Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-366087-20160519192417/@comment-366087-20160519224253

Well of course he darkens it. All the dark goes with him. That is his Role. He is all but mustache twirling in his Evil. Disney is very Black and White, Good and Evil in its family shows. He is supposed to be the Bad Guy, The Evil One. Easy for kids to understand and boo against.

My understanding is that KoC/Game Changer are those who change the tone of the established setting. I believe we're in agreement that if a character like a Grand Inquisitor worse than Frollo were to come along, he would be a Game Changer because he ups the Villainy level.

So why is it that a story that opens with The Villain is not the *setting* for that story? The Lines are drawn and set early for the Target Disney Demographic to understand, and all scenes without the villain are supposed to show what it is like without him and That He Is Evil. He IS the game. Without him, that woman would not have been killed and misshapen or no, the character known as "the Hunchback of Notre Dame" would have lived a completely different life with at least a loving mother and the movie probably end in 10 minutes runtime.

That's my understanding of the category, and my pitch: Villains who are in a story from the beginning of it cannot, should not, be considered Game Changers because they are the ones to *set* the game.