Aren't like all of Batman's villains like this?
Yet we cheer for the billionaire punching them to keep the status quo.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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Literally every season of Legends of Korra.
With all the stones, thanos could have just made all things require half as many resources to live/use.
This reminds me why I love the NieR series so much. Ultimately throws away the concept of pre-defined "protagonist" and "antagonist" and screws over the player's emotions with the conflict itself instead.
Ah damn, you're empathising with someone you're not supposed to? Everyone has understandable or even good reasons for their actions? Your "protagonist" reasons might not even the best of them?
How's this even a novel concept in writing, I don't get itβ¦
Sounds about right. Marvel is particularly guilty of this.
Killmonger in Black Panther comes to mind.
I was so disappointed when The Good Place set up an entire "there is no ethical consumption under Capitalism" plot, only to resolve it as "...but we can't possibly stop Capitalism, so we'll rewrite the ethical rules of the cosmos to give you a pass for that, you go ahead and consume as much as you want. Fremulon."
To be fair, they were also being placed under the restraint of not being allowed to change things for living people.
The Flag-Smashers: "Nationalism is a regressive mindset. We had global solidarity after the Snap and there's no reason we can't get back to that."
Also the Flag-Smashers, for some reason: "Lets do terrorism that completely ignores our values"
No joke, watched James Bond Diamonds are forever this weekend and it was pretty much the same thing. Villain invents a weapon to stop all governments from using nuclear bombs, has a great speech about bringing peaceβ¦and then suddenly decides to auction off the technology to the highest bidder? Huh?
Kingsman the villain was a super genius black guy climate change activist who spent his life battling world leaders and elites to stop pollution, and then he decides he's going to save the world leaders and elites and kill everyone else to stop climate change... the second movie's villain was a woman who did all of that because she wanted to pay taxes to sell weed... I was surprised the next villain about to destroy the world wasn't a transsexual who wanted gender-neutral bathrooms...
and then suddenly decides to auction off the technology to the highest bidder?
Instead, he should extort nuclear-capable governments, threatening to deactivate their nukes unless they pay up.
Wasn't the villain in that Blofeld? Thats not really inconsistent with his character.
Yes it was blofeld. Been a long time since I watched the older James Bonds though so I donβt remember what else he did.
For real. Let's give a good motive to the villain so they can be more credible, but let's make sure the ways of achieving their goals are immoral as to not wake up the people too much.
Edit : Just realized I TLDRed the original meme...
the new Doom run, especially
"One World Under Doom"
The thing is, we know what's going on isn't right and that the world as it is isn't worth saving. Thus a champion of the status quo can only be the product of a corrupt mind.
Maybe wakanda should colonize the west. They got sick future technology