Anybody else sick of "sociopathic heroes"?

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This is also why he’s nicknamed the DARK KNIGHT rather than white knight.

Animated series = hero

Batman & Batman Returns = anti-hero

Batman Forever & Batman and Robin = hero

Batman Begins = hero

The Dark Knight = anti-hero (in this case Bruce even saw that he wasn’t pure and this is partly why he wanted to elevate Harvey Dent, whom he saw as a white knight - granted this film focused on the darkness that’s inside of everyone)

The Dark Knight Rises = hero

My favorite antihero of all time is Lupin.

And honestly I don't think most antiheroes are true sociopaths if they are helping or protecting somebody they really care about.

A true sociopath has no empathy or compassion for anybody.

And that kind of reflects on the fact that in real life you can have criminals who still have a moral concious. Like people in the mafia for example. Whenever they kill somebody they often send money to their wife and kids to make sure they are being taken care of because they do believe in taking care of family. They also tend to not get their own wives and children involved with their crimes for that same reason.

I think another good example of an antihero would be Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games.

He's a criminal who travels the world stealing treasure and rare artifacts to sell for profit and yet he still has a concious. He's not the type to kill an innocent person such as a museum security guard and he only kills people in self defense. Plus he always ends up saving the world from more evil criminals in every gay.

It's done because it appeals to the degenerate, sadistic, oral aspects of people's personalities which, owing to the fact that moral self restraint is condemned in contemporary society, plays a far more active part in people's lives than at previous times in history.

And of course, the neoliberal orthodoxy condemns any attempt to censor such garbage from the mainstream media as a violation of people's "rights".

Apparently, having teenagers spend their entire evenings shooting people on Call of Duty has no effect on the rates of violent crime in society.

I sometimes wonder if the glamorizing of crime and violence on TV and in video games hasn't contributed to the moral decay of society at least partly.

I can't remember the last time I saw a new TV show or movie that I felt wasn't trying to send me the message that it's fun to be a selfish dick who hurts people and kills human beings with no remourse.

I will say I did also enjoy the violence of The Punisher on Netflix though. Frank Castle in some ways makes me think of a Batman who did have that One Bad Day away moment. Before getting his own series, they did try to contrast him with a moral high ground character Daredevil.

I think Frank could be one of the more interesting anti-heroes as I think there is a good person still in there. He does still follow a code of conduct in a way even if it's much like a soldier on the streets. He went to war to kill for his country and now he's still killing on behalf of his country on the streets.

To be honest, this is probably the main reason I don't bother watching films or TV series released in the past ten years or so; banal, predictable, vulgar garbage.