Who’s the best real-life example of “you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain,” and what happened?

[u/DrCompenomics]

[u/webkilla]

Iirc he became that lapdog because his son got in legal trouble, and this was how Jackie was able leverage his own celebrity status to save his kid. Selling out to avoid his son in prison

[u/MathematicianSuch234 → u/webkilla]

His son got done for possession of marijuana whilst the CCCP where doing a celebrity crack down and ended up in prison.

[u/Pinwurm → u/MathematicianSuch234]

CCP*.

CCCP is the USSR. 👀

[u/benneladoo → u/webkilla]

Actually it's the reverse, when china announced their war on drugs, everyone laughed at it 

At that time, jaycee got caught and they asked Jackie to make him a public spectacle and he agreed . A lot of celebrities do get caught with drugs but they are hushed up 

Jackie made his son's trial a spectacle like oj simpson trial to make common men fear taking drugs 

[u/NomDePlumeOrBloom → u/benneladoo]

Let's not act like Jackie didn't stay tied to CCP China for his movie $$$.

He made the choice on how he was making money way before any that started.

Regardless, he's a piece of shit for many reasons beyond just this one.

[u/jaxspider → u/NomDePlumeOrBloom]

Devil's Advocate here for the People's Republic of Common Sense. Its easy to say that from the luxury of your mom's boyfriend's basement. Not so easy when you are a Chinese citizen and rely on China's government to keep making money. And on top of that, have your good for nothing son get caught in a drug bust in one of the world's harshest countries. Any father who cares about their child would bend over backwards to save their child.

[u/Abacus118 → u/jaxspider]

Jackie Chan is not a father who cares about his children.

[u/mbklein → u/webkilla]

Leveraged his celebrity status to save the kid whose existence he acknowledged.

He’s got a whole other kid he abandoned.

[u/Gutterflame → u/mbklein]

Would be weird if he had a partial other kid...