NYSOM: How Bad Guys Steal the Thunder...

My mom always warned me to watch out for the crazy ones.

But however much we protest and play Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Holding Out for a Hero’ until the vinyl is worn down, the iPod gives up the ghost or that martini glass is drained to the very bottom, our knights in shining armour are far more interesting if their suit of metal and mettle is a bit tarnished. Now, don’t get me wrong, people - I’m not saying I yearn for the big bad-guys to win or anything. By all means, stay away from the serial-killer with a side-line in remote cabins, spooky warehouses and irony-free victims. Bloody hooks and hockey masks are SO last century, even if some of the latest boy-bands are positively screaming for that bucket-list! And that megalomaniac wanting to take a bite out of my beloved Big Apple with alien weapons or a bomb that has a big red countdown racing towards ‘000’, well – that’s a big no-no too – where would I get my beloved and essential cappuccino amongst the radioactive rubble? 

But heroic tent-pole titans can be SO boring, can’t they? There are things that he or she can’t or won’t do and if they’re somehow made to it - they’ll sit around gazing at their navel or need years of therapy. They may even weep manly metrosexual tears. It really isn’t a pleasant image.

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