mike frank wrote: "at a quick guess, we'll find many fewer evil heroes than evil heroines . . . and if that's the case it ought to tell us something about ourselves that we need -- but don't want to -- know . . ." Isn't an evil hero impossible? I've always found the non-evilness of protagonists to be one of the most intriguing points of identification for me. At most I've found some heroes morally ambiguous. But evil? Its tough to call the person you are identifying with evil. Maybe bad, but evil? ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html