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Originally Posted by LuvablePsycho
I'm starting to get sick and tired of all these TV shows and movies about sociopathic heroes. Where do people get the idea that being a sociopath or a narcissist makes you some kind of superhuman who is smarter and braver than everyone else? Honestly it sickens me...
I also hate the unrealistic way that these people get portrayed on TV. Like the sociopathic antihero who only feels empathy and compassion for one character who they are close with. A true sociopath or narcissist does NOT feel empathy or compassion for anybody!
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Besides Dexter, what other shows star sociopath heroes? I watched the first season of Dexter, I'd say I was mildly entertained. In Dexter, I think they displayed him with genuine love for his sister (I think it was), and sympathy, and a sense or understanding of right and wrong. Rather than killing because he was a sociopath, he had a killing compulsion, which he restricted to killing other serial killers. All the same, I understood the concern people has in the concept. (I know you didn't name Dexter).
In regards to staring narcissists, I don't like watching those either, such as Eastbound & Down, some episodes I watched only cause a buddy liked it... which creeped me out a little because I know it's one of his fantasies to treat everyone like subhuman.
Archer is also basically a narcissist hero, but it's a cartoon, and I can stand watching some of those only because it's pretty creative, I like the (older) popculture references, and usually funny, but it's also nonstop insult train, and if not usually low brow, it's submersively crass (I just made up that word, meaning it's always deep inescapably crass) which isn't generally my cup of tea.