Rousseau Was Right: Difference between revisions

** Given that the [[Big Bad]] is an [[Affably Evil]] [[Noble Demon]]...

* ''[[Metal Gear]]'' has this as a running theme. No matter how depraved a villain, they will either be a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], or have a very elaborate [[Freudian Excuse]]. Psycho Mantis? Burned down his hometown as a child, and then was 'infected' by the mind of a serial killer. Vamp? He was traumatically forced to drink his family's blood, and then [[Depraved Bisexual|his lover and the father of his best friend]] was murdered. Fatman? He was bullied all his life to the point where the only person he cared about was his bomb disposal instructor who he then sought to surpass. Ocelot tortures people and does [[Gambit Pileup|what he does]] for love of Big Boss. The only truly evil character who doesn't have a tragic backstory explaining their villainy is Volgin, and even he has some leading dialogue about his relationship with his father, the inheritor of a cartoonishly large sum of money. Then there's Coldman who is a complete psycho who plans on inciting a nuclear war just to prove his point on human behavior.

 

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