I always wonder if people who defend fictional villains online also think mass shootings are justified because the person committing them was in pain.
It’s one thing to acknowledge that the character is complex and that there were reasons for his evil deeds. It’s another thing to say therefore his deeds weren’t wrong at all.
Humans will readily disregard the humanity of vast classes of other humans. It’s especially easy to do it when those people are in fact fictional, but I think it’s the exact same mechanism. They just don’t extend humanity to those people.
While watching Dr Strange 2, I was very confident Wanda wouldn’t kill Wong. Why? Because the audience would be less likely to forgive her for killing an important character. Killing extras doesn’t hit the audience the same way emotionally. Audiences will forgive a morally grey character for mass murder more readily than the murder of a character we’ve gotten to know.
I think a lot of fans, like myself, wish there was more complexity to Slytherin house and have a different image of them than what they are in canon. But in canon they are absolutely the evil house with very few exceptions (Slughorn isn’t that bad but he is self-centered)
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I always wonder if people who defend fictional villains online also think mass shootings are justified because the person committing them was in pain.
It’s one thing to acknowledge that the character is complex and that there were reasons for his evil deeds. It’s another thing to say therefore his deeds weren’t wrong at all.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Humans will readily disregard the humanity of vast classes of other humans. It’s especially easy to do it when those people are in fact fictional, but I think it’s the exact same mechanism. They just don’t extend humanity to those people.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
While watching Dr Strange 2, I was very confident Wanda wouldn’t kill Wong. Why? Because the audience would be less likely to forgive her for killing an important character. Killing extras doesn’t hit the audience the same way emotionally. Audiences will forgive a morally grey character for mass murder more readily than the murder of a character we’ve gotten to know.
Aeao@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My ex wife has a slytherin tattoo from Harry Potter.
I read the books, slytherin house isn’t a well flushed story arch. They are just “the bad guys”
There’s not really any nuance to it. He’ll even the griffendor house is just “slytherin but we aren’t dicks about it”
They are just “the bad guys”
You relate to them how exactly? There only role is being a pain in the ass to everyone else!
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I think a lot of fans, like myself, wish there was more complexity to Slytherin house and have a different image of them than what they are in canon. But in canon they are absolutely the evil house with very few exceptions (Slughorn isn’t that bad but he is self-centered)
Aeao@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re a slytherin aren’t you ! Lol