Why are millennial writers addicted to making intimidating villains secretly insecure losers?
>>732330421Because villains are insecure losers
>>732330421Do you feel targeted?
>>732330421So you don't accidentally like themUnless it's a female villain, then she's misunderstood because of a tragic backstory :(
>>732330421Projection
>>732330421Why would a good person do evil shit?
>>732330421Are you upset you identify with a loser, anon? Are you upset that they know you fantasize about beheading women and black people?
>>732330536>>732330598The real answer of course is that you can do nothing but projectCharacters are written this way because it's the only reality the author can imagine
>>732330421They're worried about making the bad guys look cool, which would be a bad thing because they want to use media as a social engineering platform and educate people with good values (aka their values). But this usually just ends up lowering the stakes and making the story less interesting. As if they gave a shit of course.
>>732330421I don't know but it's fun. I hosted a zoomette once and she was always trying to guess what kind of insecurity I could be hidding. After few months she bluntly asked why was I so daring and confident. Couldn't understand what was her deal but if zoomzooms and alphas grow up on this kind of shitty trope now it makes sense.
>>732330592Being the exact opposite of your expressed personality traits and every part of yourself being a cope is not actually a thing that really happens, anon
>>732330421>didnt predict me chimping out on him after shooting my gfnot so smart now
I genuinely have no idea why faggots STILL do this shit when everyone loved Big Jack Horner from Puss in Boots because he was 100% evil with no deeper meaning or sad backstory, just a completely rotten psychopathic piece of shit with zero good values and he was great
>>732330421Its subversive (they really like that shit) and also incredibly easy to write.
>>732330421Because millennials who just graduated with a gender studies degree learned that they should try to make characters deep and relatable with tragic backstores, just like Thanos who is such a compelling villain and definitely not a fucking retarded ape who behaves like a middle schooler without any understanding of population S-curves. it's okay to have a simple character written simply. It's nice to have a complex character written complexly. It's insulting to have a simple character written complexly.
>>732331614He works because he's a comic relief character mostly tangential to the plotThe actual direct comparison from that movie is Death, who is also not complicated
>>732330421Plato asserted that tyrants are like that 2400 years ago, which is before millenials
Shroud didn't get that much of a characterization anyway
You cant have the bad guy be too cool or people might like them
>>732331128Biggest cringe in a while
>>732330421Being evil is gay and cringe.
>>732332028Well yeah, because you can't beat Death, you can only come to terms with it.
>>732332028My dude this "game" is a marvel style comedy with hasbin hotel writing, they could make this masked dude, just evil without any explanations
>>732331285It absolutely is, and with social media, I would say it's pretty common
>>732330421Resentment is a trait of a loser
>>732332147Plato didn't mean it in the "meanies are all secretly terrified and insecure Just Like Me" sense
>>732330421They project themselves on the cool characters, but since they are anything but cool they bring the character down and ruin it. They should write what they hate and it'll sell better.
>>732333380Incidentally that happens all the time, and then they get mad that nobody "got it"
