Game of Plebs: Inverting Heroic Imagery

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>https://youtu.be/yRYOkYquttQ?t=10m45s

Watch this video from 10:45, the scene where Jamie Lannister charges the Dragon.

Notice the inversion of the classically heroic image: a single man, white, on his white horse, charging against a fearsome dragon with lance in hand. A maiden stands nearby, in need of rescue. He stands for masculine heroism, defense of mankind against evil, the courage of an individual against all odds, against a terrifying and monstrous foe.

He's going to slay the dragon, and of course, in the process rescue a maiden.

Except in this inverted, 2017 version of the classic image, the heroic knight is the villain. There also is no maiden, or, at least, she's been transformed by becoming a witch who *rides* the dragon, and, by using its power, no longer "needs to be rescued". Note that this trope, the damsel in distress who needs to be saved from a monster, is a classic feminist criticism of the heroic arc (see creatures like Anita Sarkeesian or whatever her name is).

The maiden is now a sorcerer or a witch.

The classic villain, the sorcerer, the witch, the one who traffics in the monstrous and the obscene for personal power (reanimating her dead husband, killing humans with dragons) has likewise been inverted in a YAASSS KWEEN "heroic" figure.

Meanwhile, the crowd cheers as ordinary men stand firm in ranks against barbarians and monstrous dragons and are incinerated and decapitated. The crowd cheers as the Heroic Male figure, trying to slay the dragon and the witch, is defeated. One woman even says "ARE YOU KIDDING ME???!" as she sees that Jamie Lannister survives.

This is where we are as a society.