itsladykit:

stromuprisahat:

lorsanbitch:

bruh if people want me to stop sympathizing with villains they need to stop making the villains the ones who want to change broken systems

#and stop making heroes fight to maintain the status quo ffs

You know, there is something extremely interesting about the idea in Western media that the villain is almost always the one who catalyzes the events of a story. They’re usually the ones trying to bring about some change.

The only exception I can think of might be dystopian fiction. That seems to be the only situation where it’s “acceptable” for the heroes to be proactive and the villains to be the ones maintaining the status quo.

remember when the MCU villains were:
-A union worker that got his contract canceled without notice by a billionaire
-a person of colour who was fighting racism
-a guy who wanted to end the government supersoldier program permanently