Make a communist villain/antagonist, but make him/her/them have many good points and have a good amount of sympathetic traits that even the in-universe heroes/protagonists even concede that they have good points, also try not to make said character do a “randomly blows up a hospital for no reason to remind everyone their a villain/antagonist” trope because that’s dumb, just for a bit of a challenge. Also, you can make them like a reflection/allegory of communists as a whole without the demonization capitalist propaganda likes to do.
randomly blows up a hospital for no reason to remind everyone their a villain/antagonist
That’s literally done to prevent the audience from sympathizing with the socialist ideas via plot power. Or heck, not even socialist, pretty much any “change the status quo” type.
“change the status quo”
But for real, if you read any fiction where politics and/or society is involved, it is never aimed at progress, it’s always always just “something is getting fucked up (always outside context or dastardly progressive traitors) and we need to fix it”. Then after entire thing is over the setting is left basically the same as previously, but worse since loss of life, destruction etc.
Literally description of crisis in capitalism and conditioning people to think it is normal to lower their expectations every time capitalism had a failure spike.
Literally description of crisis in capitalism and conditioning people to think it is normal to lower their expectations every time capitalism had a failure spike
Indeed, can’t help but wonder how intentional that is. IIRC it’s called capitalist realism?
the hospital was a hospital that charged sick high amounts of money, villain tells “hero” he’ll blow it up,hero refuses to sacrifice himself at the distraction to defeat the evil communist and how defeating him will save more people than disarming the bomb, antagonist tells him [selfish reason to rescue], “hero” goes in and sees the place empty and it was all a trap to get him. Idk what’s next
Anders was based for blowing up the chantry in DA2 and I’m tired of pretending he wasn’t, I see so much pearl clutching from Dragon Age fans on this because of the method he used.
(Note: he’s pretty explicitly a fantasy-commie of a sort in the universe. Talks about liberation a lot and some flavor text tells you he’s writing a revolutionary manifesto. But he blows something up, so his ideas are no longer worthwhile.)
Of course there are a million examples. Killmonger from Black Panther, the fucking Flagsmashers from that shitty Marvel show. Joker. The Riddler. Fr there are a million examples in capeshit alone, not to mention everywhere else.
