Antagonist: If my ideology is enacted, everything will be better!

Liberal Protagonists: oh fuck how will we deal with this, I have no arguments to defend the status quo

Antagonist: just kidding, all that ideology was a trick, I'm Just Evil™

And then they can kill him without thinking about anything at all. Happens all the time.

Off the top of my head is legend of korra (I know im 2 weeks late for that discourse) the Black Panther movie, and even Pokemon Black/White have the same themes

    • kilternkafuffle [any]
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      4 years ago

      I liked the fan theory that the Death Stars were really meant to defend against overpowerful alien invaders from another galaxy that Palpatine sensed would come in the future. Otherwise the Death Stars seem like unnecessary overkill to deal with the internal threats to the Empire. (So Palpatine was still evil, but he at least had a motivation to acquire power and run an empire.) Then the sequel movies could have been about an entirely new enemy. ...But instead they decided to create nothing new and recycle the old shit.