The reason villains are typically more interesting than heroes in fiction is very simple. Heroes in most mainstream American art obey the law and uphold the status quo. If you want more interesting good guys, you need to start writing heroes who blow up pipelines and kill ICE agents.
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anyway, luke is a nepo baby
"Okay here's Luke literally saying to burn the ancient Jedi Order texts and let them die out to carve a new path"
"I'm going to murder Mickey Mouse over this"
(The last picture is Superman handling a slumlord btw.)
Years ago, at a small local comics convention, I saw a panel of old-time comics writers talking about how superheroes tend to start out as vigilantes, trying to disrupt the establishment, and get rewritten into supporting it against destabilizing threats.
More of that please
There are thousand of stories of those characters and there is an excellent Superman by Grant Morrison- his early years where he’s fighting for the working class against giant corps. Barely able to afford a small apartment.
Heck, his biggest nemesis is the richest man in the world.
That story was recently adapted to a really good TPB by Gene Luen Yang (originally it was an episode in the radio serial), and it’s just as good as it was the first time!
I'm definitely getting a copy, I picked up that Preacher issue where he takes down a Klan chapter just for this massively iconic panel.
Madame Rouge fought with the doom patrol and when it broke up she went to destroy the Ant Farm (a government agency put together to wipe out Weirdness)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5bAfqwU3ajA9hVgGCvQ9XFKOEbmGnOp2&si=EkJm7AuFtKuCRWJp
If you disregard obedience to the law (no matter how awful said law may be) or the whole "violence against entrenched interests is bad" tropes in superhero movies, quite a few of the villains become a lot more compelling than the heroes do.
https://thenewinquiry.com/super-position/
The people are angry and want blood. Antiheroes might be back.
https://nofilmschool.com/vince-gilligan-character
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If anything, hunters, mummies, and fae commoners are
I like the big weird doggies
But readers and audiences have to look at indie stuff, because big media will not play these stories.
Because if you're writing a scifi or fantasy story safely disconnected from modern politics, all you need to do is have the evil mooks act like ICE for a couple minutes, and the audience will feel completely at-ease with the morality of a hero slaughtering them.
Like my dude… lol