@SJohnRoss You are correct about Parker. Parker is definitely a hyper-bastard deployed against bastards with institutional backing. Similar jouissanxe based in amoral competence porn.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Isn't this also basically the Punisher, Deadpool, etc? Obviously not nice people, sometimes in fairly upbeat settings (if not always upbeat stories) but who only interact with enemies who are so obivously worse than them that they appear... not quite as morally bankrupt. See also things like John Wick, although that has the whole glanced at initially redemption overtones that are almost part of the character if you squint hard enough.
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@mavnn @SJohnRoss Deadpool is a loveable scamp. Wick is a blank sheet. The Punisher? I don't know... He's often framed in similar terms to Miller's Grimdark Batman in that he's an obsessive and a joyless fanatic.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I must admit that I loath Deadpool who doesn't really come across as loveable to me at all, so I may not be the best judge there. And you don't get much blanker than Wick.
But I suppose I'm not really seeing the line between people like Punisher and Lone Wolf, so I may have missed part of the essence of what you're saying.
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