Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-2175012-20171205173216

So in light of Coco, we have another surprise villain in the form of Ernesto de la Cruz. Honestly, I saw it coming just by looking at the trailers for the movie, but this presents one of the main problems I have for Disney and Pixar movies. It is the over reliance on "surprise villains." While it's debatable about when this trend started, I personally believe that it began with Wreck-It Ralph. In that film, as we all know, King Candy is revealed to be the nefarious Turbo. So, it wasn't too problematic as the trend wasn't be overly used, and the film did have some foreshadowing for the twist, but it also didn't give much of an indication that Turbo was still alive. Frozen had the wrost twist yet, with Hans being the bad guy. Now, this twist was polarizing to say the least. While I do agree that Hans could be used to teach the young audience to be cautious around people you don't know, and to not rush into marriage, I felt that the film didn't need a villain as the separation between the two sisters was the antagonistic force. Big Hero 6 was blatantly obvious. Zootopia's twist was also bad IMO of course.

While I do understand that maybe they're going for a more realistic take on villains as real-life people don't tend to be blatantly evil from the get-go, but I can't help but miss the times when Disney and Pixar villains were outright evil. Thoughts? 