CurseSealofEarth
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I have a question for you boys and girls: Do you have trouble (when watching tv or movie or reading a book) figuring out who is the actual villain? If you're anything like me, which you're not because I'm a daedric prince, you will notice that villains in the media all have this backstory that makes you almost want to be sympathetic toward them. They have suffered the pain of losing someone close or have been betrayed by a close friend or confident. Is this the right way to make a villain?
Why it isn't:
Well for one, it causes a rift between fans. This may seem like a pretty weak argument, but we have people on this base who would defend Obito or Sasuke's reasons behind their hate of the world and village respectively. To go beyond Naruto, we have people like Lord Lucien from Fable 2 who became psycho and tried to become a God by destroying the old world and building a new one, or William Bell from the show Fringe who had a similar goal. Now in most of those instances, they lost someone very close to them and decided that they weren't deserving of such a fate, and decided to build a new world by destroying the old one. You start to see people looking at it from their perspective and they are no longer the villain, they are the poor man who thought he might do something better.
Then to bring that up, what happens when someone thinks that the world that they are in (after the villain makes their new world) is also unjust and becomes the new villain, are they right?
Why it is:
As it has been proven, it makes for a great fanbase. How many people actually talk about Naruto's ideals or defends him? Barely anyone, because his are good reasons and ideals. How many people will go back and forth on how evil or corrupt Obito, Itachi or Madara were? That's every third thread by my count. People love a good villain, even more than a great hero. So this brings a great amount of attention to them and in turn, your manga/tv show/movie.
So what do you guys have to say? Would you prefer the old villains who want to blow up the moon because "f*ck the moon"? Or do you prefer these tragic villains who have expirienced some adversity and think they need to undo some evils done to them? Comment below, let me know!
Why it isn't:
Well for one, it causes a rift between fans. This may seem like a pretty weak argument, but we have people on this base who would defend Obito or Sasuke's reasons behind their hate of the world and village respectively. To go beyond Naruto, we have people like Lord Lucien from Fable 2 who became psycho and tried to become a God by destroying the old world and building a new one, or William Bell from the show Fringe who had a similar goal. Now in most of those instances, they lost someone very close to them and decided that they weren't deserving of such a fate, and decided to build a new world by destroying the old one. You start to see people looking at it from their perspective and they are no longer the villain, they are the poor man who thought he might do something better.
Then to bring that up, what happens when someone thinks that the world that they are in (after the villain makes their new world) is also unjust and becomes the new villain, are they right?
Why it is:
As it has been proven, it makes for a great fanbase. How many people actually talk about Naruto's ideals or defends him? Barely anyone, because his are good reasons and ideals. How many people will go back and forth on how evil or corrupt Obito, Itachi or Madara were? That's every third thread by my count. People love a good villain, even more than a great hero. So this brings a great amount of attention to them and in turn, your manga/tv show/movie.
So what do you guys have to say? Would you prefer the old villains who want to blow up the moon because "f*ck the moon"? Or do you prefer these tragic villains who have expirienced some adversity and think they need to undo some evils done to them? Comment below, let me know!
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