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

[Bailey Watts]

> >In a message dated 12/11/2000 3:46:29 PM Central Standard Time,
> >holycrow at mindspring.com writes:

>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.
>
>Ken?  James?  You history nerds wanna take a stab while I got raid the
>'fridge?

Wasn't there some homophobe in Britain who thought he was doing the Lord's 
work by killing gay men?  He'd be a vigilante though not a nice one.  In any 
case vigilantes who do get caught wouldn't get the vigilante angle played 
up.

If someone with intentions of being a vigilante saw the same kid always 
hanging out at the same playground everyday without really playing he may 
suspect the kid was a dealer.  He wouldn't have vast investigative networks 
at his disposal like a real officer of the law so he'd have to go on his 
hunch.

When he does get caught beating the kid and assault charges are filed the 
prosecution won't say anything about the would be Nice Stalker suspecting 
the kid of selling drugs.  And no defense attorney would say that his client 
was "merely dispensing vigilante justice against a suspected crack dealer."  
He'd just get sent away for beating the shit out of some poor kid.
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