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Do you prefer humanized villains or pure evil villains in fiction? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[โ€“] Faux@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I prefer villains that aren't tools of liberal propaganda.

  1. Take a person that has a very right cause.
  2. Make them the worst person possible in all other aspects.
  3. Profit from vilifying the cause you don't like.

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.

[โ€“] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

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