Thread:Love Robin/@comment-24859393-20170404150354/@comment-1705775-20170405043749

also by its very nature Full Metal Jacket doesn't really have villains, as such, it is dark-as-mud and all the characters are flawed and get progressively worse as war takes away their humanity.. it shows how ordinary people can become desensitized and "inhuman" by exposure to extremes.. the true villain in Full Metal Jacket is war itself, it is the malevolent force that the movie stands against as a whole.. the characters within are all just victims to this abstract foe.

the closest we ever get would be the very brief exposure to an unnamed helicopter pilot (who I mentioned in a previous discussion) who has taken to killing civilizians en mass, when asked how he could kill women and children he simply says something along the lines of "kill them quicker".. even he, the most openly malevolent character, is not a traditional "villain" as he does nothing to harm the protagonist and sadly he's just one of many.. he's simply the most memorable of them.