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Posted by chai (heart) @proyearner
you know what’s a really good trope? “the power of friendship” but they’re all VILLAINS. just a bunch of sexy, unhinged, & morally bankrupt characters who would do anything for each other. absolutely unparalleled
1:04 PM, 10/28/21, 4560 Retweets, 938 Quote Tweets, 20,8k Likes
Kinda like It’s Always Sunny, but better
Season 3 of Legend of Korra does this pretty well, though the villains are also united by an ideology that drives them to act.
I feel like the animated movie ‘Bad Guys’ kind of encomappses this. They’re a ‘ride or die’ crew that is bad, at least at the beginning. It’s a good movie I recommend a watch.
“What? I wanted a longer car chase, its the best part.”
Seriously that link is the first 6 minutes of the movie and if that doesnt absolutely hook you into watching it, its not for you.
Also my 5yo daughter makes me put on that song and do the sunglasses thing, shit is so adorable.
Honestly the car sold me like 50 percent on that movie, haha. It’s such a short bit of the movie but it’s just fun and the car is obviously badass.
This is Worm.
It breaks my heart that Worm never got more attention. It’s probably the best superhero (or villain depending on your perspective) story I’ve ever read
The villains code as well. Worms better though
Any Dnd Party?
Exactly my thought. If you don’t have a session once a month where you look around and ask “are we the baddies?” then what the heck are we doing here.
Basically the Harley Quinn show.
Harley being Batman’s therapist and keeping his identity secret (“Doctor-patient confidentiality”) was one of the most wholesome things ever.
Woof, woof!!
Was gonna say
Seinfeld.
You’re describing Seinfeld.
Stupid, sexy Jerry.
the episodes of the venture bros where the monarch is forced to interact with other villains are the best.
Baron underbite knocking on the monarch’s door for a place to crash because he “just got divorced”
I like how they threw “sexy” in there.
Makes me think they’re talking about Always Sunny
Nothing sexier than cultivating mass.
Holy poops, that’s actually a good des.
Especially the sexy part.
It’s an integral load(:))-bearing essential element!!
Heros: “We did it, we finally killed the evil bad guy”
The evil bad guy’s 12 best friends:
Organisation 13 if they care for each other
Villains are usually better written, more developed characters while the good guys are just good for sake of being good.
I keep identifying the the villains, but eventually, I realized that the writers of mainstream media are heavily invested in the status quo.
Isn’t that because there are fewer unambiguous ways to be “good”? Even many people doing “good” could be seen by others as being evil?
- “I’m saving the forest!” “You’re killing loggers”
- “No one will every go hungry again!” “You stole every piece of arable land and only grow the food you want to exist”
- “I’ve saved everyone’s soul. Everyone is going to the happy afterlife when they die!” “Which religion’s afterlife are you calling the ‘happy’ one?”
I defeat Joker and saved 10 people’s life!
No you dingus! Letting Joker live mean more people will be killed before you stop him again!
Also, villains are often coded as minorities, whereas the heroes are basically the mainstream.
I remember an animated show where the reason why the villain was evil and how they were defeated was because they were aromantic
Dimension 20 basically did this with Escape From the Bloodkeep and it was, as usual, fantastic.
My first thought! Although apparently it was designed to end in PvP. One of the best seasons in my book, definitely the top sidequest season.
Villains or antiheroes? Because this sounds like anti-heroes but villains are rather the people letting starving people die for profits.
Jessie and James and Meowth
