The Overlord
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I have head some people say that there are no sympathetic villains in the UU, because sympathetic villains are unrealistic and that in real life criminals are just bad people.
I think that's BS personally. Most criminals are criminals because they grew up in a poor neighborhood and didn't get a good education, they are criminals because they had no other options in life, not because they are evil for no reason. Many criminals go out of their way not to kill people, because they don't want a murder rap on their sheet. No one wakes up one day and says: "Ha, ha, I will become a criminal today, because I'm evil! Ha, ha, ha!"
That's a childish assumption. I mean look at a lot of important figures in history, Josip Broz Tito or Che Guevara or Malcolm X or Napoleon Bonaparte, these are people who you can't just box into good or evil boxes, they are morally complex individuals who had a different solution to the world's problems, which put them in conflict with other people. Compare that to Ultimate Magneto who is such a cliched evil villain you might as well give him a top hat and mustache.
Making every villain in the UU as a morally complex as Dick Dastardly not realistic, its lazy and childish writing to do so. Not every "bad" person in real life are evil people who eats puppies for no reason. In real life most people have good qualities and bad qualities. In the UU villains are as developed as villains from some goofy cartoon from the 80s, that's not good writing.
I think that's BS personally. Most criminals are criminals because they grew up in a poor neighborhood and didn't get a good education, they are criminals because they had no other options in life, not because they are evil for no reason. Many criminals go out of their way not to kill people, because they don't want a murder rap on their sheet. No one wakes up one day and says: "Ha, ha, I will become a criminal today, because I'm evil! Ha, ha, ha!"
That's a childish assumption. I mean look at a lot of important figures in history, Josip Broz Tito or Che Guevara or Malcolm X or Napoleon Bonaparte, these are people who you can't just box into good or evil boxes, they are morally complex individuals who had a different solution to the world's problems, which put them in conflict with other people. Compare that to Ultimate Magneto who is such a cliched evil villain you might as well give him a top hat and mustache.
Making every villain in the UU as a morally complex as Dick Dastardly not realistic, its lazy and childish writing to do so. Not every "bad" person in real life are evil people who eats puppies for no reason. In real life most people have good qualities and bad qualities. In the UU villains are as developed as villains from some goofy cartoon from the 80s, that's not good writing.