[ SECRET POST #4688 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4688 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[philstar22]

I'm the opposite. I love grand scale in scifi and fantasy. Things like this can show just how evil a villain is. Yes, it is cliche, but it works for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's really lazy, especially when the consequences aren't fully explored.

[philstar22]

Oh, I want the consequences to be explored. And it frustrates me when they aren't. I just like a grand scale.

[(Anonymous)]

“The death of one is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.”

No one cares when the nameless redshirts die because we aren’t invested. It’s why there isn’t nearly as much as an emotional value at stake when the villain is threatening a main character as opposed to blowing up a building filled with no names.

[(Anonymous)]

I also hate when action movies kills off hundreds of nameless extras, but for a different reason - I can't stop thinking about all those dead people.
When the villain has just killed a small town's worth of men, women and children, and the hero goes 'I can't kill him or I'll be as bad as him', I throw up my hands and go 'Fine, captain dipshit, but try not to look too surprised when he goes and murders another busload of orphans'.
When the tortured anti-hero *coughcough*Magneto*cough* reduces a city to rubble, I'm not going to be ecstatic about the heroes talking him down and bringing him to their side. Motherfucker didn't even say sorry!
How can I accept the ending I'm presented with as a happy ending when there are so many dead?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the same way. I'm always thinking about the nameless characters who get exploded or burned up and it frustrates me that no one else seems to care.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like they try to have it both ways. Like, it's evil until the redemption arc where everyone forgives because it's not like someone you know was killed.

[(Anonymous)]

I think I always know that IRL I wouldn't be the hero, I'd be a person in the background, so when background people die it's like I would die and no one who can do anything cares and who will tell my mom?

[(Anonymous)]

But the "people" who died literally aren't people, not even in the fictional sense of being characters. The only way they exist is by us being told they existed. It's "tell, don't show." How can you possibly care about such an abstract concept of a person? At least a villain has a personality and feelings. The "people" they kill don't even have that.

[(Anonymous)]

Um... when a town in Syria is wiped out by ISIS, or by Americans who mistook them for ISIS, I also feel bad, even though the only reason I know they ever existed is because the news just told me so.
On the level of basic emotional reactions, what's the difference?

[(Anonymous)]

The difference is that those are real people. That seems pretty obvious?

[tabaqui]

I don't think we're supposed to care except in the more abstract 'oh noes, they killed hundreds/thousands/millions, that is horrible!!'

Sort of cementing how 'evil' the evil one is.

[(Anonymous)]

I just find it lazy. Tbh, it doesn't even work for me. I'll forgive a villain blowing up nameless masses before I'd forgive one hurting a character I like.

[(Anonymous)]

This is pretty much how I felt about Rogue One.