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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 25 points 1 day ago

Lazy villain characterization. Someone dresses in black or snarls a lot or is albino or has some physical marker that makes them different from others, therefore they are the villain.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I want villains with understandable goals. Evil for evil's sake has struck me as stupid since adulthood.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

Thanos was a great villain by this standard. He had lived through the suffering and collapse of his homeworld due to overpopulation, so his motivations actually made sense.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 4 hours ago

Omg the Thanos thing drives me CRAZY and I don't know why everyone else just gives it a pass.

There was no attempt at diplomacy with Thanos. If they just had a few diplomats talk about their needs, Thanos would have realized pretty quick that killing half of the humans wouldn't be the best way to obtain his goal.

Here's the proposition: how about you snap your fingers and make 99% of the population of overpopulated species sterile?

It would be wayyy more effective at meeting Thanos' goal (of reducing suffering caused by overpopulation) and literally nobody has to die!

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