The villains in animations
By 0dickshouse0
@0dickshouse0 (79)
Taiwan
February 15, 2013 7:34am CST
There is an interesting question about animation in my FB fan page recently, "do villains necessarily have a miserrable past?"
I am on the side of "NO."
When I was young, I usually watch those of which bad guys had pitiful past or tremedous ambition (ex.conquering the world). However, I always thought those pitiful experiences were too simple to make people do such a bad thing, and I also thought that there were much more human beings suffering form the much more miserrable situation. I considered it illogical.
When I grow up, I comfirm this thinking more. Those who become serial killer and murder her husband might directly link to their past, but when we try to discuss those who try to slaughter millions of people for their own selfishness, things are different. They are usually smart and have a fortunate life.
This kind of thinking influences my favor of watching anime. The top bad guy in my mind is always the villain of "MAWARU Penguindrum." He answered the question "why you try to kill so many people" in this way, "because one day when I woke up, I just think I don't really like this world, so I decided to hold a massacre in Tokyo! (smile~)"
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
15 Feb 13
This discussion is/was linked to another discussion-start, "What if God is the Devil Himself?" And that kinda gives you an answer.
... well, that & a little study.
See--beside the names "I Am as I Am," "I Will Be as I Will Be," (possible-translation 'I Was as I Was,' but I only guess that because I don't know if Hebrew has 'different tenses' for the past & -the present/future), and whatever people make of yod-heh-vav-heh (the four Hebrew letters of The Tetragrammaton, the sign for the Unspoken Name)--
G*d once referred to Himself as one "whose name is Jealous." I.e. what's His is His & no-one or -thing else's 
And we--His children--want 'what's ours' (gracious gifts from Him) to be ours & no-one or -thing else's.
The only visible difference between G*d & Satan-when-he-was-Lucifer is the size of their armies---Lucifer with one-third of the angels, G*d with TWO-thirds.
Maybe if more of the angels had helped Lucifer--had informed him that the goal of the kingdom of Heaven was to use the angelic forces to hold us humans up as the supreme pinnacles of creation, that supreme-power is held in the foundation beneath our feet--then maybe he would have found the treasure (he thought he would find with god-status) with the fellowship of all the angels!
But no, the fellowship he found was the fellowship of enmity ("Satan" actually comes from the Hebrew for 'enemy, adversary')---the fellowship that leads to destruction.
I guess my point is The Secret---that your 'good guy'-ness depends upon whom you fellowship-with!
And we--His children--want 'what's ours' (gracious gifts from Him) to be ours & no-one or -thing else's.
The only visible difference between G*d & Satan-when-he-was-Lucifer is the size of their armies---Lucifer with one-third of the angels, G*d with TWO-thirds.
Maybe if more of the angels had helped Lucifer--had informed him that the goal of the kingdom of Heaven was to use the angelic forces to hold us humans up as the supreme pinnacles of creation, that supreme-power is held in the foundation beneath our feet--then maybe he would have found the treasure (he thought he would find with god-status) with the fellowship of all the angels!
But no, the fellowship he found was the fellowship of enmity ("Satan" actually comes from the Hebrew for 'enemy, adversary')---the fellowship that leads to destruction.
I guess my point is The Secret---that your 'good guy'-ness depends upon whom you fellowship-with!