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Posted by chai (heart) @proyearner
you know what’s a really good trope? “the power of friendship” but they’re all VILLAINS. just a bunch of sexy, unhinged, & morally bankrupt characters who would do anything for each other. absolutely unparalleled
1:04 PM, 10/28/21, 4560 Retweets, 938 Quote Tweets, 20,8k Likes
the episodes of the venture bros where the monarch is forced to interact with other villains are the best.
Baron underbite knocking on the monarch’s door for a place to crash because he “just got divorced”
I like how they threw “sexy” in there.
Makes me think they’re talking about Always Sunny
Villains are usually better written, more developed characters while the good guys are just good for sake of being good.
Isn’t that because there are fewer unambiguous ways to be “good”? Even many people doing “good” could be seen by others as being evil?
- “I’m saving the forest!” “You’re killing loggers”
- “No one will every go hungry again!” “You stole every piece of arable land and only grow the food you want to exist”
- “I’ve saved everyone’s soul. Everyone is going to the happy afterlife when they die!” “Which religion’s afterlife are you calling the ‘happy’ one?”
Heros: “We did it, we finally killed the evil bad guy”
The evil bad guy’s 12 best friends:
Dimension 20 basically did this with Escape From the Bloodkeep and it was, as usual, fantastic.
kinda reminds me of iasip
I thought of Lost. They’re not all villains, but they’re all kind of shitty.
Basically the Harley Quinn show.
Was gonna say
Jessie and James and Meowth
Agatha all along… Kinda.
