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What is a story were the main villain actually turned out to be the good guy? (midwest.social)

submitted 9 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] atimehoodie@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

The Good Place, season 2.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

Despicable Me?

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

Avatar: The Last Airbender

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[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Assuming you're counting stories where the villain did very bad things for the purpose of a doing something good, there is an anime from 2005 called Speed Grapher.

[–] mortrek@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Oof that was a hard one to watch sometimes

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago

"Villains by Necessity" by Eve Forward.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

The Sixth Day, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's please-take-me-seriously projects, is possibly the wrongest it is possible to be about whether clones are people. Still a fun movie. Just ass-backwards in its motivation. I'm not sure how much of its moral grey area was intended by the script or the direction. The anti-clone "good guys" are pretty terrorist-coded. Arnie's just caught up in the middle of their guerrilla fight against a generic corporate bad guy. Who solved death. How terrible.

Off-topic Schwarzenegger faff: End Of Days is dumb. Jingle All The Way is the most 90s Christmas movie possible. Eraser is a slick action movie that somehow has no cultural cachet outside of every video game with a railgun.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Sophia, Garden of Eden, Genesis

[–] dead@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Saw X

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I'd say that's an "everyone sucks here" type of story.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Gru in Despicable Me.

Zangief in Wreck-it Ralph: "You are bad guy but this does not mean you are bad guy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

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