Do you root for the bad guy?

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Do you root for the bad guy in superhero stories?

Always	8%	[ 5 ]
Always	8%	[ 5 ]
Usually	15%	[ 10 ]
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Sometimes	18%	[ 12 ]
Sometimes	18%	[ 12 ]
Never	9%	[ 6 ]
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21 Jul 2006, 9:45 pm

I went to see Superman and TBH I didn't like it when Superman recovered from the kryptonite, I wanted Lex Luthor to win at least once. I usually root for the bad guy and I was wondering if it is common among aspies.

BTW I'm no talking about the types of movies where the audience is supposed to like the bad guys, like in the Godfather for example.

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21 Jul 2006, 9:50 pm

What would be the point? You know they'll always end up losing.

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21 Jul 2006, 9:56 pm

Vinzer wrote:

What would be the point? You know they'll always end up losing.

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21 Jul 2006, 9:59 pm

Yeah I route for the bad guys often. Have you notice how fake Hollywood
is usually making the bad guys out to be the most evil monsters. When in
the real world a bad guy is rarely that evil. I like it when the good guys are
a little bad to. The Miama Vice ending where the good guys did not win
everytime was cool. I did not see the latest Superman. But in the first two
Lex was the man! He was not born with super powers he had to build everything
with his mind. The bad guy an aspie hero! ha,ha,ha

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21 Jul 2006, 10:04 pm

I think movies are dumb.

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21 Jul 2006, 10:09 pm

I'm not a big fan of movies. I get too hyperactive to watch them properly.

Now, with books I sometimes cheer on the bad guy if I've decided the hero(ine) is too loathsome. Of course, when the writer is that bad I'm often too stymied to find anyone even remotely interesting to cheer on, in which case I try to find the character with the most brains or common sense and vote for them (or fling the book across the room).

Of course, the hero's always going to win. That just makes it more annoying.

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21 Jul 2006, 10:39 pm

A combination of an insipid hero with a well-spoken, amusing villain will have me rooting for the bad guy every single time.

And I love anti-heros.

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22 Jul 2006, 12:01 am

I rooted for Jack Nicholas' charecter in "A Few Good Men". He WAS the hero as far as I was concerned.

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22 Jul 2006, 1:12 am

Absolutely. Villains are easier to identify with usaully, and tend to be more developed characters.

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22 Jul 2006, 4:46 am

Well I certainly was behind Magneto in the X men trillogy. Then again i think we can all feel a bit of sympathy for him.

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22 Jul 2006, 5:05 am

I usually like bad guys best, after all the get the best lines

And anti heroes are even better.

They rock

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22 Jul 2006, 6:47 am

Scrapheap wrote:

I rooted for Jack Nicholas' charecter in...

...Batman. Another brilliant and misunderstood malcontent.

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22 Jul 2006, 7:57 am

Sometimes.

My friend and I think it's funny, for example Harry Potter, ect.

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22 Jul 2006, 9:52 am

I dont watch superhero movies anymore, but ill usually root for the criminals in those real-life police documentaries.

Theres was a UK show where you could watch people being grilled for benefit fraud - ill root for them to stay cool, say the right things & wriggle out of trouble, but usually they'll crack under the pressure, start babbling and incriminate themselves needlessly.

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22 Jul 2006, 4:46 pm

It's not so much that I like the bad guy to win, but that I hate the predictability and cliched endings that, to me, make it seem pointless to watch.
I don't want to see a movie or tv show where I know exactly what is going to happen and how it will end, where is the fun or interest in that?

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