It doesn't even have to be that the message is bad or completely objective and propaganda fuelled, it could just be its often incredibly recited, copied and pasted or just a blatantly obvious good lesson that you are completely aware of.

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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

The most interesting villains are objectively correct in their reason for acting but their methods are monstrous because they lost perspective.

A good example is the military antagonists in The Rock, where the military guys have decided that threatening terrorism is the only way to get benefits for vets and some of them decide to actually follow through with it. They were justifiably angry about something valid, but went too far.

Evil just to be evil is rarely engaging.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Kind of like how the Suffragettes were objectively correct and had to blow men up to create change because otherwise they would simply have been written off as hysterical women.

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