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Friday Fun Thread for October 28, 2022

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There's some number of "revisionist" fictional works that take a well-known story and portray it from the the villain's side. Ie. Wicked is Wizard of Oz from the side of the Wicked Witch of the West, Twisted does the same to Aladdin from the point of view of Ja'far, The Last Ringbearer is LotR from the side of Mordor etc.

What other stories you can think of where you could actually do this relatively easily? I've seen Incredibles from the point of view of Syndrome mentioned as a potential example (I mean, when you think of it, "When everyone is super then no-one will be" does not sound that villanous by itself), but here's one suggestion: Full Throttle, the classic 1995 Lucasarts adventure game, I suspect many here have played it. It's almost 20 years old so I probably won't be spoiling anything:

For the last decade, Adrian Ripburger has been looking at US becoming a Mad Max society, an unsafe hell where the highways and open stretches of land are ruled by criminal biker gangs. At the centre of it all is Corley Motors, a company that seems intent in not only producing the powerful bikes the biker gangs use but whose "former biker" boss, Malcolm Corley, even relishes in maintaining hostile biker culture of destruction (demolition derby). Ripburger has resolved to change this from inside, almost succeeding in making Corley Motors a normal company producing minivans and other family-friendly vehicles, as a part of a general transformation to a more peaceful society, but is thwarted by Old Man Corley's illegitimate daughter, who is openly in cahoots with one of the premier violent biker gangs, particularly their leader - a man whose idea of a good way to get some information is bashing a barman's head on the bar desk by yanking his nose ring...

The only thing at this point you really need to change is who farmes who for Old Man Corley's murder, and there you go.

I've always felt that the vice principal from The Breakfast Club would make for a good flawed protagonist. I would also snap if I had to deal with juvenile delinquents who look like they've been held back a year like ten times.