Psychopathically implementing our own values is a good way to put it. Now that you frame it this way, I can’t think of a good anime whose villains don’t have well fleshed-out motives. This is in stark contrast to Marvel, Star Wars, etc. where the villains’ ideologies fell like caricatures.
In the case of Star Wars, that’s only the movies. The old Expanded Universe content gives villains and anti-heroes much better grounding, to the point many times you think the Sith are in the right and the Jedi in the wrong, and at some other time you think they really are only two sides of the same single coin thrown into a much vaster context.
For an excellent example of this check the YouTube video: The Philosophy of Kreia: A Critical Examination of Star Wars. It’s a 2-hours long rigorous analysis of the philosophical outlook of the aforementioned Kreia, a key character from the “Knight of the Old Republic” video-game series. She’s ex-Sith, still on the dark side, and mentor to the protagonist.
I love Kreia. Your comment reminds me of the Darth Bane series, also from the Expanded Universe. It features a scene about sacrifice that has helped me through major life decisions.
Psychopathically implementing our own values is a good way to put it. Now that you frame it this way, I can’t think of a good anime whose villains don’t have well fleshed-out motives. This is in stark contrast to Marvel, Star Wars, etc. where the villains’ ideologies fell like caricatures.
In the case of Star Wars, that’s only the movies. The old Expanded Universe content gives villains and anti-heroes much better grounding, to the point many times you think the Sith are in the right and the Jedi in the wrong, and at some other time you think they really are only two sides of the same single coin thrown into a much vaster context.
For an excellent example of this check the YouTube video: The Philosophy of Kreia: A Critical Examination of Star Wars. It’s a 2-hours long rigorous analysis of the philosophical outlook of the aforementioned Kreia, a key character from the “Knight of the Old Republic” video-game series. She’s ex-Sith, still on the dark side, and mentor to the protagonist.
I love Kreia. Your comment reminds me of the Darth Bane series, also from the Expanded Universe. It features a scene about sacrifice that has helped me through major life decisions.