@Gnomeshatecheese @FeartnTired It's a shortcut for the intellectually lazy; like what everyone else hates, hate what they like, and people will mistake your contrariness for intelligence.

Not to say I don't think there's merit in examining the darkness, or thinking about why literary villains do what they do (a well written antagonist isn't cartoonishly bad just because, after all) but making everything gritty and dire is just as intellectually childish as making everything default to Pollyanna.