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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
Huh, I just realized why I like the Fast and Furious franchise so much
Kinda like It's Always Sunny, but better
Season 3 of Legend of Korra does this pretty well, though the villains are also united by an ideology that drives them to act.
Basically the Harley Quinn show.
Harley being Batman's therapist and keeping his identity secret ("Doctor-patient confidentiality") was one of the most wholesome things ever.
Was gonna say
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 feel like the animated movie 'Bad Guys' kind of encomappses this. They're a 'ride or die' crew that is bad, at least at the beginning. It's a good movie I recommend a watch.
"What? I wanted a longer car chase, its the best part."
Seriously that link is the first 6 minutes of the movie and if that doesnt absolutely hook you into watching it, its not for you.
Also my 5yo daughter makes me put on that song and do the sunglasses thing, shit is so adorable.
Honestly the car sold me like 50 percent on that movie, haha. It's such a short bit of the movie but it's just fun and the car is obviously badass.
This is Worm.
It breaks my heart that Worm never got more attention. It's probably the best superhero (or villain depending on your perspective) story I've ever read
The villains code as well. Worms better though
I like how they threw “sexy” in there.
Makes me think they’re talking about Always Sunny
Nothing sexier than cultivating mass.
It's an integral load(:))-bearing essential element!!
Any Dnd Party?
Exactly my thought. If you don't have a session once a month where you look around and ask "are we the baddies?" then what the heck are we doing here.
You have sessions more than once a month?
Lol, we try for every other week, about 2.5-3 hour sessions.
Heros: "We did it, we finally killed the evil bad guy"
The evil bad guy's 12 best friends:
Organisation 13 if they care for each other
Seinfeld.
You're describing Seinfeld.
Stupid, sexy Jerry.
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 defeat Joker and saved 10 people's life!
No you dingus! Letting Joker live mean more people will be killed before you stop him again!
I keep identifying the the villains, but eventually, I realized that the writers of mainstream media are heavily invested in the status quo.
Also, villains are often coded as minorities, whereas the heroes are basically the mainstream.
Dimension 20 basically did this with Escape From the Bloodkeep and it was, as usual, fantastic.
My first thought! Although apparently it was designed to end in PvP. One of the best seasons in my book, definitely the top sidequest season.
Jessie and James and Meowth
kinda reminds me of iasip
I thought of Lost. They’re not all villains, but they’re all kind of shitty.
Villains or antiheroes? Because this sounds like anti-heroes but villains are rather the people letting starving people die for profits.
Anybody read Worm by John McCrae / Wildbow? It's this and it's really really good https://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)!
spoiler
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.
Interesting, I thought the ending of Worm was super satisfying and worth the wait.
I read it over 5 years ago and still think about it often, and still add to my playlist of songs that's an imaginary soundtrack to it ('Tracks' by Chelsea Wolfe is the main theme).
Everybody else just go read it, it's a web serial, it's free. I'm amazed that he hasn't managed to get physical books out yet.
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.
I agree, but they are very shitty “heroes” to the point of causing plenty of villain like fallout 😅 the rest really fits the bill though.
This reminds me of the Phantom Troupe.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but for a good read from a Villain perspective try A Practical Guide to Evil
Wait, so what is going on over in the USA, but sexy??
I guess that would be significantly more palatable ... still murder tho.
But if I could choose my dictator I would like a big mommy dommy goth, pls!
(I would be a boot-locker & it would be illegal to kink-shame me!)
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