@EricMalves@squawk.social a friend and I just had this discussion a bit ago.

I can only assume this is one of the ways our society encodes classism into popular media. The villains are most often people coded high class by dint of leadership, wealth, or violence. They are on equal class footing with the hero who has these higher class codings from the same metrics. So, the hero has to make a check when it comes time to commit violence.

While the mooks … are just the underclass. Violence is used against them without question or restraint. That’s just gravity pulling the shit downhill in this narrative.

At least that was the conclusion we came to.