Seth D. Michaels: I think about this every time I get to the “we’re not so different you and I” villain speech in a movie.

this is one of my least favorite tropes and it is especially ridiculous when the heroes have just shot their way through an army of mooks to get to the villain oh, you can kill 475 henchmen but the guy who is actually responsible for ordering them around is a step too far? do you hear yourself?

the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding

I think about this every time I get to the “we’re not so different you and I” villain speech in a movie.

just once I want the answer to be "that's right, buddy, we're not" *blam*

You really have internalised Vimes, haven’t you.

Carrot would do it, Vimes would pause and listen because he fears that's true, Carrot wouldn't register that claim as sensible and stab them while they were talking and sadly comment it's tragic that it came to this

Citation, Men at Arms where this happened

This is why I cheered at Amos's "I am that man" speech in The Expanse, because it's basically exactly this.

I’m like a 0.2 on the Kinsey scale but Amos could fix me

Miller's scene with Dresden in The Expanse was perfect. Obviously Miller had some fucked up shit going on, but imo he got at leasy one thing right

At least*

"Just because I don't want my friend to have your death on his hands doesn't mean you get to leave alive."

Feels like something The Punisher would do. Probably to some right wing tool talking about pizza-parlor-based child trafficking rings. Or Deadpool, but the villain could be anyone at that point. Like Prof. X.

I honestly loved that in Dune Part 2 where Jessica said "Your father didn't believe in revenge" and Paul replied "Yeah, but I do" ...And shivs the Baron right under his jaw into his brain before having him dumped for the ants to eat. I mean, it's a heel turn for Paul but damn that was good.

A little less Bruce Wayne, a little more Aldo Raine imo

Why not *blam* "that's right, buddy, we're not"

this is what I like in the Accountant. "but *I* help SOCIETY!" okay... BAM!

Jujutsu Kaisen >:D

Fortunately, some heroes have no such qualms

"Wrong I'm still breathing"

YES.

Read a fun rebuttal to that, can't remember it fully but the point was that Hero IS different to Villain, cause Hero wouldn't be able to sleep at night after committing all those crimes, whereas Villain could, can and does. So Hero can kill Villain, do it.

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