Recently I played Prince Of Persia Two Thrones where the prince gets a split personality and his second half is kind of his bad side...or is it? I thought of this many times when seeing bad guys in movies and games. They weren't all that bad. The makers would add an evil tone to them which made no sense. However their reasons are often justifiable. They are also lot smarter and more experienced than the good guys. Yet when the second Prince of Persia came out, the fans were disapointed because of the darker and as they called him "arrogant" prince. So I'd like to criticize some of the criticism on the last bad guy.

Kids, the evil prince is not evil. He’s just smart and not as naïve as the good prince. The prince goes, “Oh what happened to my city, the children and the blah blah blah….” And the dark prince goes, “Pay attention! Down there.” Even I wanted to slap the good prince from time to time. The dark prince’s mind might be fainted by vengeance but at least his mind is not in his balls. How dare the upcoming king risk his whole kingdom for one little group of people on the way or even worse: just one woman?! He never succeeded in keeping his women alive for long enough to create offspring. If prince were to fall into a trap and die, the empire would fall apart as the civil war would completely swallow it. Remember Alexander..?

If this was a real life story, only that dark prince would be able to hold on to his kingdom, and in fact, if he was in charge from the beginning, did you think that maybe the whole Sands of Time thing wouldn’t happen in the first place and we wouldn’t have the problem? Actually ideal it would be for the two brain parts of the prince to get together to form a balance. 

The whole dark prince character and his voice btw extremely remind me someone from the late stages of a Japanese cartoon show that’s quite popular in the US as well. Some of you might remember the guy, Vegeta. Another example of a smart guy turned bad by the writers to create a bad guy. They would make him conduct senseless violence and say bad things for no reason so the kid's psychology. 

Maybe we shouldn't learn kids that naive is good and cunning is bad. It feels like a part of that whole politically correct cr*p and transformation of children in to weak and blind machines. So remember kids, look beyond the childish good motives of simpleton heroes.