Thread:Balthus Dire/@comment-5653781-20151210150724/@comment-26884760-20151210151354

in many Betty cartoons the antagonists aren't exactly monstrous and it was mostly surreal and musical but it still followed a basic plot : often Betty would end up at the recieving end of unwanted sexual advances by a male character and said male would get beat up after failing to harass her into sex (yes, these cartoon were designed for adults).

Old Man of the Mountain is meant to be an ogre-like bogeyman people are scared of, it is implied he eats people but this may be rumor.. he does definitely scare people on purpose and he tried to get Betty in the typical manner of many males in the cartoon (via force).

He ended up going as far as chasing her and trying to outright take her physically, to the point all her animal friends had to come and beat him up to teach him a lesson (back in Betty days physical punishment was seen as acceptable, even fitting, for thuggish misbehavior).