No. The villains, both real and fictional, do have reasons and justifications and believe they're the good guys. They are *also* truly evil. The artists managed to make you sympathize with evil people. They could do the same with real-life villains, if you didn't know it was real
Exactly what he always says - he is making America great again. If you don't think a human mind can deeply feel that motivation, in a way that makes Trump's actions seem heroic to him, then you haven't read enough fiction
It's amazing how two-dimensional children's TV villains have motives more like our actual guys. "I'm Mark from FB, I hate you, you see, I want your attention, NOW GIVE IT TO ME" is pretty much all you need to know about Zuck.
I'm going back to watch old Doctor Whos from the 70s-80s and it's striking how their megalomaniacal villains shouting about supreme domination are so much more accurate than the tortured bad guy of the last 15 years of TV
So very very true whats worse to ne is it family that I grew up with. We where taught respect and love for all people, yet the generation after us have no association with these qualities. My parents and grandparents are rolling ovein their graves.. Very very sad and hurtful to say the least.
I think about this a lot & how the pop culture villains from my GenX childhood seemed to revel in their evilness. Evil for the sake of evil. But then I realized that real life villains very often think they are the good guys - in a machiavellian way. Then there is Trump who is basically Gargamel.
What's funny is that I'm also GenX, and I remember daydreaming about the disparate villains having a party where they all bragged about how good and cool they were, so it was okay to attack the Go-Bots or the Smurfs. The cabinet roundtables are a lot like that!
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2020s: oh, they're basically NFT/crypto bros but subtler.
Nate Powell did a great comic about our war and villain obsession and it's effects on average shitheads
Like there's this weird thing where real life doesn't fuck with verisimilitude and just gives you some motherfucker that's nonsense