Comment on There Have Been Times I Liked The Villain Dynamics Better

itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t that because there are fewer unambiguous ways to be “good”? Even many people doing “good” could be seen by other’s as being evil?

  • “I’m saving the forest!” “You’re killing loggers”
  • “No one will every go hungry again!” “You stole every piece of arable land and only grow the food you want to exist”
  • “I’ve saved everyone’s soul. Everyone is going to the happy afterlife when they die!” “Which religion’s afterlife are you calling the ‘happy’ one?”

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I defeat Joker and saved 10 people’s life!

    No you dingus! Letting Joker live mean more people will be killed before you stop him again!

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also, villains are often coded as minorities, whereas the heroes are basically the mainstream.

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  • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember an animated show where the reason why the villain was evil was because they were aromantic

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I keep identifying the the villains, but eventually, I realized that the writers of mainstream media are heavily invested in the status quo.

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