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That's a funny thought, but in the new one Bowser was unquestionably bad. His motivations were more relatable for most people, but there wasn't any time spent attempting to justifying what he did.
He was a fairy tale villain, not a modern villain.
A fairy tale villain is evil by virtue, bowser is always bad and will always be bad.
Modern villains are more about becoming evil under the right circumstance, and serve as a warning of why you shouldn’t let that circumstance happen.
The ending was all about that there is always evil in the world, it just needs to be contained by the hero.
In a modern story, it’s more about society overcoming systematic struggles.
Did someone get rocket boots and a freakin lazer cannon?
Or was he "defeated" and escaped to live another day with zero consequences?
Depends on whether you believe in rehabilitation or not because nu Bowser is imprisoned at the end of the movie.
All I'm saying is:
Both ways may work short term, but I bet they'll be more of the newest franchise.
When Luigo put a Koopa down, he stayed down.
In the analogy of billionaires who have caused such ridiculous amounts of human pain, suffering, and even death...
Some would argue that rehabilitation isn't an ethical conscious risk considering the damage done to amount of people balanced against honestly less than what? 4-5 school buses full of oligarchs?
Sure, maybe Peter Thiel or Elon Musk's hearts will grow a dozen sizes.
But do the risk/reward.
Basic utilitariansism
For the 7 billion so other people on the planet, and all the future generations. It's worth playing it safe, even if that means we never got a sequel.
Fascist evil genocidera put down, and everyone goes back to Brooklyn to fix toilets, because when fascists show up, everyone fights regardless of what you were doing yesterday.
You just don't see shit like that in kids movies these days.
But for literal millenia, that's what our stories have been.
I just don't think the change is organic, but I'm a cynic