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Raccoontuer Theater Episode One: And WE'RE the villains?
14 years ago
This is a new series that I'm going to try to do regularly on my site here, both as therapy and to prove a point.
In regards to the whole superhero/supervillain genre:
When you justify any action to fight an evil, you become no different that evil. If you actually claimed the moral high ground in the first place, you also become utterly stupid, because you just proved the other guys point. Idiot.
If you're a Superman-esque character, it doesn't matter how noble you actually are, if you declare that your archnemesis is a mundane, people are going to regard you as a bully. If the mundane is also building up America or what ever analog's available, they also think you're a dick. When he's smart enought to run for president, and win, you officially become a TERRORIST WHO HATES OUR FREEDOM™.
If the villain can be considered "evil," but actualy has a code of honor and sense of restraint, and when he asks you to fight the demon-cyborg-tentacle beasts who you also hate, and you agree to help but then stab him in the back when the opportunity permits, on the principle that he's a villain, and knowingfor a fact that he actually was going to let you go without a hook afterward, FUCK YOU.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.
When good fights evil long enough, it becomes the defacto evil, while also lowering the standards of decency.
Evil is live spelled backwards. Good is doog spelled backwards. What the fuck is that?
Humanity considers the quest for knowledge to be the greatest and most noble cause. Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Discover the truth. Be evil!
RACCOONTEUR THEATER. THAT ALONE SHOULD STATE THE "SERIOUSNESS" OF THIS. DON'T BE A "HERO" AND BLINDLY INGORE THE OBVIOUS JOKE ABOUT A FICTIONAL GENRE.
In regards to the whole superhero/supervillain genre:
When you justify any action to fight an evil, you become no different that evil. If you actually claimed the moral high ground in the first place, you also become utterly stupid, because you just proved the other guys point. Idiot.
If you're a Superman-esque character, it doesn't matter how noble you actually are, if you declare that your archnemesis is a mundane, people are going to regard you as a bully. If the mundane is also building up America or what ever analog's available, they also think you're a dick. When he's smart enought to run for president, and win, you officially become a TERRORIST WHO HATES OUR FREEDOM™.
If the villain can be considered "evil," but actualy has a code of honor and sense of restraint, and when he asks you to fight the demon-cyborg-tentacle beasts who you also hate, and you agree to help but then stab him in the back when the opportunity permits, on the principle that he's a villain, and knowingfor a fact that he actually was going to let you go without a hook afterward, FUCK YOU.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.
When good fights evil long enough, it becomes the defacto evil, while also lowering the standards of decency.
Evil is live spelled backwards. Good is doog spelled backwards. What the fuck is that?
Humanity considers the quest for knowledge to be the greatest and most noble cause. Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Discover the truth. Be evil!
RACCOONTEUR THEATER. THAT ALONE SHOULD STATE THE "SERIOUSNESS" OF THIS. DON'T BE A "HERO" AND BLINDLY INGORE THE OBVIOUS JOKE ABOUT A FICTIONAL GENRE.
