First coined by Twitter user @buggy_con, the John Walker Effect is when in any form of media the writers unintentionally make the antagonist characters
-Far more entertaining
-Far more believable as characters
-More sympathetic
-More heroic than the stale and downright evil protagonists/heroes
Typically you will see the writers project all the things they view as evil onto these characters in order to make a straw man to pit against their oh so perfect protagonists. However, this unintentionally causes these characters to be loved by the audience, for they are the only ones who
-Call out the protagonists' bullshit for what it is
-Have actual ideas and motivations that aren't selfish
These characters often have to be amped up to cartoonish levels of evil in order to try and make the audience root against them.
-Far more entertaining
-Far more believable as characters
-More sympathetic
-More heroic than the stale and downright evil protagonists/heroes
Typically you will see the writers project all the things they view as evil onto these characters in order to make a straw man to pit against their oh so perfect protagonists. However, this unintentionally causes these characters to be loved by the audience, for they are the only ones who
-Call out the protagonists' bullshit for what it is
-Have actual ideas and motivations that aren't selfish
These characters often have to be amped up to cartoonish levels of evil in order to try and make the audience root against them.
Rorschach from Watchmen, Tyler Durden from Fight Club, and Colonel Quaritch from Avatar are all examples of villains that suffer from the John Walker Effect.
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My sister's hero is Chuck Norris the star of Walker Texas Ranger because of his killer martial arts.
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The phenomenon of when a semi-attractive person demonstrates a talent that in turn makes said person extremely hot.
Named after the Broadway actor Benjamin Walker and his singing abilities.
Named after the Broadway actor Benjamin Walker and his singing abilities.
Steps follow as such:
1.Bob is ok-attractive, but maybe not your type
2.Bob starts to sing/act/draw/ect. with amazing skill
3.Suddenly Bob looks EXTREMELY attractive despite his initial lack of appeal
4.You have just experienced The Benjamin Walker Effect
1.Bob is ok-attractive, but maybe not your type
2.Bob starts to sing/act/draw/ect. with amazing skill
3.Suddenly Bob looks EXTREMELY attractive despite his initial lack of appeal
4.You have just experienced The Benjamin Walker Effect
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Jim Bob: Walkertown High School lost another basketball game tonight.
Mary Sue: At least everyone kept their shirt on this time!
Mary Sue: At least everyone kept their shirt on this time!
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Ex: I told my family a Walter White Lie when I said I gambled all of our money away. The truth is, I lost it all in a bad meth deal.
Ex: Ken told Jenny a Walter White Lie when he said cheated on her once when he was drunk. He really is a closeted homosexual and was only able to have sex with her if he fantasized about the Village People.
Ex: Ken told Jenny a Walter White Lie when he said cheated on her once when he was drunk. He really is a closeted homosexual and was only able to have sex with her if he fantasized about the Village People.
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The following is a famous quote from Walter Cronkite after John F. Kennedy's funeral on November 25th, 1963.
"It is said that the human mind has a greater capacity for remembering the pleasant than the unpleasant. But today was a day that will live in memory and in grief. Only history can write the importance of this day: Were these dark days the harbingers of even blacker ones to come, or like the black before the dawn shall they lead to some still as yet indiscernible sunrise of understanding among men, that violent words, no matter what their origin or motivation, can lead only to violent deeds? This is the larger question that will be answered, in part, in the manner that a shaken civilization seeks the answers to the immediate question: Who, and most importantly what, was Lee Harvey Oswald? The world’s doubts must be put to rest. Tonight there will be few Americans who will go to bed without carrying with them the sense that somehow they have failed. If in the search of our conscience we find a new dedication to the American concepts that brook no political, sectional, religious or racial divisions, then maybe it may yet be possible to say that John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not die in vain. That’s the way it is, Monday, November 25, 1963. This is Walter Cronkite, good night."
"It is said that the human mind has a greater capacity for remembering the pleasant than the unpleasant. But today was a day that will live in memory and in grief. Only history can write the importance of this day: Were these dark days the harbingers of even blacker ones to come, or like the black before the dawn shall they lead to some still as yet indiscernible sunrise of understanding among men, that violent words, no matter what their origin or motivation, can lead only to violent deeds? This is the larger question that will be answered, in part, in the manner that a shaken civilization seeks the answers to the immediate question: Who, and most importantly what, was Lee Harvey Oswald? The world’s doubts must be put to rest. Tonight there will be few Americans who will go to bed without carrying with them the sense that somehow they have failed. If in the search of our conscience we find a new dedication to the American concepts that brook no political, sectional, religious or racial divisions, then maybe it may yet be possible to say that John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not die in vain. That’s the way it is, Monday, November 25, 1963. This is Walter Cronkite, good night."
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