- Evangelion, sort of.
- Tom and Jerry
- Metal Gear Solid 3
Unless I’m mistaken, they’re talking about Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
The villains aren’t good though, it just turned out that the princess has some honor in the war
The villains had the goal of driving back the fungal forest, which was advancing and destroying civilization. They didn’t know that it was filtering pollutants out of water, and they were using militaristic techniques that have the designated “evil” tag but that IMO should be considered in a more nuanced way.
Basically, Nausicaa thought she was in the post-apocalypse and wanted to “live in harmony” with the state of the world. The Valley of the Wind had unique advantages allowing them to do that. Kushana thought the apocalypse was still ongoing, and it was - we saw that other settlements that didn’t have the special meteorological layout of the Valley of the Wind were being overrun by advancing fungal forests.
From a very slightly different perspective, Kushana was the hero here. She was unifying a disorganized and doomed rabble of survivors to work against their doom, and recovered an ancient superweapon to turn it into a protective force that would save humanity instead of attacking it. She turned out to be wrong about a few things but being wrong doesn’t make you evil. I’d argue that she wasn’t really wrong about some of the important stuff and the movie ends on a mixed note.
It’s been a little while since I’ve seen the movie, mind you, but it stuck with me pretty strongly.
Not exactly a story. I just watched Babylon 5, and it’s fascinating how the good guys are the bad guys are the good guys are the bad guys…
Who are you?
What do you want?
Also, I think good and bad is a bit fluid there. It’s just people with different agendas. Well, except emperor Cartagia. And perhaps Bester.
No bad guys are good guys. And most good guys are not good guys, either.
The Shadows, the Centauri and the PSI Corps are introduced as “bad guys” but gain a lot of positive aspects during the show without becoming “good guys”. The Nightwatch and the Earth Governement under president Clark are “bad guys” – but quite a few of there supporters/members become important “good” characters, like Zach Allan, Elizabeth Lochley or Susanna Luchenko.
That’s my point about the Babylon 5 series – they deconstruct the good guy/bad guy meme. Mostly.
Does Snape count?
What about Loki(marvel)?
Snape was never a good guy though. Very brave, yes and he had some good qualities. He was also vindictive and a bully - willing to put his petty dislikes above the quality of his teaching.
He was also vindictive and a bully
I formed the impression that James Potter and his gang were the real bullies, and Snape is a tragic character traumatized by their bullying.
Unfortunately the sequel absolutely lacks presentation. Its like they completely forgot what made the first movie good.
well he didn’t “tuned out to be the good guy”. He was a bad guy and later became good because of the girl.
I think the message of the film was more that he was always good (to some extent) and that his earlier actions were influenced by his upbringing (in contrast to Metro Man’s)
Artemis Fowl (Book 1) (he’s the good guy in the following books)
