I really do get annoyed when people woobify the bad guy & try to give reasons & excuses behind his/her badness. It makes me not like the bad guy/girl & unable to enjoy any scenes the baddie has in a movie or tv show Like Loki: yeah identity issues & being lied to (I think Odin was in the right but he also should have found a way to tell him at some point) but seriously- he went way to far off the rails and in the avengers, he killed too many people & was responsible for too many deaths.
Cannot be defended. At all. And yet, here's Thor, trying to get through to his brother, who loves Loki as his brother still, despite what he's done. And yet Thor gets shit on. With all the woobifying, it makes it hard for me to enjoy any of Loki's scenes now. The same with every other show or movie. Personally I think a lot of people make the villain a wooby because the actor or actress happens to be attractive, and it's our way of trying to deal with it that way. Unpopular opinion probably.
Unpopular opinion probably. I understand wanting backstory and background on villain, but not all villains had horrible childhoods, or tragedies in their life that make them evil. Sometimes, horrible people are just horrible people. Sorry for the multiple messages, they need to get rid of the character limit.
No biggie the ask character limit is a pain
I feel ya man, one of my main issues with wobbie-fying characters is that you take away what makes them interesting in the first place. As if erasing all the bad and/or horrible things they've done makes them "better" somehow.
Well it doesn't. It makes them cardboard cut-outs of characters and boring. Their complexities make characters interesting.
Ok so Loki has some angst in his past, that's cool, that makes him interesting. The fact that we, as viewers, have moments where we feel sorry for him, but at the same time watch as he becomes more and more twisted. The brilliance of it is that we saw how Loki became what he did, how he grew from a person who had cruel moments, and suffered from petty jealousy but ultimately did care for his family, into who he is now, a villain seeking false retribution and acknowledgement by killing and ultimately enslaving an entire planet.
His story is interesting because it could have gone another, perhaps, or maybe this is how Loki was always going to end up. That is what makes him interesting though! The ultimate tragedy of what could of been vs what actually has happened and watching the push and pull between Thor and Loki.
Speaking strictly MCU of course.
But omg taking all that and twisting it into "oh Loki sweet darling angel bb you just need a hug Thor you suck you're a terrible brother! It's everyone else's fault but Loki cause Loki is saaaaad"
Honestly I find that an insult to his character.
And I see it, ALL THE DAMN TIME, taking these interesting characters and erasing all the horrible things they've done (Snape from HP, Shane from Walking Dead, Draco from HP, Karofsky from glee, Matt from Teen Wolf, etc) all because of some angst or tragedy they've suffered. Cause somehow that makes up for every single horrible thing they've ever done in the history of ever.
And that just makes them so boooooooring to me.
