How Legion Continues to Upend Our Expectations of Hero and Villain Stories

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How Legion Continues to Upend Our Expectations of Hero and Villain Stories
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.LacyMB on how Sydney, not David, may be the key to Legion's hero story.

has always been sort of the weird cousin of the television superhero world. Based on a character that most people have never heard of and featuring a dazzling array of bizarre musical interludes, raucous dance scenes, hallucinatory flashbacks and colorful animated sequences, this is a show that’s difficult on a good day and incomprehensible on its worst. But it’s also one of the genre’s most rewarding efforts: Brave, experimental, and willing to tackle themes that similar series simply aren’t.

After all, David is capable of monstrous things. He’s murdered people. He’s tortured others. He’s forced his mind into those of people he cares about to control their understanding of the world around them. He slept with Syd after erasing her memory of their fight about his future villain status, removing her ability to fully consent to their encounter. His insistence that he’s a good person who deserves love may be true—for him.

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