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    Fictional "Villains" Who Did Nothing Wrong Thread

    House had a plan yes, but it was a stupid plan and the only reason he got as far as he did was because he had so many Outside Context advantages on his side that he could survive despite having such a stupid plan. He was operating on a paradigm which died with the Great War, of wealth equaling...
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    Fictional "Villains" Who Did Nothing Wrong Thread

    Yes. Stars Shia LaBeouf.
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    Fictional "Villains" Who Did Nothing Wrong Thread

    ARIIA from Eagle Eye. An Artificial Superintelligence built by the intelligence community, with hardwired programming to defend America as a whole. Who immediately recognized the greatest threat to american library, money and the lives of american soldiers and created an elaborate scheme to...
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    Fictional "Villains" Who Did Nothing Wrong Thread

    Apex Cybernetics from Godzilla vs Kong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with their ideals of 'humans should be earth's dominant species' or with the idea of 'we should enforce this by building giant robots to kill anything that threatens our position', just with their abysmally stupid decision...
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    Fictional "Villains" Who Did Nothing Wrong Thread

    Yeah, add MCU Vulture to this list. In a sensible world, he'd be enjoying his nobel prizes and six figure salary with the DOD's new XCOM branch for reverse-engineering scavenged alien gadgetry before the next invasion.
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    Fictional "Villains" Who Did Nothing Wrong Thread

    They're ridiculously over-the-top cliché airport technothrillers with pretense of being serious sociopolitical thrillers, somewhat hampered by the giant maser death rays, off-brand AT-ATs, power armor, secret underground/underwater* villain lairs with explosive self-destruct mechanisms, sinister...
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    Fictional "Villains" Who Did Nothing Wrong Thread

    President Averell Torrent from Orson Scott Card's Empire technothrillers. His supposedly unforgivable sins being: When teaching history in collage, prior to his ascension to the presidency, he gave a theoretical lecture on weakness of political systems as compared to the fall of the roman...
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    Fictional "Villains" Who Did Nothing Wrong Thread

    Yeah, Supergirl was essentially a V remake from Diana's perspective.
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    Fictional "Villains" Who Did Nothing Wrong Thread

    He starts off as a powerless innocent bystander. Then his house gets blown up as collateral damage during an invasion by a fleet of superpowered aliens who want to enslave humanity and conquer the earth, his father loses his steelworking job that paid most of his family's bills due to...
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