The chapter differentiates critique and satire: where the former requires empathy, the latter often ends up punching down rather than up. The mythology of the victim takes strength away from the weakest and places it in powerful hands, and the critic’s task is to reshuffle the cards. The chapter argues that victimhood provides a fixed identity, reducing individuals to their trauma while undermining their agency. Drawing on Arendt, it shows how the idea of inalienable rights has been distortedly applied to victimhood, promoting a static view of the self, where identity is all about ownership rather than action. Thirty years of individualistic ideology have lent the concept of identity the popularity it now enjoys, in academia too. The chapter ends by interrogating the centrality of victim narratives in contemporary conspiracy theories and suggesting the centring of different myths to take the place of narratives of victimhood.