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Just remember this when Democrats try to say it’s not about gun confiscation and criminalizing law abiding citizens and just “common sense” gun laws.

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“Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.

Mark.13.35

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In a similar vein to my Disney rant from December

There are too many sympathetic villains nowadays. Too many likeable villains. Too many not actually evil just misunderstood antagonists. It needs to stop. Villains should operate on black morality and be punished accordingly. Heroes should get free rein to deal with villains however necessary. I know it sounds cynical but I just feel like series and film creators are using complex characters wrong.

Like. I get it if the villains the main character. Like descendants. Mal gets the most development because she’s the main. I’m alright with that. I like Mal. She gets her just rewards AND her just desserts. But Audrey is not a grey or white character. She was black from the start. And the “motivation” for her finally jumping off the slope was

Bullshit because it’s just the romcom trope of the evil ex with the addition of a stolen wmd

Boring because she was just a poorly handled and poorly done Maleficent facsimile. Cause I’m pretty sure KChen was working on American gods at the time and couldn’t come back.

I like Batman. He beats villains to a pulp and puts them in jail. The villains are child murdering drug pedalling scum who revel in their crimes. It’s why I have no interest in any of the adult character in Gotham besides Jim Gordon and Alfred Pemnyworth. I know how the stories are going to go. So why should I care about buzzard beak or question mark man or the self righteous eco terrorist. Why should I care about the villains at all?

I will say though that characters like Selina Kyle are different as she’s labelled as an antihero and not a villain. But still. Villains. Shouldn’t. Be. Grey. The Draco in leather pants and Ron the death eater tropes are the banes of my existence.

It also doesn’t help when you treat grey characters as purely black. And vice versa. Like Varian in tangled. He’s a scared kid who went off the deep end trying to help his father after no one listened to him. Yeah he went overboard. But it’s for an understandable reason. And yet he’s treated as an untrustworthy lunatic when the real lunatic was treated with understanding and care that she in no way deserved.

Hell. Even marvel gets in on it. They’ve gone from Obadiah Stane to the little welp of an ingrate that is Thor’s brother. Just like Disney’s gone from villains like Scar to pillocks like Namaari. You can’t make bastards like these then expect me to care about them because “they’re sad inside”. I don’t want to cheer them up. I want to cheer they’re downfall.

Shows like Merlin are a little more complicated I grant you. Buts that’s mostly because the show has a really fucked up sense of morality. Like. Uther’s definitely a despotic maniac. But you can’t let the magic users kill him because then Arthur will just carry on his idiot fathers work. And it also doesn’t help that Arthur’s character development is mostly bare bones to nonexistent.

Really I suppose you could say it’s [tumblr]’s fault. I used to like villains. I did. I really did. But the longer I’m on this site and the more I get bombarded with apologist posts on how it’s really the hero’s fault the villains did what they did because “they weren’t nice enough”. Gimme a goddamn break. The Lena Luthor’s of fiction deserve death. No a sympathetic ear. It shouldn’t work like that.

You should be able to make a villain engaging and compelling without making them attractive or sympathetic. For example. Frollo was a perverted old bastard but he was still an interesting character to watch. And you still cheered on his much deserved death.

TL;DR: I know I sound cynical and cruel and bitchy but I don’t care. Because there really needs to be more Scar’s and Obadiah Stane’s in fiction again. And far less Namaari’s and Loki’s

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The Lord is my strength and my shield;my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.My heart leaps for joy,and with my song I praise him.

Ps.28.7

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