Hello y’all , there might be supervillians that you people may agree with times for various reasons , I would agree with Poison Ivy the most, what about you ?

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    Magneto. If someone is trying to genocide you, you don’t just ask nicely and hope that they change their mind. You fight them.

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      Magneto is wild depending on the setting, he goes between obviously right and trying to defend mutants to maniacal mass murderer for no good reason

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      I’ve appreciated a lot of these stories so much differently as an adult.

      Xavier, the good guy, is loaded and low-key supports mutant genocide because his motivation is to maintain the system that allows for out groups to be genocided.

      Magneto is attempting to make everyone safer by dismantling the systems of oppression.

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    The leader of the replicants in Blade Runner.

    If I’m not mistaken he’s only killed and attacked in self defense. He just wants to live.

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    Scar from The Lion King.

    Mufasa says that the lions keep the system in balance, but the system he’s describing is an absolute monarchy based on male primogeniture, with him and his family at the top. As the main beneficiary of the system, he’s not a reliable source of information.

    We see that not only the supposedly ‘bad’ hyenas but also ‘good’ characters like Timon and Pumba are outcasts forced to live off scraps, so clearly the system isn’t benefitting everyone, despite what we hear from Mufasa’s propaganda. We also know that, in fact, lions eat other animals, including the kinds shown bowing down to them at the beginning and end of the film. We never hear from these animals, but logic suggests that they’re bowing as much out of fear as fealty.

    Now, granted, Scar’s revolution doesn’t work out too well, given the famine that ensues, but he was at least trying for a more equitable distribution of resources than under Mufasa’s tyrannical reign.

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    • General Hummel, The Rock

    His only demanding was the compensation of families from fallen soldiers that were under his command.

    • The machines and agent Smith, The Matrix

    In the Animatrix we get the explaination that men made the machine that eventually enslaved them. The machines developed consciousness, were trying to life peacefully next to humanity, but humanity eventually chased them out. While creating their own colony even then machines were chased by men. So fight to survive and eventually supress humanity by creating ‘The Matrix’

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    Rhas al Ghul is the original longtermism.

    I think that philosophy, in it’s current techbro incarnation, is pretty… Dumb, but the way rhas talks about it, it kinda makes sense.

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    Rhas al Ghul is the original longtermism.

    I think that philosophy, in it’s current techbro incarnation, is pretty… Dumb, but the way rhas talks about it, it kinda makes sense.

    Edit: I most definitely did not reply to this comment. I hope @Ernest sees this.

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    This thread is fine , unless someone comes and says ,

    Donald trump>

    from Home alone 2 !!

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      Thanos is complete idiot. Life is the primary resource on which other life relies. Destroying half of all life in the universe is also destroying half the universe’s resources, accomplishing absolutely nothing.

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        I see you didn’t watch the video explaining the stabilization effect on a developed population

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      The movie thanos probably ? But he could have used mindstone to make all of us less greedy / sustainable etc ? The comic thanos just wanted to murder half the univ coz he was in love with lady death , who liked silver surfer more for having billions killed !

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        Eh, the think with thanos, though, is that being less greedy/more sustainable doesn’t change the inevitable overpopulation issues.

        Not that killing half the universe does, either, really. So it was pointless in the end

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          A sustainable development might have made the universe a better place to live ! Generally ecosystems anyway manage overpopulation issues !

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      I think Thanos had the right motives and goal (in the movies - I havnt read any comics) but his plan to get there wasn’t great. Even assuming removing half of the consuming population is the best solution available (if you can completely alter all of reality why not just make more or infinite resources?), his plan to just randomly select half the population, delete them, and leave them in their loved ones memories is overtly torturous and malicious to everyone in society. He could have taken more care in the selection process instead of just taking at random, or he could have altered people’s memories so they didn’t feel the loss.