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Trope Talk: Pure Evil! (Patreon)

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2019-04-19 15:06:00
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Trope Talk: Pure Evil

Check out World Anvil at https://www.worldanvil.com/, and make sure to use the promo code OVERLYSARCASTIC for 20% off a Master or Grandmaster membership! Today let's talk about those paragons of villainy sometimes referred to as "disney evil"; those beacons of menace, those icons of charisma, those unrepentant monsters that DEFINE the meaning of malice. Who's your favorite Pure Evil villain, and what's your favorite part of their villainous breakdown? Has my nonstop fangirling convinced you to take my TV recommendations seriously? Then grit your teeth through the early animation and give Reboot a watch HERE: http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/reboot EXAMPLES (IN ROUGH ORDER): Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Sleeping Beauty, Gravity Falls, Avatar: The Last Airbender, 101 Dalmatians, The Killing Joke, Batman: The Animated Series, Transformers Prime, Maleficent, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Reboot, Dragon Ball Z, Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, The Avengers, Thor: Ragnarok, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith PATREON: www.patreon.com/user?u=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube!

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Elizabeth Sullivan-Burton

I think a really good example of how you can have your cake and eat it too with a pure evil character is actually in Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. ---THERE BE SPOILERS HERE-- The Lord Ruler is built up as this awesome, all-powerful destructive force throughout the first book. He can do things no one else can, and people in their society see him as a literal god. He's effectively immortal, and he appears to have no motivation outside maintaining his own power. He callously orders hundreds of people to be murdered in a public square just to prove he can. When the characters believe they've discovered his journal, that's part of why it plays with the audience expectations. The characters can't see how the reflective, self-doubting person who wrote the diary could become the murderous Lord Ruler. Turns out, he didn't; the actual Lord Ruler killed him and took his power. But I think what's particularly interesting is that in the subsequent books, the audience learns that despite his selfishness and tyranny, the Lord Ruler was literally keeping the world from being destroyed, and he knew it. He was also being pushed into doing things by the spirit of entropy. So he works really well as a pure evil villain for the first book, but we then get more nuance in retrospect with the subsequent books. --END SPOILERS--

David M

This's got to be one of my favorites, right behind CMHB.

Bill Lemmond

Thanks, Red. I'm now watching through the Trope Talk playlist. Especially looking forward to sharing this with friends. It may even help me create better comic strips. I'm finally rebuilding my website at http:/www.pizzafromscratch.net Sorry, it's not https, but the first couple of strips are already up. I'm going to try learning how to automate the updates.At 60, I know I can learn new things.