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Examples
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Sinestro has to be the first villian for an origin story in a Starwars goodguy gone bad kind of way.
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American storytelling has a great capacity to embrace the goodguy perspective and totally ally ourselves with it, while still actually carrying out the role of the badguy.
Avatar mtlawson 2010
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Cylon raiders pour out of the Colony and inside where she's punched through, the Galactica blows some hatches that luckily weren't bent and crumpled by the impact and goodguy Centurions moving real fast now and Lee and Marines descend and there is gravity and they quickly make their way into red-light-paneled corridors.
VARIANTS: DAYBREAK, PT II - REVIEW radii 2009
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Cylon raiders pour out of the Colony and inside where she's punched through, the Galactica blows some hatches that luckily weren't bent and crumpled by the impact and goodguy Centurions moving real fast now and Lee and Marines descend and there is gravity and they quickly make their way into red-light-paneled corridors.
Archive 2009-03-01 radii 2009
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In the 60s and 70s we had the emergence of the anti-hero as a staple of modern storytelling, and this has continued with the addition of snarky irony and bait-and-switch villain-goodguy moralizing mirroring who's really the good guy anyway?
VARIANTS: Enough of the Anti-Hero and Bleak Finales radii 2008
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The Left's pathological need to cast itself as the goodguy, thereby requiring the casting of badguys, is matched only by it's deep seated cowardice.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Just thought I'd throw my voice behind the goodguy statistic.
Go Kill Prop 8 and Come Back Arbogast 2008
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In the 60s and 70s we had the emergence of the anti-hero as a staple of modern storytelling, and this has continued with the addition of snarky irony and bait-and-switch villain-goodguy moralizing mirroring who's really the good guy anyway?
Archive 2008-06-01 radii 2008
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Richard, no one is disputing that there is sometimes ample evidence available that the guy is not a goodguy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Yale College Student Charged With Voyeurism: 2007
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BTW, I read the opinion issued yesterday, and I see it as a big win for the goodguy.
Firedoglake » Bush Authorized Libby NIE Release to Press 2006
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