I think there is a healthy measure of wish-gratification here, yes; but on another level, it's the neatest way to work out a particularly thorny metafictional tangle, to wit:
1. A huge and overpowering antagonist force is often critical to drive the excitement of a plot.
2. A humble, average protagonist is often critical to the audience's ability to sympathize with him/her.
3. Yet, despite this obvious power disparity, #2 must somehow triumph over #1.
How do we do this? Magic plot twist! Give the seed of the enemy's destruction to #2. In short, Neo's being The One is little different from Frodo Baggins inheriting the One Ring from Uncle Bilbo. It's just that there's a lot more kung fu going on in the former case.
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1. A huge and overpowering antagonist force is often critical to drive the excitement of a plot.
2. A humble, average protagonist is often critical to the audience's ability to sympathize with him/her.
3. Yet, despite this obvious power disparity, #2 must somehow triumph over #1.
How do we do this? Magic plot twist! Give the seed of the enemy's destruction to #2. In short, Neo's being The One is little different from Frodo Baggins inheriting the One Ring from Uncle Bilbo. It's just that there's a lot more kung fu going on in the former case.