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Me: Draws inspiration directly from real-world empires and capitalist powers when designing my story's antagonists (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by BeamBrain@hexbear.net to c/worldbuilding@hexbear.net

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Critiquers: "The bad guys in your setting are cartoonishly evil. No one in real life actually behaves like that."

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

Reality is grimdark.

[–] Vingst@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

give them a fluffy white cat to balance it out

[–] underisk@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

fictional villians rarely hold a candle to the real-life ones but it feels like most people assume there's some kind of cosmic force of justice balancing the scales in real life keeping them from exceeding the evils perpetrated by their fictional counterparts.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just link em the relevant histories

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Believe me, I don't pass up a chance to educate and agitate

[–] combat_doomerism@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

one thing you need to emphasize is these cartoonishly evil capitalists are in a way forced to do this. read https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god-2/ and https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/dark-eucharist-of-the-real-god/ to see what i mean. hell, since a lot of the worldbuilding in this comm is fantasy, it even makes sense to make it an actual god!

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I loosely based the plot of one of my novels on the original Star Wars. No one has figured this out yet even though hundreds of people have read the book so far. One commenter complained that the fascist villain in the story, who is based on Darth Vader, doesn’t have enough wins. And I was just thinking…bruh…you’re complaining about darth vader (I know it’s not exactly the same but still). And you’re also wishing that the fascist would win more. Plus, if you think about it, Darth Vader’s only real win in the original Star Wars is killing Obi-Wan Kenobi.