What has become of humanity...

If it makes you feel better, those are niche films. Their sole purpose is to make money and to cater to fans of those types of characters. Not everyone is gonna wanta watch (I certainly didn't) but for some twisted reason, some people like the villains in some franchises. It's one of the stranger aspects of human nature, to admire certain traits villainous characters (or even real life people) have.

Truth be told, such films are gonna be forgotten by most people. Most movie-goers prefer stories where the good guy wins, the bad guy loses, and good prevails over all. They won't be upset if the bad guy gives the good guy a reason to come back in another movie just to triumph over them again, so long as the story makes sense.

Quite the contrary, I don't root for Joker. At all.

Society is morally bankrupt, now, mostly thanks to Democrats, Marxists, and Communists.

Humanity was always like this.

Just because the bad guys take the lead in all these movies, doesn't mean they're all comparable. In Venom and Suicide Squad they're portrayed as anti-heroes more than anything and have some sort of redemption arc. In Joker he certainly doesn't get any of that, nor do I feel like the audience is supposed to root for him. We can feel empathetic for the struggles someone goes through without condoning their actions. Joker is a cautionary tale.

All that being said, it's nothing new. A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho, and Taxi Driver are all older movies where the protagonist isn't necessarily the good guy.

Not only that, but for years now people have been tuned in to serial killer documentaries and stuff of that nature. Most people don't do it because they're rooting for the killers, but because the mentality behind these things can be fascinating.

I certainly wasn't rooting for the Wall Street scum on the train either or Thomas Wayne who cut funding for people who need mental health. Aren't the Wall Street scum and Thomas Wayne just as bad as Joker? Don't they destroy as many or more lives than some villain does? Something to ponder.

Scarface, Chinatown, No Country for Old Men, The Usual Suspects, Smokey and the Bandit, Beetlejuice, Ocean 11, The entire Fast in the Furious franchise, Godzilla... I could keep going, all those are films where your'e kinda rooting for the bad guys.

Do you even watch movies?

"Someone on TV told me to be outraged about this!"

*cues outrage*