If you are the hero of your own story, then who is currently the villain?

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just curious who/what are the antagonist in everyone’s lives as we’re all getting older

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  2. Helo227 Avatar

    Capitalism.

  3. ItsLohThough Avatar

    Myself most frequently. If I’m in a beanbag chair though, specifically my knees.

  4. Certain-Discount3119 Avatar

    Every single one of you.

  5. DocZ-1701 Avatar

    [ Removed by Reddit ]

  6. Minimum-Station-1202 Avatar

    Currently Alcohol and ADHD

  7. dcmng Avatar

    Transphobes and facist dick faces

  8. gdubh Avatar

    The other half of me that hates me.

  9. Sidoen Avatar

    I’m also the villain

  10. NomNomNomBabies Avatar

    Stairs.

    Also, there are a variety of people in my professional sphere who I despise, and they despise me in return, because I challenge their stupid good idea fairy induced ideas. It’s mostly policy people who are making clinical decisions that impact a broad range of consumers but they don’t understand the clinical work (since they’ve been out of it for over a decade or just never done it) or the impact the things they are saying have AND they are not open to collaboration or feedback, taking these concepts as personal insults to their “experience.” So, I’m just blunt with them in meetings and list off the 47 reasons why the “little” thing they want to implement is a bad idea, and that friends is how you establish life long professional nemesis’ (insert Mystery Men discussion on the plural of nemesis here).

  11. SuperCerealShoggoth Avatar

    Billionaires, all of them.

  12. Northmech Avatar

    The assholes who kink shame me. Don’t wanna see me running around my house in assless chaps while wearing my rainbow unicorn helmet? Quit looking in my windows!!!

  13. GulfofMaineLobsters Avatar

    Who said I was the hero? I’m and anti hero at best,

  14. RetroBerner Avatar

    The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.

  15. Low-Captain1721 Avatar

    Myself. 

    We all alternate between different roles like hero & villain, victim & perpetrator.  

    The pattern follows subconscious psychological pivots. We do it without knowing much of the time and it’s mostly very subjective. 

    ‘All the world is a stage’ as someone famous once wrote (Can’t remember who it was tbh 😅).

  16. Only-Finish-3497 Avatar

    In my personal life? Nobody. I have no real villains. Because I choose not to let the gadflies get to me enough to make villains.

  17. Standingsaber Avatar

    I am always my greatest friend and worst enemy

  18. freelancer331 Avatar

    an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.

  19. MFoy Avatar

    The stress of getting ready to move, or my inability to control what I eat when I am stressed.

  20. CartoonistConsistent Avatar

    There was a kid once who road their bike out into the road in front me. The little shit knew what they were doing when I had to slam my breaks on nearly giving myself whiplash as they road so slowly past my bonnet grinning at me.

    That little bastard (it was 10 years ago, probably not so little now) is still my villain and one day, oh yes, one day I WILL have my vengeance.

    Not that I’ve thought about it much since…..

  21. dyslexic-alien Avatar

    Work and poverty

  22. CosmeticBrainSurgery Avatar

    Also me, but partly my parents for fucking me up, but they were also the victims because they were too fucked up by their parents to not fuck me up, and it’s victimhood/fuckery all the way back to when we first stood on two legs, most likely.

  23. Routine_Mine_3019 Avatar

    Organized religion.

  24. Aggravating-Tax5726 Avatar

    Old Age and the Tax Man.

  25. Joshiane Avatar

    The 24 year old I was dating/in-a-situationship with for two months who gave me chlamydia. Fuck you Alison.

  26. NeoMoose Avatar

    That bitch Carole Baskins.

  27. ErBoProxy Avatar

    My boss.

    Unfortunately, I wouldn’t think that doing the ol’ Kick-Wham-Stunner deal would work like I saw on television.

  28. BuckNelson Avatar

    Myself in my 20s is the villain . My self in my 30s is the hero

  29. Credwords Avatar

    me at 25 still paying for that dude’s mistakes

  30. TheRtHonLaqueesha Avatar

    Some DOD civilian at MEPCOM, been holding up my application for almost two years now.

  31. Heart_Slight Avatar

    My narcissistic, petty, recovering addict of a father with whom i share a house. 😂😂

  32. Mudslingshot Avatar

    Me. I’ve got enough internal struggle going on that I don’t need to involve (or really pay that much attention) to anybody else

  33. AfterRadio9233 Avatar

    The guy in the mirror.

  34. xrp10000 Avatar
  35. Tirisian88 Avatar

    My 3 year old demon…..I mean daughter

  36. oneloneolive Avatar

    A very loud narcissist.

  37. Bennehftw Avatar

    I used to be my own villain.

    Wasn’t too long ago that I had an epiphany and that I can stop being the villain.

    Fake it till you make it.

  38. alexnapierholland Avatar

    Honestly, no one.

    I refuse to let myself ever blame anyone else.

  39. toolatealreadyfapped Avatar

    It’s no surprise to me, I am my own worst enemy.

  40. PoppyPeed Avatar

    My ex. But no revenge, because the heartbreak leveled me up

  41. 3ndt1m3s Avatar
  42. OldCrankyCarnt Avatar
  43. Dune-Rider Avatar

    The illuminati

  44. PrevekrMK2 Avatar

    Me who i was yesterday. Cause fuck that mother fucker. Gotta work on myself, so I’m better than that idiot.

  45. Timely-Profile1865 Avatar

    I am both hero and villain a Dr Jekyl Mr Hyde scenario

  46. RepresentativeBee600 Avatar

    Are we really the villains? I’ll stir the pot.

    I think there are a handful of people who skew low in real conscientiousness and high in activity who lock society into lots of patterns designed to guard against bad-faith actors – then moreover often climb these and hell, install more. They have disproportionate ease in sleeping after ripping down people who are obstacles, thus disproportionate efficiency.

    I think they’re the villains, and most of the reason why despite having multiple times over the necessary resources to feed the world’s population, we still have hunger issues up to starvation. (They leverage the logistics as ransom.)

    Call me an optimist(?) because I think villainy is Pareto-distributed.

    I also think I need to get off this goddamn site to stop seeing this kind of stuff every day. 

  47. LarryKingthe42th Avatar

    The universe I think…off on that Ahab shit

  48. Tmettler5 Avatar

    As the song goes,

    “It’s no surprise to me, I am my own worst enemy

    ‘Cause every now and then, I kick the livin’ shit out of me…”

  49. 64Olds Avatar

    The realtor who told us it was a good idea to buy on a house we absolutely cannot fucking afford FUCK.

  50. FHAT_BRANDHO Avatar

    Laissez faire capitalism

  51. pmjm Avatar

    AutoCorrect. I was trying to say “pen organizer!”

  52. weesiwel Avatar

    The universe I guess?

  53. AmericanViolence Avatar

    My work crush 😔

  54. mkgearhead1 Avatar

    The insurance company of the guy that hit me over 2 years ago. I just need to settle this so I can get on with my life.

  55. copperpoint Avatar

    Me but yesterday.

  56. Zerthax Avatar

    Living with OCD means that I’m also the villain.

  57. davidedpg10 Avatar

    Me 10 years ago