nah I loved it
FixedOnGaming You don’t like his voice? Huh.
lol
Yep-
Reminds me of the vine “wHaT tHe FuCk RiChArD
What I personally like about how they show Brandon's use of powers is how feral they are.
Normally with superheroes, you see them using fighting techniques for out of the box thinking to defeat their opponent using their powers. But with Brandon, it's almost feral with his usage.
It's brutal, quick, and messy, which would be obvious for a child who hasn't had any experience fighting. But it's still a cool thing to see and a nice change to how powers are used.
I actually find the mom's actions very interesting, from like a psychology perspective. She's so desperate to have a family that she dismisses everything odd about Brandon, explaining or excusing it away, pretty much right up to the end. It's a very blinded version of a mother's love, tragic in a way
I diagnose her with dead (caused by dumbness of the brain)
Everyone can see that don’t try to be smart
You should see goodnight mommy, that’s the best physiological plot I’ve ever seen
Single mother sindrome even tho she is married
It's not tragic, it's cheap and idiotic writing.
Imagine how funny it would be if he got the wrong message and was suppose to save the world lol
I fell like if people didnt treat him like shit or betrayed him maybe he would have been way more different
@@Panamaniangirl Who treated him like shit? He had a loving family and his teachers respected him. People hated him after he started being evil.
@@CaptainDoomsday He was shown to get bullied multiple times during the movie
@@patrickward7412 Yeah, but children suck. Everyone gets that; it hardly seemed to bother him.
Of course, he seemed completely emotionless for most of the movie.
@@Panamaniangirl have you met my boi Clark
Dad: *Shoots his son in the head*
Son: *oh no* , _anyway_
Brandon: so you have chosen death
Father:what the hell are you child: death
Dad: *Shoots his child*
Son: So I started blasting
Cheers I'll drink to that bro
@@Caialarik835it's fine I got a Mozambique here
Tori is the ultimate example of the “my little angel would never!” mom.
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In the final part when the first officer dies she’s just like “Well we didn’t SEE what killed him and my little angel would never 😇”
Her not acknowledging her kid's evilness isn't her just be unaware. It's the, "My child would never bully your kid! You're lying!" parent taken to the extreme of making excuses for a supervillain. She's in denial for most of the movie and only after he's murdered his own father and has absolute proof from his own notebooks he's responsible for everything does she accept reality.
Ok but she should have at least questioned it a _little bit._ There's a big difference between the child you gave birth to and the one you plucked out of a red glowing spaceship/meteor. xD
It's all just motherly instinct. She desperately wants to hold onto the idea that her little space baby could just be a normal kid. She DEFINITELY knows somethings up but just keeps giving him the benefit of the doubt
@@NicolaiAAA No, not really. A mother is a mother, they're still capable of loving a child just as much even if they didn't give birth
@some kinda guy You're acting like people haven't loved weirder things
@some kinda guy If someone fell in love with the Eiffel tower, a women desperate to have kids can love a child falling out of a meteor
Kyle: "Hes never bled once in his entire life"
Also Kyle: *Tries to shoot Brandon*
Well, what else would a kyle know to do?
Yes it was so totally dumb to kill a murderous kid with superpowers and a intent to kill
@@chuckjohnson393 LOL
Chris' Channel Him never bleeding doesn’t mean he can’t die. I mean have you ever heard of a drowned victim? Oxygen starved victim? How about people dying in bed?
Organs can be shut down. Sure the kid can’t bleed but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have regular organs that work like anyone else’s.
So as best as the father could do he tried killing him with a bullet. As we the audience know that won’t kill him the father doesn’t and that was his best shot at trying to kill him. What else was he supposed to do? Just let his son kill or have his son just kill him without trying to do anything.
What would you have done in that moment without any of the knowledge you have over Superman? He doesn’t even know he got cut by the meteor thing either so that’s out of the options.
Even Xenomorphs are susceptible to bullets.
The Father was most likely hoping that he could still kill him by shooting his brain, I mean have you ever heard of shooting someone in the head?
Yes he can’t bleed but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have organs functioning like our own.
Remember the audience knowing things doesn’t mean character choices are stupid because they don’t know said things.
Lastly the father knows a gun can kill and he’s killed with it before. He’s not going to go all Tcm on the boy because why do that when you can have a gun that works even better with a better explanation to why he has a gun instead of a chainsaw.
He knows guns can kill and that’s all he really has to use so it’s like a last stand situation.
@@Someguyy867 damn bro it's just a meme
What if Kaitlyn actually triggered Brandon when she said "smart guys rule the world"
mitzuru kosa you actually have a point but the ship said “take the world” once he hit puberty
Fair point I like it
Feel like that would be a better way to do it. He is supposed to be like evil Superman, but while Jor-Els messages had some effect on him in some versions. Superman is a Hero because his environment rather than because of some messages from the ship.
TRIGGERED * MUSIC STARTS*
Haha
When Erica pulled that glass out of her eye, I felt a small sharp pain in my own eye.
Kills for the first 99% of the movie: 6
Kills in the last Minute of the movie: *268*
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@Dorian Arnold *y* *u* *p*
@@Vetresity y u p 😭
The dad was the only normal guy in the whole movie
@Harrison Stanley both of them were normal
The uncle gave his nephew a fucking rifle for his 10th birthday, that's the most normal American male I've seen on a movie in a while.
@@pats3212 he's like "if you ever get roasted bad in school get to your bag"
and the cop
@@pats3212 yeah my uncle gave me a gun for my 11th birthday but I wasn’t ever able to touch it besides hunting ahahaha
Father: shoots child
Child: you dare oppose me, mortal
Jesus loves you
‘‘Tis but tah scratch
brandon: ok
no worse than they guy shooting Kal-El, point-blank, in the eye in Superman Returns.
*All that for not even a drop of blood...how inconvenient.*
If his spaceship landed in Japan, he would have been raised by a monk named Gohan dropping him from a mountain hitting his head became a good boy and taught him martial arts
@FishNChips-kq3hk alot more powerful lol. Hed learn ki and how to use it bro would be way too op
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@@jaionn nice selfie 😂
If only. ;w;
Brightburn is pretty much Goku if he didn’t hit his head as a baby
As someone who's mothers used to be in denial over their sibling not being who they used to be anymore Tori's actions and reactions are actually pretty accurate to me
So is his Brandon could have easily been a hero or something if it wasn’t for the way he found out and the way the characters dealt with it.
@@mysticalspace2596 It certainly depends, but it is very likely that him being a hero is off the table if he is indeed a sleeper agent.
It's in his DNA to subjugate the planet for whatever reason, so him being good just does not work ...
At leas this is what I'd take out of the movie with the little background information we get of him. The only way his parents could have survived, is if they'd accept that their adopted son is a mass murdering alien with superpowers ... instead they betrayed him ...
@@BestAnimeFreak *Cough* Goku *Cough*
@@OrangeAceGaming Goku does not have it ingrained in his DNA though.
Sure, the nature of Saiyajins is violent, but that is not comparable to being a sleeperagent that gets activated.
Goku lost his violent nature, due to hitting his head.
Brightburn couldn't hit his head and even if, it would not have changed the message activating him.
@@BestAnimeFreak *cough* joe *cough* angie *cough*
Kyle: *literally shoots brandon*
Brandon: _tis but a scratch_
A SCRATCH?! YOUR HEAD WAS ALMOST BLOWN OFF
Brandon:norin
‘‘Tis but a flesh wound
Tis but a severed head
Tis but nothing.
*superhuman from another planet*
“Hmm I think this rifle might do the job”
dad dies 🤤
Alright 8 year old get out of here :V
Kima lol
I think the Farmer with a shotgun would do the trick
"And if that don't work, use more gun"
-Engineer
6:48 Brandon gotta be a berserk fan
BRANDon drawing that symbol looking like the BRAND of sacrifice
For those who want to know the December killcount schedule:
Dec. 13th: Ready or Not
Dec. 20th: It: Chapter Two
Dec. 24th: Better Watch Out
Dec. 27th: Cabin in The Woods
Dec. 31st: It's a surprise episode! it's one that James has been mentioning a lot in his kill counts.
Thank you
How do you know?
Yeah, how do you know?
@@MrSmallsCO His Twitter
@@LRJ54 He tweeted the schedule yesterday
I hate movies where character ignorance litters the entire film.
It should end when Brandon dies or get a rich man to fight him with a amor
So basically you hate horror movies?
@@logansmith8147 not really hate
Well personally thats what i think makes a grounded horror. I think you mean dumb decisions for the sake of convience like the mother here refusing to acknowledge how messed up her kid is. My favourite horror is Strangers Prey at Night (unpopular I know). I thought all the dumb decisions made sense in that film like the son losing the gun because he placed on the table so he could bandage his sister's arm and then the killer rams a truck through the trailer knocking the table down and the gun is someone amongst the carnage but they dont have time to find it due to the killer. Dumb characters are a core team in horror but they have to have an understandable reason of why they do stupid things.
@@j.murray5656 well it's the mom fault to adopt Brandon
Movie: *has a whole plane blow up*
James: *Now this looks like a job for me*
So everybody just follow me
Lucas Schuldaski cause we need a little controversy
Wait really people dislike how evil Brandon is? Quite Frankly I like the fact that he is like an evil sleeper agent here to take over the planet.
People have said they would've preferred if he wasn't a sleeper agent but honestly that's the most unique thing Brandon has going for him compared to other evil supermen.
Outside of maybe Homelander being a lab baby.
Oh, so it's more like "What if Goku did end up fulfilling his mission to subjugate humanity... and also had Superman's powers."
no, no, not take over. to TAKE it. as in destroy.
Also in the beginning of the movie when his Biology class talks about the difference between bees and wasps and Brandon gives a long explanation about how some sorts of wasps lay their eggs in other insects nests so they would be raised by them and after growing up they take those nests for themselves it was a huge foreshadowing for his fate because that seems to be exactly what his kind does
I think this movie fails to capture the nuance this type of story requires I would've liked it better if he wasn't a sleeper agent but just a kid with godlike powers doing whatever the fuck he wants because nobody can stop him or hell have him have a bad upbringing anything is better than the severely overused sleeper agent plot
Imagine being a demon/Alien and being named Brandon
Absolute loser. Better luck next time.
Plot twist- it was called bright burn because it was the name of his soccer team
Behold the Power of God Fear me I am the Demon in the form of a God My name is.. Brandon :P
Especially when he acts like such a Kyle. 🤦♂️
My name is brandon but Im not an demon or Alien
Shooting Brandon was like the dumbest part
“He’s never gotten hurt in his life, this gun should do the trick”
Dude that's literally a frickin sniper it doesn't compare to playground hurts
Doesn’t matter what type, the thing that should’ve cut his hand or whatever (been a while) earlier should’ve tipped him off. Plus he’s an alien. Idk what the logic is about people trying to shoot at things when it clearly won’t work (such as robots)
He should have said "I KNEW IT"
@@gvan11ian with robots they're built by man, unless otherwise. And there are weapons that can destroy strong alloys like such, plus no one as of right now. Is having the insane thought of creating extremely durable robots, because what do you do when they revolt?
@@DondonII In any media when robots revolt or say something like iron man or even Hulk, they just use simple bullets, see it doesn’t work, and keep using them.
Can we think about how perfect his name is. "James A Janisse" its like, perfect
Yes, right up there with Barack Obama and Travis Touchdown.
He looks like Alex Hirsch! Is it me or do you guys see the resemblance?
BronyFan 27 omfg yes bruh, I see it now lmao
BronyFan 27 I just check and he does look a lot like him
@@JohnPerry27 Obamas name is trash
“What is Superman was a dick”
We already have that and his name is Homelander!
Ah but this movie actually predates the boys by about two months
@@azzy9293 comics came way earlier so I’m still correct under a technicality!!!
@@TheFakeTeo DC came up with the Ultramen (the evil versions of Superman that Brightburn was based on) long before The Boys.
@@rter6085 it’s a joke dawg
It’s his son
This is basically what goku was supposed to do when he went to earth
Yeah basically
Yep. Credit the rock for the mentally disabled OP character you all know and love.
naw thats filler and was retconed even further with the new Broly movie
@@LeadTheWeak Akira Toriyama: "A couple of concerned parents fearing for the future of his planet send his son to earth where he becomes a superstrong hero, I'm very creative!"
This is more like an evil superman
Bradon: *kills everyone*
Tori: he's okay he is just confuzzled
Satan: tori wtf even I dont like you
Please correct the name, you know how to spell it now😂
Brandon Martin ha.
R/youngpeopleTH-cam
Tori is the caused of all this death
Ok, NOBODY ELSE LIKE. 420 haha funny number
Parents:God I want a baby
God: no
Devil: hang on I got you
Bro how is this getting likes 4 years later 😭
Now that's funny
finally, a funny joke in the comments oof
Hey, that’s a funny comment, but I’m a Christian so you’re not going to get a like from me
@@jonathanh8509 I'm also a Christian and I don't think it's wrong to like it, especially if you find it funny
😂😂
Brightburn must be a MASSIVE fanboy of Beserk. He keeps drawing the brand of sacrifice everywhere.
People let’s face reality
Brandon is trying to kill a fly while he smashing through the house
I saw that damn fly.....
That’s me when ever I see a cockroach or a mosquito
I know right
XD
Lol
This movie clearly shows why Batman and Ironman was right.
Yes ironman, yes ironman was right.
Iron mans ftom marvel tho?🤔
@@bryandelvalle6214 Ya, but if you remember he was also against aliens on Earth.
Well yea
Your not wrong just different ones but yea still aliens
Erica: do you even know who his real mother is!
*Brandon will remember that*
Elijah Moses I hope this comment doesn’t go bankrupt.
Good to know that James has heard of Telltale before.
Everyone is shitting on Tori but like 😭 I understand her character. She believed the universe gifted her a baby and saw him as a miracle. He was her son and she loved him unconditionally like any mother would. I mean she raised him and got to know him for 12 years. So I think it makes perfect sense she was in denial for so long
That sheriff got swiped faster than a credit card
You bet
Or an unattractive person on tinder.
Blu Crotalus holy shit
HA GOT HIM DA HAM
*Top Comment God*
Father:Just got shoved hard enough to shatter an entire furniture to mere pieces by a 12 year old kid
Mother: How could brandon kill Noah and make it look like an accident
lol
Hmmm idk.
Jesus died for you, was buried for you and rose again 3 days later believe on Him and be Saved❤️.
@@GhanaianJammer no
so being Super Smart isn't part of Brandon's package?
When someone dies but James doesn't put them on the count
Me: Something's wrong I can feel it.
Mr Waffles
it’s just a feeling I’ve got, like somethings about to happen but I don’t know what
@@joshuakielty if that means what I think it means we're in big trouble
Build a WALL You were just what the doctor ordered
EastBayBaller 6 I’m being to feel like a rap god rap god
All my people from the front to the back now back now
The ironic thing is that at the end, she actually might have been able to talk him down and bring him back to the light since he shows that he still loves her and is willing to listen, but because she tried to kill him, she basically ruined any chance of that.
I would have liked this movie so much more if they dropped the whole alien sleeper agent angle. There was no outside influence. Maybe Brandon's real parents had nothing but innocent intentions. I think it's just far more frightening to think of what would happen if a child with godlike powers came to a simple realization: no one in the entire world can ever tell him no.
Lol well they could tell him no but more like being helplessness in the face of a psychopath demi god
Agreed, not the biggest fan of the use of mind control or possession in most stories. It just seems much more interesting if characters act of their own beliefs and volitions
While that is true, I think it’s more than that. I like the story “Irredeemable” for this because it tackles an evil superman very well, it was the influences and upbringing that defines everything about an individual. Superman’s heroics are only second to the heroism that his parents gave to him, I think that it’s a better story if the parents were assholes and so this god grew up to be one too
We have tha tin real life. Its called Teenager who know Everything.
Hmm that's homelander
father: *Shoots son*
also father: It's just a prank! The camera is over there.
Brandon: kills him*
Brandon:oh no!anyway
@@ETANIMATIONSYT XD
@Will and Neil Bro Gaming 😂😂😂
This aged like milk
"The kid has never bled a day in his life here!"
"Okay, got him out hunting. Time to use this gun which I already stated won't work at all. Good plan."
YEAH! It Worked- OH SH
He is dead yay- OH FUC-
Yeah... common sense 😒😤
MrAcrum what else could he do in this situation? He doesn’t exactly have any Halo-style energy weapons lying around. MAYBE he could’ve grabbed a piece of the ship/meteor thing, but he probably overlooked it in his distressed mindset
Someone had to try something at least. Needs to be a hero at some point in the movie. Can't just have every character acting like a total oblivious moron and letting him just do whatever the fuck.
LITERALLY THIS COULD BE A NEW FRACHISE OF HORROR SUPERHEROS
You already got the boys
@@WerchAlcmenamid
@@WerchAlcmenaIs "The Boys" a horror series? It's not
@@WerchAlcmena😐
I like how he sounds so happy while talking about brutal gory deaths.
I like doing that too
I do it without the movies
I would to
I like blood
That's a whole mood
So nobody is gonna talk about how that symbol Brandon keeps drawing is literally the brand of sacrifice from Berserk?
FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT
😂😜😜😂😝😝😂
😂 😂 I didn’t notice
Always loved berserk. I just never mentioned it because I figured no body else did 😂
Rip Miura
„Welcome to the kill cow“
And
„I'm James a Chinese“
Gotta love these automatic subtitles.
PETA wants to know your location.
Desira lovely for me I got I’ll go to the kill cow
For got the tally
Lenny Summers me too
12:28 Into the ceiling corner of Badger's bathroom
Jesse while he heards Badger's name: "THAT WAS PRETTY SLICK‚ YO!"
Children, this is why you always befriend the quiet kids. They might turn evil and kill everyone they have a grudge against.
Grace Hanlon i mean, the girl did that at first and then look what happened lol
I mean, tbf (dark joke incoming).
They don’t need to be a superhero to “turn evil and kill everyone.” Especially the quiet kids.
@@sleepy_b0i american school system, am I right?
Grace Hanlon Yuuuuuup
Grace Hanlon I mean, I DO live near a school,
Ferb, I know what we’re doing today. /s
Brandon: Finally everyone is dead wow that took a while.
Space meteor: *Save the world lol oops sorry autocorrect
LMAO
Ha
You need more likes
Brandon: AH SHI-
😂😂😂
Ngl when he broke into his crushes room I thought he was gonna do worse so I was so relieved when he just disappeared and didn’t come back
Right? I was expecting some fucked up pre teen assault shit. Thankfully it was just murder
Thankfully he only brutally murdered her mother...
James Samson "Thankfully"
6:03, With how we tend to here Brandon's movement's, at least when he's not flying or interacting much with surfaces (as his flight allows him to move silently, while his speed walking later at the diner is audible), I'd say this was telekinesis. Given the electromagnetic interference and extreme temperatures he can cause with his presence, it seems to suggest that much like Brandon himself, his powers have as much in common with that of a Saiyan (or more specifically, Goku) from Dragon Ball as that of a Kryptonian from DC Comics, as the former are able to generate energy and affect their environment (and themselves) with their minds to a degree, but the main reason they and other Dragon Ball characters tend to not use it combatively is due to concentration, as it's relatively far easier for them to focus on their own bodies and movements (hence their enhanced physicalities and ability to fly) than that of whatever external thing they are focusing on. And even more interestingly than that is that there is another original supervillain origin film called Chronicle with characters that are explicitly telekinetic. That or he’s just using his flight to move fast enough to close the laptop and leave before being seen the way he got behind the police woman from outside the house in a matter of seconds without a sound.
Brightburn. In another universe, General Zod has a son and sends him to Earth. Lol
That would be Hernan Guerra
They did do that in justice League gods and monsters but his son thinks zod was a war hero and general
He was probally friends with Homelander
brandon : *kills everyone including tori*
tori : *it coulve been anyone*
im shy
Exactly
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Tori : Perhaps we should see a specialist? Talk about it?
Kyle: To tell him what? Hello, we found our son in a fuc**** spaceship in the woods?
Yeah… I kinda agree with him there. lol
I think this movie would have been much more successful if it was made like 10 years earlier because back then superhero movies were still a fresh sub-genre and people were more receptive to new and different ideas like this one, I heard James Gunn actually wanted BrightBurn to have it’s own Universe and make a franchise out of it or something but I guess now he is working at the DC reboot he is going to get way too busy the next few years to worry about this, or maybe he will remember it and give it a sequel when he gets some free time from Warner, time will tell
This movie absolutely wouldve popped off in the late 2000s
Brightburn: **explodes a plane**
Final Destination: **sweats nervously**
Ok boomer
Final Destination still has the highest kill count record
Also A quiet Place: *sweats nervously*
RIP Final Destination
An exploding plane destroyed by another exploding plane.
Justin Belmonte Final Destination still has the highest kill count record
I love how she literally needed to read a children's book and see the pictures to get the hint that maaaaybe it's her Alien son that was doing all the alien stuff.
@coolgamer 2 is Brandon a child.. is that book his..?
Yeah I'll take "What is a figure of speech? for $200, Hue."
You know the term “enabling” is anti-euphemistic. LoL. His parents were flat out clueless. They were humanly incapable of raising a good kid. This film is amazingly fitting for these times.
Nickolaus Afon yep and they raised a supervillan
The movie had potential but the writing and dumb characters ruined it
Exactly
If they writers focused more time in Brandon it would be good
MystikAura Disagree 100% percent
The writing is the reason of dumb characters. So the writing was the only reason.
It's fifty shades of greys for psychopaths
Love how you quoted limp biscuit🤘🏼
The scene when he's killing the lady cop in the background scares me because it showed me just how helpless I would be in that situation
you are scared of meeting an evil alien kid?
@@inthepipe_5x5.56 aren’t you? Just because the evil part you added in.
@@queintt9567 No. Most Mexicans I meet are pretty friendly
@@inthepipe_5x5.56 😂👏
@@inthepipe_5x5.56 *WHEEZE*
The movie should've been titled "WTF Tori?!" Lol
That’ll turn to a comedy movie
"How can he kill him and make it look like a car accident"
This is the same words from a person who literally saw him float, took him from a crater in an alien space ship. lol
Not to mention she literally just saw her son shove her grown husband into glass so hard that it shattered but making murder look like a car accident no that's so unbelievable(sarcasm)
I honestly really hope Brightburn gets a sequel! I want to explore Cat’s character more. Maybe see her become a hero and try to stop Brightburn
i think james gunn has said he is interested in bringing brightburn back , but at the moment he was busy working on the suicide squad(one less i guess) and guardians vol 3(still to be seen) so maybe after guardians 3 comes out we will see if brighburn does come back
@@superrazor7617 where he said that ?
Who's Cat? Do you mean Caitlyn?
@@nh2727 in an enterntainment weekly article online
@@wyattchandler6359 yes thats probably what he means
Brandon: *starts taking over the world*
The characters: oh it’s just puberty!
Noahs kill was actually pretty cool, the way his mouth hits the wheel and then you see it detach while hes laying there helplessly watching Brandon walk up to him is something i wont forget for a while lol
That was jaw dropping
@@hiplosand3939 I see what you did there😏
Yeah that one was actually pretty gruesome, because it had some realism to it. And I've seen actual footage of soldiers in Afghanistan getting blown up from IEDs
And the dads death was mind blowing
@@mattb6646 why in the living hell would you watch that stuff?
I always felt this movie was an idea that never took off. I mean, the idea is "what if Superman was a psychopath" and it stayed there. There's no plot, no character development, no nothing. It's amazing how you know everything about this flick just by reading one sentence.
They’ve certainly made horror movies out of less before
and you know, that's been done several times. Omniman and Homelander as examples
What if Superman was a Psychopath??? Injustice???
You don't need "character development" for a good story. What did you want? The boy to find empathy in the last moment and feel sorry? Would that made it better for you? The boy actually did have character development. He started out as a good boy and turned more and more into a total psycopath. The mother also eventually turned around and was willing to kill her child for the greater good. So yeah, character development was there. You just didn't like it.
Also, you don't need a sad backstory of child abuse to justify a villains actions. Some people are just deranged psycopaths.
"What if Superman was evil" Has been made to death it's gotten stale
17:59 The Boys
20:03 Homelander
YES
Homelander 🤝 Brightburn
Thought I’d note this at the beginning of the video before the kills: I love the intros James, hearing your thoughts and all the behind the scenes stuff draws me in every time. Don’t let some negative feedback dissuade you, I’m in it for all the content, not just the bloody goodness. Stay awesome.
While I agree with James issues with the movie, I still liked it. This video makes me want to see it again.
@Emerald- Brawl Stars yessss
@Emerald- Brawl Stars same
this is like, Titan without Megamind being there to stop him
Either that or Superboy Prime snapped early.
Or like, if Goku never fell on his head
And with brown hair cuz Titan has red hair
@BANN DA OTHA MAN now it's even
@BANN DA OTHA MAN >:c
It actually infuriates me how much potential this movie has, and how much potential was wasted
But the kills were decent
I've never seen this video until I saw a TH-cam short and then tried to find the full clip so thanks for making this video like 3 years ago lmao
The scariest part to me is how Brandon’s mom is so unwilling to see the truth until it’s too late
I’ve seen that sort of thing happen irl, people who can’t handle reality and will ignore any amount of evidence... it’s scary, like talking to someone with a brain parasite
It’s not totally his fault for being evil everything he did was a direct result of other ppl
.🤔😑🖕.
Brandon came to save the world, humans like you just forgot that that the world doesn’t revolve around humanity, even as humanity does its best to abuse it and force it to.
@@hallowjack73 The spaceship in the movie literally says take the world
@@hallowjack73 And the world revolves around humanity, earth does too but not as much
She let him down emotionally
so he let her down literally
EDIT: I just found out there was another comment of this I’m sorry didn’t mean to take it
Ano a d a edit 999 likes rn
This here is a work of art 👏
@@awkwardwolf7335 ty
stolen from another video
@@phantomqt7534 nah
@@phantomqt7534 how stubborn are you man i was just stating that your comment was copied jeez
My favorite line in the movie: "no NO NOPE"
XD
Facts
13:20
I found it funny because thats exactly how I'd react If I where in that kind of situation.☠
@@KanekiKen-mu4nu How did you spell “exactly” as “exavrkt” lmao
9:33 "And one and two and laser eyes and GOOD grand keep it bright" LMAO
Moral of the movie: don't bully a kid that came out of a rock.
You're saying don't bully Patrick Star
Melissa Peters ever saw him mad
Moral of the movie. This is what happens when you don't beat your kid.
Like Sun Wukong?
@Trash player At FN I actually have, watch the chum day episode
When Brandon had those disturbing photos, I think he was trying to learn the human body since he's some sort of demon or alian.
Or he's got xray vision and is just trying to understand what he's seeing.
Alien
A demonic alien.
Like invader zim
He's SUPERMAN
Final destination: *has kill count record*
Brightburn: I'm about to end this mans whole career
No, Final destination has 292 kills, while Brightburn has 274 kills
RacerRobot oh shit
Damn. So close
If he ever covers Cell, then that would be nothing.
RacerRobot you just ended John Lamb’s whole career
the Limp Bizkit pun at 9:10 got me Rollin' xD
Rollin rollin rollin
This movies dark. Dark like trying to take selfies by the camp fire dark.
Wouldn't that be a Brightburn?😏
@@jaxattack4817 wOoOoOoW
This movies dark. Dark like my heart
This movies so dark Thomas Jefferson tried to fuck it.
This movie is so dark that it asked me for Newport before I play
As someone who lives in and has grown up in Kansas, I can confirm that this happens probably twice a year. We’re really tired of getting alien super heros and villains in our fields, so maybe the coasts could take one for the team and take the next one?
Ben DeKoning I’m sure they’d rather have aliens superheroes over Godzilla any day
Could you send some to Montana and the Pacific Northwest?
Kaleb Cranor yea man I got you, next time one lands in my yard I’ll just tell it to fly over y’alls direction
Na fam, we're good.
Pittsburgh would be a great target, I mean place.
I turned the volume up really loud and I’m convinced James is saying Kill Cow on purpose. It’s not just the auto captions messing up. 😂
😂
Ye
LOL
Just realised that
Just look at his mouth. He makes no effort to make an n or t sound so it's kinda obvious he's doing it on purpose
This video got me into your channel and Im just now watching again
I agree with James on this. Good concept, bad execution. There is potential but its wasted. This could've gotten higher praise from critics and fans.
The Boys does this concept in the best way
@@prathamyadav2508 for the first season
@@gillybuzz The first four episodes of the 2nd season weren't good but the last 4 episodes were very good.
@@prathamyadav2508 i'd rather watch myself get fisted by a rhino than rewatch any of the second season
@@gillybuzz in my opinion, Brightburn is better than the Boys... Don't hate me
Tori's death= Me in Minecraft creative mode trolling my survival friends by teleporting them to the sky so they fall to death.
Or switching the gamemode to survival as they are flying
I used to play Minecraft ..Then i grew up and started playing Rust.
@Walelelo I actually can't stop laughing, this comment is 24k GOLD.
Skeppy
yes 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Just saying, how Brandon kills his dad is like how homelander kills his mother in the boys.
You mean Kyle
Tbh I think The Boys did it better.
Its not his mom
It wasn't his biological mom
The boys is amazing
I feel like it would’ve been interesting to add a sibling to the mix- maybe one they adopted after Brandon is staring to become off. It might develop good character depth for Brandon, maybe seeing him as an a bad guy but still wanting to do “good” in the end (if that makes sense.) What I’m meaning is, flesh out the story more! Sure, the movie would be longer, but that’s the whole point, give the story more depth and more detail to personality!
Brandon is like an artist
He leaves his signature after every artwork
Best comment I’ve seen this year
@Elisia_Girl psychopaths dont leave signatures
@Elisia_Girl he is an artist
Bro he’s not the Joker
@@thedude8457 but sure as hell lives in a society
this is barely an origin story this is just activated alien baby. like superman was good because he was raised very well, like if Brandon wasn't raised well and was treated horribly growing up would've been more interesting to see
This is pretty much if Superman has to deal with the numbers.
The thing that sucks is the film feels unsure what to do with it
The movie plays with the whole “sleeper agent” concept but there’s also the idea he’s always had this ability and his parents just raised him poorly (that scene talking about birds and the bees)
There was so much wasted potential in this movie. I thought Brandon would become a sympathetic villain like Andrew from Chronicle, from the unfairness of the world around him because he was being bullied and no one accepts him, that stuff. But no. And the parents are terrible.
Dude - that's literally the PLOT of Brightburn. He's bullied, nobody tries to understanding him - instead, disregarding everything about him and betraying him. The ENTIRE plot was him being mistreated.
Bruno Souza exactly it shows how it affects him, essentially turning him into a murderous psycho
I think Brandon’s mom actually could of guided him to better morals in that moment, but then she tried to kill him so he was like alright F you
That does prove that he is just overtaken by a program or something because he loves her mother and knows he could have easily dodged that and just let her be. Instead the program saw it has threat to the host and removed the threat.
There was nothing she could have done to stop him Brandon from going full evil at that point. If anything I feel like Brandon was gonna let her live peacefully alone because he did love her but once she tried to kill him he said aight you're dying too. He did love her right before that moment tho
Even though most of the people in horror movies that are terrible get killed like Annie Wilkes from Misery, I feel sad and bad about it but this is the black sheep of the bunch, Brandon was just a narcissistic tapeworm A-hole that fell out the sky.
Like in Looper?
Hasn't he tried to kill her destroying the house? Such a nice boy for sure