DISCUSSING LESSER KNOWN ROGUES
I???? Feel like we should be more concerned about him???
First off,,, he uses mind control/brainwashing tech. That’s it. There should be no need for additional explanation. But that seems incredibly violating. I hate to say this, but in a twisted way we’re lucky his shtick isn’t about causing general chaos. The potential he has to do some terrible, terrible things to people is honestly frightening. Like, legitimately terrifying.
Secondly, his obsession with Alice in Wonderland. It’s not even the movies — it’s the book. The book by Lewis Carroll is not only creepy, but kinda problematic. I understand that at the time it was written it might not have been as . . . disturbing i guess?? But the fact that the Mad Hatter is basing his whole thing off of it rubs me wrong (more than his existence bothers me already, y’know??). This leads me to my third point.
The Mad Hatter has a type. I cannot emphasize enough what this must do to someone. Putting aside the fact that his type is the Aryan race,,, not many other rogues target people for their looks consistently. Yes, Mad Hatter will target anybody near him for run-of-the-mill schemes like robbing a bank,,, but for his themed crimes?? White, blonde girls with blue eyes — typically on the younger side.
With other Rogues, everyone kinda has an equal chance at being nabbed — putting aside wrong place wrong time, and being high profile. But imagine having to live with the knowledge that hey! A literal psychopath with the ability to mind control you could go out of his way to kidnap you and you’d never know it was coming! just because of the way a person looks. It’s a disturbingly similar concept to the “with the way she was dressed, she was asking for it” argument. Which,,,, just shut.
But I also think that what the victims have to deal with after the fact is what makes the Mad Hatter so very bad. They’ve had to deal with the fact that their mind was violated, and that they were forced to do things they never consented to. They’ve had to deal with not knowing what exactly they did, and not knowing if someone would recognize them and blame them. And the poor “Alices.” I know that a lot of the girls end up dying their hair and/or wearing contacts. Because they feel like the only thing they can do to feel safe is to change how they look. The Mad Hatter has, in a way, laid claim to certain features, and declared that anyone who has them is in danger. It’s obviously nobody’s fault but the Mad Hatter that the girls got taken, but most of the victims end up blaming their natural features for their kidnapping.
Tl;dr, the Mad Hatter is just a different kind of rapist who makes his victims blame themselves for what they couldn’t — or shouldn’t have to — control, and nobody’s talking about it.
