Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
But that's a problem pretty much every superhero medium ends up being faced with, because writers in this medium can't help but want to have their cake and eat it too - they want nuanced and deeper villains but nevertheless want the heroes to be seen as heroes for stopping them, so they end up pushing them past the moral event horizon eventually.
Yeah, that is an annoying tendency and I don't think it's limited to superhero stories. It seems like some writers just don't see the difference between "character has sympathetic motivations but becomes a villain by going too far" and "character has sympathetic motivations but becomes a villain because of unrelated random acts of puppy-murder".