You know how in Marvel movies where the villain starts saying stuff that sounds good, but then they do something evil to turn the audience against them? I imagine that's how it would feel for J.K. Rowling when the nazis start destroying research into gender identity, but then do genocide.
the episode of Invincible with the villain who wants to destroy Mt. Rushmore reeks so badly of this. starts talking about how it's racist and bullshit, then goes so far off the rails it's jarring
(I mean yes he's supposed to have CTE or whatever but it's still blatant)
I felt like that was mostly played for jokes. In the comics he's just a psycho attacking Mt. Rushmore and the writers decided to throw in at least some reason why.
It's also common knowledge in film and TV that if you want to get your more radical ideas past the network/execs/censors you give them to the bad guy. The dumbasses there see the bad guy saying good/socialist things and think "aha! Perfect propaganda!" then workers see a bad guy saying socialist things and think "oh shit, I want to be the bad guy now"
You know how in Marvel movies where the villain starts saying stuff that sounds good, but then they do something evil to turn the audience against them? I imagine that's how it would feel for J.K. Rowling when the nazis start destroying research into gender identity, but then do genocide.
the episode of Invincible with the villain who wants to destroy Mt. Rushmore reeks so badly of this. starts talking about how it's racist and bullshit, then goes so far off the rails it's jarring
(I mean yes he's supposed to have CTE or whatever but it's still blatant)
I felt like that was mostly played for jokes. In the comics he's just a psycho attacking Mt. Rushmore and the writers decided to throw in at least some reason why.
yeah, I can see that interpretation. I only watched it once so I should probably rewatch it more sober again
It's also common knowledge in film and TV that if you want to get your more radical ideas past the network/execs/censors you give them to the bad guy. The dumbasses there see the bad guy saying good/socialist things and think "aha! Perfect propaganda!" then workers see a bad guy saying socialist things and think "oh shit, I want to be the bad guy now"