LogFAQs > #886201481

It's normal and acceptable to be passionate about the fictional lives of characters in any form of media, because the entire point of art is to make you feel something, and the best performances of any entertainment product should succeed at that - whether it being making you like a character so much that you cry when they die or lose something precious, or to hate a villain character so strongly that it makes the hero's success all the more satisfying (see also, how many people wanted Joffrey dead in Game of Thrones).

If you wind up disliking characters you're clearly meant to like/empathize with, or loving people you're clearly supposed to be repulsed by, that's still relatively normal, but it also tends to imply that the writer of the piece absolutely failed at doing what they were supposed to do (ie, most of the time it's bad/stupid writing that leads you to reject the intended arc and start making your own).

I'm not going to go down all your examples (especially since I haven't seen some of them), but I can at least point out that the WWE is definitely an example of the writers not being able to find their ass with both hands and a map, so a lot of characters these days are falling flat, and a lot of the heels are coming across way more likeable or justifiable than the babyfaces are (*cough*Roman Reigns*cough*). That's not your fault (as much as the WWE likes to pretend that it is), that's their fault.

But in general, humans (at least in modern times) always tend to think that the bad guys are cooler than the good guys.


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