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[Jester]

The bad guys more represented big corporations than the military, I think.

Maybe I'm just reading Avatar backwards into the stereotype, but these plots usually have two types of villain.

The first is amoral - in Avatar's case, the corporate manager. He isn't evil, per se, he just cares about his bottom line, and doesn't care about anything else. He's willing to play nice when it doesn't cost him anything, but when it becomes clear where his interests lie, he unleashes the dogs - that is to say, the Weapon-Toting Bigot. (Usually, he comes to regret this decision somehow, but loses his say when it comes down to war.)

The Bigot, by contrast, is actively evil - the Colonel. He enjoys killing people and destroying things, for reasons which are more personal than philosophical. And once he's been attacked or wounded in some way, he's also a vengeful SoB, so he's not going to stop until everything's dead.

-Jester