Some of the more interesting creatives get it
Marty McFly's dad in Back to the Future, though Robert Zemeckis is an outlier. But for the most part you're right, it's the strong, moral, handsome hero dishing out just deserts to the baddies. The hero falls but then makes a triumphant comeback. Even the more interesting Westerns follow the formula.

I think the rest of the world is much more attracted to an anti-hero.

Here in the UK we go a bit far and seem to prefer losers. I mean, we are delighted when the film ends up with tragic failure and misery.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:00, archived)

A love of losers, failure and misery is definitely what keeps me coming back to /talk.

( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:02, archived)

triumphantly?

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:06, archived)

More with a sense of weary belonging.

( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:18, archived)

We do love a comeback with a sense of weary belonging in the UK, don't we?

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:25, archived)

I think this is what we can always rely on pepople to be better at than AI
I'm not sure a LLM can ever be as miserable as us.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:06, archived)

*grumbles*

( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:18, archived)