How can you tell if your favourite character is, in fact, a manipulative bastard?

If you’re like me, your first experience with this story was with the 1988 Disney adaption Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

It’s difficult to say where this trope originated from, given, as far as I can see, it’s been part of Western culture since literature began

Mothra, Gamera, Godzilla and giant ants, these constantly rampaging kaijū seemingly never give Toyoko a break.