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In Obsession (2026), Nikki is a victim. Just reminding you in case you‘ve been under a rock for the past three months.
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Many villains are victims, they are not mutually exclusive.
Watch the movie. It's very explicit that Nikki is in no way the villain.
That being said, from letterboxd reviews, either people don't pay attention to the dialogue, plot and themes or a lot of people were on their phones through swathes of the movie.
I think it's pointless to even talk about this without differentiating between the real Nikki and the 'possessed version'. One of them cooked a cat and murdered people. That is the version viewers see for the majority of the screentime.
That's the thing. The possessed version is explicitly not Nikki. "You've never been with me."
It's like the exorcist, the one puking pea soup and screaming obscenities isn't Linda Blair.
But both the possessed Linda Blair and the possessed Nikki could be counted as villain characters at a theme park
That's a good point, but then it begs the question of how innapropriate it is for that context. Nikki was a pretty good allegory to a lot of the issues women face around societal pressure, rape, and social consequences, and to make the possessed Nikki a villain kind of reaffirms Bear being not the villain. From what I saw Bear was single handedly the villain.
I mean the demon was there, and at the end people died, but before that moment Bear knew she was possessed and selfishly still wanted the relationship.
Sure! (Though, the other commenter brought up some really interesting points.)
But the original comment to which I replied cast Nikki as both the villain and the victim, which was not the case.