User blog comment:MegamanZero0002/TD Antagonists and "Karma"/@comment-4749365-20140611060332

I really want to have an opinion on this. Up until reading the comments, I always assumed everyone cheered whenever an antagonist was "defeated" and received their "richly deserved" karma. That being said, none of the antagonists really radiated evil (except Mal for his split second debut) just greedy jerks who'd use anything and anyone to win. I'm a Cody-type of person but I can quickly turn into a Heather if I wanted to (I tested the theory in TDI Camps Wiki, always made it to the merge ;) win a million dollars. I'm sure that after winning the money, most people would revert back to their original selves unless they're really manipulative no matter what (Heather).

The way I see it, karma is only necessary to "teach" those young ones that being a bad person can literally maim you while being kind will get you one million dollars, and as a bad person, they should be punished. But, being punished for wanting it more than others and using strategical yet unorthodox techniques shouldn't result in something as serious as being put in a robot suit to live. It should be comical like Heather losing her hair or none at all (Courtney, the whole triangle isn't really karma for being antagonistic, just due to her mistreatment of Duncan).

Obviously, we get frustrated as seeing our favorites get "unfairly" eliminated hurts us and thus making us feel hatred for the one who performed the strategy. I almost threw my shoe at the TV screen when I saw Courtney getting eliminated unfairly by Harold (who didn't receive any karma, just justice by Courtney) and when Cody was knocked off the platform. Yet, when watching reruns I don't feel anything at all, now that we know the villains actually do have a personality, we could see things from their point of view.

I know babbled and probably don't even make sense, but that's my view on villains and karma.