4. The Whole Were Not So Different, You And I Spiel From The Big Bad
As seen in: The Dark Knight Trilogy Now that Nolans Batman series has done it to death with both the Joker and Two-Face riffing on the theme (and laying it on particularly thick about vigilantism generally), theres got to be a moratorium on this sort of thing. The Avengers just about got away with it, but thats only because Joss Whedon decided not to stick the actual words in Tony Stark and Lokis mouths (And Loki, he's a full-tilt diva, he wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built to the sky with his name plastered Son of a bitch). See also: the whole thing about comparing the heros mask and the metaphorical mask which we all wear day to day in various social situations, which is a conceit which would be thrown out of a high school production for being too derivative. When Austin Powers has already parodied this trope in three separate, decreasingly funny, films, you know its time to put it to bed.
