the making of a monster to society theme
The social factors involved in the development of a psychopathic criminal are explored.
Examples
Armus became a being of pure evil when the Titans left him behind in tng1x23 "Skin of Evil".
21 total · 4 choice · 11 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh1x19 | choice | A point of the story was that Eddie was well on the way to becoming a sadistic murderer owing to the fact that his unemphatic father had subjected him to cruel treatments such as sticking Eddie's hand into boiling water. |
| movie: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) | choice | Anakin's whole story is that he falls to the dark side because of his intense emotions and tragic upbringing. Note his mother died under tragic circumstances. |
| movie: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) | choice | Anakin's whole story is that he falls to the dark side because of his intense emotions and tragic upbringing (both his mother and lover Padme died). |
| movie: Taxi Driver (1976) | choice | we saw how a disillusioned war veteran with a lousy job armed himself with a view to do something about the sleaze and corruption in NYC as he saw it, and tried to assassinate a Senator campaigning for president; we are told by the Scorcese to interpret the ending as indicating that we are back to beginning: i.e., Travis is a ticking time bomb |
| ds92x04 | major | Rejection made Verad into a criminal. |
| movie: Deadpool 2 (2018) | major | Growing up as an unloved orphan, made the plus sized mutant boy Russell into such a murderous monster that a supersoldier was sent from the future to kill him. |
| movie: How to Make a Monster (2001) | major | One gathers that the point of the film was to to show how working in a cutthroat business environment can transform a fundamentally good person into a ruthless and selfish person. Case in point: the story follows the empathetic Clayton Software intern Laura Wheeler as she ultimately transforms into a ruthless and cold CEO. |
| movie: Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1994) | major | The initially innocent and kind creation of Victor Frankenstein became a vengeance consumed killer after being treated with cruelty again and again by the people he encountered. |
| movie: Save the Green Planet (2003) | major | The story explores how Byeong-gu's traumatic past led him to become a deranged and sadistic killer. |
| movie: The Dark Knight (2008) | major | The morally upstanding District Attorney Harvey Dent turned into the psychotic killer Two-Face after losing his lover, Rachel. |