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Eric Hinkle's avatar

I'll keep my eyes open for this. I do admit to being confused at the seeming sudden popularity in the past few years of 'but the villain is really the good guy' type stories. Especially when I see it applied to some of the nastiest characters possible.

It gets even more boggling when I see it coming from people who like to sniff that "good and evil are just childish concepts", and who then start denouncing everyone who disagrees with them as Satan incarnate.

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Mary Catelli's avatar

And some of the ways they twist the tales to justify it -- and then pretend it's the original story

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Eric Hinkle's avatar

Oh yes. I've seen that too. They twist the story around to the point where you'd think it would be less effort to just write their own. But no, they HAVE to make sure everyone understands how oppressed the Poor Innocent Villain is, and they HAVE to make sure everyone understands how evil the Mean Old Hero is.

It gets even better when they put a self-insert character into the story who is praised by everyone and gets the girl (or guy) in the end. Especially when said character has no business existing in the setting. Like a recent example of a guy having his male human character winning the heart of the vulpine Maid Marian from the 1973 in a comic he's making. And he's been at it for years.

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Mary Catelli's avatar

Ah, the classic Mary Sue!

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Jim in Alaska's avatar

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Mary Catelli's avatar

I may give that one new consideration for various reasons.

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