#i always become the villain

[whumpfish]

I cannot stress enough the importance of transformations that are not necessarily redemptive.

- Cold and misanthropic villains who learn to care for the people close to them

- Coerced villains/minions running away–not to help the heroes, but to help themselves

- Villains who have dedicated their life and existence to The Cause who develop agency, who begin making their own decisions for their own reasons, whether or not they are GoodTM decisions 

- Bigoted villains who learn to stop being a dick in that specific area

- Villains otherwise driven by hate who reevaluate their motives if not their purpose

- Heroes so dedicated to The Cause that they stop caring for the people around them

- Heroes who stop caring in a healthy way, who become jealous or excessively competitive 

- Characters on all sides with trust issues who learn to trust, if only one or two individuals

- Selfish characters who learn self-sacrifice, even if it's only for fellow team members instead of a hero team or a Noble CauseTM 

- Characters who stand up to their abusers/refuse to be taken advantage of anymore in their interpersonal relationships outside the context of switching sides

There seems to be a growing expectation and even demand in fandom that villains be redeemed/redeemable, that heroes only become more GoodTM, and that anything else is somehow shortsighted or glorifying bad behavior. But people don't only grow in one direction, and personal progress doesn't have moral requirememts. Personal change doesn't have moral requirements. 

People can learn to love, to trust, to grow, to think for themselves without experiencing a major paradigm shift, and people don't always experience major paradigm shifts for the better. The fight for GoodTM and its necessity can actually be highlighted by a hero who goes bad and must then be defeated by former allies. Agency can actually be more profound if it doesn't conform to expectations or tropes within the story, because it becomes twofold: the character in question liberates themselves not only from the restrictions imposed on them by their circumstances/leaders but from those imposed by the reader/viewer as well.

#my fav character in the castlevania animation is literally isaac #i always wanted andromeda to acknowledge the villain that dylan was slowly becoming #but i wish there was more #writing #writebrl #writing advice #writing tips #whump #whump prompt #writing prompt #tropes #hero tropes #villain tropes #writer #fiction #fanfix #fanfic

[theteapotofdoom]

Horikoshi creating Tomura was a stroke of genius for many reasons but it was a specific galaxy brain move to write one of his most terrifying and dangerous antagonist as a bratty bored 20 year old.

Because Tomura’s true power is not his decay quirk or his clever ruthless mind, it’s that he will look at you dead in the eyes after you explained him your whole backstory/philosophy/reason for living and he will just go "cringe lmao who cares" and like then he kills you but actually you’re already dead because how do you recover from that …

#when I say bratty and bored I mostly mean traumatized and depressed but it’s funnier this way #tomura is such a good villain because he only cares about very specific things and he will let you know that #if Tomura doesn’t care about you you become officially irrelevant to the plot it’s so funny to me #stain overhaul and re destro all gave him the big villain monologue #and he was always like ‘ … anyways’ #my hero academia #shigaraki tomura #tomura shigaraki #shimura tenko

[icewindandboringhorror]

Some fantasy traveler inventory details (like what they would carry in their bags), based on two of the recent costumes I did.. love finding random little scraps and items and putting them together lol

#it's obvious who's is who's since they match their outfits HOWEVER.. consider if they were switched lol #evil villain looking man carrying around pressed flowers in a cutesy lacy pouch #fantasy costume #what's in my bag #actualyl that would have been funny to make a video. I should make a video #I'm sure someone else has already done this #but like.. lifestyle vlogger type content however I'm dressed in fully costume as some weird elf or something #pulling things out of my bag and showing them to the camera and talking about how they're useful for whatever #but it's all fantasy scenarios and talking like it's very common #'and of course. i know it's a bit cliche #EVERY traveler has one of these. but you know. theyre just useful! thats why everyone has one!' *pulls out a completely unrecognizable item #thats like some weird fantasy world prop and doesn't even explain it because In-world it's normal and wouldnt need to be talked about* #'room tour' video and it's just like 'yeah I sleep on this mat under a bunch of trees uh.. over here by these rocks. at least right now. I #kind of wander around a bit. so' #Like a clothing haul but it's a potions shop haul or something and they ramble about some obscure drama in the potions community and how the #y hard to barter and steal and entire flock of sheep or something just to get one of them. etc. etc. #I could do ones for different characters too like. multiple people from different walks of life showing what they carry around with them. #just like this but more interview sort of vlog format instead of photos #This is where not having much money and not having my own house with land becomes an issue though #I think it would take you out of the illusion if the background was always the same. I can make small sets because there's one blank wall in #a room that it's easy to move all the stuff away from in front of and clear a spot and like hang up fabrics or whatever but still.. hmms #So one of those 'fun idea but dubious about handling the execution' things. also One Of Those Things where without looking it up you're 100% #sure it's already been done and you don't want to look weird since it's vaguely niche. Like if 100 people have done something it's fine but #if only like 3 other people have then you look weird maybe ghhjbj.. or only one other person gods forbid. looks even weirder potentially #Or do people not care about ''copying'' anymore?? idk. I'm not updated with the internet's changing culture. I just have a fear of accidenta #lly doing something like that and then people getting mad even though it's really just that I competely had no idea it had been done because #again.. I live under a rock and am unaware of everything lol. ANYWAY. also would require my face being on video which I don't like. Though I #would be in costume so that helps. I think to be fully comfortable I'd need light modifications to make my face look different. which isn't #hard but is more effort when it has to be translatable in multiple angles. ANYWAY. ghjbhj... Now I think it would be funny actually. maybe #one day. I haven't made any videos (aside from on the gameplay/sims channel) in a long long time actually. hmm'st

[pinkeoni]

It is a little fascinating that there are certain fans who view Will through a strict lens (either as a “weak” crybaby or as a potential villain) which reflects how people of Hawkins percieve Will in show (either as a weak “fairy” or as a predatory “zombie boy”)

#i always do this thing where i start a really long post and then i find a way to write it in a few sentences #and btw will IS soft and sensitive but the point is that its not a bad thing even though some ppl see it that way #and no matter what he def not a predator or a villain even if ppl want to believe he will become one #and of course it all stems from homophobia both in and out of universe #will cant possibly be the hero of the story he needs to be saved by el or be defeated by el #and like on one hand i cant blame audiences for not seeing the buildup for this but at the same time is it really so hard to believe? #will byers #stranger things

[captainkirkk]

Listen I love a beaten-down hero who chooses to do good despite the pain, but sometimes watching a good kid being spat on by everyone around them and punished anytime they try to stand up for themselves just makes me want to watch them snap

#always open for recs if you have any righteous villain/revenge stories out there #my posts #i started watching 'the bastard son & the devil himself' and i'm only half an episode in #but the way nathan has been treated his whole life #makes me want nathan to become the scary witch they're all so sure he is

[our-lesboy-experience]

our flag is. so prettyyyy <33

IKR the colors are so pretty together

#yeah yeah orange and blue are contrasting colors so ofc they look nice together but #then the added shades of purple and pink.... #I said it looked super pretty on twitter once and I got hundreds of qrts getting mad at me #calling it ugly??? #something I've noticed about people that as soon as they start disliking something it suddenly becomes super ugly #and this applies to. literally anything #if a person becomes the new villain of the week on the internet I will see a huge influx of people calling them ugly #which says a lot about their character #I've seen art made with the lesboy colors and they always look great #like from an artistic standpoint they DO follow color theory pretty well #lesboy #our lesboy experience #lesbian #asks

[nyaskitten]

It's so weird how after season 1, it seems like Ninjago completely forgot why Pythor even does the evil shit he does. His express goals in season 1 was for revenge against all mankind for locking him and all of Serpentine-kind in tombs, but then come season 3 his goal is to help the Overlord take over Ninjago? That's his big revenge goal against the ninja? Then in season 4 he sides with the ninja, to stop the fake Anacondrai, then in DotD he just really wants to finish off the Garmadon heritage, THEN in Crystalized his big plan is. To be a member of the Overlord's big evil club and blindly follow his bidding?

No matter how consistently FUNNY Pythor is, the writers fumbled him REAL hard I think.

#he went from 'i want to force all the humans beneath the ground' to 'i want to fight the ninja/rule the world' but he never. #gets his own time to shine??? #hes always just a petty servant #he DEFINITELY feels like a villain who shouldve had another season to himself or something #considering HIS motives as stated in s4 were to stop the fake anacondrai #bc if anyone gonna rule the world itll be him #and then he says similar in dotd #BUT he never follows THROUGH on that #he just becomes one of the overlords minions #like gee youd assume hed wanna rule the world himself #not serve a guy who rules the world for him #ninjago #raine's rambles #pythor ninjago #ninjago pythor #pythor p. chumsworth #take me back to the good old pythor days #where he was all 'im gonna kill all of humanity for locking me and my kind in tombs' #like yass girl !!!!! go off !!!!

[alicentes]

FTWDs final season could have been so much better if it was revealed that Troy was running padre and controlling madison (as revenge) this whole time. He knew enough about nick and Alicia to make madison think padre knew who and where they were this whole time. And here are some other reasons how this storyline would make sense and be more interesting:

- Troy has a military background so him taking over and running a military base makes more sense than two teenagers building it up by themselves because all the adults died.

- taking and training up children to be solidiers also would make a little sense because of his own fucked up upbringing and the idea he has of the type of people who were made for this world. He would have probably had the same idea as shrike, that the kids stood a better chance at padre than with their “weak” parents. The mother of his child dying for being a good person and not getting to raise their daughter (who would not be named after his abuser) could have also played into this idea of the kids being separated from their good parents.

- shrikes radiation cure experiments: Troy ran walker bite experiments before, just to see how people would turn. So it would also make sense if the work we see shrike doing was something he approved of or an idea he himself came up with. As for shrike, it would make sense that she turned out this way if she’d spent years being mentored by someone like troy otto instead of becoming evil and stealing children just because her dad died.

- the scene where madison smashes the glass to expose “padre” would have been such a good and shocking reveal if it was Troy. Imagine Madison finding out that Troy is not only alive but had been the one running this the whole time!

There’s also a lot of other things I would have done differently for the other characters too and I would have liked Madison to have a little villain era and do some really fucked up shit as she tries to take down Troy and padre. How dark would Madison go? Would she survive with her humanity still intact?

I know I’m just talking into the void here because no one care about this shitshow but I just hate it when shows have a plot that could have been good, maybe even great but then completely miss the mark and fans come with better theories and ideas with minimal effort and thought.

#somewhere dave erickson is screaming (and relieved that at least frank dillane stayed away from the show lmao) #fear the walking dead #ftwd #madison clark #troy otto #i also would have had s7a focus on strand vs alicia but v differently with only alicia’s ending staying the same pretty much #then 7b would have been wrapping things up with morgans family and actually seeing the group being taken by padre before having a time jump #then season 8 would have been the much better padre/troy/madison arc #the way these writers reaally do not know how to write for troy and madison #it’s like they tried doing what they thought DE wouldve done with them but couldn’t decide if they wanted them to be villains or be redeemed #anyway i will always mourn the arcs we were meant to have in season 4 #madison becoming the villain vs nick and alicia and whatever was planned for troy #troy was only killed off bc dave didn’t trust the new showrunners with him and he couldnt save the OGs by killing them too lmao #but i am glad alicia is alive and we got to see daniel sharmans acting bc most of the cast were only giving about 20% atp #but who can blame them? the writing got to new levels of bad in s7/8 and their personalities were changing every few episodes #actually to be fair they did the best with what they were given they just seemed done #i only tuned in to alicias episodes in s7 so my opinion on the rest of it is from what ive read bc i just could not get through it #so my opinion on the characters full arcs in s7 may be wrong

[patheticblorbloscholar]

You would think Jake Sully who used to be human would be more sympathetic and caring towards spider. Referring to him as a stray cat made me want to drive my fist through his cute blue face.

Spider is loyal and loving towards those who are emotionally closed off and they expect me to be normal about this????

#spider socorro #avatar: way of water #The way I attach to the characters who are neglected and wounded souls #fml #He deserves so much better #he could have easily become a villain but he remained kind and caring and didnt #his loyalty has always been to the Na'vi #who abandoned him to be tortured by the RDA

[buckys-metal-arm]

Wild that the Russos are responsible for both the best and worst movies in the MCU

#they really lived long enough to see themselves become the villains huh #catws will always be the best Marvel movie hands and metal arms down #and Endgame is the worst (or at least one of them) #captain america the winter soldier #avengers endgame #anti russo brothers #anti endgame #like the ironman sequels and tdw aren't *good* even by marvel standards but at least it didnt undo 10 years of character and drag on for #3 hours #like that final fight was cool as fuck but i dont think it was worth the 2 hours of movie before hand like they could've cut SO MUCH

[joyflameball]

K I get laughing at Somerton for being a plagiarist but the apology video he released genuinely infuriates me. Fuckin. Jessie Gender video explaining it all my beloved

#james somerton #sui ment #in tags #cassie rambles #like. wtf to begin an apology video with ''i just got out of the hospital after attempting suicide'' is just #so disgusting and manipulative #like i fully believe that being the internet villain of the week can make one suicidal #since being villain of the week always comes with harassment #which would ofc be worse for a gay person #since homophobia #but like #THIS IS A FUCKING APOLOGY VIDEO #what you SHOULD do is LIST OUT EVERYONE YOU PLAGIARIZED #SO THE PEOPLE YOU STOLE FROM CAN GET THE CREDIT THEY DESERVE #if he's suicidal- which i won't call that into question bc that's fucking gross to speculate on whether or not someone's suicidal- #then he needs to sort that out ON HIS OWN TIME. #not in an internet apology #get support from your irl friends and become a better person instead of making an internet apology #i (as a suicidal people!!) am genuinely furious at him using his being suicidal as a //weapon// #you are being fucking manipulative and disgusting by opening an apology video- AN APOLOGY VIDEO- with ''i tried to kill myself'' #what the everloving fuck is wrong with you #you're not shitty for being suicidal but you are shitty for using your suicidal thoughts as a weapon to get sympathy #go to fucking therapy #you can sure as fuck afford it with your telos money. unless you spent it all on fancy expensive cameras #this just. i am genuinely furious. #hbomberguy #i don't hope he dies and goes to hell instead i hope somerton goes to therapy and becomes a better person and actually makes up for the #damage he's done and i'm dead fucking serious #Youtube

[theinfinitedivides]

so Dong Soo is just going to go about the rest of his life hallucinating the ghost of his dead ex inside the house he killed him to get a la 'you'll die in me i'll be you / can't you see? you are me' Jekyll and Hyde musical. is that what they're looking me in the face and telling me rn

#tv: biography of a villain #biography of a villain #evilive #evillive #shin ha kyun #shin hakyun #kim young kwang #shin jae ha #kdrama #local gay watches k-dramas.txt #are Yang Ho and Je Yi still on the premises tho. did they hand their bodies over to the police. f*ck it is Do Young's boss still in that #bed vegetative as f*ck all. doesn't matter bc all of the ghosts will come. they'll come and they'll congregate and they'll be in the #clothes that he wears and the water he drinks and the way that he talks he will become an inhabitation of ghosts bc that is all #that he has left #hauntings are always some kind of f*ckery but this one. this one specifically that's a different breed of f*ckery that i can't #wrap my head around at this time. that's some f*cksh*t i'm not touching that's some Gothic horror tier script choices

[stardyng]

I don’t understand how people and sit there and put the entire blame of the whole Dance with Dragons conflict on Alicent. I know people have biases but I don’t understand how you can watch as all of these men commit horrid deeds with grievous consequences and then go on and pretend like it’s all Alicent’s fault. This entire scenario is only possible in the first place because Viserys decided to strip his first wife of any bodily autonomy and agency she had and ripped a baby out of her without her consent . A torture of a procedure that brutally killed her. Following that, he decided to marry a teenager, maritally rapes her and treats her like a baby making machine, without any regards to the potential consequences or how it’s impacting anybody. Just because he’s two seconds away from rotting away doesn’t remove the unwashable stains he has made and how he has laid out this conflict to be even possible.

The line of succession ended up being changed in the first place because Daemon can’t stop himself from doing nonsensical attention-seeking half-assed stunts (like extreme public torture, grooming his teenage niece and later starting a whole war) that have grievous aftereffects, once again with no regards to their real brutal consequences, all in order to get his brother’s attention and validation. In fact, this whole scenario only ever had the potential to happen due to the patriarchal monarchy that Westerosi men created alongside the Targaryen’s blatant lack of preparation and established rules for a scenario where the next ruler would be a woman, and the seven kingdoms staunch refusal to genuinely accept one as their ruler.  

All that and people will still choose to pin this whole thing on Alicent, with no consideration to the fact that she was pimped by her dad, when she was 15, to an old man, and had no say or choice in the matter due to her being inside a system that strips most women of any real choice or say in their lives. It’s like this fandom would rather spend over a month demonizing a female character (like Young Alicent) for not being the ‘’perfect’’ victim to patriarchal violence due to and based on a hypocritical usage of modern standards and using rhetorics steeped in rape culture than hold male characters accountable (for longer than two seconds) for torturing and killing their wives in explicitly sexist frameworks. That aside, Alicent absolutely plays a part in this whole conflict (as she grows older), as does Rhaenyra, to the point where both end up becoming the emblematic faces of this chain of events. However, if you can’t see how the conflict itself is only made possible due to and founded on sexist biases, gendered violence, grooming, sexual abuse and negligence that stem from all these men in the highest positions of power, then you are simply not paying attention. 

#anti viserys i targaryen #anti daemon targaryen #alicent hightower #anti hotd fandom #house of the dragon #hotd #alicent has become a villain of sorts by ep6 #and is actively making choices that will have a clear negative impact #but even that's rooted in her trying to do her best to survive in a position that was she was forced to be in #I'm not denying Alicent's part to play but she always seems to be the first name dropped #but there's so many horrible men who literally created the foundation for this whole conflict #and an entire system that made it possible too #way too many factors for her to be treated as the source of it all #especially when her current behaviour is a result of many of these factors

[hypermascbishounen]

Thinking again about how healing from cycles of revenge and abuse is a pretty common theme in manga and anime,

and in particular from fathers or other male authority figures who have hurt boys in shounen manga and anime,

and how most of them start off from the beginning with the stance that hatred is consumptive, sometimes from a cultural Buddhist context,

to set up how a character will ultimately need to move beyond hating his abusers in order to fully heal,

and how the current wave of english-speaking manga and anime fans new to the genre, don't seem to notice any of this, and get extremely angry if the story pays off its own set-up, and has any character heal in any way that isn't just hating an abuser forever.

#I really wanna know how these people always wind up long term stanning a series that blatantly disagrees with them #And then still react like surprised_tails.jpg when it concludes exactly how it said it was going to #“Why does my baby still love people who hurt him? #In the story where everyone who chooses resentment becomes a villain and is horse punched 1000 times?" #On one hand I think some of this is maybe cultural Christians not getting how something isn't in that context #Maybe also some people just aren't at that point where this type of story is as valuable as revenge catharsis comfort #But I'm just baffled by how often people seem to feel like a really consistent theme came out of nowhere or was “wrong” writing #Why and how are you in the fandom for the story whose opening arc was “resolving to resent your way out of trauma is destructive”? #Like I thought that was the thing you had to be cool with to get on board

[g3mston3]

absolutely buzzing with thoughts about paul as a tragic greek hero and everything that comes along with it. he’s orestes torn between his dead father and his tormented mother, who just wants his father back, and yet only brings more death and destruction. he’s oedipus, tragically aware of what his fate is promised to be, so sure he can circumvent it. (he can’t.) he’s achilles, cruel and destructive, choosing glory and honor and immortality-by-memory above all (or was it chosen for him?) he loves and is loved and it’s still not enough. he can’t save chani from her fate or his sister from herself, and he certainly can’t save the world from what he’s done to it

#and in all these ancient stories the hero so easily becomes the villain #we’re given hectors story just as we’re given achilles’ #dune #dune part 2 #children of dune #have written too many papers about the cycles of violence in the oresteia lol #and i am always thinking thoughts about love and fate in ancient texts

[cocoabubbelle-newblog]

Do current Marvel Writers hate Professor Xavier or something?

#the past years’ comics’ writing makes no sense for his character #not to say he isn’t manipulative or a chessmaster in planning #but it seems very clear to me that the writers are doing everything they can to make the founding leader and father figure of the X-Men #as comically irredeemable and unlikeable as possible #in comparison to their obvious favorites #professor charles xavier #is no saint #but his main motivation had always been for mutants and humans to live together in harmony #so it makes no sense for him to be so obsessive towards Krakoa #to the point of sacrificing his own people and dooming humanity #if you want the original team to grow past depending on their leader you can do that without destroying their relationships #and the whole ‘you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain’ schtick for charles is not a good look for Marvel #but this is just my opinion #an unpopular one but mine all the same #in my previous blog #I’ve said before that the only good thing to come out of the Krakoa arc #were the outfits #but now i feel like nothing about Krakoa was worth exploring as an arc #again #just my opinion #if the ‘97 X-Men series keeps fast forwarding through different arcs #i wonder if they will make the Krakoa arc easier to stomach if they include it at all #x men #xmen #marvel comics #marvel