Not So Different/Web Original

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Examples of Not So Different in Web Original include:

• Made explicit near the end of Fine Structure, when one of the heroes calls out the alleged Big Good for being not so different from the Big Bad. The current version of the chapter is actually toned down from the original, which went even further with the Black and Grey Morality; the "deleted scene" Marooned in the extras has a discussion by the author about the Alternate Character Interpretation implied by the original version and why it was changed.
• Lampshaded in the blog-novel Flyover City!, when the protagonist tells the big bad “…you know, we really aren't so different, you and I. Us, I mean.” - which compels the villain to list off all the ways they are emphatically not alike.
• In the Whateley Universe story "It's Good to be the Don", Don Sebastiano gives this spiel to part of Team Kimba as he tries to lure them into his group. It nearly works.
  • In "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl", Phase successfully tries this routine on Jobe. But Phase is one of the main heroes, and Jobe is the son of a supervillain.
• After Ink City's Event #1, Heloise attempts to convince Yakko that they share common ground—and that they can rule together if he just gives in to The Dark Side.
• This article in The Onion: Villain Contends He, Hero 'Very Much Alike'.
• In Echo Chamber, Mr. Administrator claims that he is not so different from Zack.

"You are wondering why I have given you this task. Why I trust you. My reasoning is not so difficult to understand, after all, we are similar. Your father is pushing you into a life you don't want, and my father... well... Let's just say I sympathize."

• In Greek Ninja Sasha and Daichi are like this. After their fight, she tells him:

'You have no purpose. Life is mundane to you. Each day is just another day you have to get through with. You are surrounded by nothing that’s really important to you. So why should you fight to protect it? I understand cause that’s the way I was.'

• Dragon Age Redemption gives us the lead character Tallis and her first ally, Cairn, who serve two opposing masters. Over the story, it is revealed that the two of them actually have very similar moral theologies. Both of them have defied their superiors and went renegade to deliver their own brand of justice. Tallis killed an Orlesian when she discovered he raped slave girls, and Cairn attempted to kill the Saarebas when they slaughtered his family.
• Racism Simulator by Uncle Chang — add-on for Chrome and Firefox written to demonstrate double standards of the progressive sites. It has Racism Mode (mostly swaps "white" and "black"), Sexism Mode ("men" and "women", etc, though the author had to make up silly equivalents for feminist newspeak), Orange Is The New Black (swaps "Trump" and "Obama") and Literally Hitler mode (replaces various forms of "white" with "Jews[ish]", which lives up to its name on Salon with all the "*s must be stopped!", Buzzfeed clickbait titles interspersed with "Things *s Ruined", and so on).

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