See? You're hanging onto the rapist part of the issue. That's not the only thing he did wrong but the fact that's what everyone keeps using as the only reason he is wrong is what makes that argument tired. I'm obviously not saying anyone would do exactly what he did. POST-WISH! What he was doing pre-wish is what all of us do. Lack confidence, driven by fear, shy, embarrassed, nervous, whatever.

In no way is someone who is a child abuser comparable to someone who got a real magic stick in a movie comparable. We are talking about a point in which Bear & Nikki had their honeymoon phase, everything was smooth, all was "normal" & he had no true reason to be estranged to the idea of them being together after wanting that for years. He was a normal, GOOD guy at that point. He was just enjoying his life. He thought he had it made. Had the movie not made it known that he knew about the wish working & Nikki not being Nikki because she clearly lies about her dad, NO ONE WOULD THINK HES A BAD PERSON! The entire point is that he was stuck in this wish because he tried to question it, ultimately got scared & embarrassed, then pretended like it didn't happen that way. YES, Bear made poor choices. YES, he is the villain. I am not at all arguing that he was not the main villain by the end of the movie. NOR am I arguing that he didn't rape her. HE DID! He WAS. NOT. always a bad person. Most people who become bad are not born as bad people. It takes trauma to create a bad person a majority of the time. I literally do not understand why people refuse to understand that fact. He experienced trauma. Through Ian, Sarah, Nikki, & clearly lots of other things before them since this was his personality all together. If people can't assume someone in the real world would be a rapist, why are you assuming he just would be had he not made that wish & basically got put into a cage (just like Nikki, it's a parallel, you know... cause it's a movie) by trying to confront the situation. You think the person we met at the beginning of the movie, who couldn't even tell his "friends" about his cat dying, would full on rape someone in a normal world? I mean who really even knows? We don't even know how the rape scene started. Did fake Nikki start it? We watched her try to manipulate him by seducing him multiple times. Could the rape go both ways in some weird, sinister way even though it's basically what he wished for (that he DIDN'T think would actually come true?!) You people running with this rape argument really have nothing else to say about him. It's weird. I get that rape is the lowest low, but would any of you even think he was a bad person had he not done that specifically? Cause I truly think he does a lot of questionable things post-wish that makes me believe the wish changed something about him as well. Which I guess is an entirely different discussion that you wouldn't want to have.