Just finished reading a delightful TinTin story, Land of Black Gold. The picture above shows TinTin taking the eternal villain Dr. Mueller to Police Headquarters, so that he may face a fair trial.
Come on, a guy who almost started a world war, lacing petrol with Formula Fourteen explosive ingredients, whose drug made the Thomson and Thompson twins grow hair faster than you can ever imagine, and pretty much blew up the Land of Black Gold. He gets a fair trial, and then goes on to feature in some other sequel of equally murderous proportions?
Why do villains never die? It seems they come back again again, much like our God takes birth to fight evil. Why? The answer is simply, my friend, "Because".
It is an incomplete answer, just like in real life. If we have learnt something, it is that this world is composed of evil and good, almost in equal measure, just to "thicken the plot".
And let us face it. In the heart of our hearts, we don't want villains to die. We want them to become good, join hands with the good, and fight new villains. So we want to have villains always. No wonder the poet and the story teller decide to give more than nine lives to the villain, whether it is Sherlock Holmes, James Bond or TinTin who is the protagonist. The bigger and badder the villain, the greater his mystique and indestructibility. But we are always assured of a good enough fight, and the hero will triumph, wiping the sweat off his brow as the villain slinks away, for now at least.
And the story thus goes on.
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