[UA] Corrupt and Co-opt?

[Timothy Ferguson]

Greg, this is your basic ephiphany - the King Arthur stories are full of
"evil knight gets stuffing knocked out by Lancelot and becomes good enough
that Lancelot has to kill him later when the really good knights point out
shagging the Queen is distinctly uncool".  It's a convention of the genre.

Superhero games too - from Marvel we have Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Wonder
Man, Hawkeye, Vision...

Oh, and DArth Vader, obviously...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Greg Stolze
> Sent: Wednesday, 27 June 2001 11:10 PM
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: [UA] Corrupt and Co-opt?
>
>
> Has anyone run a game (or, less likely, seen a movie or, more likely, read
> a book) in which the "villain" comes around?  Specifically, I'm
> picturing a
> plot where...
>
> 1) Hero encounters villain doing something nefarious to gain
> immense power.
> 2) Hero and villain contend.  Neither is able to gain a permanent upper
> hand.  In the process, they come to understand and respect each other more
> and more.
> 3) Villain tries to corrupt the hero by pointing out how close their real
> motives and values are.  Hero counters by using the same argument.
> 4) Having realized that they ARE philosophically very close, they
> compromise.  The Hero's great act of heroism turns out to be
> restoring hope
> and decency to someone who had previously thought power and
> control was the
> ne plus ultra.
>
> I think it could be fun.  "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em" done as a
> totally non-cynical plot.
>
> -G.
>
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> like Jews, blacks, homosexuals, and werewolves."
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