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[three characters looking awfully bland] The protagonists:

  • Annoying goody two shoes leader who's a paragon of virtue
  • Nerdy scientist with no backstory who keeps doing poor puns
  • Super bland dude who's an obvious self insert for the writer
  • People die because they're "good" and refuse to break the rules
  • They win battles through plot armor and the power of friendship

[a cool looking grizzled character smokes a cigar in a spaceship interior, a foot up on the controls, while a spaceship blasts a mega laser outside in space] The super evil antagonist:

  • Played by the most charismatic actor available on the market
  • Keeps doing the coolest looking things (but you must hate it)
  • Has the coolest secret lair and his henchmen love him
  • Is named Adolf McMurder and genocides with a smile
  • Says an awesome one liner before murdering an orphan

[a nerdy dude in flannel points at a storyboard of the two previous images] The naive screenwriter:

  • At least this time he's not writing women, phew
  • Has too much trust in his audience's media literacy - About to give the super evil antagonist yet another zingy one liner
  • Surely if we show him killing an orphan the audience will hate him
  • Right, guys?… Right??…

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 6 points 5 days ago

The villain isn't cool-looking enough.

If he's one generation older than the protagonist, then he's somehow related, e.g. I am your father, uncle, much elder sibling, etc.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (8 children)

...are we supposed to hate the villain and think the villain isn't cool-looking? I don't think that's been the case for like, decades

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