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This didn’t used to be unpopular. I really thought this site as a whole except for some outliers were hip to the way of things. But no, we’re back to square one like when I first started here many years ago. It should not be controversial for me to say that being a victim in the past does not excuse a villain. Your character can come from bad circumstances and still be a bad person of their own volition, and still need to be called out on their actions. There’s nothing wrong with humanizing your villains, or outlining the effect that their upbringing had on them... but I’m seeing too many white boy villains whose acts of evil or wanton dickery is swept under the rug because they are white boys that the userbase and their fans can’t stand to acknowledge as a bad person with no excuse to be a bad person.
The overarching interconnected plot of the MCU didn’t really end up that great and the standalone movies have become the new gold standard for me. I’m more interested in personal stories than the constant character shilling in crossover films. I don’t dislike the characters so much as how they’re written in these events.
Ragnarok is still a bad movie as part of a franchise and I don’t think I’ll ever like it. The more time that passes I’m less demonstrably earth shatteringly fuck all mad and more exhausted that this is the direction that everything has taken. I hate it. I’m just too tired of the same old shit that’s apparently going to be the new standard based on phase whatever news to get mad about it anymore.
