Who are the bad guys?

[Big Cam]

I thought it was common knowledge that Pirates were the bad guys.

That's not to say that you can't root for the bad guys, and being bad doesn't mean your a bad person, it just means you do bad things.

The contradicting conundrum I have just conjured up, doesn't even make sense to me.

[Ratshot]

I thought it was common knowledge that Pirates were the bad guys.

The Pirates are the bad guys, most members just regard them as people out to have a little fun. not out to really harm anyone.

[Ronan Dragonov]

Like others have posted, it depends on your point of view.

I say the pirates are the bad guys. They always were for me back in Classic Pirate days. Burn their ships and hang the lot!

Furthermore I can't see a bunch of cannibal islanders as good guys. Then again it is fun to be bad sometimes.

[MillerTime]

Pirates is an old theme. Back in the 80's and and mid 90's Lego themes didn't have "good versus bad", it had opposing factions and would let the kids' imaginations decide. (space, classic castle, pirates, etc) Nowadays kids need to be told who is good and who is bad....no imagination left. Close to every single theme these last couple years is good versus evil.

[mattb483]

Well if you looked at a lot of the old Lego catalogs or idea books they'd always show the pirates winning the battles. So you'd think they'd want the good guys to win so maybe the pirates were the good guys and the imperials were a greedy evil empire!

[Bfahome]

The ninjas are the bad guys.

The pirates are the good guys.

The imperials are just there to supply extra cannons and flipping awesome ship sets.