This. Even if people don't want to admit it, they deep down have respect for people with convictions and that are willing to work for them. That Rorschach was seen as the most heroic is no surprise once you think about it more, he's the only one willing to stop evil from getting away with it and the one that understood that you don't just send child rapists to jail, you fucking end them then and there. Those two things tap into enough people because they fully fucking agree, they just aren't allowed to say it out loud, so when the mean caricature says it, you can only think "but he is right". His whole "never compromise" attitude also echoes more and more with what compromise and taking the high road has enabled.
Potter is a bit of a funnier case since during most of the books he is basically constantly hounded by feds and has to join rebellious cabals constantly yet at the end of the series he goes "I shall be the fed now!" like if the feds would suddenly stop behaving as such with Voldermoooort out of the picture.
The amount of people who don't seem to understand that Bateman's character is a forgettable loser and doofus astounds me. Like in a post internet world I understand the meme potential of the movie but I also seriously doubt most people actually watched it... Or read the book.
Wait until they hear that the book was written by a gay and the film directed by a woman
Post 2016 internet is flooded with retards who unironically base their personalities off of memes. the idea that patrick bateman can be "literally you" is funny because patrick bateman is a weird loser that thinks hes hot shit even though hes a exactly like everyone else around him and has no unique characteristics, which is why he is frequently confused with others. but after the drumpf era forced reddit and other mainstream social media platforms into typical commie censorships, all the boomers, losers and unironic incels were forced to migrate to 4chan, mostly /pol/ and /tv/, and these people being who they are completely lost the narrative that Patrick Bateman is supposed to be an ironic joke born out of exaggeration of self image and started to believe that yes indeed, they ARE literally sigmas grindcels and will own the libs with a tiktok hyperborea compilation.
I've watched it, I can see the appeal. Patrick feels like the world has no meaning and is completely numbed to everyday life. He pretends to be nice to his vapid coworkers but in reality hates them, its similar to fight club. I think that's what most people resonate with.
Makes sense, you can't say "Aryan" without "Ryan" afterall.
I just found out there will be a Ken doll with the fur coat and headband out next month, GET
What about Tyler Durden, William Foster, Walter White or Tony Soprano?
At least for Walter White the relatability comes from being stuck in a shitty boring life after making all the wrong choices, and then taking complete control over it, flaws and all. He died only because he compromised once; like every character in that show, compromising means death.
But you still haven't addressed Tyler Durden, William Foster and Tony Soprano
I think it’s more that people subconsciously do love a hero with some manner of virtue.
Tony's struggle with depression and having a shitty mom are very relatable. He's also, at least until the later seasons, mostly reasonable and likeable. He's also a powerful mob boss.
