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We have that in Avatar, and the chuds all hated it because the face of absolute evil was the face of the American military. They all cried about "nuance" and how there's "no plot" because to them water running downhill isn't interesting, they're waiting for the "swerve" and it never comes. They are waiting for their fable to impart the wisdom that "nothing can ever change for the better" that normally comes from Hollywood, and it never comes. Which forces them to confront that they are the baddies, which they cannot do, so they make up the myth that there's "no plot" because the actual plot cannot be internalized by them.
https://redsails.org/the-swerve/
I should put a disclaimer that the Avatar series is problematic for many other reasons, but the lack of swerve and full on imperialist invaders are evil morality are not the problems with them, instead it's incredibly refreshing. The issues are more the tokenization of indigenous cultures, the noble savage issue, the white savior issue, the James Cameron "if the indigenous just fought harder they could have won" paternalist messaging. It's bad in a much more complex way than the other more fascist stuff, it's more correct to describe them as Western leftist in their ideology.
Yeah I see people say "fascists liking Frieren doesn't mean anything, fascists coopt everything" but I have never, ever seen comments sections full of fascists talking about how "based" Avatar is and how the RDA is an allegory for Jews/Muslims/Communists/Black People/Trans People. Meanwhile, that's a good half of the Frieren discussion I see online. In fact fascists all hate Avatar because they recognize that they're the bad guys in it lmao