Anon identifies a trope

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• Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  it’s a subset of villain decay You have a horror antagonist, it becomes the most popular/recognisable part of your franchise, you can’t make it too hateable, so it becomes less evil over time.

  See also: Terminator 2

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  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Terminator 2 was a dramatic subversion though, no decay there. They told you, straight up, in-character, “we reprogrammed this evil robot to fight the other evil robot” and the rest of the movie is an exploration of morality.
    “What are you doing!? I told you not to kill anyone!”
    “They’ll live”

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    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The whole point was that the T-800 was a bottom barrel cyborg. They were all modeled after Arnold, but there were thousands of them.

      They basically found a junker in the trash and reprogrammed it. He was NOT the same T-800 from The Terminator. He was a completely different robot.

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• coolie4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I only vaguely remember, but wasn’t everyone he killed supposed to be connected to his wife’s death somehow.

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• threeonefour@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The TVTropes article for this seems to be Even Evil Has Standards. The idea being to emphasize that something or someone is so evil that even an evil person finds it appalling.

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  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The Code of Harry for Dexter is this type so is say that fits for the concept of not picking random people, but I think OP is more about the drift. That would be Flanderization, in my opinion. When one defining trait of a character progressively gets pushed to eleven until it becomes their only trait.

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  • OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Without TVTropes paywall Even Evil Has Standards

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wait, I’ve never encountered a paywall on TVTropes. I don’t see it when I click OP’s link either. Is this something new?

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Paywall?

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If OP’s characterization is accurate, you could argue for anti-hero.

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