My Dr Horrible vs Severus Snape

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We two young men, A and B. Both are intelligent, uncharismatic, unpopular and deeply in love with a Charitable Redhead. They both share an inexplicable spiritual bond her, but they botch up their romantic prospects when they let their Career in Evildom get in the way. Her attraction to Phallic Opponent shoves them further along the path of bitter

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Oh, yes, Penny got offed before he got to know her enough, I agree. But he did try. I see why you feel he only loved the idea of her, although I wouldn't say it was just a physical thing. They did talk, with laundry and yoghurt, and he paid attention to her and was as honest as he could be. There was miscommunication, pretending("My role-model is the Black Horse." "The most evil equine villain ever to terrorise the town?" "Gandhi, I meant Gandhi." ~ paraphrasing), but there was also a mutual attraction, shared jokes, a kind of understanding, and overall it felt like their goals were similar, it was just their approach that was different.

It's odd, really, Captain Penis and his fantourage liked used her because she was a vegetarian humanitarian, while he rather liked her in spite of it. And he projected his own goals onto her - we often do, "He will surely like me if I lose a lot of weight", "Surely she shall be happy if I keep playing poker and win her a mansion", and not because we don't know our loved ones - it's just a thing where you lump together all the things you like and assume they cannot come separately.

I was really sorry when Penny died, yes - I'd liked her, cliched songs and naivete and all. And sorry for the fact that she never got rid of Captain Penis's lurking mythos. I do wonder what it would have been like if she'd survived. Do you think she'd have allowed her romanticish emotions towards Billy grow into a relationship? Could she have accepted being Mrs Horrible who achieves her noble goals by applying force? (Galadriel-complex, you know.) Or would she have set up an ultimatum, her or the world? [I think Billy would eventually have chosen her, after much blundering, but that's just because I'm a sap.]