“Him wanting to take that out his frustrations on someone with even a passable similarity to the entity he is unable to actually take his revenge on is a plausible outcome.”

Only if you’re determined to paint him as a “probably a bad guy anyway.” Especially since the reason their second date turned out so disastrously was that he started quoting Ayn “selfishness is good” Rand. The ONE thing about Objectivism that makes it anything less than a completely horrible “Chaotic evil and proud of it!” ideology is that it emphasizes personal rights. “You have the right to do anything you want to… as long as you don’t violate the rights of others to do anything they want to do.”

Becoming a serial killer or stalker preying on women who remind him of Alison would be the antithesis of everything he believes. It’s not “plausible,” it’s “I want to make him turn out to be a bad guy who deserved what happened all along.”

Yeah… that’s a long response that amounts to “let me throw in a lot of “maybes” in order to conclude that it’s entirely plausible that – he’s evil! He’s EVIL! Alison was justified and he’s a horrible person!”

Moonshadow, Feral, and Menace have each killed enough people to fill entire graveyards. Max never even raised a hand in anger to anyone as far as we’ve seen; he spent his entire post-pubescent life living in fear of someone finding out about his powers and then doing… exactly what Alison did. To claim that a wealthy and nonviolent kid would suddenly turn into a serial killer in clear violation of his previously stated belief system is the kind of “insane troll logic” I used to see in Final Fantasy 7 fanfiction that insisted that Sephiroth was a good guy who just needed a little love.

Also, it is plausible that you have a basement filled with dead hookers and vivisected puppies. I don’t have any proof, but I disagree with your position here and according to your own logic it is possible that someone might go completely evil for no reason other than because the person making the accusation wants it to be true. *shrug* it’s just a theory.

The point is that there’s a difference between “evil” and “stupid.” Everyone has a MOTIVE for what they do. Moonshadow isn’t slitting throats just for shits and giggles; she’s slitting the throats of men she has decided are evil to help her deal with her sense of helplessness after Alison abandoned the team and she was injured trying to pick up the slack. Menace wasn’t building giant robots for fun; he was building giant robots because he considered the U.S. government to be the primary source of too much evil in the world.

Max has no motive to go attacking women who have done nothing to him. This theory has been created out of literally nothing other than the prejudice that he was a bad guy to begin with. He never did ANYTHING wrong; even in your previous example of “financial slavery,” you were referring to one of his parents’ assistants hiring a couple of undocumented workers and paying them under the table. And I was once paid under the table – and it was one of the best paying jobs I ever had (plus job satisfaction; 12 hours a night to practice martial arts and listen to the radio and go on the computer and whatever else, as long as I made at least one round of the place a night). There is literally nothing to indicate that Max was ever a bad guy, and there is literally nothing to suggest that he would start hurting others purely because someone hurt him.

(And my example of the theory about you was meant to emphasize that. I’ve just accused you of torturing animals and murdering women… and if I follow the logic of too many people engaged in the “fuck Max” school of thought, then I should treat you as a suspected monster… purely because of that baseless and nonsensical accusation. It’s NOT a plausible theory… and neither is the theory that Max has become a serial killer)

No. You keep saying “plausible,” and as Inigo Montoya would put it, “I do not think that word means what you think it means.”

Oh, look – Merriam-Webster agrees with me: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plausible

1: superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious
2: superficially pleasing or persuasive
3: appearing worthy of belief the argument was both powerful and plausible

When I leave my dogs unattended in the same room as a food item, it is “possible” that some other dog could rush in through the dog door, charge past them as they watch quietly without barking, eat the food item, then rush out before I come back and find an empty dish in the same room as my dogs. It is not plausible.

This is why you can be convicted if the jury finds you guilty beyond a REASONABLE DOUBT. There is nothing reasonable about this theory. Max is not a potential serial killer, he is a victim now in hiding from the same person now running a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people like him… as long as they’re not male.

Your post here is… it makes me feel as if you’re trying to give me brain damage with your twisted illogic. It takes a huge leap of logic to think that someone who was kidnapped/tortured/terrorized would then say “screw my old ideology, I’m going to start slashing up innocent women.”

And your second paragraph both supports my arguments and fails to address the point I made there. You can be found guilty beyond a REASONABLE doubt. Meaning that you can’t get away with murder by telling the jury that it might have been a time traveling shapeshifter trying to frame you for the lulz. Yes, a reasonable explanation that would make someone innocent is sufficient to acquit them – like “Max is an Objectivist who believes that violating the rights of others is the greatest of sins, and is more interested in hiding from the unstoppable ultraviolent ex-girlfriend than he is in doing stupid things just to be petty and evil.”

Being in fear of Allison doesn’t exclude Max from having negative behavior. There has absolutely not been enough information of how he handles trauma or even his behavior outside of the context of Allison, to somehow make the judgement call that it’s wildly implausible that he could ever be a domestic abuser.