Talk:Arche Eeb Rile Furt/@comment-24.136.20.41-20180822013025/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180826183421

Nobody's back is ever against the wall till it's too late to do anything about it.

Acting to avoid having your back to the wall before you have your back to the wall may not be what most people do, but those who don't are short-sighted and merely ignore the evil they do in the world because they didn't think it through.

This is called not thinking past the end of your dick, which is the way all those other wish-fullfillment shonen trope filled series work. All pretty characters turn out to be good, all ugly characters turn out to be bad, there are no serious unintended consequences of changing the world, or if there are they are always the fault of someone else, probably whoever is the ugliest character around.

No, hardly any really popular show carries that to the limit. There are token cases of pretty characters having to deal with responsibility for some unforseen consequence of their action. There are token ugly characters assigned the role of comic relief other than designated villain. But Overlord goes beyond that to tell a story that has a bit of moral depth.

It is admittedly not about a perfect paragon who always knows exactly what he's doing or even has any illusion that it is "justice" in some larger sense than serving his own narrow interests. He accepts that his own interests are not the definition of justice, and nobody else he has to sacrifice is supposed to feel happy about it.

But that's exactly what makes him better than all the other fictional 'heroes' out there.