The Nerd Thread (comics, movies, anime, cartoons, video games, lore, fun stuff, ect.)

@Background Pony #02EE
>Bounding into Comics

Never since Marvel have I seen people having the hots for the literal personification of Death. Puss in Boots really did something.

@Just Wayne
I just find it refreshing to see a genuinely scary and competent villain in a kids movie. Too many prefer comedic villains.

@Background Pony #02EE
Ok

@Background Pony #02EE
It’s funny Puss in Boots 2 has all kinds of villains. Goldilock and her bears are the tragic redeemable villains. Jack Horner is the funny pure evil villain. And Death is the legitimately serious, intimidating, and neutral villain, a force of nature.

It’s also cool how Death is probably the most powerful and serious villain out of all Shrek universe. I mean he is literally Death. And they gave it to Puss in Boots. It feels kind of fitting honestly.

@Background Pony #02EE
Or “non-villains,” or “twist-villains.” Those are getting a bit overdone too.

So much I oftentines expect the nicest/friendliest character to be one.

Technically if a character is neutral or good they’re not a villain, just an antagonist.

A “villain” is a specific type of antagonist in a story who’s actions can be described as evil, wicked, malicious, or indiscriminately destructive.

You can have other antagonists that are not “villains” in the strictest sense. The oppose our heroes, but are not themselves evil.

A lot of “doing their jobs” style antagonists are like this. If our protag is a crook, for example, and the antagonist a cop they’re not “evil”. Tommy Lee Jones numerous cop characters from movies like The Fugitive and Double Jeopardy (for the first half of the film) come to mind.

Force of nature characters are the same. The various incarnations of Death (Puss, Discworld, Final Destination), and Inanimate Antagonists (the iceberg is the sort of prime example of that usually) tend to be morally neutral.

You can also have purely “good” antagonists. Either “extremist” characters (zealots like Javet from Les Mis) or legitimately good natured characters who just happen to opposed whatever the protag is doing. And sometimes the protag can double as the antag, but that is difficult to pull off.

@Zincy
Man, labels are really important to people.

Oldsmobile 88: The Stan Lee of Raimiverse.

@Khamzat Chimaev
Wow, never noticed that. It’s like that Pixar pizza truck.

For story writing and analysis it is quite important, because it gives us a standard lexicon to work with as writers.

Helps inform new writers by simplifying the the language into easily understood tropes and writing heuristics. Which allows them to have a better grasp on different potential elements for their own stories.

Story writing can be difficult and instructional material can be quite dense.

I will fully admit that reading labels on TV Tropes has given me more insight into writing stories than any dense academic manual ever has.

@Zincy
Well, I mean it’s more or less a general term than what indicates a character. I wouldn’t call T-800 a villain since it literally can’t be evil, but a lot of people still call it a villain.

Seriously, Terminators aren’t really villains. They’re robots programmed to kill. They literally don’t have the emotions to be a villain.

Wait, Invincible Season 2 coming out Q4 2023? Already?!
…
They’re actually making a Season 2? Here I thought it’s just a one time thing. Which means that NO, it hasn’t been that long since we’ve seen Invincible (unlike what the trailer implied).

Now we just gotta see which comes first. Deltarune Ch.3 or Invincible Season 2.

Disney’s upcoming film list

thoughts?

It’s actually normal for titles to be a close secret early on, with projects usually going by another name until official announcement.

Still…

@icicle wicicle 1517
I know Disney doesn’t have creativity anymore, but this is ridiculous.

That’s quitter talk.

@CaptainXtra
I’m too heavy to run, and too big to hide, so…

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@CaptainXtra
Unconventional Horror Game survival tip:

If what’s chasing you is impervious to all of your attempts to kill it and is always persistently following you wherever you go.

Then it’s actually your companion and friendly fire is off.

@CaptainXtra
That just means you’re not using a big enough weapon.

Apparently there’s already a petition for HBO to do the next resident evil adaptation Because of how good the last of us seems to be turning out.
However HBO did not produce the show You want the producers to work on Resident Evil not the distributors.

@northern haste
That feels like it would end in some sort of monkeys paw.