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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.
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.
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
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?
Seinfeld.
You’re describing Seinfeld.
Stupid, sexy Jerry.
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.
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!)Villains or antiheroes? Because this sounds like anti-heroes but villains are rather the people letting starving people die for profits.
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
I’m currently reading a series called Everybody Loves Large Chests. The protagonist is a dungeon mimic who gains sentience and levels up. It collects a bunch of sexy villain characters along the way. Surprisingly compelling.
It’s weeb degeneracy with rape, fantasy Nazis, and a loli that shouts Ora Ora as she punches because the author took a fantastic premise and smeared shit all over it.
It got recommended to me by a Redditor.
I do not forgive their sins, or yours for spreading it.
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)!
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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.
