An article in the Huffington Post talked about the good and bad of the character Kylo Ren in Star Wars. The author wrote, “No offense to Adam Driver, but when Ren took off his mask, I was expecting someone more… evil looking (maybe monstrous, or at least more rugged), not someone with boyish, clean-shaven good looks.”
I disagree. I think Ren, with his youthful, boyish face, perfectly embodies the greatest villain of our time: the entitled white young man who abuses the inherited power and privilege he was born with.
It has always been a disturbing trope to me that the evil must be ugly or scarred – and therefore the ugly and scarred must be evil.
That myth has always been to evil’s advantage, since being injured leaves far more scars than doing injury.
*points up* *points up harder* *gestures wildly* This this thissssssss!
