
I’ve seen quite a few videos on youtube from writing vloggers and whatnot about “WAS (such-and-such villain) ACTUALLY RIGHT ALL ALONG?!?” Usually focusing on the villains in the Incredibles movies. The subject itself is becoming clickbait.
Plenty of villains are “right” in their worldview. There are probably a hundred examples I could list, from the grievances of the Incredibles villains being legit, to Magneto being right that humans aren’t ready to accept mutants as equals.
These vloggers and bloggers are missing the point. Villains aren’t defined by having the wrong worldview. They’re defined by how they go about solving the problem.
Magneto is in the right, as far as the “humans treat mutants unfairly, and will probably always fear them” thing. Syndrome is right to think that supers make regular folks feel inadequate. Both try to solve their problems by being callous assholes who don’t care how many people they hurt. THAT makes them the bad guy.
Stop acting like the sympathetic villain is a profound, unheard of thing.
I really do agree with you man, I recently got done with a game from my childhood where the villain is 100 correct in his thoughts but his actions are inexcusable and yet every other fan of the game acts like he’s the hero…yeah murdering an old man and stealing a woman’s voice as well as putting 2 whole villages in dictatorships doesn’t sound like the good guy…even if you are trying to save your world.
A lot of crazy people also think Gul Dukat in Deep Space Nine is a good guy too, because ….are you ready for this?…he SAYS he’s a good guy.