I recently watched a youtube video about autistic kids as horror movie villains. There's a lot of them! There are also plenty of queer horror movie villains. Plenty of schizophrenic villains, plenty of villains with DID. Plenty of nonwhite villains, or more commonly back in the day, white actors in brownface playing villains.

Sometimes horror can be a mirror we hold up to society's biases to critique them. See: anything by Guillermo del Toro. But all too often, horror is a mirror we hold up to society's biases to reproduce them.

The Narcissistic horror movie villain is a repetition of stereotypes about NPD that people already believed.

Maybe you're young, and those were actually your parents' generation's beliefs, which you absorbed out of context. So many people don't even understand their own prejudices.

But there are young people who still believe the most blatant forms of this stereotype. I meet them all the time. They're quite unpleasant to be around.

Ah, you grew up around people with NPD!

Professionally diagnosed? Or did you just apply the label to them because they were bad people, and you know NPD is the being-a-bad-person disorder?

What makes your labelling of them more valid than My self-diagnosis? I, at least, studied the criteria in both the criterion and dimensional models, and read various first person accounts from people with the disability. And I limited My judgements to Myself.

What arrogance you have! No medical school for NotAShark, no clinical interview! No patient consent! No professional boundaries, no HIPPA! Why, you must be the greatest psychiatric mind in a decade to have made multiple diagnoses in such unprofessional circumstances!

Tell Me, why do you think of yourself as the greatest genius who ever lived? Why are you so vain and arrogant, so adamantly sure of your medical opinions?

And why haven't you accused yourself of having NPD after that display of malignant narcissism?