YMMV / The Twilight Zone (1959) S3E28: "The Little People"

• Catharsis Factor: After all the horrible stuff he's done, it's hard not to cheer when Craig is crushed by astronauts as big to him as he is to the Little People.
• Complete Monster: Peter Craig, the co-pilot to William Fletcher, is an emotionally unstable egomaniac who longs to hold power over others. When Craig and Fletcher land on an alien world seemingly bereft of life, Craig finds an entire civilization of microscopic "little people". In a mad quest to achieve godhood, Craig declares himself the ruler of the civilization and forces the people to do his bidding, regularly crushing swathes of their land on cruel whims. Craig holds the threat of total annihilation of the civilization over their heads so they will worship him, and when Fletcher confronts Craig on the fact that he's "no god, but has gotten [the little people] to believe in the Devil!", Craig threatens to shoot Fletcher dead if he doesn't leave Craig to continue his maniacal tyranny.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: Given how quick Craig was to lord over the Little People (and his Sanity Slippage afterwards) and how he already expressed a desire for power and respect without earning them, he clearly wasn't alright in the head, even before he discovered them.This along with his sadistic pleasure in crushing the Little People and forcing them to do as he says, so he at the very least, is a sociopath with a God Complex.
• The Woobie: The titular Little People, who spend most of the episode being abused and terrorized by Craig. When he dies and they celebrate by tearing down his statue, there's a definite Catharsis Factor.

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