Talk:Bellwether/@comment-27873180-20160315174959/@comment-25097798-20160331231601

So, let's burn down and refuse to acknowledge those obvious villains and their contribution to those classic movies, right? Do you know that their contribution is what makes nearly the 60% of those movies? Had it been no villain, there wouldn't be any conflict with the protagonists and, therefore, no story and movie to be told at all.

And their obviousness is not a "trope". It is what it is. There's good and there's bad. If someone is bad, then he/she should be presented as such. No gimmicks to hide his/her true intentions, only to be revealed as the bad guy in the last 20 minutes of the movie and then leave ambiguous messages about him/her even being bad at all. It's annoying, it provides no moral lesson or suspense and contributes nothing to the story.