The villain saying āI want to make everyone Super, so that itās not just natural Supers that get to have powersā is absolutely an objectivist-adjacent plot. The fact that Syndrome also wants to murder (genocide?) Supers with his droids and āspend his life getting all his kicks from being the only (artificial) Super until he gets bored and then shares the tech with the publicā is a classic example of attaching blatant evil to the ideology you want to villainize.
Itās not the movie saying āif everyoneās super, no one isā, itās the movie saying āthe dude who wants everyone to be super instead of only the genetic lottery winners is evil bad murder villain, look, we wrote him doing so much evil bad murder!ā
Like, letās say you want to have themes of anti-environmentalism in your movie. Whatās your villain? Eco-terrorist that bombs coal power plants to stop them from polluting the earth. Itās the oldest framing technique in the book, especially for all-ages media: just have the character that expresses the ideology you want to defeat also be a mean bad murder villain. Bonus points if you can somehow make the murder bad villain evil plan relate to the ideology in some superficial way.
Syndrome doesnāt want to give everyone powers so he can help people. He wants to give everyone powers to spite his enemy and make money. Heās Elon Musk. The idea of helping people is just a marketing line and an ego trip. Heās not actually making anyoneās lives better. Heās doing the opposite; selling advanced weapons to world governments under the table. Arms dealing isnāt equality! You think things will be more equal when rich people can buy flight and super strength? Syndrome does. Because heās a capitalist villain who doesnāt understand any of the leftist rhetoric heās co-opting.
You fell for a billionaireās self-aggrandising lies.
The villain saying āI want to make everyone Super, so that itās not just natural Supers that get to have powersā is absolutely an objectivist-adjacent plot. The fact that Syndrome also wants to murder (genocide?) Supers with his droids and āspend his life getting all his kicks from being the only (artificial) Super until he gets bored and then shares the tech with the publicā is a classic example of attaching blatant evil to the ideology you want to villainize.
Itās not the movie saying āif everyoneās super, no one isā, itās the movie saying āthe dude who wants everyone to be super instead of only the genetic lottery winners is evil bad murder villain, look, we wrote him doing so much evil bad murder!ā
Like, letās say you want to have themes of anti-environmentalism in your movie. Whatās your villain? Eco-terrorist that bombs coal power plants to stop them from polluting the earth. Itās the oldest framing technique in the book, especially for all-ages media: just have the character that expresses the ideology you want to defeat also be a mean bad murder villain. Bonus points if you can somehow make the murder bad villain evil plan relate to the ideology in some superficial way.
Syndrome doesnāt want to give everyone powers so he can help people. He wants to give everyone powers to spite his enemy and make money. Heās Elon Musk. The idea of helping people is just a marketing line and an ego trip. Heās not actually making anyoneās lives better. Heās doing the opposite; selling advanced weapons to world governments under the table. Arms dealing isnāt equality! You think things will be more equal when rich people can buy flight and super strength? Syndrome does. Because heās a capitalist villain who doesnāt understand any of the leftist rhetoric heās co-opting.
You fell for a billionaireās self-aggrandising lies.