As do I, in hindsight I should have written “just because they think the sith aesthetic is cool?”
Something of which is important because fascists use aesthetics as propaganda too. That “badass bad guy” aesthetic even makes real humans more charitable to fictional villains. Despite having the same ideology as the Sith, if you play RuneScape you’ll find out that Bandos is one of the least popular factions because very few people want to be associated with ugly, smelly goblins (doesn’t help they’re usually pushovers in combat.)
If I could have a gold standard for leftists portraying CHUDs: it would be the elf from elf comic. Red hair, wears green, famous for her massive superiority complex because of her race….literally just Vivian James but with an unsympathetic portrayal if the work is supposed to be light-hearted (huge shoutout to Jojo rabbit, should be a required film for lefties).
As for more serious works, I’m torn between demonstrating fascists and the evil they do, but the hero gets revenge on them in the most satisfying ways possible like Hayley does to Jeff (a misogynistic predator) in Hard Candy, or just portraying them as little more than punk teenagers trying to act big and tough, nothing compared to any real threat the heroes have to deal with.
I like the Jedi's aesthetic personally
As do I, in hindsight I should have written “just because they think the sith aesthetic is cool?”
Something of which is important because fascists use aesthetics as propaganda too. That “badass bad guy” aesthetic even makes real humans more charitable to fictional villains. Despite having the same ideology as the Sith, if you play RuneScape you’ll find out that Bandos is one of the least popular factions because very few people want to be associated with ugly, smelly goblins (doesn’t help they’re usually pushovers in combat.)
This is why fictional fascists should be portrayed as just as gross and pathetic as real fascists are.
If I could have a gold standard for leftists portraying CHUDs: it would be the elf from elf comic. Red hair, wears green, famous for her massive superiority complex because of her race….literally just Vivian James but with an unsympathetic portrayal if the work is supposed to be light-hearted (huge shoutout to Jojo rabbit, should be a required film for lefties).
As for more serious works, I’m torn between demonstrating fascists and the evil they do, but the hero gets revenge on them in the most satisfying ways possible like Hayley does to Jeff (a misogynistic predator) in Hard Candy, or just portraying them as little more than punk teenagers trying to act big and tough, nothing compared to any real threat the heroes have to deal with.