#actually starting to kind of hate the words hero and villain at this piont

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

"Paul isn't the hero so he must be the villain-" I need you to stop right there and accept the fact that not every story requires or intends to have A Singular Hero and A Singular Villain and if a protagonist isn't one then they *must* be the other, and that the majority of complex stories actually do not have many characters who perfectly fit the role of "the hero" or "the villain"

#dune #paul atreides #only kind of though i've been thinking abt this for a while #actually starting to kind of hate the words hero and villain at this piont #“x was the REAL hero while y was the REAL villain!” listen to me. listen. #a protagonist is not necessarily heroic and an antagonist is not inherently villainous #and there are shades of grey in between all those which most characters within a story will probably inhabit #i thought this was bad enough in the got/hotd fandoms but nope it's everywhere #i don't wanna blame superhero movies bc that's mean and kinda inaccurate but in my head i am blaming superhero movies a little