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[–] 108 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Sounds about right. Marvel is particularly guilty of this.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    No joke, watched James Bond Diamonds are forever this weekend and it was pretty much the same thing. Villain invents a weapon to stop all governments from using nuclear bombs, has a great speech about bringing peace…and then suddenly decides to auction off the technology to the highest bidder? Huh?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    Kingsman the villain was a super genius black guy climate change activist who spent his life battling world leaders and elites to stop pollution, and then he decides he's going to save the world leaders and elites and kill everyone else to stop climate change... the second movie's villain was a woman who did all of that because she wanted to pay taxes to sell weed... I was surprised the next villain about to destroy the world wasn't a transsexual who wanted gender-neutral bathrooms...

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago

    The Flag-Smashers: "Nationalism is a regressive mindset. We had global solidarity after the Snap and there's no reason we can't get back to that."

    Also the Flag-Smashers, for some reason: "Lets do terrorism that completely ignores our values"

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I was so disappointed when The Good Place set up an entire "there is no ethical consumption under Capitalism" plot, only to resolve it as "...but we can't possibly stop Capitalism, so we'll rewrite the ethical rules of the cosmos to give you a pass for that, you go ahead and consume as much as you want. Fremulon."

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    This reminds me why I love the NieR series so much. Ultimately throws away the concept of pre-defined "protagonist" and "antagonist" and screws over the player's emotions with the conflict itself instead.

    Ah damn, you're empathising with someone you're not supposed to? Everyone has understandable or even good reasons for their actions? Your "protagonist" reasons might not even the best of them?

    How's this even a novel concept in writing, I don't get it…

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    The thing is, we know what's going on isn't right and that the world as it is isn't worth saving. Thus a champion of the status quo can only be the product of a corrupt mind.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    With all the stones, thanos could have just made all things require half as many resources to live/use.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Maybe wakanda should colonize the west. They got sick future technology

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  • This video covers it pretty well:

    https://youtu.be/LpitmEnaYeU

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Literally every season of Legends of Korra.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Aren't like all of Batman's villains like this?

    Yet we cheer for the billionaire punching them to keep the status quo.

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The sloppiest was the X-Men movie where Magneto has a sensible, empathic plan to end discrimination, and they just had to mention like in one sentence: Well, his machine has a defect though, so it will cause unintended destruction, and we have to stop him.

    Well, any story with Magneto as antagonist, tbh.

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