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Villain Decay
(lemmy.world)
Kind of like what happened to Bush after Trump came around.
Seriously. I was at the right age to be much more politically intense back then and absolutely despised Bush.
Now, I almost feel bad about it after witnessing the last 20 years of politics.
We can have room in our hearts to hate more than one monstrous US president.
But only almost.
Yeah, I still think the criticisms of Bush were valid, but I'm so much more cool-headed as a person now that the difference in my response feels incongruent. Political news doesn't take an emotional toll on me like it used to, even though I objectively disagree with modern politicians more.
I think you're wrong that it doesn't take an emotional toll on you like before. However, it's such a toll that you just have to start ignoring it. Back then it felt useful to constantly pay attention. Now it's all so bad that if you paid attention to all of it you'd go insane, so we have to be more relaxed and only let the big things get to us.
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Contrariwise, I think I feel a greater emotional impact now.
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That's called "The Memory Hole".
We take all the illegality and corruption and horrific violence and torture and wars and media manipulation/intimidation and petty dictator shit and stuff it down the Memory Hole. Then we get to pretend
NSFW
This shit
Wasn't such a big deal after all.
That spoiler tag did NOT work what the fuck dude
It follows lemmy spoiler format. Your ui is not compliant
That's right! The war crimes go into... The memory hole!
Jesus Christ.
I very well remember seeing the censored version of that image... this is the first time I've seen it uncensored.
I've seen uncensored pics from the highway of death, other graphic shit that made it onto the early days of liveleak... but there ya go, memory hole in action.
America has been the bad guys for close to a century at this point the difference maker is their marketing game was on point.
Now? They no longer with Saatchi and Saatchi lol
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and then you have the venture bros, where the monarch starts off as goofy and ineffectual but becomes more menacing as the series goes on and the stakes get higher
Villain Cay
Alternate name for Epstein Island
They did fucking stellar work with the character growth. I normally hate the "you need to give it a couple seasons" kind of thing, but Venture Bros did so well to have a moment where you feel the tone start to change, and somehow, the goofier start ends up working in the shows favor.
I will never look at a Homies the same way again.
wait i've just described ordinary (if incredibly well done) character development
If anyone is a victim of "Villain Decay" in the Venture Bros its Brock Sampson. The Swedish Murder Machine is practically a teddy bear by the final arc.
That's three times Venture Bros have come up for me this week, guess that means its time for another re-watch. :logs into Nightreign as The Bat:
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Also goddamn the Monarch is one of the best-written villains of all time.
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Jesse and James were always effective, they just suck at villainy. They are good at dressing up, making rube-goldberg devices, and many other things, they just aren't evil enough to elevate that potential. If they were, Giovanni would be sleeping with the magi-karp, and Ash would be eaten by their Arbok.
good at dressing up
Ah yes, I still remember questioning my sexuality over James when I watched pokemon as a teenager. Good times
Was that with or without his massive tits?
Haha they were crazy, totally forgot this episode existed
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This same process is why u stop watching cop/detective dramas as soon as a protagonist gets kidnapped.
- This happens 100% of the time, usually 3 season in
- You know they’ve gone from procedural to full on drama at this point
- The quality always drops off a cliff here
Examples?
Castle, Bones, Law & Order SVU, The Rookie (though it still has good episodes, the protagonists get kidnapped a lot tho), NCIS, Criminal Minds (again, multiple times), Hawaii 5 0 refresh, CSI, Monk…
...this is making me realize that I watch very few procedural detective shows, apparently. I think SVU is the only one of these I've seen, at all.
I read it as SUV.
And now I imagine a detective show in the Cars universe.
Title character being a grumpy SUV detective with a Keicar as the comedic sidekick
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that is a constant in Dragon Ball.
enemies get defeated, surpasseda and then they become entourage
It was hilarious watching Dragon Ball after growing up on Dragon Ball Z. When Yamcha shows up and is a threat I lost it.
Piccolo noooooooooooooo!
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Villainflation
"Supernatural" in a word
I see this in politics and everyday acquaintances all the time. When the turf you've been fighting over gets attacked by a mutual significant foe, some hostilities get paused.
Why did they posted a picture of Team Rocket? Does Pokémon actually have more villains?
Giovanni is the big bad in the early seasons iirc. No clue how the show progressed past that though but there was always a more serious organization looming (ie Team Aqua and Magma, Mewtwo in the movie are the only ones I can think of right now...)
Team rocket is basically the mafia, and then gen 3 has team aqua and magma, one of which wants to remove basically all water and the other wants to basically remove all land.
I think that's a pretty drastic shift.
idk for more recent seasons, but i know the xyz and sun & moon arcs had more serious villains (especially xyz)
Reminds me of D&D in a high level party and you run into a couple giant spiders. Aww... how cute!
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