Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170217011737/@comment-25936766-20170227022347

KNN005 wrote: I thought Nihilism was that nothing matters so if you killed one or one thousand you didn't have to feel anything. Because everyone's life is nothing in the grand scheme of the universe. A lot of villains like Joker and Kefka and Mr. Manhattan were into Nihilism, right? If that's not Nihilism what is it? That's the Hollywood version of Nihilism, what WC called "The Theme Park version".

Because "Nothing matters" is apparently the best excuse for genocide.

Real Nihilism, the one Nietzsche believed in, is more along the lines of Anti-Nihilism, in TvTropes speak. Someone who decides to be a good person and help others for the exact same reason people like Kefka decided to blow up everything.

Granted, Kefka had enough magical powers to be effectively a god of sorts (so pretty much everything did feel so fragile, that life became meaningless to him), and was also insane, so....

As for the Joker, I'm 100% sure his "motivation" varies by writer heavily. That, and ever since falling into that...nuclear(?) thing that made his skin so white, he's never been good in the head.