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Has there existed a Bad Guy that was volontarly Boring? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net to c/books@lemmy.ml

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Writing a Good Bad Guy in Books (In Fact any media) is the "classic choice" sometimes they are really poorly made, and don't work. Other times, they are loved so much that when the character was only added to kill the hero, they end up becoming an Icon

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[–] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh my god, this is a book in a book

John Galt’s Speech from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's meant to be the hero, but it's all such a joke... and he's the rich man who can control it all! Like, my eyes couldn't roll any harder. He's the "hero" of her story but I've never unearthed a more boring or evil motherfucker.

When people say "The banality of evil" my mind goes "John Galt."