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There's tons of popular stories with an evil witch or stepmother...

• belorn 8y ago
  Those are within the current cultural accepted norms. A evil witch is not evil because the woman choose it, but rather because she got possessed by the devil which is then driving actor. Evil which is rarely if ever used interchangeable with a "bad guy" antagonist. Similar but different, a evil stepmother is not evil because she chosen to be evil, but rather always coupled together with context that is not interchangeable with the "bad guy" antagonist. Often this is used to demonstrate the downfall of over-protectiveness of ones own offspring over those of others. Try replace any of the antagonist in TV or movies with "evil witch or stepmother" and you have not just changed the gender but likely warped the story. Thanos would look a bit odd as a evil stepmother (and how would his motive for the Infinity Stones work?), and Ebenezer Scrooge as the evil witch would change the meaning of Charles Dickens story.