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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 7296677">So what?&nbsp; One of the defining elements of many of the stories you mention is the &quot;monster&quot; teaching the humies that their fear is unwarranted.&nbsp; There's no meaning playing the &quot;monsters story&quot; if you take the monstrous part out of it.Rather than fantasy, the better example here is X-Men.&nbsp; Normal folk naturally distrust that which is different, to varrying degrees and part of what is so compelling about the story of the X-Men is how these weird, different, powerful mutants work tirelessly to convince the normal folk that they are not dangerous freaks who should be killed on sight.&nbsp; The story becomes better when you account for the mutants who are perfectly happy to behave like monsters, regardless of how normal folk treat them.&nbsp; THAT is what makes the &quot;monsters story&quot; compelling.&nbsp; Being a &quot;monster&quot; when you're not even regarded as monstrous by the common folk isn't playing the monsters story, it's just playing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 7296677"] So what? One of the defining elements of many of the stories you mention is the "monster" teaching the humies that their fear is unwarranted. There's no [I]meaning[/I] playing the "monsters story" if you take the monstrous part out of it. Rather than fantasy, the better example here is X-Men. Normal folk naturally distrust that which is different, to varrying degrees and part of what is so [I]compelling[/I] about the story of [I]the[/I] X-Men is how these weird, different, powerful mutants work tirelessly to convince the normal folk that they are not dangerous freaks who should be killed on sight. The story becomes better when you account for the mutants who are perfectly happy to behave like monsters, regardless of how normal folk treat them. THAT is what makes the "monsters story" compelling. Being a "monster" when you're not even regarded as monstrous by the common folk isn't playing the monsters story, it's just playing. [/QUOTE]

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