Regarding the dust-up over "villain sympathizers"...

[touching_life]

My comments are as follows.

1. Fangirls aren't rational. Fanning isn't rational. Nobody is being particularly serious. Hello?

2. You can sympathize with someone's plight if not with their actions. Example: Harley Quinn, the Stockholm Syndrome Poster Girl.

3. You can sympathize with someone's purpose, goals and arguments, if not with their actions and

Comments

[_call_me_snake_]

There's an awesome interview with Kurt Russell on this exact point where he's talking about how it would be cool to be Snake if only to just not have to give a shit about anything else. The point is the same though that you can sympathize or like the idea of doing something you'd never actually do in real life because this is fiction and it is where we lose ourselves in the ability to pretend.

[touching_life]

O.O I must find this interview! *fangeek spaz attack*

But it's true. In anything but a survival situation, most people would avoid a true badass. And even those who consider a villain cool in fandom would head the other direction if some scarred, leering, actively homicidal loon in a purple suit actually showed up.

[_call_me_snake_]

I have it. I will upload it. It is from the collectors edition of Escape from New York. XD It shall appear on Snake's LJ shortly... as soon as I find it.

I'm not sure I'm so good at avoiding badasses, even in real life. However the Joker is a whole other ballpark that the brooding, bad boy type.

[_call_me_snake_]

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