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Funbazooka posted...

DarkTransient posted...

Funbazooka posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

given that most people in the US are white, its statistically more likely that the bad guy is white if you selected someone from the population randomly

That isn't true at all if one considers the statistics on crime in the U.S.

...Unless your measurements of what constitutes a "bad guy" has absolutely nothing to do with criminality, thereby contradicting literally everything associated with the nature of super-villains... then perhaps you'd be correct.

I think it's probably safe to assume that supervilliany and common crime aren't going to be too closely connected.

Fam_Fam was the one comparing fantasy make-believe to the real world. He's the one bringing it up, and there's nothing wrong with making that comparison, but his comparison is inaccurate.

The common characteristic of a "bad guy" is criminality and that extends to super-villains. Their crimes are usually on grander scale though... which is what makes them super-villains.

Why do I even have to explain this? I mean really. Why so disingenuous? I'm sure you know better.

let me clarify. I said if you randomly selected a person from the general population, and said, this person will be the supervillain in the movie, then the person would most likely be white. Same if you randomly selected from the population of male actors (assuming the villian is a male). This group is also mostly white. It is probably the case that most of the people who interviewed for the job are also white.

Obviously, they did not choose the super villain based on the population of criminals in the United States, which I agree is not mostly white (but of course, this is not how they choose movie characters)