And usually the main villain is an anarchist/communist-coded character whose goals are relatively sympathetic and line up with a lot of your own (wonder why?) but OOPS! They do something completely irrational and awful near the end that gOeS tOo fAr. Usually the rationale is something like "I want them to suffer like I/we have," (Eg: Menendez from Black Ops 2, not technically a villain but Rebecca Thorne from Mirrors Edge Catalyst) which I've literally never heard any leftist say irl. The CIA's got its tentacles in all popular media, but sometimes they don't even have to do anything because we're all so propagandized we'll do psyops on each other.
And usually the main villain is an anarchist/communist-coded character whose goals are relatively sympathetic and line up with a lot of your own (wonder why?) but OOPS! They do something completely irrational and awful near the end that gOeS tOo fAr. Usually the rationale is something like "I want them to suffer like I/we have," (Eg: Menendez from Black Ops 2, not technically a villain but Rebecca Thorne from Mirrors Edge Catalyst) which I've literally never heard any leftist say irl. The CIA's got its tentacles in all popular media, but sometimes they don't even have to do anything because we're all so propagandized we'll do psyops on each other.