Current Events > Was Victor LaRue from Walker: Texas Ranger an incel? (spoilers I guess)

(+) Yeah! (+)

When he gets out of jail in one of his episode, he appears to go straight. If he handles himself well, he could go on to become a relatively well-liked guy and probably get a reasonably attractive woman to be with him. Instead he continues to stalk and harrass a woman he attempted to rape, because he feels entitled to her and sees himself as the beleaguered good guy being beaten down and stripped of his rightful bounty by an unworthy other. He hates that he was rejected by a woman he likes, and rather than take the L, he'll insist that his warped viewpoint is correct and it's society that is wrong. That she's wrong for rejecting him, and that she should feel grateful for his affections.

He's frustrated by the subject of his affections being repulsed by him, and when he finds that she prefers another man over him - someone who takes action and is virtuous, not sleazy and cowardly like he is - he turns violent and attacks the other man when he's in a helpless state. He has no greater pleasure than dealing out punishment to those he sees as less worthy than him, then having sex with their girlfriends. He's always a victim in his own mind, but highly unsympathetic and detestable as a human being to anyone with half a brain.

Victor LaRue is a pretty ham-fisted soap opera-level villain, made to be as unsympathetic and deranged as possible. But did the show manage to accidentally hit the incel stereotype on the head? Probably not, because he actually takes action unlike the usual basement dwelling weiner-jacker, but Christ - what an unpleasant, shitty coincidence.

definitely an overreaction, I'm trying to get to sleep in a hotel room and Walker Texas Ranger is on as background noise
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