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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Compelling villains are written with a deeper motivation for their actions than just 'hurt people' or 'be evil' and they have a tendency to challenge the status quo in some way. Such villains become sympathetic because the current status quo is oppressive.

It must be very difficult to write a villain for a contemporary piece of media because they can very quickly become a hero of the people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Proof that neither following the law nor traditional morality are being appreciated by today's youth.

The reason for that should be obvious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You can always fish out of water a villain. Their solution could sound reasonable where they come from, but during the quest for enlightenment be made clearly wrong, and they refuse to change. Breaking that step can turn the audience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem is you can also make the villain a manchild whos sick of people not agreeing with him and the internet will call him based

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

based jack horner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Basically the Ghoul from Fallout

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

he aint the villain though, more an anti-hero or something like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fair enough, although he still does a lot of evil shit and everyone instantly forgives him and loves him.
I'm not knocking it, I'm one of those people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Is that emperor georgiou? Although tbf the series tried to awkwardly put their own halo on her

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure it was just the series doing that. I'm so glad that S31 project has been scaled back to a one off special.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The Death Star was an inside job. Emperor Palpatine is a good guy who brought peace and prosperity to the Galaxy. What the so-called Rebel Alliance terrorist organization did was wrong, and I'm tired of pretending it was not.

Also Gandalf was a demagogue taking advantage of the naive and gullible in order to set Middle Earth back centuries, all because racial supremacist elves desired to overthrow the human kingdoms and install their puppet Aragorn. They've used new age mysticism to bamboozle the masses! Wake up, sheeple!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"Sure she has done a genocide or two but look at that rack!" - Esdeath fans

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"I can fix her" said the weabo as he hurtled towards the mass of simps spouting the same.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

A morally grey character is one that commits the most heinous shit, but is also hot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh god that series caught me off guard

Tap for spoilerWhen main characters started dropping like flies I wasn’t prepared for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do recommend the manga, its way less... bloodthirsty (still thirsty af tho)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whats the name of the series? I can't read sor get context clues from this messages.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Akame ga Kill!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

Vegeta literally blew up entire planets before he became an anti-hero type. He never really reformed, he kind of just got bored being evil.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is the villain crying in the last panel??

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

That's because he IS Pagliacci.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The most famous villian .... The Joker ... a highly intelligent, creative, insightful and philosophical individual compared to some billionaire in a bat costume with a mouthful of gravel.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I miss the "World's Greatest Detective" Batman.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

RACHAELLLL!!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

WHYDIDYOUSAYTHATNAME

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

WHEREISTHETRIGGER 😡🦇

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Plus back before the woke liberal agenda took over the media he was always talking about "boners" which I can relate to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Something something hockey pads.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago

they knew exactly what they were doing when they made the villain so goddamn hot