Evil Needs To Win

So I think evil needs to win.

I don’t mean for real, but in the movies/comics/toys/books/etc..

What kind of threat is an organization that gets it’s ass handed to itself after every episode? How are we supposed to take the threat seriously when we know that at the end, the good guys (no matter how down they appear to be) will always rise up and save the day. Sure, someone may die, but they usually die in a way that saves the day.

And who would want to work for an organization what that kind of track record?

“Why do you want to work for Cobra?”
“I saw that you almost succeeded with the Pyramid of Darkness, the MASS Device and the Weather Dominator. I want to be part of that.”

So I think that evil needs to win now and then. They need to defeat the good guys. Not just during the middle act, but at the end act. Every once in awhile, not all the time, because that has the same effect. If evil wins all the time, then there’s no reason to root for the good guys because we know they won’t win. But every once in awhile, the evil mastermind’s plan needs to work.

Not just kill a major good guy, they need a decisive victory.

I’ll settle for them getting away with stealing something, just as long as the good guys don’t recover it at the end, I mean that’s a start anyways.

But let the bad guys win now and then. It’ll make it that much more satisfying the next time the good guys get a victory, it’ll have meant something.