"when someone in real life follows the same path that the media themselves have glorified and glamorized for years, they’re painted as villains."
Do I think Luigi's a villain? From what I know so far? Nope.
Do I think that this argument is pure dogshit, YEP.
If you ran around doing John Wick stuff IRL, you'd absolutely be a villain. He's only not a villain within the context of his carefully crafted fictional narrative. Because someone wrote it that way.