That's the only interpretation of the ending I'll accept The bad guy didn't get everything they wanted, but the bad guy's side (or the multiple bad guys' sides) won
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Because if you DON'T interpret it that way then you're saying that the people who died deserved to die and their dying served the greater good And that the person who, conversely, lived and seemingly got their redemption despite not being that different from them, deserved that
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And I will not accept that because that's bullshit The people who lived and died at the end of the day very clearly did so because it served the bad guys' purposes They let Sam and a lot of the fans think this was a victory but it only looks like one
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They've been played, everyone's been played Familiar tropes deployed to make it look like the blood spilled was a tragic necessity while the guilty who walked free maybe weren't all that bad And meanwhile the obvious actual bad guys just get more wealth and power
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And for a story about America and the legacy of American wars... That's very appropriate
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It was, somewhat depressingly, the best case scenario when the bad guys are ingrained so deeply in society as they are. Sam did all that was realistically in his power to do, and we’re just gonna have to be happy that SOME positive change of any kind was made.
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Wasn't that the ending of the first SamCap arc in the comics? Sam caught the rich guys who were backing the supervillains, but they said that if Sam arrested them, their companies would crash and thousands would be out of work. So Sam had to let most of them go free.
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The thing is, there even wasn't an evil plan to begin with: the Flag Smashers leaving Not-Singapore to start a global refugees uprising was not planned by the series main villain
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By "evil plan" I mean the villain's original plan (create their own army of super soldiers) going horribly wrong, and the villain effectively tricking the heroes into cleaning up their mess for them
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I wouldn't go that far. But they definitely didn't lose.
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