Villain Decay
Villain Decay
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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.
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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
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that is a constant in Dragon Ball.
enemies get defeated, surpasseda and then they become entourage
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It was hilarious watching Dragon Ball after growing up on Dragon Ball Z. When Yamcha shows up and is a threat I lost it.
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The list of opponents Goku agrees need to be eliminated is much shorter than the list of ones he wants to fight again when they are stronger. Despite most of them after the start of DBZ being existential threats.
Though he goes back and forth on Frieza lol.
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Villainflation
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"Supernatural" in a word
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Captain cold in cw flash
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I don't think that's fair as Captain Cold was never a credible threat to a speedster in the first place
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Just about nothing but another speedster is. The dude can think and move faster that the speed of light, he spent an entire episode in the split second it took for a nuke to go off. The fact that he's constantly getting his ass kicked is a flaw of the character more than the writing IMO (though don't get me wrong, the writing was also bad).
I loved in the first season and then again whenever Zoom happened where you'd get him saying at the end of the intro "My name is Barry Allen, and I'm the fastest man alive", immediately followed up with "Previously on The Flash: (highlight of him being outrun and beaten up by another guy)"
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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.
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Why did they posted a picture of Team Rocket? Does Pokémon actually have more villains?
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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...)
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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.
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idk for more recent seasons, but i know the xyz and sun & moon arcs had more serious villains (especially xyz)
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damn you, Kakarot!
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I heard that something like this happened in an old superman villain. It took one season to defeat him. But later they defeat two by throwing a table at them
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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:
Don't forget the movie between seasons Uhh... 4 and 5 I think? I didn't know it existed and was very confused.
Also goddamn the Monarch is one of the best-written villains of all time.
My brother recommended Venture Bros. to me since I like the recent Harley Quinn series. I need to start watching it sometime.
And then you have real life, where… well… shit
Supposedly harmless asshole to fascist cult leader is actually pretty common. Hitler's rise was similar.
Only to rivals, though. His plots against Rusty stayed pretty slapstick and harmless. They even worked together in a late season.
between the death's head panoply, the butter glider, and the scarionette cannon? i'd definitely say he upped his game from the dreaded candiru and the deadly cloud of deception slash diversion.
beyond that, going from threatening bodily harm to financial ruin was definitely a glow-up in my opinion.
I didn't realise that "Venture Bros" was a TV series and thought you were talking about Silicon Valley tech bros and venture capitalists and was like "sounds about right".