Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26934487-20190623161059/@comment-4708902-20190831210513

Fetta-phantom1900 wrote: Godzillavkk wrote: Making children into surprise villains is a cheap and cowardly attempt at making a surprise villain that will cause more harm than good in the real world, and media needs to stop doing it.

Juvenille delinquints should be sent in for rehab, not put in prison, or given the death sentance. Regardless of the nature of their crime. The excuse "preventing them from growing into worse adults" is BS, and a knight templar ideal that's no better than the actions they take. are there really that many "surprise" child villains? I don't think i have watched anything that has that (well besides horror films but usually that is because of a demon or something). It's actually something I FEAR will become more common. Elfen Lied and Akame Ga Kill have done it, and now all their fandom are in favor of giving juvie delinquints the death penalty. And then MLP did it with Cozy Glow. I had hoped in the series finale, this would be corrected with redemption like with so many other villains. Instead it approved the very thing I've condemned Elfen Lied and Akame Ga Kill for approving. Child murder. Nothing, I repeat NOTHING, justifies child murder. Supernatural has also done this at times.

And now I fear that this trend could become more common in media. And I fear what real world consequences this could have. Fiction may be ficiton, but it's a form of media, and media has strong influence on reality that should not be underestimated, and I have firsthand experiance in that field. Years ago, a group of friends of mine began to adopt the beliefs of Eric Cartman after watching enough South Park episodes. They were began harrassing jewish people, blacks, scientologists, red haired people, etc.

Often, the shows I've mentioned (possibly with the exception of Supernatural and pre season 8 MLP) have bad morals that come with child villains. They say that you should be unkind, you should not trust people, that kindness and compassion will be repaid with treachery and violence, and that treachery and violence can only be answered with MORE violence. If you have power, regardless of what form it is, you can lord that power over others, and do harm to them. It says "Be afraid, be terrified, give into that fear, embrace every dark, sick, and inhuman part of your soul, and do everything to them, that they will do to you."

Is that something you want people to believe?