Villains Month: The Mooninites
Okay, I am breaking my own rules here somewhat, since the Mooninites are not exactly serious villains. Still, based on the fact that I love […]
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Villains Month: Yurimaru
Part of the reason that Ninja Scroll is my favorite anime of all time is because of its villains. The Eight Devils of Kimon are […]
Villains Month: Count Olaf
Villains in children’s stories often wind up played for laughs rather than menace. The idea, I think, is to teach children that being selfish and […]
Villains Month: Jan Valentine
Genuinely funny villains are probably more rare than they should be. I suppose it relates to the idea that villains are supposed to be scary […]
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: 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 […]