• @lowleveldata
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    -131 month ago

    That’s so lame why can’t we have some good old evil villains

    • Pennomi
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      351 month ago

      That’s so lame how dare they add nuance into MY fiction!

      • @[email protected]
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        331 month ago

        I used to think nuance was needed for realism to help me believe it. But the real villains of the world are just pure absolute evil sick bastards that want to take everything for themselves just for the sake of it.

        MAYBE there’s some nuance of needing to feel like winners or something. Live up to their father’s name. But I have zero pity for them. Fuck that narcissist rapist Donald Trump.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          The difference is that narcissist, rapist Donald Trump still thinks of himself as a good guy. OG Magneto was even more two-dimensional than that. I mean, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby gave his group the name “Brotherhood of Evil Mutants”.

      • @lowleveldata
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        61 month ago

        Is it? Aliens are evil for no real reasons (doesn’t need one) and they are cool as fuck. Was there a reason for Venom to be evil at the beginning?

        • @[email protected]
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          1 month ago

          Aliens aren’t evil. They are animals that are being territorial and procreating.

          Edit: assuming we are taking about the Alien franchise of aliens.

          • @lowleveldata
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            11 month ago

            If they procreate on the cost of our lives then they are pretty evil (to us). I don’t see how being animals have anything to do with this. Humans are animals too.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          Idk if aliens are evil or if they’re just doing natural xenomorp things. A wolf isn’t evil for hunting prey.

          • @lowleveldata
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            11 month ago

            Natural things can be evil too. Source: My cat

    • partial_accumen
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      61 month ago

      We do have good old fashioned evil villains. They’re us.

      We’re the ones destroying the world, killing wildlife, and enslaving the innocent. We’re not doing it with a space aged death ray, but by emitting carbon where we don’t need. We’re not putting chains on the people living down the block and selling them into slavery, but we are supporting slavery when we buy T-shirts made of cotton from Xinjiang whose culture and religion are slowing being erased.

      Classic comic book villains look pretty shallow and vanilla when you learn what we’re doing thats far worse.