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Villain | Oct 02 2006

David said that Oblivio sounds like a comic book hero whose superpower is making people forget. I laughed, imagining a gang of bad guys thwarted by absentmindedness—they hold weapons in their hands but cannot remember how to use them.

Or should it be the other way around—Oblivio as a villain whose weapon is forgetfulness?

I like this better, for evil, like love, proceeds from memory. In the absence of memory, there is no evil. Tsunamis aren’t evil, nor are piranha. You need a person for evil, someone capable of connecting the present to the past and future.