Ivan Dragon was such projection too. In reality if one contender was trained in a lab with a highly researched training regimen and fixed diet, while the other was punching sides of meat in a warehouse, the American was the former.
They love to pretend to be the underdog, or the david rather than goliath.
Another one is stranger things season 1 vs season 3.
Season 1 was actually believable bc it had the bad guys as the US government kidnapping and experimenting on children to turn them into weapons and also harness the devil realm as a military weapon.
Season 3 tried to flip it into the evil soviet robotniks trying to invade the US via portals in 80s shopping malls.
Ivan Dragon was such projection too. In reality if one contender was trained in a lab with a highly researched training regimen and fixed diet, while the other was punching sides of meat in a warehouse, the American was the former.
The strongest and most evil country on the planet trying to act like the underdog
*Second or now third strongest
They love to pretend to be the underdog, or the david rather than goliath.
Another one is stranger things season 1 vs season 3.
Season 1 was actually believable bc it had the bad guys as the US government kidnapping and experimenting on children to turn them into weapons and also harness the devil realm as a military weapon.
Season 3 tried to flip it into the evil soviet robotniks trying to invade the US via portals in 80s shopping malls.