Anubis said:Empowerment had nothing to do with it. It was about a nobody becoming a horrible person with explosions and gay sex, and many, many dead bodies.
Um it was about enpowerment.
It was a take on the traditional empowerment fantasys superheros traditionally represented but from the point of view of a villain. Heck you alude to this in your post.
A nobody becomes empowered and uses his empowered position to be a complete a$$.
Hence empowerment fantasy.