re: Defend a villain

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Roy Batty: The Blade Runner

He just wanted to live longer than his creator designed


Hell, even Deckard felt bad for him in the end when Batty spared his life.

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While the murders can't be forgiven, the end should tell you that he wasn't really a villain at all. Literally just wanted to live longer.

You have to be crazy to keep insane people in line.

Some would argue Magneto and Voldemort both has a great argument. The mutants and the Wizards are all more powerful and able to do greater things. Why should they be the ones in hiding from the outside world?

If they wanted a truly co op world where magic/mutants would use their powers to better the lives and help the normal people, it might have been more accepted... But seriously, if you can literally control minds and such, why should you be the one in hiding?

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Shoot, I thought Bud Kilmer was right in making the call to shoot up Booty so he could play. Booty had no future other than football and Kilmer knew that. Booty needed to play so he could earn that scholarship and escape West Canaan.

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Who tf is Booty?

Boobie Miles?

That's it

You are correct. Got my Texas HS Football movies mixed up.

Walter Peck from Ghostbusters. The man is a bit of a prick but he was only doing his job. He had valid reasons to believe that Ghostbusters, Inc. was violating several environmental protection regulations - which they absolutely were ("Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back."). He visited their facility and requested to conduct an inspection, just like it was his government-mandated duty to do, but instead they insulted him, barred him from entering, and demanded he return with a court order. You know who does that? Someone with something to hide. So he got the court order and returned with a mandate to shut down their operations until a full inspection could be conducted to verify that no adverse environmental impact was being created by their activities. And what is the Ghostbusters' response to him attempting to carry out this very legal court-ordered action? "No, don't do that or ghosts will go everywhere!" I think he can be forgiven for assuming that they were a bunch of charlatans who were attempting to sidestep EPA regulations.

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Tony Perkis

Those kids are fat and need better rolemodels, their parents failed them. The fat camp failed them. Sure he is a dick head but at least he attempted to achieve the goal of a fat camp.

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I recently introduced my son (5) to Heavyweights and he loves it. And watching it now, you realize that Tony is a bit of an a-hole, but ultimately he truly does want kids to get healthy. And the kids are nothing but a-hole to him anyway, so it kinda makes sense why he loses his mind, especially when sexually assaulted by the kids (when they stick Josh's a-hole in his face).

Ultron - Age of Ultron

Tony Stark wanted to save humanity. Ultron followed his programming. It wasn't his fault that Tony didn't understand that humanity's greatest threat was itself.