Tm Prompt 195: Heroes and Villains
I was a big fan of horror movies as a kid. I like them still, but I don’t have as much time to watch them as I used to. Anyway, I always had a thing for werewolves. I thought they were so cool. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen that Wolf Man movie with Lon Cheney Jr.
Werewolves get a really bad reputation thanks to those movies. Everyone sees them as villains, people who run around preying on helpless victims, either eating them or biting them and turning them into a werewolf too. But I never saw them that way. It’s not like Lon Cheney Jr. asked to be a werewolf. He got bitten, and then he had to deal with it. Not his fault.
I wikipedia’d this sucker, because I wanted to have all this awesome information on werewolves. The earliest example of a werewolf was Greek mythology, where this dude named Lycaon was transformed into a wolf as a punishment for being a cannibal. In most ancient civilizations, people became werewolves by pledging an allegiance to Satan in order to stop their desire for human flesh. … So that they could be a wolf and eat people. Makes sense, right?
So if you’re going by that interpretation, werewolves are villains, right? They’re friends of the devil and like to eat people in their spare time.
Let’s talk about werewolves being heroes. Oxymoron much? Hear me out. What about someone using their lycanthropy or whatever the hell you want to call it to protect people? A village or something. What if they were able to resist the natural call of the wolf and use their power for good? (I sound like a damn Jedi. What the hell?) Would they be a hero then? Or still a villain because of what they are?
And then along came Remus Lupin. I always liked Lupin. Although, with a name like that, the parents were pretty much asking for him to be a werewolf, but anyway. Finally we have an example of a werewolf who is a hero. Of course, he’s ostracized from society, and he’s an outcast among fellow werewolves, but he’s a good guy. And he gets the girl in the end. Good for him. Starting to earn back some of the crap werewolves have had to deal with over the years.
Oh yeah, I was supposed to be making a point with this response. My point is: Bella can try to protect her stinking vampires all she wants, and say that they’re nice and sweet and would never hurt humans (I beg to differ, but anyway). I’m on a mission to protect werewolves. They’ve got a bad rep, and I’m gonna fix that. Because werewolves are built for protection. They’re big and practically indestructible (a silver bullet through the heart will kill just about anything thank you very much) and they’ve got insane loyalty because they’re canines with human intelligence. Don’t think you could ask for anything better protecting you. ‘Specially not a freakin’ vampire.
Werewolves get a really bad reputation thanks to those movies. Everyone sees them as villains, people who run around preying on helpless victims, either eating them or biting them and turning them into a werewolf too. But I never saw them that way. It’s not like Lon Cheney Jr. asked to be a werewolf. He got bitten, and then he had to deal with it. Not his fault.
I wikipedia’d this sucker, because I wanted to have all this awesome information on werewolves. The earliest example of a werewolf was Greek mythology, where this dude named Lycaon was transformed into a wolf as a punishment for being a cannibal. In most ancient civilizations, people became werewolves by pledging an allegiance to Satan in order to stop their desire for human flesh. … So that they could be a wolf and eat people. Makes sense, right?
So if you’re going by that interpretation, werewolves are villains, right? They’re friends of the devil and like to eat people in their spare time.
Let’s talk about werewolves being heroes. Oxymoron much? Hear me out. What about someone using their lycanthropy or whatever the hell you want to call it to protect people? A village or something. What if they were able to resist the natural call of the wolf and use their power for good? (I sound like a damn Jedi. What the hell?) Would they be a hero then? Or still a villain because of what they are?
And then along came Remus Lupin. I always liked Lupin. Although, with a name like that, the parents were pretty much asking for him to be a werewolf, but anyway. Finally we have an example of a werewolf who is a hero. Of course, he’s ostracized from society, and he’s an outcast among fellow werewolves, but he’s a good guy. And he gets the girl in the end. Good for him. Starting to earn back some of the crap werewolves have had to deal with over the years.
Oh yeah, I was supposed to be making a point with this response. My point is: Bella can try to protect her stinking vampires all she wants, and say that they’re nice and sweet and would never hurt humans (I beg to differ, but anyway). I’m on a mission to protect werewolves. They’ve got a bad rep, and I’m gonna fix that. Because werewolves are built for protection. They’re big and practically indestructible (a silver bullet through the heart will kill just about anything thank you very much) and they’ve got insane loyalty because they’re canines with human intelligence. Don’t think you could ask for anything better protecting you. ‘Specially not a freakin’ vampire.