Talk:Arche Eeb Rile Furt/@comment-31820190-20180614160716/@comment-110.54.175.215-20180615011836

The fandom is the one that's ridiculously... hypocritical, for lack of a better term.

The fandom oversells Overlord as a villain-is-the-protagonist story. And when the MC kills hundreds of thousands of humans and demihumans, they cackle with joy and go "See! See! He's a villain. All hail Ainza-sama!"

Then Ainz kills Arche. And that narrative changes. Half is pissed and angry Arche died and denounces that Ainz is a villain. The other half is pissed about the fact that the former is pissed because they make Ainz look too much of a bad guy.

That you feel bad for Arche over the hundreds of thousands of nameless mooks is perfectly normal. It's not about morality. It's about investment. She has a face, a name, a story. Of course you'll feel bad for her more.

That's not the problem here. The problem here is that you oversold Ainz as a villain and now that he does villain stuff to someone you care, someone who is good and noble, rather than scums from a death cult or a drug cartel/crime syndicate, you're all backpedalling. See the problem?

"Our villain protagonist just killed a good kid. He'd look like a bad guy people want to see die at this rate. Quick, defend and justify his actions so that he doesn't look too much like a bad guy."

In fact, why is Overlord being sold as a villain-is-the-protagonist story in the first place? Ainz is Deadpool, but with none of the charisma or humor. He's "a bad guy who('s paid to) fucks up worse guys." He's an anti-hero, not a villain.

His opponents are:

1.) a crime syndicate who engages in sex slavery and drug distribution

2.) a Nazi-like human supremacist government which is also a theocracy (because 13 year olds are starting to think militant atheism makes them look cool)

3.) a bunch of incompetent, decadent nobles, portraying the age-old tropes of corrupt rich guys to a tee

4.) a bunch of incompetent paladins, the leader of which the author tried so hard to paint in a negative light lest you might start rooting for her and not Ainz

And his goals are: equity, equality, liberty.

Seriously, his armies might as well start chanting "Liberté, égalité, fraternité."