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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
Nothing sexier than cultivating mass.
Holy poops, that’s actually a good des.
Especially the sexy part.
It’s an integral load(:))-bearing essential element!!
Heros: “We did it, we finally killed the evil bad guy”
The evil bad guy’s 12 best friends:
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 other’s as being evil?
Also, villains are often coded as minorities, whereas the heroes are basically the mainstream.
I remember an animated show where the reason why the villain was evil was because they were aromantic
Dimension 20 basically did this with Escape From the Bloodkeep and it was, as usual, fantastic.
My first thought. One of the best seasons in my book, definitely the top sidequest season.
Villains or antiheroes? Because this sounds like anti-heroes but villains are rather the people letting starving people die for profits.
Seinfeld.
You’re describing Seinfeld.
Wait, so what is going on over in the USA, but sexy??
I guess that would be significantly more palatable … still murder tho.
But it I could choose my dictator I would like a big mommy dommy goth, pls!
Anybody read Worm by John McCrae / Wildbow? It’s this and it’s really really good parahumans.wordpress.com
Actually, now that you mention it, Worm is this to a tee. Worm is still probably one of my favorite reads to date; highly recommend (it’s like a The Boys with less evil corporations and more X-Men)!
For all the praise, I’m not entirely sure I liked the ending, but the rest of the book more than makes up for it… I keep telling myself to get around to reading Ward, but so far haven’t had the time to commit to it.
Hazbin Hotel kinda?
How would you say they are villains? Some may classify as antiheroes, but like… they basically literally try to save people from extermination.
Isn’t that just DOOM patrol?
Doom Patrol isn’t made up of villians. They are people whose superpowers caused them to be traumatized in one way or another.
This reminds me of the Phantom Troupe.
I’m currently reading a series called Everybody Loves Large Chests. The protagonist is a dungeon mimic who gains sentience and levels up. It collects a bunch of sexy villain characters along the way. Surprisingly compelling.
It’s weeb degeneracy with rape, fantasy Nazis, and a loli that shouts Ora Ora as she punches because the author took a fantastic premise and smeared shit all over it.
It got recommended to me by a Redditor.
I do not forgive their sins, or yours for spreading it.
Reminds me of an all evil campaign I played in once.
I recall “heroically” leading the towns militia into a wererat den on the night of the full moon, only to lock them all in together and finish off the stragglers on both sides afterwards. Turns out militiamen’s scalps look awfully similar to those of reverted wererats, and we turned quite a profit.
I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, but for a good read from a Villain perspective try A Practical Guide to Evil
That’s basically Inspirational Skeletor.
Agatha all along… Kinda.
theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Basically the Harley Quinn show.
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Harley being Batman’s therapist and keeping his identity secret (“Doctor-patient confidentiality”) was one of the most wholesome things ever.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Was gonna say
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Woof, woof!