>>70887626Anon, most of the "power fantasies", at least in japanese storytelling, necessarily has the blandest MC possible because the reaction they want from the audience is
>OH BOY! THE THINGS I WOULD DO IF I WERE IN MC'S PLACETake every harem anime, for instance, the whole stitch is that the MC does NOT take advantage of the fact every single woman that comes in contact with him are immediately striken. For Isekai, the same, except domination and exercise of power.
One of the things that made "that" scene on Evangelion so disruptive was that Shinji "let his intrusive thoughts win" and did what many of the audience would have say the would do in the same situation and it ended up coming out .... creepy.
Take Overlord, Momonga awkwardly fondles Albedo when he thought that would be prevented by the admins of the game and, when it is not prevented, he never again does anything untowards to ANY of the delicious NPC in his game.
He's the perfect self insert and the whole point of self insert is exactly that, to elicit the
>OH BOY, I WOULD WRECK ALBEDO AND CLEAVE SHALLTEAR IN TWO IN HIS PLACEAnon from the original remark is correct, you are wrong