Accidental Aesop: Difference between revisions

* [[Word of God]] is that the Aesop of ''[[Bioshock]]'' is that humans cannot live up to their ideals and thus any attempt to realize [[Utopia]] will fail. However, the first game was seen as an attack on [[Ayn Rand]] and the philosophy of [[Useful Notes/Objectivism|Objectivism]]. This was unintentional; Ken Levine is a libertarian who sympathizes with Objectivism even if he has his disagreements with it. Since the release of the sequel (which attacked collectivism), the intended aesop has become much clearer.

* Thanks to Capcom's [[Executive Meddling|inability to make new main characters]] the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series argues in favor of capital punishment, and possibly the dangers of racism. Because Dr. Wily was not executed after he was captured by the [[Fan Nickname|BlueBomber]] in ''6'' (the intended end point of the series), he {{spoiler|built Zero}}, causing a chain of events that, as of the ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'' series, has {{spoiler|killed more than half the population of earth, and has left the planet itself almost scorched beyond recovery, which oddly enough involved another human villain that also wasn't executed once captured by our robotic heroes, which only made things worse when said villain came back}}. Also, because Capcom hasn't continued the ''[[Mega Man ZX]]'' series, it's implied that in the ''[[Mega Man Legends]]'' series, {{spoiler|humanity has ultimately gone extinct}} because the legal system in this world couldn't put down a [[Mad Scientist]] who had certainly caused enough chaos to warrant such a punishment.

*** What seems to be the be a running theme in the series is that all of the problems stem from people charged with protecting the innocent not doing their jobs properly. The government neither executed Dr. Wily when he was caught, nor stepped in and ordered Dr. Light to take lethal measures at an earlier time. Also, a cut-scene in the fourth ''[[Mega Man X]]'' game shows {{spoiler|Sigma fought a Maverick Zero when he was still a Hunter. He lost because he didn't take Zero out immediately with his sword, even though his job was to kill Mavericks as quickly as possible, and decided to screw around. If he had done this, the events of the X and subsequent series wouldn't have happened.}}

* ''[[Minecraft]]'' has a stunningly powerful [[Green Aesop]] as the player discovers [[Scenery Porn|grand sweeping vistas]] and slowly corrupts and ruins it, looking back only to find the landscape perverted by their own desires, a shell of its former self. Many players try and keep the landscape as pristine as possible just to avoid this. According to Notch, this was completely accidental and people probably shouldn't read so much into it.