(Black Panther, Charles and Erik in X-Men, the Infamous games, celebrity culture...) Once you strip away the most cartoonish feel-good heroes and comically-bad “just wanna wreck shit” villains, the difference between heroes and villains is their attitude towards The People
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Magneto, when written well, makes a lot of sense. Why should a boy who was tortured in Holocaust concentration camps and then further ostracised by humanity and attacked by them... not strike back? To protect his fellow mutants? Why protect your attackers, too?pic.twitter.com/h2oIPy0QUP
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*quick foreshadowing flash-forward about the likely conclusion of this thread*https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/924717432765161472?s=21 …
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Here’s an idea, and the question I hadn’t thought to ask was - does this make them the heroes? It’s not obvious! There will definitely be characters who think they are the bad guys, like how RBG’s fight for gender equality = “Attack on the American family”https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/904593415815311360?s=21 …
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But writers and storytellers often feel some sort of pressure to make the villains more... villainy? To help the viewer/reader be clear. Like, imagine if Killmonger didn’t do dickish things, and instead stuck to his central theme and message - and chose to be more measured
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Of course part of the story here is that shitty upbringings create shitty people who do dickish things. So again ultimately the real villain is The People. And yet... if you say this in a straightforward way it’ll still be misinterpreted
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I think the world of stories needs more likeable villains that we can root for, antagonists who have legitimate criticisms of the system they’re in, who are pursuing a legitimate justice that they are being denied I am SO curious to see what happens in Luke Cage S3
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The villain with the most justifiable grievances is Lucifer, yet he is also the most vilified.
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