It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest