All posts by ScaryMovie53
Magneto is a holocaust survivor. Nuff said. Doofenshmirtz is miserable, but his misery are cartoonish. The others, especially Magneto, have genuine and serious problems.
For reasons that should be obvious, most villains who abuse children are hate sinks by default. Villains who abuse children can be iconic (like Frollo) or fall under love to hate, but they are very rarely (if ever) likable.
Peter Ludlow ("The Lost World") too. He's a wimp, but he's far from harmless. He still threw his own uncle under the buss and dehumanized Malcolm, and his IDW version is a good indication that he would've become worse over time if his plan would've succeeded. People who behave like him in real-life are often far worse than presented in the movie. Because he was written as not evil enough to be recognized and not sympathetic enough to be liked, many people think he's a joke, and some even think he's not evil at all. They are wrong. Technically evil is still evil.
I didn't watch "Gladiator 2" yet, but from what i've heard, Macrinus is less of a villain and more of an anti-Woke statement. Don't get me wrong. Blacks can be evil too. Gays can be misogynistic too. But the specific source i've read said that Macrinus is more of a statement than a villain, partly due to being black and gay. The specific source had some interesting arguments in general. For now, i'll just vote for Commodus. It feels like he's a more definite villain.
Like Demntio said, it depends on how well they are written. Not all great villains are sympathetic (some villains can be tragic and still unsympathetic, whether or not it's on purpose), and not all sympathetic villains are great. Specifically for the villains whom pictures were used for this poll, i think Shen is my favorite one on this list, so i'm going to vote for him.
I know Jeremy Irons probably doesn't see it, but happy birthday to him anyway. I hope he's doing well.
It depends on the particular villain, story, setting and message. If a villain is going to be redeemed, they should want it and deserve it. If they neither want it nor deserve it, they should probably get defeated in a logical way. If a villain win, it should be only as a last resort on the good people's side, when they want to show that sometimes we can't always get what we want or something.
That's an interesting question. Who on this list reminds me of Ozai the most? Well, Lord Darker and Salem don't remind me of Ozai, so they are off the table. Lord Shen is more similar to Azula than to Ozai (i have my reasons), so he works better as a shadow archetype than as a foil.
Aku has a fanatic follower who's pretty much a female Ozai, and sounding like Iroh makes Aku more similar to an adaptational villainy version of Azulon in that regard.
Palpatine has the personality, and currently to Rey's trilogy, he was also violent to his own family, even if not to the extent of Ozai. He's also an alien Hitler, and Ozai is very similar to Hitler in his own way. With that said, Palpatine also has some Sozin in him, with his Order 66 and all.
Belos murdered his own brother and wanted to kill the whole witchkind for living up his childhood fantasy. It's similar to Ozai, who murdered his father because the father loved his brother better, and his decision to burn the Earth Kingdom was basically punishing the world because his father loved someone else better.
With all considered, i would say Belos and Palpatine are the most similar to Ozai on this list, each in his own way. Belos is more similar to Ozai, but Palpatine is a better foil.
A brief summary: He's the main antagonist of "Scream" franchise. He was born after John Milton (Scream) led a gang rape on Maureen Prescott, and Maureen couldn't bare to see Roman's face, because his very existence reminds her of the worst day of her life. A normal person would be a bit upset, but respect her wish. Roman is a psychopath, and his reaction was manipulating Billy Loomis and Stu Macher into murdering Maureen in revenge for not loving him. The thing is that Roman doesn't love anyone, but he wants others to love him. Even if somehow we justify the part where he executed his own mother because she didn't love him, there's no way to justify a killing spree where he killed 9 people (only one of those people had it coming) and tried to frame Sidney (again, his own half-sister) in his killing spree.
No biggie :-). It's a hard game. Now, the villain i was thinking about was Roman Bridger. He's not listed as a sadist because of the controversy, not because he was indifferent. He literally smiled when he strangled Sidney (his own half-sister).
Not Mr. Freeze. As far as i remember, Mr. Freeze is geniunely tragic. Want another hint, or do you want me to say who it is?
Maybe lol. Seriously though, this is a game where both sides wins. Now, i'll give you a major hint. Hope it would help: He's fake tragic. His tragedy used to be real until he decided that cruelty makes better sense than compassion, and as the protagonist wisely pointed out, he should've taken some freaking responsibility instead of taking people's lives. Also, he ain't fooling anybody. He enjoys killing people.
A. The sympathetic solution: Dawn was the literal black sheep of her family, and her racist family hated her because she reminds them of a black panther, so they threw her out of the house. She let the insults of how she reminds a black panther to get into her head, and decided to blame the carnivores as a whole in her situation, because she couldn't bring herself to blame her parents. Thus, she came up with the canon scheme and revealed herself as the villain at the end of the second arc when she tried to convince Judy to join her ("when you're accused at looking like a black panther, eventually you start to act like one. Stick with me and no one will mock you ever again").
B. The hate sink solution: Dawn is an obvious villain to the audience (it fixes the twist decay of a twist villain whose twist was poorly-handled), and Judy suspects her too, but she suffocates her suspecions with a pillow because she really needs to trust someone. Also, she's not a sheep in this solution. She's a pig who encourages Mayor Lionheart to become more and more corrupted.
No. I'll give you a hint: He appears in a movie somewhere between 1994-2001.
Before i share my ideas, you want a solution that makes Dawn more sympathetic, or something that makes her a more definite villain?
If you feel like it, i have another villain in mind for the next round. The first hints are:
*He killed/executed his own mother because she didn't love him as much as he wanted.
*His father was a terrible person, and he himself became just as bad, if not worse.
*It takes more than a stab in the heart to kill him.
*He's not a "Dragon Ball" character.
He's similar to Palpatine, but he's not a "Star Wars" character. The villain i was thinking about was Napoleon. The first hint (He sounds like Charles Xavier and behaves like Sebastian Shaw) a reference to the fact that Napoleon's live-action version was voiced by Patrick Stewart, who also portrayed Charles Xavier (Professor X from "X-Men"). The real-life dictator he's based on is Stalin. The part with not wanting to be out at night when his dogs are on the loose was about his guard dogs. The part with the original oppressor was about Mr. Jones. The final hint was about Napoleon's final commandment after rewriting the animalism commandments ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"). Do you want to play another round, this time you think about a villain?
No. I know about him, but not enough. I'll give you a final hint, and if you'll still be unable to guess, i'll tell you who it is: He believes that everyone is equal, but he and a selected few are more equal than others. Also, there are no exceptions to his cruelty. He keeps his followers well-fed only as long as they are useful.
Raditz's original oppressor was Frieza, and he's far less evil than his original oppressor, so no. I'll give you a big hint: The villain in question is an anthropomorphic animal who made a very efficient oppression mechanism.
Interesting guess, but no. I'm not even sure i remember who Hellrider is. Another hint: The villain in question is pure evil. He used to be under a certain farmer's boots, but became worse than the original oppressor.