Rooting for the Empire: Difference between revisions
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*** Though the movies do imply that Vader doesn't actually ''like'' the Emperor (probably for the whole "you turned me into a monster" thing) and really is concerned with [[Utopia Justifies the Means|bringing order to the galaxy]] (alongside [[We Can Rule Together|Luke]]), and recognizes Palpatine for the [[Despotism Justifies the Means|self serving prick]] that he is. He's ruthless, but he at least likes to ''believe'' he's a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]].
** See under '''Video Games''' the entry for ''<nowiki>Star Wars: TIE Fighter</nowiki>'', an early [[Retcon]] that made fighter-pilot duty nowhere near as terrible (or as suicidal) as it appears in the films.
*** I dunno, the revelation that your protagonist was Force sensitive sort of undermines that -- it implies that TIE pilot duty was only survivable for you because you have superpowers.
** The case for the Empire is well summarized [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/248ipzbt.asp here]
** With ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'', Lucas had this happen ''intentionally'': the movie introduces the sympathetic Clonetroopers, who save the Jedi and rout the movie's villains. Then comes the finale, and the movie reminds that the watchers had been rooting for what will become The Empire by giving them the Imperial March as score.
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*** It wasn't just fans. Ledger became the first actor in history to ''win an Oscar'' ([[Dead Artists Are Better|albeit posthumously]]) for playing a character in a film adaptation of a comic, although [[Dick Tracy (film)|Al Pacino]], [[Road to Perdition|Paul Newman]], and [[A History of Violence|William Hurt]] had all previously been nominated.
* ''[[Green Lantern]]'', where the hero is a lazy, irresponsible, egotistical [[Jerkass]], and the villain, a smart, responsible, shy man who's been bullied by his father his entire life.
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