Soldier Boy: Why Do We Like The Villain?

[@FaustifyReal]

Does soldier boy act as himself, not hiding anything? No. Throughout the show we see that he is just a facade after facade of false bravado and machoism. All things he claims about himself are a lie. That is the point of the video. The boys tricks into believing the subtle propaganda about his character. He is another depth of Freudian desires like the other top superheroes. What I seek to answer is why despite all his flaws and knowing he is a complete fraud, can we love that character so much.

[@xJohnnyBloodx]

I like soldier boy because he's simple. You know what he's about, and he's not trying to hide anything. He's racist and sexist, but he's not a liar or a backstabber, and he's fairly reasonable.

[@ohinianahiuhki9088]

Nice video, keep up!

[@ZeusAmun-pt9dc]

Grandpa is better than father It's that simple

[@ZeusAmun-pt9dc]

He was friends with Bill Cosby in the 70's&80's clearly it's M.M."s version of the story that doesn't make sense. Not too mention the whole thing with Black Noire being soo delusional to think that he was going to be in Beverly Hills Cop and somehow soldier boy stopped the production from choosing him and taking Charlie's brother Eddie. Not too mention that chick from the CIA clearly used to bang soldier boy plenty back in the day and storm front to. So definitely not racist but other people in the show are lying and also crazy AF

[@Flabfactory]

What down fall? It's still epic!

[@scolveldynasty]

typo

[@FaustifyReal]

@@scolveldynasty thanks for pointing out, my dyslexic ass cannot read

[@candi_daemon378]

Actually some instances that shows Soldier Boy is racist can be listed off in several instances. 1) When M.M confronts him during Herogasm and makes it clear that Soldier Boy ruined his family and Soldier Boy replied with “Which one?”, which going back to the newspapers that M.M had used to keep track of Soldier Boy suggests that he’s never cared to remember because the casualties were definitely always people of color. 2) The fact that he says in Herogasm that he founded alongside/hooked up with Liberty aka Stormfront 3) Also the fact that he looked around the room when stepping out of that pod and saw 2 white dudes with 3 people of color, instantly went for attacking the French guy without asking a single question when Frenchie simply said in ENGLISH that Soldier Boy was okay. 4) In the animated sequence of how Black Noir remembers his trauma with Soldier Boy, he blatantly sabotaged Black Noir’s chance of being cast in his dream role, beats him senseless, and used the words “Move on up” with a sterotypical head motion. “Move on up” is a reference to the comedy show “The Jeffersons”, which is literally about a black couple that became wealthy and how they struggle to adjust to their lifestyle. So yeah, he’s absolutely racist and the other characters have every right to say that he is indeed a racist.

[@FaustifyReal]

2) I don't think him hooking up with sotrmfront makes him racist by association. He might have not known (as this was a very well kept secret) and, tbf, he strikes me as the type of person who would **mate** everything that walks. He remembers her just for he ass. And with that one line we can interpret immediately - he is misogynistic. All the other flaws that he possess - weak character, false stoicism, daddy issues, misogynism, entitlement, poor understanding of the world around him, etc - are shown much better, even without having an explicit line/scene about them, unlike his racist views. 3) Frenchie is a person of colour??? He is born in southern France, canonically. He looks just like any other french person I have ever met (or any European that is not Scandinavian for that matter)? There is nothing to suggest he is a person of colour ever in the series? I think he goes towards Frenchie... because he had his gun out at that moment. 4) that could be. I am not familiar with the "stereotypical head motion" you describe. But the scene isn't about the colour of Noir's skin. It's about the fact that noone else can be anything but his underling. Crimson countess herself began pursuing her musical career after Ben was dead. I think that scene is about soldier boy's overinflated ego of himself, where he would drag anyone else down just so he can alone be at the limelight. Noir challenged this by applying for a role on a big TV show. This risked there being another good solo actor apart from him. The twins do play in a movie, but that one is a Payback movie, so probably everyone else stared In it too (we know the countess starred in it because she is mentioned by the soviet soldier). It's not about him being racist towards noir (which he could be). It's about him not wanting anyone else to steal the spotlight 1) about 1, I need to look at the episodes again to find the scene and pause to read the articles.

[@FaustifyReal]

But without a doubt - Soldier Boy IS supposed to be racist. I am not arguing against it. The writes make this explicit... But they don't show it properly. Granted, there isn't much opportunity to show it, sure. But then the point still remains. It's nothing shown to us, but told, unlike everything else we get to see about his character

[@Chair991]

@@FaustifyReal It doesn't help that he called Bill Cosby "America's dad", that line alone made me think "oh, maybe he isn't racist"

[@FaustifyReal]

@@Chair991 That's true but Bill Cosby has always been a "safe black". He grew to popularity because he really doubled down on his role as this almost neutered non-threating black man. And, I mean, makes sense why he worked for such a character - I don't think he would have been successful otherwise in that society. He was the safe token character and probably was the same idea in Soldier Boy's mind.

[@StuartHeading]

The last season was decent enough (with some great moments) but then people realised the show was taking the piss out of them, not lifting them up so they down voted it 😂

[@FaustifyReal]

I think that's a really bad take people have. It's the equivalent of how people say that fans hate star wars the new trilogy just because they are racist/trolls/etc, when the new trilogy had terrible writing and the only good parts were straight up 1:1 copy of star wars a new hope. I don't think the new season in any point satirises any of the views I hold. I am not even American to relate to many of the problems it describes. That aside, I think the show has genuinely worse writing and began relaying a lot more on shock value rather than good story telling. I think the political messages, which before were well written and somewhat nuanced (as seen in this video), have become obviously spelled out for people to understand and really surface level. I don't want to write an entire essay here. One day, when the next season comes out, I might make a video on all the show together as I find it's downfall really interesting. Until then, yeah - season 4 was worse than season 3 objectively by a great margin. It is not the worst show ever. It is still decent, but it had a drop in quality, which is what people dislike. And through reviews and commentary, we can provide feedback to creators, so they hopefully continue to produce their best work. Boiling negative criticism to just the meme of "they are making fun of you and now you get it" is... A really shallow thought process that gets you nowhere