Hollywood's LAZY addiction to Ethnic Villains

You have a lazy addiction to racist witch hunting.

Every villian has to have an identity. The only way to satisfy PC alarmists like yourself would be for every story to have faceless, shapeless off-world aliens as the antagonist in every story. And even then you'd be decrying the slight against the extraterrestrial community.

And the idea of a "villain-less" plot is ludicrous. Drama is, by definition, conflict. We have nothing to watch if we are going to strive to tell stories about problem-free shiny happy people being shiny and happy.

The fact of life is that individuals have agendas which rise out of our needs and desires, which inevitably leads to competition and conflict. And from our point of view, those who come in conflict with us will be perceived as enemies or villians, even if objectively the truth is that two entities of equal moral standing are merely opposed to one another in a given conflict of interest.

Stories are going to have PROtagonists and ANTagonists. Plain and simple. That's what makes them engaging.

And characters are going to have identities, which, yes, includes a nationality. Sorry, these things are not the invention of storytellers.

Now if you honestly believe the preponderence of screen bad guys are of non-U.S. extraction, you've got your cranium lodged in your rectum. Watch any personal security advertisement (home alarm systems, martial arts self-defense, etc.) in the modern era, and you are forced to come to the conclusion that The Media believes 100% of violent street crime is committed by white men in their 30's who do not own a razor. The fact is the VASTLY overwhelming percentage of depictions of people with low moral character in modern media - the "bad guys" - are white, U.S.-born males. They're the only demographic it's politically safe to portray in a negative light.

To hint that anyone else is capanble of immoral behavior these days opens you up to ridiculous accusations like yours.

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I feel like OP is making two different points, and while I have no comment on ethnicity, I do agree he didn't need to turn into a villain, Turbo already had his brother turning his back on him, plus the inevitability of losing his power, both those created enough of an antagonist for the movie.

The Mexican Americans were heroes which makes a refreshing change. And you're whining about the French. The film played very well across Europe and my kids loved it. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

It's not a huge loss, but it's a stupid loss of customers. The film won't be able to play successfully in Quebec or France and may lose customers all over Europe.

As dumb as this movie is, your argument really holds no water. Most of the characters in this movie were ethnic and only one of them was a villain. This movie is loaded with legitimate reasons to trash it.....hell you could have even made a better argument about many of the characters being racial stereotypes, but you are really stretching it with this one.

I actually thought it was very funny that the snail's antagonist was a French guy....I was waiting for him to try to eat him.

"Do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else" -Whitman