r/comics • u/Casual_Deviant Bummer Party • 23d ago

OC Fight Club

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u/Wild_Marker 23d ago

Ah yes, "the evil antagonist was just getting ready for an eviler antagonist so everything is justified". That trope is almost always stupid.

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u/Bowgentle 23d ago

More than stupid, really, since it’s essentially how fascist/authoritarian regimes justify themselves in real life.

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u/kandoras 23d ago

It wasn't just an idea someone came up with.

It was explicitly written into the pre-Disney expanded universe, with Thrawn being the guy that warned Palpatine about the Yuuzhan Vong.

So stupid trope, but in this case it has to be blamed on the content creators, not the fans.

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u/Wild_Marker 23d ago

Oh yes I heard, but using old EU to tell your coworkers the fascists were the good guys is... a choice.

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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 23d ago

It also doesn’t exactly match up either. Palps is still absolutely, unquestionably evil in the EU. The unifying against the Yuuzhan Vong theme seems to be a conflation between Palpatine and what we hear about Revan’s motives in KOTOR 2 (that Revan was trying to unite the galaxy against the actual Sith Empire in the Unknown Regions). Palps knew about the Vong (ish), but they weren’t enough on his radar to worry about.