Jason Voorhees and stigma: a disfigured boy, the mockery of the others and counselors who looked away.
The archive measures all 998 on four axes. Pick one and see what it answers. How do we measure? →
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Intelligence does not create the criminal: it gives him method. The highest scorers are the planners —and the slowest to fall.
78 median · 452 score 80 or more
34 different theories explain the 60 highest on this axis most repeated: Psychopathy →0out of 100100
Manipulation is harm without touching anyone. It is the axis that best separates the villain who frightens from the one who only makes noise.
72 median · 409 score 80 or more
36 different theories explain the 60 highest on this axis most repeated: Psychopathy →0out of 100100
The most visible axis and the least explanatory: almost the whole archive scores high. What tells them apart is not how much, but against whom.
78 median · 478 score 80 or more
40 different theories explain the 60 highest on this axis most repeated: Routine activities →0out of 100100
The axis that really discriminates. It is not that they do not understand the harm: it is that it does not weigh on them.
12 median · 2 score 80 or more
30 different theories explain the 60 highest on this axis most repeated: Criminological phrenology →Every villain in fiction is an open case. We open them with real criminology: the theory that explains it, the crack that complicates it and the sources to check it.
Explaining is not excusing
Every James Cameron film puts a new face on the bad guy. Underneath them all is the same one: a corporation that measures a planet in kilos of ore.
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107 theories hold the archive. The largest, Moral disengagement, explains 24 of 998 case files: only 46 reach ten. No single theory owns evil. And 2 still waits for its first case file.
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