Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-5525892-20160414003412/@comment-5525892-20160416203301

Stolen5487 wrote:

Pyromania101 wrote: It seems almost like a campaign has been launched against every character in the "Fan Villains" category, and that in of itself is bad, though not terrible. My biggest problem is that they're doing this all of a sudden when they let it be for years. Why the abrupt change? If they had a problem with it, why do it now and not earlier? And regarding Robin:

1. By that definition, a number of anti-heroes wouldn't belong on this site. It seems somewhat hypocritical then if you put someone like, say, Kratos on this site, or perhaps Zeus. I think they are villains, but the sources don't explicitly call them that either. Or perhaps Akame or Najenda.

2. Sheldon's most antagonistic roles were carried out with malice, one of them even being potentially fatal--another was fatal, too, but that was more from lack of empathy than intent to harm.

3. I am aware of this concept, which seems to confuse people as much as the "protagonist does not equal hero" thing, and again, I feel that Sheldon has done enough to be an outright villain (not a part of that specific category--you know what I mean). What things did Sheldon do that was fatal? I haven't watched all the episodes.

1. In The Panty Piñata Polarization, he hung Penny's laundry on electrical wiring, knowing fully that she could risk possibly fatal electrocution to get it back, and gave an evil laugh when this was pointed out.

2. In The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification, he nearly caused Leonard to die in a car accident, and when this was pointed out, he was completely unempathetic.

3. In The Einstein Approximation, he carelessly tossed an equation board out a window, causing a traffic accident in the process, and completely ignored this consequence.

I get that this is all...wait, actually I don't get it. Why is this played for laughs? Why are we expected to laugh at this? Sheldon knowingly put people's lives at risk and he either enjoyed it or didn't care!