my new metatheory about why the good guys always win in fiction is because the bad guys are subconsciously sabotaging themselves because they, too, actually want to see the good guys win
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this is why one of the most clever things you can do as a bad guy is temporarily wipe your memory so you genuinely become a good guy, then you have a real shot of winning
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actually the most clever thing i've ever seen a bad guy do is realize that they were stuck in a genre in which the good guy always wins and subsequently attempt to *change the genre of the story* to one in which the good guy can lose
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i saw it somewhere else recently too! (not saying where b/c spoiler)
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