I have thought about how in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Soviet Union officials are the villains, but they are shown to be acting in reaction to existing United States weaponry and technology that is threatening their country and government. RedLetterMedia does good job of explaining this in their review of the movie.

However, their main goal is to use the titular skull for mind control against Earth's population.

  • Hoyt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The hardline faction leaders in The Expanse are an example. Anderson Dawes and Marcos Inaros articulate an anti-imperialist freedom-fighting that squares up pretty well with things like Fannon's writings, but they are characterized as vaguely evil. The "good" characters never have any kind of concrete ideology, so they kinda float around trying to do their best with no plan and a very lib-brained "just make good decisions" vibe.

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    ___Oh except Marcos throwing a bunch of asteroids and killing millions of people probably wasn't great, but up until then he, like Dawes, were bad because the good characters said so.

    • dallasw
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      1 year ago

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      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago
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        To be fair, it didn't seem like they had a lot of accuracy with the asteroids, half of them missed and that one burnt up orbiting the sun. Still, their ships were way better than anyone else's and they could have just rolled the blockade (which they did).

        Didn't they also do the asteroid thing to get Earth to reveal the location of their defenses too? Or was that not stated.

    • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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      3 years ago
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      Marcos is presented as an absolute sociopath that only uses ideology to further his own goals, and is otherwise abusive and shitty. Beside him the OPA are kinda sympathetic

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago
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        Fred Johnson and Klaes Ashford were the best OPA leaders, too bad they dead and Marco "Pol Pot" Inaros is in charge