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I prefer villains that aren't tools of liberal propaganda.
Superhero movies from DC all have this trope about never killing villains and inevitably letting them murder innocent people again being supposedly a good thing. We all know who benefits from this kind of garbage filling people's minds IRL.
One of methods of sustaining this terrible narrative is creating atrocious villains that happen to challenge our glorious heroes for this bullshit. The Reverse Flash comes in mind immediately. Batman and Superman also got called out multiple times by their villains.
Of course, when a hero breaks this rule in some alt universe, they immediately become terrible people over day in all aspects of their life, like Superman in Injustice immediately going crazy because he killed the Joker.
Hey my personal pet peeve of 'comic book discourse' is this singular image
Decent line delivered in a cool way as part of a very compelling narrative
But boy the amount of comic-brained lib types who share this quote as if it's something powerful, impactful, applicable to real life, as if the story the quote comes from doesn't interrogate the sentiment itself
Like no dude if batman existed irl I'd hope he's armed to the teeth, probably use the weapons your enemies are using especially if they are weapons that can kill
The good villains need to be dialectical. People hurting others happens due to material conditions like anything else.
Imagine people having superpowers lowering themselves to thievery instead of using it as a capital.
On the other hand, bourgeoisie member doing bourgeois things is probably the most easy template. Even in the least dialectical universe of DC Lex Luthor remains surprisingly well written compared to everything else because he is essentially just that.
In general people who benefit the unfair power structures trying to preserve them or even push their direction further to own benefit can easily be good villains.
People who try to challenge the unfair system while being monsters themselves are great material for bourgeois propaganda tools.