The Movie Thread Reloaded

[HappyDaze]

Section 31 is to Star Trek what Rebel Moon is to Star Wars...except Section 31 is supposed to be authentic Trek.

[Chris24601]

Also nearly all the monster characters, and Waller, are psychotic and why would anyone root for most of them?

They're catering to same mindset that makes a hero of a guy who murders an insurance exec on the street.

They've spent so much effort dehumanizing their opposition that they literally cannot see their protagonists behaving as they do as mentally deranged. They commit violence on "acceptable targets" so that makes them heroic.

At least My Adventures With Superman and the mainline DC Comics recognize Waller is a psychopath (in MAWS she's ultimately wrong about everything, is shown to be hopelessly out of her league when the real villain shows up, and ends up a fugitive from the law after her attempted power grab that nearly got the world killed... in the mainline comics she tried to take over the planet in the name of "security" and ended up locked in solitary confinement for life in the same facility she intended to lock every hero on the planet into after a mind wipe to remove every last bit of useful knowledge about hero identities from her brain).

She's been really overused and hopefully she's headed for an extended vacation from media for awhile.

[HappyDaze]

They commit violence on "acceptable targets" so that makes them heroic.

This can also be said about numerous classic vigilantes, such as Punisher and Ghost Rider. It does strain *a lot* when they start spreading it around with a broader brush.