I found it really amusing that bad horse was actually a literal horse. When the movie is wrapping up and Dr. Horrible enters the room of pale bad guys there is an actual horse at the head of table. Symbolism of actual horses? First thing that comes to minds is the four horsemen of the apocalypse. When bad horse is actually revealed it is a black horse. The black horse is supposedly represented as famine in the coming of the apocalypse in the book of Revelations.
As far as actual social change the only thing brought up is homelessness. Penny and Billy have a interesting conflict of typical humanitarian vs. delusional idealist. Billy call the homeless, "a symptom" of a symptom that has deeper corruption and he wants to fix the corruption at the root. Some idealist will tell you the homeless and hungry need to be straved off so they don't reproduce more homeless and hungry people. Dr. Horrible would "cut off the head of humanity" to attempt to make the world a better place. While average, good people like Penny will try to collect signatures to save a few, which it turns out without Captain Hammer's help the signatures wouldn't have made a damn anyways.
Bill and Penny atleast ideal wise are not a good match. Billy sees her through some sort of lense that is actually just a lustful want for her in some sort of vague way. This is visually portrayed in the scene at the laundry mat. We seen an image of Billy looking through several transparent washing machine doors. It is as if he doesn't see her because from that conversation you think an evil mastermind would lose interest and pursue an evil counterpart as his chick.
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There is so much irony in the original Penny and Billy talk about the homeless. I wonder why Whedon picked that issue, was he trying to make a statement? Or just picking something apolitical?
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