Re: Protags: Likable? Relatable? Empathetic? Or is intriguing enough?
SC111 and FA4
What you've overlooked, and is integral to my point, is the cheering of 'good guys' who commit atrocious, unjust and murderous acts yet you don't question your moral stance by supporting them. From Dirty Harry to First Blood to Commando to Cobra to Die Hard to K-9 to Tango and Cash to Lethal Weapon etc.
In Commando, for example, Arnold Schwarzenegger double-crossed and murdered someone for no reason - the exact type of actions that are used to et up bad guys (your typical Bond movie, for a start) yet no one ever calls out Schwarzenegger, or any other 'hero', because they're the good guys.
And that's what I'm talking about: perspective.
SC111 and FA4
What you've overlooked, and is integral to my point, is the cheering of 'good guys' who commit atrocious, unjust and murderous acts yet you don't question your moral stance by supporting them. From Dirty Harry to First Blood to Commando to Cobra to Die Hard to K-9 to Tango and Cash to Lethal Weapon etc.
In Commando, for example, Arnold Schwarzenegger double-crossed and murdered someone for no reason - the exact type of actions that are used to et up bad guys (your typical Bond movie, for a start) yet no one ever calls out Schwarzenegger, or any other 'hero', because they're the good guys.
And that's what I'm talking about: perspective.
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