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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Huh, I now want to read something that starts out a comic book style superhero story but the villain spends all his time being as forcefully realistic, grounded and disturbing because he's trying to make it a horror so he can win (and then he does)
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sounds like a job for the ol' yudster
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Almost called him "big yud" but turns out that phrase is a memetic hazard for me
Can't not picture it now
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don't worry you can picture long yud instead