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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That was a good reading but

They’re subject to reimagining and reinterpretation.

That becomes a problem when for example the Korra fandom try to whitewash the nazi Kuvira to be something likeable. Okay the show itself try to do that but come on you should not agree with the bullshit the characters are saying(the authors are saying). The fandom can write an alternative universe that Kuvira is not a nazi piece of shit but why? Why the fixation on the nazi character?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Why the fixation on the nazi character?

    Because she was the only villain that was really humanised at all in the show, so people gravitate towards that. I think a better question would be "why did the writers of the show decide that the only villain who needed to be portrayed complexly and sympathetically was the Fascist?"

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    Why the fixation on the nazi character?

    Awesome Hitler effect where western writers make their villain Hitler but also really cool and stoic (also always conventionally attractive) Her death camps are reduced to passing dialogue and we never get a follow up on them (also the ideology behind her death camps is so contrived and incomprehensible as to basically provoke fanon).

    A lot of western action stories have a worrying amount of Awesome Hitlers.

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