if you kill him you will be just like him!
Five year old me knew that was bullshit and I will never ever write a hero who won't kill the bad guy
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It’s especially rich when the protagonist has offed dozens of enemy red shirts across the first 75 minutes of the movie but when it comes to the main bad guy, suddenly there’s a moral quandary over whether or not killing for the greater good is justified.
This is just another instance of class morality.
That’s always how I saw it, even as a kid.
That's why in my book, the protagonists real argument isn't whether or not killing is justified, it's who they should be killing
The answer ends up being the entire US government
Does nothing of the US elite isn’t eliminated entirely. But it’s a good starting point.
That comes in the sequel
Where they begin to form their own country and crash against the forces of the rich attempting to claw back their influence
Elon Musk gets hacked to bits with a machete when he tries to flee the planet
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 did that. I'm pretty sure one of the henchmen got ripped in half at one point.
That movie immediately came to mind for me as well.
Unrelated
I cried so hard when they tortured the raccoon. 😭
Can't imagine why. 
I liked the first 2 but.... now I think I will skip the 3rd one
The third was actually my favorite. It was dumb that they let the bad guy live at the end, but that was my only real complaint. Rocket's arc was poignant in a terrific way.
hapless dupes get the wall whilst scheming viziers get comfy jail
Or when the no kill rule doesn't apply to intelligent aliens. Bonus if they are not humanoid
Fallout 3 opening be like
All Vault Security Are Bastards
Lol only reason that shit flies is because authors gotta recycle their villains or hope they end up like the prince of all saiyans as a badass ally 
Especially when the person you're taking out will cause mass deaths.
Kakarot let frieza live on namek. What would have happened to earth if he didn't land on yadrat and learn instant transmission? Hell he let golden frieza off the hook and he dusted the earth 
Hell we as gogeta let frieza go and he came back and fuck us up 
I'm very good at coming up with villains
Like Explodo, the Exploding Man
Or Duane, Explodo's evil mail man
Mack Zorris
to be fair goku has motivation to leave most alive (he loves fighting strong opponents) and he also actually pays for it many times over as far as i know
Well I am the best motivation
Gotta make this shot from the movie into an emoji
This mask is so goofy it's fun
I am OK if you want to spare the life of the big bad, but you can't spare the big bads life after you killed all his henchmen.
Makes you wonder why Batman hasn't at least never broken Joker's legs or back or something. Like he'd still probably be able to get up to Joker stuff, but he'll be really fuckin limited lol
Batman wouldn't fuck up his bratty boywife like that
Fair point
Surely a batman character has never recovered from having their back broken, or losing use of their legs
The concept of "turn the other cheek" and "be the bigger man by not rising to it" has successfully pacified the western proletariat.
One of the only tools the proles have to police themselves socially is NOT turning the other cheek. It is by actively providing social consequences to bad things that proles enforce among themselves a social culture.
By everyone "keeping to themselves" and "minding their own business" and "leaving it to the authorities" what has occurred is the mass outsourcing of social and cultural behaviour to the state. Where communities used to police themselves and expect certain social behaviours - or else - no longer does that exist. The only people still doing this are reactionaries with their racism and intolerance, while the authorities allow them to get away with it to a degree because it's not a culture that harms capital.
Parts of the UK are currently absolutely covered in union jacks and "Free UK" posters. Reactionaries are putting them up everywhere in support of deporting hundreds of thousands of people. They are actively shifting the culture and "turn the other cheek" is actively contributing to them getting away with it because they face no consequences.
I know the thread is about offing a world leader but I want to think a little closer to home. This mindset has permeated the entirety of western culture to a degree that is seriously dangerous.
To add a reinforcement of credibility, I can recall that reporters and politicians asked BLM activists, organizers, and protesters regarding victimizers and brutal behavior of police if they could forgive them.
I learned this tactic used by people of That was in the past or *Can't we put this behind us/forgive them" really just means "go home".
I learned this tactic used by people of That was in the past or *Can't we put this behind us/forgive them" really just means "go home".
Yes very much so. Even if your retaliation against people doing bad things is just with words, it is "rude".
"turn the other cheek" has successfully pacified the western proletariat
Religion acting like some form of... painkiller... of the masses. Far from being something to be used to reach spiritual enlightenment. To break the wheel of Samsara. To become one with all. To love thy neighbour. It is a distraction that prevents the oppressed, the wretched of the earth, from changing the status quo.
I wonder if anyone else has noticed this before
It's pervasive though. Even the non-religious and many atheists are completely bought into this mindset, without ever even realising or questioning that their fundamental belief is christian faith teachings. And if you try and raise this with them they undergo extreme cognitive dissonance. It is taken as common sense that you are the bigger person if you ignore another who is doing bad things. Written out this way of course makes it sound absurd but this is how people behave, they consider it wrong to retaliate against those doing bad things. Even if it's just with words it's "rude".
social culture
I wanna know about asocial culture
I will never watch these movies because I am so not a superhero guy but like… good. Shes the good guy and more good guys should kill world leaders.
AOC?