The Psychology of Three Villains
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
00:00 The Psychology of Three Villains
01:30 Archetypes and origin stories
11:03 The Joker
15:09 Heath Ledger's Joker
29:55 Lex Luthor
47:27 OPP
48:40 Ozymandias & the trolley problem
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December 12, 2022
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| 0:00.0 | so burdo recently i handed the keys over to you so that you could drive this bus that is called |
| 0:06.7 | psychology and Seattle into a tree whether you drive it into a tree or down the street |
| 0:13.0 | it's up to you and you did really well you did not drive us into a tree or if if you did |
| 0:18.2 | it was a funny tree so i thought i'd do it again with an idea that you had which is you want to |
| 0:24.4 | present villains from the comic villains comic books that you love and then that we will assess |
| 0:33.1 | them psychologically we might even diagnose them yes but you know all the data yeah and i just |
| 0:39.6 | can riff yeah i don't have to do anything i haven't prepped at all for this episode burdo |
| 0:44.7 | that's perfect i feel so liberated so let's get into it let's analyze the psychology of villains |
| 0:53.1 | that you present with the data you present what do you say burdo let's do it this is the |
| 0:56.9 | psychology and Seattle podcast i'm your host doctor carcana i'm a therapist and a professor and |
| 1:01.7 | my favorite comic book character what i was a kid was iron band because that was pretty much |
| 1:08.0 | i had maybe like seven comic books that randomly came to me through my brother and iron man |
| 1:14.7 | just looks so cool oh he did oh my name is umberto kastanya and i am trying every day to make true |
| 1:21.5 | level all right so here's what we're doing bad guys in comics now there's different types of bad |
| 1:27.8 | guys in comics there's all sorts of different types um can you think what what are some of the |
| 1:32.6 | types are like archetype of bad type bad guys like the well i just think like batman has all the |
| 1:39.1 | archetypes right you've got the crazy one in in the joker yeah and then you've got the manipulative |
| 1:46.8 | one like the riddler yeah and then you've got the the rich one like the penguin yeah and then |
| 1:54.2 | you've got two face mm-hmm who is good and bad you don't know which one's going to show up |
| 2:02.5 | then hmm there's got to be some others in there right so that's great so batman by itself and |
| 2:09.0 | and a lot of the you know spider man superman a lot of them end up with so many antagonists that |
| 2:14.6 | you end up really seeing either all or most of the archetypes i made a list um to try to summarize |
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