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<blockquote data-quote="Scruffy nerf herder" data-source="post: 8557437" data-attributes="member: 7034614">I'm not sure why you think of fictional villains along the same line as real world social deviants who hurt people.The real world doesn't have melodrama it just has drama. The real world doesn't have super crazy powerful guys like Darth Vader running around.In the real world, terrible people aren't all that interesting because for the most part: they're often cowards in the worst sense, and/or pretty childish and just a slave to their desires. They aren't fun to think about because it's so arbitrary and the ways that they think and justify such behavior are so thoroughly stupid. &quot;I was following orders&quot;, yada yada you all have heard the tropes.But Darth Vader isn't like that. He's surprisingly mature and tragic and kind of insane. He is personable. That is a fictional villain. They might make you question what humanity is, but real world villains just plain make you despair about human nature and that's not at all what fiction is about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scruffy nerf herder, post: 8557437, member: 7034614"] I'm not sure why you think of fictional villains along the same line as real world social deviants who hurt people. The real world doesn't have melodrama it just has drama. The real world doesn't have super crazy powerful guys like Darth Vader running around. In the real world, terrible people aren't all that interesting because for the most part: they're often cowards in the worst sense, and/or pretty childish and just a slave to their desires. They aren't fun to think about because it's so arbitrary and the ways that they think and justify such behavior are so thoroughly stupid. "I was following orders", yada yada you all have heard the tropes. But Darth Vader isn't like that. He's surprisingly mature and tragic and kind of insane. He is personable. That is a fictional villain. They might make you question what humanity is, but real world villains just plain make you despair about human nature and that's not at all what fiction is about. [/QUOTE]

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