>>3247409>>3247426You can't possibly look at this reaction to Murdoc yelling and tell me that 2D doesn't routinely get the shit kicked out of him. Boy immediately curls up into the fetal position to protect his face and organs.
>only exercised enough violence required to control 2-D. It wasn't an outlet for his anger. Sure, that's why in Do Ya Thing when 2D goes and wakes up Murdoc for breakfast and to do his radio show on time, 2D frantically throws himself against the walls to avoid being within grasping distance, Murdoc snarls angrily at him when the stairlift faults, and then beats him over the head with a shoe. Not an unwarranted emotional outburst at all.
Murdoc being unpleasant to all and especially violent and aggressive towards 2D is part of the canon narrative. Remember the minigame where you carved open his body and stole his organs so that Murdoc could profit off them? The violence is stylised and doesn't typically leave the bruises and marks that would actually be there, I think its well within fanartist's rights to make 2D as battered as he actually would be.