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The ideal Hollywood villain is one who does not remind the audience of anything that they come to the cinema to forget, such as the threat of a terrorist attack.

No. The Ideal Hollywood Villain® is one who doesn't have a special interest group that will whine constantly that you are stereotyping their ethnicity if you use them in a movie.

[Shanda]

You could be right but I have always suspected that Hollywood bad guys were whatever group the left currently doesn't like.

Has anyone noticed how many movie plots in Science Fiction revolve around some new discovery which could help mankind but the discoverer realizes the evil American Military (it could also be the CIA, or some right wing militia) is secretly planning on using it as a weapon.

The hero then spends the rest of the movie fighting the "bad guys".