Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Today I am going to put down my oversized manga sword, I am going to suspend my activity related to overpowered characters as well as surrendering my interest towards easy fixes in stories. Today I will focus on how to make things work the hard way and the measures which are mandatory to take in order to make them work.

Let's say we have a character, one who is willing to work for the greater good, yet cannot do so without taking drastic measures. Innocents will be killed, civilians will be caught in the crossfire and nothing is as easy as it looks. So this character uses another character by manipulating the circumstances around this character, thus acquiring his/her services which are mandatory in order to fulfill their goal despite putting that other character in grave danger. A sense of trust me, trust you develops and the audience is reluctant, but agrees with the main character on what has to be done. A point comes were the other character figures out what really has been going on, and that his/her life is successfully ruined. A dramatic scene then follows were the main character has to reap what he has sown. To say the least, it will be a deep, dark and volatile experiense.

I will now link towards one of the best shows I know about, the Shield. This is a kill scene, a major spoiler. You have been warned.



Now, this is obviously a confession scene. So, it goes aside from the heat of the moment, but adds a stunning amount of crowd reconsideration. This is a policeman who has gone in the line of fire countless times, regulated crime higher than any officer ever could, risked his lives for others and even gone on the side of the law a couple of times to catch killers who the law could not touch. However, it also is the same man who killed a cop, who murdered many guilty and killed a few innocents, who planted evidence and got false confessions. Who manipulated the law that he signed up to serve. In a way, he was always two step ahead of whoever wanted to sabotage for him. However he was just a human and although he had loyalty, he betrayed the lesser for the greater. He cleaned a lot of Farmington on his own by choosing the lesser evil every now and then. However, he never got rid of the element of self, nor was he fighting for justice in his every turn. Much of it was strictly personal, which was why he made quite a few mistakes among his many well planned acts.

We need more realistic heroes who cannot do too much on their own, but know how to manipulate others as well as lie like a pro. Someone who is capable, but also can take risks, go aside the law and even manipulate a person so that a life is ruined to complete the cause. I think that would add a new dimension into films although it is a lot of information that would need to be digested in a shorter amount of time. Worth doing some research on, which I probably will the coming days.

The age for heroes seems to be coming to an end. So we need to forge the real protagonists from the same ashes we forged some of our antagonists.