do you like bad guys to be a little more human or do you just like them to be evil just because there evil.?

Question

It seems to me that in America we don't seem to explore the human sides of villains in our comics and just make pure evil without any trace of humanity. in manga there seems to be various types of good and bad and people that aren't either.

why is that

why do us Americans see things in such black and white perspective.

Answer 1

It’s so we can cheer when they are humiliated, caught or destroyed at the end, without having to feel any traces of sympathy or compassion. Funny how that works: we all want our own enemies destroyed without mercy, but when we are caught doing something wrong, it isn’t our fault.

Our mother goes on TV to tell the world that her precious darling innocent baby angel never did a thing wrong in his life. It’s all a frame by those nasty cops. We tell everybody that it was a mistake, that it was a botched joke, that we didn’t mean it. We apologize “if” we hurt anybody or “if “ we did anything wrong, we had a problem but it’s okay now because we’re going into rehab for it starting tomorrow!

You get the idea. Deep down, we all want to be the ‘one-eyed king’ in the city of the blind. We all want stricter laws, that should apply to other people. But we should be allowed to argue our way out of speeding tickets, ourselves.

To paraphrase what you said, there are people that are bad. Then, there are people who aren’t good, either.

18 FEB 07, 2105 hrs, GMT.

Answer 2

I'm not American but I'd say the "black or white" approach is easier to use, because the characters don't need a lot of depth. Adding depth to them can be rather difficult for writers. Also, depending on the target group of a comic (not only, a movie, a book and so on) it's usually more convenient to use the black or white dynamic so that the comic is more accessible. After all, it's convenient for both politic and religious rhetoric to label things as solely good or evil and not acknowledge the shades of grey inbetween.

Answer 3

I think that people are wrong in writing literature in which the bad guy is the bad guy because he is completely evil with no trace of humanity. However, the best books and comics are those in which the villain is developed through the plot and is a dynamic character with human thoughts, feelings, and motives.

Answer 4

Well, I would prefer the good guys to be human, instead of them being dehumanized and do bad things to make them more 'human and real'.

I actually prefer all the characters to be good guys without any of them being bad.

IF there're going 'bad guys', I prefer these 'bad guys' to think and/or do 'bad' things since they see these things as 'good' in their eyes, plus never think and/or do things seen as 'good' by the 'good guys' or the viewers (assuming the viewers are 'good').

The same goes for the 'good guys'.

In short, in ain't pleasant looking at a bunch of people not adhering to their code of ethics and/or even have conflicting code of ethics, since if that happened, they all including the 'good guys' become bad guys.

Suffice to say, the reimagined BullShit... er, I mean "BattleStar Galactica" and something similiar is not what I want to see.

But hey, if you get entertained out of seeing corrupted people and hypocrites do their actions, feel free to do so.

However, it's not correct to potray humans doing inhumane things, all humans are good guys in the eyes of humans, but there's a non-human factor that made some humans do inhumane things and made them potrayed humans as inhumane. In short, if you want bad guys, they can't be humans.



I like it in the PlayStation 2 game "Grafitti Kingdom", where in the end, the demon stay acting like demons and the heroes stay acting like heroes. The demons mess things up, the heroes clean them up, then demons mess things again, and so on...

Answer 5

Because we in America, I believe want things, including human beings to be simplistic, in nature. Cut and dry characteristics , found in most cartoons produced over here, make us feel distance from the so-called evilness found in evil characters, thus giving us the false hope that we are nothing like what we see on the screen. Cut and dry characters make us feel good about ourselves because we can be convinced we are nothing like them, even though each of us is ready willing and able to commit acts of evilness. It's set boundaries within our culture (and in most cartoons) that do not allow us to follow the path of evilness.

Cut and dry characters are punished by the dominant society because they step outside the norms. Most Americans like this because it gives them a sense of control over a chaotic world. It gives them a sense of power they would not have otherwise. But what they don't realize, is that all humans have a certain need for a small amount of chaos. Good, in their minds, triumphs over evil and all is right in the world. Chaos is destroyed. No one is threatened about their need for chaos.

However, there are those of us who want to explore this evilness, without delving into our darkest part of the human nature. That's why many anime fanatics like me are drawn to characters who express both good and evil. In anime, the best characters show they can have good characteristics as well as bad.

Answer 6

I like them to have a little more humanity too them, or at least have a good reason that they're that way.

The mentality of

"Why is your villian evil?"

"Because he's trying to take over the world!"

"Why is he trying to take over the world?"

"Because he's evil!"

is fun for the first fifty times you hear it, but it eventually starts to get annoying.

Answer 7

I agree i like for their to be gray areas