Someone recently tweeted about comic book villains who have a strong argument, so the writers have to make sure they do something insanely violent to keep you from rooting for them. Syndrome fits that trope.
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Replying to @AndrewEGlisson @Nymphomachy
Like, literally NOTHING about his actual plan is evil. The giant robot is bad, yeah, but that’s it!
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Well, murdering all the original superheroes one by one is bad And he implies that when he sells off his toys it's going to be as an auction for the richest and most motivated buyers, i.e. various militaries and paramilitaries
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
Syndrome mentioned he made his fortune as an arms dealer, and his plan is basically just a higher tech version of that.
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Replying to @IKacprzak @beetlefella101 and
Yeah it's not like actually equitably distributing these deadly weapons to the entire population of the world would be a great thing to do either But he's pretty obviously not doing that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IKacprzak and
Like I think the haters of this movie are pushing too hard when they say Syndrome is an egalitarian populist, he's not, he's a plutocratic tyrant who wants to destabilize the world for his own benefit CIA-style
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IKacprzak and
Like everyone remembers "When everyone is super... no one will be" but this line gives a clearer picture of his actual plan:
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IKacprzak and
"See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? "
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IKacprzak and
(If the goal is to get "respect" in the form of terrorizing other people with military strength then obviously the new world he creates will still have strong vs. weak in it, rather than some silly idealistic libertarian fantasy of an Armed and Polite Society)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IKacprzak and
yeah I guess the goodness of the plan depends on whether you think the powerless theoretically have better chances of getting superpowers than getting WMDs
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Or even if they were egalitarianly distributed, if you think the whole game-theoretical outcome of a world where everyone, be they rich or poor, owns an AR-15 is one that ends up better for everybody
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IKacprzak and
I mean this kind of gets to the core of the problem, yeah, this idea that there's a way to distribute power more ethical than simply relinquishing it entirely
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @IKacprzak and
Well this is also one of the things Bird was talking about, that relinquishing power *is* redistributing it, you're responsible for what happens when you walk away Syndrome gained power precisely because the Incredibles gave it up
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