As she was winding up the crowd at a union campaign event this weekend, two-time Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Karen Bass went for a very specific analogy. “Do we choose a TV reality star villain?” she asked rhetorically. “We don’t need villains in this city.” The reference of course was to Spencer Pratt ’s career on  The Hills,  but it already showed she was playing the election on his terms: Pratt had gone viral with an AI ad he popularized showing him as Batman fighting off assorted Democratic figures ruled by a Joker-painted Bass. The Charlie Curran piece was one of several that cast Pratt as a Hollywood hero; in another, he  wields a lightsaber as a Jedi fighting Bass, an instrument of the Empire.  Bass was trying to flip the tables on her opponent as the villain he claimed to be fighting. But casting the race in such stark Hollywood terms played into his narrative of cinematic good vs.…