You can kill each other, but you can’t kill the rich, deranged asshole in charge.

That tracks.

Lets leave those friends of epstein alone. We are better than them 😔

Once you spot this it becomes impossible not to see it.

Ever notice how most environmentalists in comic book movies and TV are evil, misguided, or at best ineffectual?

Or how a corrupt official can leverage whole armies to chase down the protagonist, but the conclusion is that the system itself is great and should be protected and it was just that one bad egg?

Exactly!

If I left a trail of bodies in my wake then obviously I intend to kill the main baddie too.

Fuck games that make you let the baddie go.

I think one of the reasons people like FNV so much is kinda this. If you want to, you can tell the final boss to go away. Or you can kill them. I made a character that was speech focused. I didn't want to reassure the end boss that "oh, logistics is hard, don't worry, my faction will collapse eventually because of logistics" and I got to cave their head in.

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Im currently rewatching Smallville and there are so many random villains whose death are directly Clarks fault, and he never takes any responsibility, but still everyone acts like taking a life is a big thing.

Going a bit off on a tangent but are ludonarrative synchronicity, ludonarrative resonance, ludonarrative coherence, ludonarrative harmony and ludonarrative consistency all the same thing or are there some subtle differences? Over the years I've see all of them be used as the opposite to ludonarrative dissonance.

This exactly lol. Like bombing thousands of civilians and then decrying "political violence".

Yeah downscaling your power level for a cut scene is stupid too. Lotta times in games I'm just like "this is 6 mercs, I could have taken them easy"

Exactly. Also, there a chance the minions are black and the villain is white in this scenario.

But don't you see? Just because the greedy capitalist killed millions doesn't mean you can kill him.

👉👈 Pwease compwy.

Or you know, check like a pulse.

Aang doesn't kill anyone, though. It's an important part of his character for the entire series.

When I was young I thought the ending was the coolest thing ever because taking a person's elemental bending away is like ripping your entire being away. Like stripping a billionaire of all of their assets and cash. Horrible blow to their ego, lifetime of suffering, etc.

But now that I'm older, Aang should have just killed the bastard. The fight was hella cool tho.

Caillou looking centrist loser 😶

Meanwhile Sokka and Toph do a dozen hindenbergs and no one cares

Nah. All those henchmen who "fought to the death" are almost never even given a chance to surrender. The excuse is closer to "it was in the heat of battle" but the only reason that excuse doesn't fly for the villain is plot armor. How many of these movies even have the protag doing stealth kills of guards, coming up behind some poor underling on watch duty and doing the magic neck-snap move or a knife to the throat or a quick pewt-pewt from a "silenced" gun before the guard even knows what hit them. Those guys were probably the most likely to lay down their weapon and say "yeah, go ahead, I'm not paid nearly enough for this shit," but they don't matter because they're underling fodder. We're never introduced to them as having any motivations or personalities, so they're just there to provide some action. They are not to be given moral consideration, only the villain is shown with agency, so the audience is only supposed to care about what the "hero" does with the villain. It's laziness that is widely accepted and goes mostly unquestioned because of what Collatz_problem said, it's class morality and we're all used to that because that shit is ingrained.