Villains Month: Metal-Masked Assassin
While the animated series Metalocalypse is first and foremost a comedy, it has a fairly dense and complex mythology (which I may have written about […]
Villains Month
Villains Month: Psycho Mantis
The Metal Gear video game series is famous for both its experimental, genre-breaking gameplay as well as its rich, complex cast of characters. Series creator […]
Villains Month: Chernobog
Disney’s musical Fantasia is mostly a collection of animated music videos long before there were music videos, setting gorgeous animated vignettes to pieces of classical […]
Villains Month: Jody
The father/son relationship in fiction tends to be complicated. There is often a sense of competition between the two, of the new versus the old, […]
Villains Month: Angel
Ever since vampires received the humanizing treatment in fiction, the idea of vampiric guilt has been used to the point of cliche. This doesn’t mean […]
Villains Month: Xykon
The webcomic Order of the Stick is known for its complex villains and somewhat muddied take on the normally objective and quantified morality of Dungeons […]
Villains Month: Megatron(s)
In some famous franchises, characters recur across timelines. Sometimes this is intentional, like with Black Adder and Baldric, and others it’s driven by popularity, such […]
Villains Month: Demona
One of the problems that often seems to creep up with female villains is that so often their creators attempt to “redeem” them. I’m not […]
Villains Month: Griffith
There is no hatred stronger than that which starts as love, and no enemy more detestable than one who was once a friend. It’s easy […]
Villains Month: Maleficent
Disney movies are often known for their iconic villains, but even among that impressive rogues gallery, Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty takes the cake. Or, perhaps […]