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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
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
Heros: “We did it, we finally killed the evil bad guy”
The evil bad guy’s 12 best friends:
Organisation 13 if they care for each other
Jessie and James and Meowth
Basically the Harley Quinn show.
Woof, woof!
Harley being Batman’s therapist and keeping his identity secret (“Doctor-patient confidentiality”) was one of the most wholesome things ever.
Was gonna say
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)!
spoiler
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.
I like how they threw “sexy” in there.
It’s an integral load(:))-bearing essential element!!
Makes me think they’re talking about Always Sunny
Nothing sexier than cultivating mass.
kinda reminds me of iosip
I thought of Lost. They’re not all villains, but they’re all kind of shitty.
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.
Villains are usually better written, more developed characters while the good guys are just good for sake of being good.
Also, villains are often coded as minorities, whereas the heroes are basically the mainstream.
Isn’t that because there are fewer unambiguous ways to be “good”? Even many people doing “good” could be seen by other’s as being evil?
- “I’m saving the forest!” “You’re killing loggers”
- “No one will every go hungry again!” “You stole every piece of arable land and only grow the food you want to exist”
- “I’ve saved everyone’s soul. Everyone is going to the happy afterlife when they die!” “Which religion’s afterlife are you calling the ‘happy’ one?”
I defeat Joker and saved 10 people’s life!
No you dingus! Letting Joker live mean more people will be killed before you stop him again!
I keep identifying the the villains, but eventually, I realized that the writers of mainstream media are heavily invested in the status quo.
the episodes of the venture bros where the monarch is forced to interact with other villains are the best.
Baron underbite knocking on the monarch’s door for a place to crash because he “just got divorced”
Hazbin Hotel kinda?
How would you say they are villains? Some may classify as antiheroes, but like… they basically literally try to save people from extermination.
Dimension 20 basically did this with Escape From the Bloodkeep and it was, as usual, fantastic.
My first thought! Although apparently it was designed to end in PvP. One of the best seasons in my book, definitely the top sidequest season.
Villains or antiheroes? Because this sounds like anti-heroes but villains are rather the people letting starving people die for profits.
