Gaming's most Evil Protagonist!

Minecraft Steve is the most evil protagonist of all Time!
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#minecraft #steve #evil

[@Rrash_VA]

what's up you evil murderers, i know what you do to those poor villagers, and you're not going to get away with it!

[@diaryofarobot]

Nice video! I've watched lots of videos but this was a pretty original idea. Good luck with the channel!

[@Rrash_VA]

thanks, man! I appreciate it, I upped my editing game with this one, it took a lot of time and effort, but I think it's paying off, it's already my most viewed on the channel, just after two days

[@BusierMold58]

You do realize that you CAN play the game without doing most of those things, right? Steve is only as evil as the players who control his actions.

[@Rrash_VA]

that's the thing, there are at least just as many players who do all of those things as there are players who don't

[@Speed001]

Minecraft = try not to do slavery/murder/bad 100% impossible challenge gone wrong

[@Averagemessifan79777]

Underrated channel

[@Rrash_VA]

thanks! just started though, so i guess we'll find out if I'm truly underrated, just make sure to share, support is appreciated

[@zachbelandres1496]

Not only hes the most evil but the most strongest

[@Rrash_VA]

yep, you can fill the inventory with shulker boxes that are loaded with gold blocks.

[@NeonWasInUse]

Interesting video. Though, I'd like to bring up one big counterpoint that makes things way more complicated than just a surface level, and maybe gets a little into meta territory. Specifically, what I'm talking about is input from the player, and how Steve's cruelty basically varies as result. You mention very early on in the video, Steve is the default, and most used Minecraft skin, and how many use that skin to do such things. But, here's the thing about creating Mob Farms and Villager Trading Posts, yes, Steve CAN do them, but after a certain point the question has to arise, "is it ACTUALLY Steve doing this"? Because every instance of a Minecraft world could be considered a different Steve, being controlled by a different player, in such a world, Steve may never build a mob farm, or heck, may not even so much as enter the Nether. An important factor to remember here is Minecraft, at the end of the day is a *sandbox* game, and has been since its inception. No one is there to say what you, as a player, can and cannot do, and even the nether and end are not explicitly required to be traversed if the player just chooses not to. The obvious counterpoint is the end is technically the final frontier of the game, but because there is no active drive within the game making you actively seek it out (or even aware of its existance unless you look it up online or discover a stronghold it by accident), it's not really a "endgoal" more than it is something to work towards if you are aware of it. This isn't like a game with a linear story where the game doesn't progress unless you do these things, Minecraft technically progresses *regardless* of your interaction with any of the Nether, End, or building Mob Farms and such. To be clear, I am coming from the perspective of a guy who just recently got back into Minecraft, and had no idea what a Mob Farm even was until a couple months ago, so to tie this back to Steve's technical atrocities, because of how Minecraft works, the cruelty moreso depends on the player than Steve as a person, whereas in other games events being set in stone makes a morality scale a little easier to gauge, Steve is not forced to do any of these things for any sort of story progression, heck, some instances of Minecraft worlds Steve may not do anything at all like I mentioned earlier. More accurately I think it'd be more reasonable to say the *player* has the potential to be the most evil protagonist in Minecraft, or Gaming as a whole, as you are the one *enabling* these acts, using characters as vessels, or avatars to carry them out. Anyway, to conclude this text wall up. I think this is an interesting point of discussion, but placing the blame on Steve, the avatar, who the *player* uses to accomplish the goals the *player* sets, is a bit unfair, when we're clearly the one with total control over what Steve can, will, and has done.

[@Rrash_VA]

Interesting point, or wall as it were, I've certainly thought about that angle, but despite all of that all that the villagers see, is a man with a weird beard, a blue not fully untucked shirt and dark blue pants, to them it' just Steve, ignoring the fact about how they're all game entities and not sentient at all, so the cruelty might as well be imagination at that point. edit: and by saying it's the player's fault you're breaking the fourth wall, and that's a whole other can of worms, with its own rules.

[@user-td6qs3cg2c]

You forgot war crimes

[@pluswarrior]

Good vid

[@Rrash_VA]

Thanks :)

[@benwall6178]

Hi bro

[@Rrash_VA]

Hi :)

[@deangirl20]

you do realize that none of those things are necessary to the gameplay of Minecraft? it's kinda like Undertale, you CAN be an evil overlord and be a horrible person, but you can also be the most wholesome perfect person in the game. its all up to the player. even then. steve is ALWAYS portrayed as a good person in the trailers.. sooo....

[@Rrash_VA]

well, I look at it this way, if you tortured thousands of people but at the same time, you helped thousands of others and saved their lives, and you kept doing that over and over, you're still evil, at the end of the day, it's steve that the villagers see when they get trapped for trading

[@thndrstrkr117]

While this is an interesting concept and point of view, one I don't believe I have heard before, I disagree that Steve is the one doing these things. At least if you're trying to treat it as the story part of it. Here's an example from another game, or I guess franchise: Halo, especially the trilogy, which is what I'm thinking more of. Obviously there are very many notable differences between these games, but one thing both have in common is that, to varying degrees, you have an element of choice, though one is more restricted to the story. For instance, some people will use the marines as either meat shields or kill them to get their weapons. Obviously this is wrong and would fit into the category of murder. But do we blame the protagonist? No. Just because the player playing the protagonist does these sorts of things, does not mean that the character themselves are. In fact, a lot of what some of these players do is actually counter to the one they are playing. I also saw that @NeonWasInUse has a similar perspective and that your response in regards to players is breaking the 4th wall. But then what about the End Poem? Does this not break that wall? As for the mobs, think about this for a second. While many people do make mob farms, when people are first introduced to the game, the monsters will attack regardless of intention. And even beyond just you the player, what about the zombies attacking villagers? That golems attack the spiders, skeletons, endermen, and phantoms and vice versa (not even an entire list of hostile mobs they'll attack)? Axolotls attack Guardians, which attack defenseless squid and fish? Pillagers attacking villagers, with the intent to kill? It makes sense to see an axolotl go for fish, a wolf to go for sheep, and a fox for a chicken. But the other examples listed are very different. I personally do not condone Iron farms, by the way, because Iron Golems are protectors, and the way that they are used in iron farms I'd agree is fits into your categories. But who do we blame? Just like in Halo, do we fault the protagonist for something they might or would not do? We don't actually know what Steve would do himself, due to the very nature of the game, but if we assume his character based on the trailers, he seems to be an actually peaceful man. He explores, and he builds. He defends himself, and survives (or respawns, depending on the situation). He seems, in fact, to live a very quiet life, aside from his adventuring. Also, one key detail. Yes many players do many of these things (I admit sort of the chests in villages, though my counter is how do we even know those are villagers, considering they don't actually build or defend themselves, and can't use most functional things aside from doors and their respective jobs. Plus generally I try to use what they have to make their lives a little better. But here I'd agree a little). But what about those that don't? If we included their experiences/choices, then we'd start getting a Steve that is maybe blank or neutral. If we assume you are right, that the entire conglomeration of every player is Steve (and by extension Alex), then we have a character who picks and chooses at random times what he does. That seems to fit the category of amoral rather than evil (though it is still a bad thing to be granted). The problem ultimately boils down to this: how do we determine Steve's actual character? Because if it's based on players in total, then we don't necessarily get an evil protagonist, but an amoral one. But if it's Steve himself we are to judge his character by, how do we do that? The best we have is the trailers, which seem to point more to a quieter, fairly peaceful Steve, who really fights more as a defense or occasionally a challenge, such as perhaps the Dragon (another side note, the Dragon prevents you from being able to return to the Overworld anyway, so you honestly in normal survival have no choice but to take it down or be killed yourself). Anyway, an interesting video not going to lie. Well edited. (Also sorry for the long read, and it wasn't even exhausted of everything in my head...)

[@thndrstrkr117]

Also just realized this video is over a month ago, and I just got suggested this...

[@Rrash_VA]

interesting points, but I still think it's Steve who does all of those evil things because I look at it from "an inside perspective" from the eyes of the Minecraft mobs, so I guess back to the fourth wall point, no matter how many players are controlling Steve, it's still him that does all the ugly stuff, so I guess if you look at it from an omniscient perspective, Steve is just a tool and the biggest victim, assuming he has a soul and is not just like a gun. but above all, it's all just fun to analyze things like this, Thanks for watching, and also thanks for the wall of text haha.

[@thndrstrkr117]

@@Rrash_VA True about the perspective of mobs, and sorry for the long text I can occasionally get long winded). The only reason I brought up the fourth wall, since you had addressed it with someone else, is that it does get broken by the game itself in the end poem. As from the mobs perspective, it would be more of a hit or miss what he does and when he does it, which was why I said it would lead to a more amoral protagonist. But definitely agree that Steve would, from omniscient point of view, would have to be considered more a tool. Definitely an interesting perspective to think about, though. And I definitely can agree that analyzing things can be fun. (Also thanks for responding, it's nice to have someone respond to something this long sometimes...)

[@Rrash_VA]

@@thndrstrkr117 i see, you're welcome, i'm trying to build some sort of a community here, hopefully i'll still respond sometimes if i ever get big, check out the other content if you like, i try to keep my quality consistant.

[@thndrstrkr117]

@@Rrash_VA Will do, and good luck!

[@samenameofficial]

More evil than undertale genocide!?

[@Rrash_VA]

I didn't finish Undertale, but I think the number of mobs Steve killed in every playthrough has to approach infinity, I mean Minecraft has had A LOT of players over the years

[@Speed001]

Yes

[@Speed001]

You monster