besides, what more argument you want? i already said to you all what i wanted to say (if the killing joke didn’t existed, i wouldn’t reply you back in first place)
@Princess♠Molestia
and don’t forget that universe where they are fish, or that other were they are cats, or that other one were they are humans, but their world is the same as equestria prime, with magic and everything.
there is an universe were Sunset became the element of magic and saved equestria, just like there is another universe where she was never born, or another were she failed to defeat NM, or another were she and twilight are sisters…
the possibilities are endless, every moment a pony chooses another universe where the other choice happened is born…
is pointless…existence is pointless…not action has a true meaning…except this one…
BLOWN EVERYTHING!
Really, in most superhero TV shows, the entire rogues gallery falls into the category we’re talking about here. How many villains are given any history at all in Teen Titans? Batman? Avengers? Etc. The enemies they face are pretty much always presented “as-is”, which makes them as faceless as a storm-trooper.
Again, it’s perfectly realistic for someone to have some reason for their behavior, WITHOUT it devolving into a wangsty “excuse”.
@Millennial Dan
but it exists, if the killing joke didn’t existed, you would be right about the joker being evil for the hell of it 100% of the time (though that is his most popular version).
@RIG
Hardly. Fiction is over-saturated with them, which is annoying because it doesn’t have any particular parallel in the real world. EVERYONE has a reason for what they do, whether that reason is insanity, stupidity, or the influence of evil.
@RIG
The key word you’re not understanding is excuse. A Freudian excuse would only be valid if the character’s behavior is being portrayed as an inevitable outcome of their difficult past. Fluttershy had a tough past, but did she turn out badly? Not really, but it did affect her. Sunset could have easily had a difficult past as well, but how she responded to it was her own choice.
If every villain you came across was simply a jerk who wanted to take over and treat everyone badly for absolutely no reason at all, it would get pretty boring. Giving them a past is not the same as giving them an excuse.
@Millennial Dan
the act of giving an antagonist a sad background to explain they current behavior, maybe they lost their parents, had a hard childhood, were abused by the community, etc.