The fact that villains like Doctor Octopus and Two-Face appeal to me probably says something about my internal nature. In the same way that I like hulk, it's probably because I have an angry temperament that I never really comfortable expressing around anyone besides my dad. But when things really get me angry, they contribute to the persistently boiling inferno of anger and stress inside me. Doctor Octopus was pushed around by everyone around him. In the spectacular spider man, that was especially apparent. That man was bullied mercilessly by his boss. Harvey Dent was also someone who had repressed anger and trauma from it (at least in his only major adaptation I saw as a kid, a rerun of Btas). This either affected my future development or it was just proof of my problems even as a young child. It doesn't matter to me either way, but it's an interesting thing to remember.
I still always have fondness for these villains. Now that I think about it, Doctor Octopus treated his enemies probably not dissimilar from the way I imagined revenge on my childhood bully in grade 4. Oh, the catharsis of imagining torturing someone who makes you miserable...even if it's never acted on, it sure can be freeing. I don't remember any specific things I imagined now, but I know it probably wasn't very nice. To be fair, it was a bad year for me. Grade 4 sucked, but it did teach me to issue threats jn private when i'm mad. I'm not above saying things of an extreme and hyperbolic nature when I'm mad sometimes. But that's a topic for another time, so I'll end this post here.
