SJWs, Christian Moms and weird Bizarro girl I was talking about earlier all hate or dislike villains, because they're bad role models or are toxic and abusive figures. And since Disney is desperate to pander to these people, they make the villains as bland and inoffensive as possible. Or they make them sympathetic, but instead of making them interesting like Joker or Wicked did, they're just bland like Maleficent or the Marvel villains.
These people get mad when the bad guy does something bad. It's surreal. Like, these assholes don't understand that the actions of the villain are fucking supposed to be bad. And he can't be portrayed as symapthetic or the slightest bit understandable. A villain has to be an incompetent evil-doer, who fails at every turn and his only reason for doing evil things is cause he's evil. In a way, even villains in Captain Planet (ffs) are more complex, since they at least want to gain money or power or whatever.
And of course, the "incompetent" thing has to stand tall. We can't have the villain be
competent and effective, that would be like saying you
support them as a producer!
And that reminds me of one of my favorite villains of all time:
Nox from Wakfu. Of all characters, it's the bad guy from an old french cartoon (but then again, it gets bonus points for
dem hips).
As a short rundown on Nox:
He's an evil time-wizard that collects life force (called Wakfu) to power an incredibly strong artifact that controls time. As it turns out, said artifact was created by a legendary tribe that couldn't control it and were essentially wiped out by it. The artifact can turn back time (which is a feat so amazing that the God of time himself can't do it) and chances are that trying to use it will tear the universe asunder and ruin everything for everyone forever.
As the plot progresses, the audience learns that Nox
used to be a family father and his wife and kids were killed in a natural desaster. He now plans to use the time-artifact to go back in time to be with his family again. He knows that it is incredibly dangerous, but his reasoning is that if he is successful, all the killing he did will be undone. And if he's not successful, he won't be able to see his family again and in that case, he doesn't care what happens to the world.
Nox is shown to be a highly competent and powerful foe and the main characters find out that Nox has killed countless people over the course of 200 years and has been literally genociding entire tribes in pursuit of his goal.
At the end of the first season he
kills several of the main characters, successfully consumes the lifeforce of an entire humanoid species, effectively killing each and every single one of them and then uses this life force to turn back the flow of time to be reunited with his family. But instead of going back 200 years as he planned, it only goes back 20 minutes, which is enough that most of his killing is undone - however one main character remains dead (until season 2, when he is resurrected).
He then breaks down and before the good guys get him, he says farewell. The ending credits show his remains, fallen to ash, lying on the grave of his family.
The thing about Nox is that his motivation is actually understandable. Even his reasoning that
his bad deeds don't matter if he succeeds since they will be undone does make sense.
This short summary can't do him justice, the way how you find out piece by piece what makes him tick as well as the payoff in the end is really good. And - of course - it doesn't hurt that every fight Nox is in goes completely balls to the wall bonkers with weird time-shenanigans.
It's a cartoon for kids and it has such a great villain and dishes out some genuinely terrible things
(such as the death of several main characters, granted, they come back to life, but still- the implied genocides in the past remain).
Compare that to nuWars. Villains are incompetent buffoons, they are evil just for being evil's sake, lack any motivation... it fucking sucks.
A french show for little children treats the audience with more respect than nuWars.
That was pathetic but not exactly unprecedented for public figures who've shit the bed. It was when they bailed out of Comic-Con at the last minute that they revealed themselves to have less courage than a gerbil being batted around by a couple of cats.
For that pussy-move alone, these chucklefucks should not be abel to ever (and I mean
e v e r ) be able to attend anything with a public audience without a chorus of "You fucked it all up, you incompetent hacks!" drowning them out.
Kinda weird. I recently watched Spoony's Ultima retrospective and the way how he talked about Ultima 9 really strikes close to home, now that SW and GoT have been ruined.
Well... and Alien, Predator, Terminator, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, Transformers, Simpsons... the list goes on.
