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22 Comments
glitchdx@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 18d
Sounds about right. Marvel is particularly guilty of this.
tyler@programming.dev · 69 pts · 18d
No joke, watched James Bond Diamonds are forever this weekend and it was pretty much the same thing. Villain invents a weapon to stop all governments from using nuclear bombs, has a great speech about bringing peace…and then suddenly decides to auction off the technology to the highest bidder? Huh?
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 28 pts · 18d
Instead, he should extort nuclear-capable governments, threatening to deactivate their nukes unless they pay up.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 18d
Wasn't the villain in that Blofeld? Thats not really inconsistent with his character.
tyler@programming.dev · 7 pts · 18d
Yes it was blofeld. Been a long time since I watched the older James Bonds though so I don’t remember what else he did.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 18d
Kingsman the villain was a super genius black guy climate change activist who spent his life battling world leaders and elites to stop pollution, and then he decides he's going to save the world leaders and elites and kill everyone else to stop climate change... the second movie's villain was a woman who did all of that because she wanted to pay taxes to sell weed... I was surprised the next villain about to destroy the world wasn't a transsexual who wanted gender-neutral bathrooms...
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 18d
The Flag-Smashers: "Nationalism is a regressive mindset. We had global solidarity after the Snap and there's no reason we can't get back to that."
Also the Flag-Smashers, for some reason: "Lets do terrorism that completely ignores our values"
CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 18d
For real. Let's give a good motive to the villain so they can be more credible, but let's make sure the ways of achieving their goals are immoral as to not wake up the people too much.
Edit : Just realized I TLDRed the original meme...
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 18d
I was so disappointed when The Good Place set up an entire "there is no ethical consumption under Capitalism" plot, only to resolve it as "...but we can't possibly stop Capitalism, so we'll rewrite the ethical rules of the cosmos to give you a pass for that, you go ahead and consume as much as you want. Fremulon."
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 17d
To be fair, they were also being placed under the restraint of not being allowed to change things for living people.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 17d
Killmonger in Black Panther comes to mind.
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 18d
the new Doom run, especially
"One World Under Doom"
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 18d
This reminds me why I love the NieR series so much. Ultimately throws away the concept of pre-defined "protagonist" and "antagonist" and screws over the player's emotions with the conflict itself instead.
Ah damn, you're empathising with someone you're not supposed to? Everyone has understandable or even good reasons for their actions? Your "protagonist" reasons might not even the best of them?
How's this even a novel concept in writing, I don't get it…
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social · 17 pts · 18d
The thing is, we know what's going on isn't right and that the world as it is isn't worth saving. Thus a champion of the status quo can only be the product of a corrupt mind.
Velypso@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 18d
With all the stones, thanos could have just made all things require half as many resources to live/use.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 18d
Maybe wakanda should colonize the west. They got sick future technology
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 17d
Literally every season of Legends of Korra.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
My biggest gripe with that show. Maybe except for the last one, since the villain was a fascist.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 17d
I didn't continue after I think the 3rd season. That horrible representation of anarchism was infuriating.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 17d
Aren't like all of Batman's villains like this?
Yet we cheer for the billionaire punching them to keep the status quo.
iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 18d
This video covers it pretty well:
https://youtu.be/LpitmEnaYeU
Xerxos@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 17d
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawmanHasAPoint
Leads to
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KickTheDog
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 18d