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Synchronicity
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(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
20th Jul, 2017 09:02:27 PM
There's Everybody Helps Out Denouement, but it needs a bit of TLP love.
In my opinion, an Aesop for Superhero Movies: You cannot rely on one person to clean a whole city/world.
It is a Crapsack World, run by gangsters, police are corrupt or useless. In order to rid the world of the evil that runs, a hero steps in. It starts to shed some light on the world, but it also makes it worse, because people start doing less to help, and just start leaving him to do all the work. It's not until the hero is killed or incapacitated that they realize they should have done their part, and may even start to rise against the evil.
Inspired by the lyrics of the song in "Seven Wise Dwarfs".
Examples:
In "The Dark Knight Saga":
Also, an episode of The Powerpuff Girls in which the PPG get so fed up of being called to do EVERYTHING (open a jar of pickles, pass the TV remote, walk the dog, change a flat tire, etc., etc.) that they decide to go on strike, leaving the townsfolk to fend for themselves against a monster attack.
Edited by JohnShel91