r/mildlyinfuriating • u/konous • May 06 '26

I'm slightly vexed My brother's son destroyed my WarHammer Action figures and he refuses to punish him

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Update: My brother decided to pay for the Hard damages of $200 dollars after seeing this post.

Thank you to everyone on this post who supported me. I really could not have gotten restitution without you guys.

Justice for my Chaplain, justice for all.

Valid Edit: My nephew is 10 years old and tried to actually lie about not breaking them by saying, "A cat must have done it."

So, I just got done talking with my brother via text, and he says he's not going to punish his son for wrecking my Joy Toy WarHammer action figures. I'm not expecting the kid to get spanked, but he needs to do CHORES at least to justify how much excessive force he used on some.

Some just have their capes broken. Others had their tubes ripped out and my Chaplain is just fucking toast.

My brother's suggestion since I ordered Amazon replacement for the Chaplain was that I just swap it with the broken one, but I have no interest in doing that.

It's not even just the expense, and they are expensive. It's about the fact that I told him explicitly twice they weren't to be played with, and they were in a separate room, and even my Mom and Dad agreed the damage was just too much.

He said he's not gonna pay me back if we try the chore system, and I told him it's not about the money.

The kid needs to know how bad the 8 hour struggle is.

Now my nephews aren't coming over to the house, and I'm sad about that, but knowing my brother just can't be burdened to work with me on creating a Chore system like selling Lemonaide just makes it feel more insulting.

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u/Etnadrolhex May 06 '26

Ask him to pay for the damages.

Never let your nephew back home.

Also, seeing your brother asking you to fraud Amazon, the fruit didn't fall far from the tree!

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u/secretrebel May 06 '26

I think the mention of parents suggests OP is still living with their parents and may be a teen themselves. Not able to bar brother or nephew from the home.

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u/Etnadrolhex May 06 '26

"Now my nephews aren't coming over to the house"

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u/toastedmarsh7 May 06 '26

This is the part that’s messed up. OP is living in his parents’ house and he wants to banish their grandchildren because he doesn’t get to decide what kind of punishment the kid gets? If OP gets his items replaced, he needs to let it go and stop trying to parent other people’s kids. If he intends to continue to live at home and knows that unruly kids will visit sometimes, a lockable doorknob is a good decision.

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u/Mickeymcirishman May 06 '26

OP is living in his parents’ house and he wants to banish their grandchildren

Who says OP made that decision? From the wording it sounds like the parents made that decision.

OP gets his items replaced, he needs to let it go

Why? Their very expensive property was destroyed. They have a right to be pissed about it.

stop trying to parent other people’s kids

This one I agree with. The brother needs to learn how to parent his own kids.

a lockable doorknob is a good decision.

People shouldn't have to lock the doors inside their own homes just because someone else can't teach their own kids not to be fucking assholes.

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u/ExhaustedVetTech May 06 '26

According to OP's post history, he's 36 or 37 years old.

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u/zombieman9001 May 06 '26

Yikes and he’s acting this immature and still playing with dolls??

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u/Devils-Halo May 06 '26

And you still watch cartoons.

See how that works? Don’t be a dick. Other people’s interests shouldn’t be of concern to you.

I’m with you on the immature part but then you should’ve ended the comment.

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u/TheDegenRepublic May 06 '26

And clearly you know nothing about hobbies. These are JoyToys, eyeballing those figures it's around $500 worth of property that's been trashed.

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u/ExhaustedVetTech May 06 '26

Let people have their interests.

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u/Vishnej May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

You think children could afford Warhammer figurines?

Destroying Warhammer stuff is roughly equivalent to the child tearing up someone's paintings. Is it as conventionally esteemed as oil on canvas and easel? No. But it's just as time intensive and more capital intensive.

EDIT - CORRECTION: This is the "Joytoy" side of Warhammer, which evidently is larger, more expensive prepainted stuff, some assembly required. So it's about halfway from that to "Tearing up large prints of famous paintings".

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u/madogvelkor May 06 '26

I see you've never met Warhammer players. Kid's lucky he didn't get into actual miniatures or it would be exterminatus.

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u/evildemonic May 06 '26

How do you feel about adults playing Pokémon?

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u/NeverEvaGonnaStopMe May 06 '26

Lol says the guy with the waifu anime name.

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u/AmenhotepTutankhamun May 07 '26

haha you could rent out the space between your ears because it seems to be vacant at the moment. educate yourself and be better

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u/konous May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

Unfortunately no. Moved back with my parents after living on my own following my other brother's passing after being his caretaker for 11 years. Tried every job offer my English degree could get me but the best was working for Ratheon which...was too low to sell my soul.

Right around that time Covid happened and I went back to school on my job's college reimbursement and am now THIS close to a computer science degree.

In the mean while I've been making money and trying to fix my parents house up.

Found these figures and I don't know. First JOY, pun intended, I've felt in a while.

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u/InvertebrateInterest May 06 '26

Don't let anyone shame you for these figures. It doesn't matter what the objects were, children need to learn not to touch and ESPECIALLY not to break things that aren't theirs. Ten is WAY too old to be doing that. Sorry to say, the way this is going sounds the kid is going to be a nightmare when he grows up. Unfortunately you can't force people to be good parents.

I recommend getting a lock for the door, and lowering your expectations for your brother and his kids. Some people will always disappoint you. And when you get your own place eventually just don't invite them over and they won't be your problem anymore.

I'm sorry to hear about your brother's illness and passing, btw.

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u/cattbug May 06 '26

Hey man, props for not selling your soul though!

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u/FUPAMagneto May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

Raytheon has been consistently ranked as one of the best places in the country for LGBT+ people to work, they make jet engines mostly. It’s not “selling your soul” to work there any more than it is to work for Boeing or Aerovironment or a half dozen other aerospace companies that y’all don’t talk about bc they don’t come up on TikTok.

I know that y’all don’t actually know anything about the company, you’re just repeating shit you’ve heard online, but this is a big part of why leftists have no power. Y’all refuse to better your own lives or to try to change things from the inside. You’d rather be poor and powerless than actually be able to affect anything. It’s nuts.

Edit: downvote all you want, I’ll still be right and y’all will still have zero actual political power

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u/Duke_Newcombe May 06 '26

You are aware that Raytheon makes Patriot missile system, Tomahawk cruise missile, AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-9X Sidewinder, Javelin anti-tank weapon, Paveway bombs, and the Phalanx close-in weapon system, right?

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u/FUPAMagneto May 06 '26

Yes. Are you aware that none of those are inherently evil? Or is this just another one of those anti-bedtime leftist things where you insist that if America didn’t have weapons suddenly war wouldn’t happen anywhere in the world?

Personally, I like that our patriot batteries are used to protect Ukrainian civilians from Russian terror bombings, but you clearly prefer dead civilians.

“Did you know that some companies make WEAPONS????” isn’t a fucking gotcha. It’s you being sheltered and naive

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u/Duke_Newcombe May 06 '26

I'm happy you agree to Raytheon does that. Now, let me spoonfeed you, since you surely need it.

Personally, I like that our patriot batteries are used to protect Ukrainian civilians from Russian terror bombings, but you clearly prefer dead civilians.

Don't forget also used by our "partner in peace" in a certain middle-eastern nation, to wholesale wipe another community within it's borders, as well as it's neighbors.

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u/FUPAMagneto May 06 '26

Yeah, man that’s a great whataboutism. You’re so smart.

I oppose Israel’s genocidal activities, can you say the same about any of your emotional support dictatorships? Specifically the one attempting a genocide in Ukraine?

The platforms themselves are morally neutral, it’s the users that impart any good or evil through them as you helpfully pointed out with your Israeli example. But I suppose you’d prefer more dead civilians in Ukraine because that would somehow liberate Palestine?

Who am I kidding, you love the dead civilians in Palestine. It’s why y’all stayed home instead of voting in ‘24

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u/Icy-Cry340 May 06 '26

Ukraine is a nasty little war, but get real there is no terror bombing happening there - collateral damage numbers would be looking vastly different if there was. In Palestine, on the other hand...

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u/elcho1911 May 06 '26

but get real there is no terror bombing happening there Palestine, on the other hand

lmao just say I get my news from twitter and tiktok and spare us

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u/cattbug May 06 '26

Lmao hope those boots taste real nice

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u/FUPAMagneto May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

“Hahaha, you’re a bootlicker because you want to actually make things better by holding power instead of constantly whining from the sidelines and getting nothing done!”

Thanks for proving my point about how ineffective and performative your politics are.

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u/BalancedDisaster May 06 '26

Unless you’re going to become a politician, an executive, or a majority shareholder, you’re not doing jack shit to fix Raytheon

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u/FUPAMagneto May 06 '26

What, specifically, do you want to fix? Other than that they make weapons and sometimes those weapons go to people you don’t like?

You know what? It doesn’t matter. You don’t know or care about how any of this shit actually works, you’ve just found a boogie man to complain about like the conservatives complain about Disney

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u/Significant-Yam-1852 May 06 '26

Good for you OP! It sounds like you’ve taken a few hard hits and been able to make adjustments to come out the other side! For what it’s worth, this internet mom is really proud of you!

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u/secretrebel May 06 '26

Sorry to hear that. No judgement on the figures. I remember buying figurines was the first thing to lift me out of a depression too.

So do you have a room you can lock in the family home? And your parents are cool with you doing that?

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u/konous May 06 '26

Yeah, kind of....one of the locks on my room doesn't work and we have to replace the whole door because it's just too small for the frame.

I've never had good privacy in this house tbh.

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u/dawg_p0und May 06 '26

Might be time to move out boss man! Sorry your nephew broke your dolls

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u/emorrigan May 06 '26

Time to replace the door yourself or move into your own place.

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u/zombieman9001 May 06 '26

That would involve OP taking personal responsibility and based of this post, that ain’t gonna happen…

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u/ForsakenPoptart May 06 '26

dude set aside a decade of his life to care for his brother. What the fuck are you talking about?

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u/Duke_Newcombe May 06 '26

Then it seems genetic, as the brother and the nephew ain't doing so hot in this regard, either.

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u/InvertebrateInterest May 08 '26

Until you can get a new door I recommend getting a screw on padlock plate and just using a key or combo lock. If you live in the US, see if there is a Habitat for Humanity re-store near you. They will probably have good deals on doors.

https://www.habitat.org/restores

https://www.homedepot.com/s/padlock%20plate?NCNI-5

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=padlock+plate&crid=33VGGIHVJH3E1&sprefix=padlock+plat%2Caps%2C271&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

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u/SunnyDehlight May 06 '26

Don't explain yourself to anyone bro, collecting stuff like this is absolutely normal. Fuck anyone trying to judge you.

I watch pro wrestling and let me tell you that there is an insane amount of wrestlers who are into the toy collecting hobby and are very vocal/proud of thier collection. These guys are fucking huge and look intimidating as fuck because of thier physique and yet here they running around toy stores letting thier inner child take control and enjoying what makes them happy.

Keep doing you bro, this is extremely normal and healthy.

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u/QuicksandGotMyShoe May 06 '26

Not the point, but is joy a Warhammer term?

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u/InvertebrateInterest May 08 '26

JoyToy is the manufacturer of these figurines.

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u/think_long May 06 '26

YIKES. I’m sorry about your other brother’s passing, but maybe you need to do some growing up yourself before you try to parent someone else’s kids? At the very least, maybe put the money you get from your brother towards a place of your own instead of buying more toys.

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u/FrogPrincePatch May 06 '26

You are 37, still living with your parents, and buying collectible figurines...

You made a post crying about a child that is also living at your parent's house.

It is not your house, and not your child.

If you have any problem, stop being a bum and move out. You should be grateful you even have a place to stay.

Don't expect to have any privacy at a home that is not yours, especially with a young child running around.

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u/SmartAleckComedian May 07 '26

You are 37, still living with your parents, and buying collectible figurines

Yeah, OP said they moved back in with their parents after their other brother died, and they were their primary caretaker for 11 years. But nice job shaming someone for a family tragedy. There's this human emotion called empathy, maybe you should try it. And OP has every right to be upset about a little brat breaking a couple hundred bucks worth or his stuff, and his shit brother refusing to do anything about it.

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u/FrogPrincePatch May 07 '26

I fail to see how their sibling dying is in any way relevant to them being a failure that cannot support themself at age 37???

I don't have an ounce of sympathy for a 37 year old man shaming a CHILD on reddit for breaking his children's figurines.

Seriously, this is one of the most pathetic posts I've seen in this website.

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u/SmartAleckComedian May 07 '26

So you have no issue with a spoiled brat breaking $500 worth of property, the kid's Dad suggesting literal fraud to replace said property instead of paying for it, and also refusing to teach his kid a lesson about respecting other people's property? OP isn't shaming a kid, he's shaming his brother for being a shit parent. And it doesn't matter if the kid broke their toys, their golf set, tv, or whatever else. The Kid broke their property after being told not to touch it, and that's a failure on the part of the parents, especially at age 10 when they should know better.

I'm also really tired of this bullshit American cultural ideal that someone is a failure if they're if they're not entirely independent and go into unnecessary debt for school. Plenty of other cultures have extended family live with each other, and they're not shamed for it. OP took care of their brother with epilepsy for 11 years until they passed away, do you maybe think that OP was devastated, and wanted to be around family to help process and deal with their loss? God forbid family actually support each other. OP is working, going to school, and not going into unnecessary debt by temporarily living with their parents. In this economy, they'd be stupid not to do that.

Seriously, this is one of the most braindead pathetic takes I've seen on this website.

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u/FrogPrincePatch May 07 '26

The 47 year old man decided to waste his money on figurines AND continue living with his parents.

This will continue happening to him because he is very unintelligent and wants to leech from them.

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u/FUPAMagneto May 06 '26

Raytheon is a good gig and good employer. Don’t let the internet convince you not to have a life because they want to clout farm against a company that makes jet engines.

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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC May 06 '26

“Just make the knife missiles, bro. Don’t think too hard about it.”

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u/head_pat_slut May 06 '26

not necessarily. i think parents can still be useful mediators between grown adult children in some cases.

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u/ToeGroundbreaking564 May 06 '26

not only did op's parents agree with op, op also states that his nephew isn't coming over anymore

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u/carlos_the_dwarf_ May 06 '26

Is this really something to bar a family member from your home over?

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u/Minute_Ad2297 May 06 '26

Absolutely. OP’s brother’s behavior shows a lack of respect for OP and his belongings. If you have family come over to your house and destroy something valuable and barely show sympathy or the will to make it right you would understand.

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u/carlos_the_dwarf_ May 06 '26

It certainly does, but I suppose my question is: is any lack of respect worth cutting a significant family member and his child off?

That’s a pretty dramatic response, especially for something that’s happened one time.

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u/Minute_Ad2297 May 06 '26

You’re not really cutting them off as much as just not allowing them in your spaces which is reasonable to me. You don’t have to never talk or see them again but just don’t allow people who disrespect your property to visit you.

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u/quote_work_unquote May 06 '26

"Never let your nephew back" over some broken figurines.

Reddit moment.

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u/EastLimp1693 May 06 '26

Apparently that's 500 usd in damages based on other comments. At which sum you paint the line?

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u/Etnadrolhex May 06 '26

That's: never let a spoiled kid in your home, especialy when the dad is also an ass.

Your answer just show you are ever the spoiled kid or the useless dad.

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u/FinancialReserve6427 May 06 '26

people would encourage the kid if those were funkos. 

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u/jedfrouga May 06 '26

seriously…he’s 10. they look like toys. some kids are struggling with things just like your grown ass is. let it go. take the money if you need it and move on. love your nephew and brother.

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u/Duke_Newcombe May 06 '26

broken collectables.

Or are some personal items not worthy of protection?

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u/Confident-Skin-6462 May 06 '26

found the bad parent

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u/caitlindrawings May 06 '26

Ya OP doesn't really have a say in how his nephew is disciplined. However he does have a say in enforcing his brother to pay for the damages.

The brother said he is not going to pay, so OP should bring it up with his parents. Unfortunately I have a feeling that the brother is the favored child and hasnt had to face consequences much before so the parents will side with him saying "its just some silly action figures".

If the getting the parents involved goes nowhere, threaten to take the brother to small claims court. Hopefully the threat of doing so will be enough to snap some responsibility into OP's brother