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Not so good for the screenwriters and true-crime podcasters who trade on our strange fascination with bad guys who go underground and stay there.

Yes, if you’re following closely, he said the people who tried to stop the rise of the Nazis were the bad guys — and therefore that people who oppose fascism now are also villains.

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The internet is full of personalities, some of them prominent, who seek attention by pushing the edges of political discourse: Was Churchill the bad guy in World War II?

She said at times, parents needed to be "a bad guy" and establish stricter controls, including limiting screen time and not letting children look at phones at bedtime.

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You had my character in “To Live and Die in L.A.” — he just wanted to jump off bridges, drive opposite ways on the freeway and shoot bad guys.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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