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Originally Posted by whswhs
On the other hand, if you read Gone with the Wind, the masked men who go out to protect women and the poor against lawlessness and resist an occupying army are the Ku Klux Klan. Rhett Butler isn't a bad fit to the Diego Vega/Bruce Wayne archetype.
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Never seen/read
Gone with the Wind, but that would probably spin a few players' heads. It would probably spin mine some too - reading a Sherlock Holmes story ("Case of the Orange Pips" or something like that) where the Klan was competent and exotic was enough of a change from what I'm used to, but one where they're the
heroes?
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Originally Posted by whswhs
In earlier generations, the natural course for aristocrats of subjugated countries was to become bandits; that's where we get the romantic highwayman myth.
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That... makes a lot of sense. I wasn't aware those were the origins of that particular trope.