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{{quote|''"In the first film, the Nothing was [[Eldritch Abomination|an abstract entity]]. In the second film, the Emptiness was [[Anthropomorphic Personification|the human form of dying imagination]]. In this film, it's literally just a bunch of bullies named "[[Accidental Innuendo|the Nasties]]"? How fucking uninspiring is that?! To go from complex ideas destroying worlds to [[Jack Black|one half]] of [[Tenacious D]] acting like a dick-mule! [[Sarcasm Mode|Boy, they keep upping the ante, don't they]]?"''|'''[[The Nostalgia Critic]]''', in his review of ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story III: Escape From Fantasia]]''}}
{{quote|Pity the modern supervillain. Unlike Professor Moriarty in [[Sherlock Holmes]], he is not a master criminal. Unlike [[Flash Gordon (film)|Ming the Merciless]], he cannot be a inscrutable Other whose villainy can be neatly reduced via racist pseudoscience to his origins. The [[Cold War]] is over and the overseas box office necessary for capital-intensive movies to actually make back their production and distribution costs narrows the range of potential foreign adversaries for heroes to battle. A combination of Hollywood political correctness and understandable audience discomfort with ten years of war nixes al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or Iran from the list of possible villains. Most Americans have studiously ignored the horrific slaughter perpetrated by Mexican drug cartels. So what drives the modern supervillain and how does he (or she) carry out dastardly deeds?
The modern supervillain is truly a sad creature.
| ''[https://blogtarkin.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/strategy-and-the-supervillain-problem/ Strategy and the Supervillain Problem ]'' by '''Adam Elkus''' on Grand Blog Tarkin}}
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