[UA] The Villain Archetype (was: various topics)

[Stuart Anderson]

Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:

> Now, there are plenty of dark-side Dark Stalkers in history.  Jack the
> Ripper may have been the original.  Jeffrey Dahmer.  Ed Gein.  But shadowy
> vigilantes?  A rarer bunch, for damn sure.  And the argument that "you
> never heard of them because they never got caught" doesn't cut it for me.
> Dahmer and Gein weren't trying to get caught, and Jack never was.  So our
> hypothetical Benevolent Stalker would have (1) had some inept would-be
> Avatars* get caught and (2) would have a few clever ones who never got
> caught, but whose deeds were historically known.

Some good-guy stalkers would be Melvin Purvis, Ralph "Papa" Thorson, and The
Mounties. Or John Walsh. Yeah, I know he's a media guy, but step back for a
second for what John Walsh stands for. The show is corny, and tap dances around
civil liberties, but I won't question the man's motives. He's a benevolent
stalker. For a lot of your stalkers, it's less a matter of whether or not you get
caught as whether or not you want to be a celebrity. Kind of hard on the stalker
savoir-faire, you know?

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--Stu
The Secret Lab
"He belonged to that particular race of men who
were their adversaries' greatest champions." Eco

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