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Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
— Dark Helmet · Spaceballs
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Dark Helmet gloats that wickedness always wins because virtue lacks the cunning to stop it, delivering the boast with cartoonish bravado that mocks the very cliché it repeats, turning a villain's triumph into self-aware, exaggerated parody.
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