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05 May 2017, 7:35 am

When you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. We can be heroes and villains and everything inbetween. It wouldn't be a problem, and could actually be very cool. The motive could be because they were ill treated in life, or they could just be a stone cold, calculating, creepily obsessed Motherf***er using autistic traits to their advantage. It would bring new meaning to "weaponised autism." :P



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31 Mar 2020, 6:51 am

SpreadsheetMaster wrote:
My autistic villain was bullied at school, by both students and staff, and abused by both of his parents, and used his powers to kill everyone at his school, his parents, and his younger siblings (his siblings were kind to him, but in his blind rage he killed them too; he feels guilt over killing them but tries to justify it to himself). He now seeks to use his powers to destroy all authority figures- rulers, gods, etc.- in favor of ruling himself to purge all the wrongs in the multiverse (big scale here), and thinks anything he does towards that end is justified. I guess that should work then.


Heh. Kinda reminds of a villain in this animated series I'm working on that is on the spectrum (then again, so is every other character). My villain, who goes by the name of Imaginee, used to be picked on for not being as smart as everyone else in his school as well as being physically abused by his mother, who had a comorbid bipolar disorder to go with her autism. Throw in the fact that both of his parents were Catholic and he quickly became disillusioned with the idea of God and morality. That said, given how he now murders and tortures people for the funsies as well as going around planet-to-planet committing mass murder and forcibly converts the survivors into cybernetically-enhanced zombies in his way of bringing order to what he considers an orderless universe, his backstory is not played for sympathy at all.

Anyway, I don't think it would be offensive at all to have an autistic villain, as long as you do it right.



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31 Mar 2020, 1:36 pm

TheLeondude wrote:
SpreadsheetMaster wrote:
My autistic villain was bullied at school, by both students and staff, and abused by both of his parents, and used his powers to kill everyone at his school, his parents, and his younger siblings (his siblings were kind to him, but in his blind rage he killed them too; he feels guilt over killing them but tries to justify it to himself). He now seeks to use his powers to destroy all authority figures- rulers, gods, etc.- in favor of ruling himself to purge all the wrongs in the multiverse (big scale here), and thinks anything he does towards that end is justified. I guess that should work then.


Heh. Kinda reminds of a villain in this animated series I'm working on that is on the spectrum (then again, so is every other character). My villain, who goes by the name of Imaginee, used to be picked on for not being as smart as everyone else in his school as well as being physically abused by his mother, who had a comorbid bipolar disorder to go with her autism. Throw in the fact that both of his parents were Catholic and he quickly became disillusioned with the idea of God and morality. That said, given how he now murders and tortures people for the funsies as well as going around planet-to-planet committing mass murder and forcibly converts the survivors into cybernetically-enhanced zombies in his way of bringing order to what he considers an orderless universe, his backstory is not played for sympathy at all.

Anyway, I don't think it would be offensive at all to have an autistic villain, as long as you do it right.


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31 Mar 2020, 10:23 pm

Of course not. Are we incapable of behaving villainously?

Who cares if it's offensive, some people just look for excuses to whine.


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