Nuadha's Tale

Ignorance can be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it. -Thomas Jefferson

Thursday, October 24, 2002

Champions
My Champions group got together last night for the first time in a while. We had a good time. It was the first time is a long while I've been able to play Jubei.

We ended up talking at one point about how the the difference between the silver age comic books (1960's-1970's) and modern comics is that some point villians stopped calling themselves evil. There were tons of villian groups in the sixties with names like the Sinister Six and the Injustice League. In real life are you going to go around calling yourself evil?

Let's take Magneto's "Brotherhood of Evil Mutants." The plot is that Magneto bands together these mutants to stop the oppression of mutants. What was he thinking calling them EVIL!? Really, if he wanted people to stop persecuting mutants, calling his group EVIL mutants wasn't the smartest move in the world.

What if the National Organization of Women called themselves The National Organization of EVIL Women? Would the NAACP have done as well if they called themselves the NAAECP? Could the FBI get government funding if they were the Federal Bureau of Sinister Investigations? What if the UAW was actually United EVIL auto-workers?

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