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What is a story were the main villain actually turned out to be the good guy? (midwest.social)

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[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

The newer one? If so, yeah, that's true.

[-] chahk@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

Despicable Me?

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Avatar: The Last Airbender

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[-] vortexal@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Assuming you're counting stories where the villain did very bad things for the purpose of a doing something good, there is an anime from 2005 called Speed Grapher.

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[-] atimehoodie@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

The Good Place, season 2.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

"Villains by Necessity" by Eve Forward.

[-] dead@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Saw X

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I'd say that's an "everyone sucks here" type of story.

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Sophia, Garden of Eden, Genesis

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

The Sixth Day, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's please-take-me-seriously projects, is possibly the wrongest it is possible to be about whether clones are people. Still a fun movie. Just ass-backwards in its motivation. I'm not sure how much of its moral grey area was intended by the script or the direction. The anti-clone "good guys" are pretty terrorist-coded. Arnie's just caught up in the middle of their guerrilla fight against a generic corporate bad guy. Who solved death. How terrible.

Off-topic Schwarzenegger faff: End Of Days is dumb. Jingle All The Way is the most 90s Christmas movie possible. Eraser is a slick action movie that somehow has no cultural cachet outside of every video game with a railgun.

[-] tjhart85@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Interview With a Vampire ... kind of ... Lestat was by no means good to Louis, but their portrayals in the rest of the series was quite different ... I think that Anne Rice was trying to show that neither of them should be considered reliable narrators and Louis will always try to portray his situation as awfully as possible and Lestat is a narcissist and will always try to portray himself in the best light even when acknowledging what he did incorrectly.

But, when I saw that book 2 was about Lestat, I was like ... wtf ... I hate this guy, why would I want a story with him as the main character and then I read them all, lol.

[-] chahk@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Gru in Despicable Me.

Zangief in Wreck-it Ralph: "You are bad guy but this does not mean you are bad guy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

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