Trope Talk: Pure Evil!
Added 2019-04-19 15:06:00 +0000 UTCbecause I'm bad, I'm bad, I'm really really bad
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Thanks, Red. I'm now watching through the Trope Talk playlist. Especially looking forward to sharing this with friends. It may even help me create better comic strips. I'm finally rebuilding my website at http:/www.pizzafromscratch.net Sorry, it's not https, but the first couple of strips are already up. I'm going to try learning how to automate the updates.At 60, I know I can learn new things.
Bill Lemmond
2019-06-30 16:41:19 +0000 UTCThis's got to be one of my favorites, right behind CMHB.
David M
2019-04-20 23:57:36 +0000 UTCI think a really good example of how you can have your cake and eat it too with a pure evil character is actually in Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. ---THERE BE SPOILERS HERE-- The Lord Ruler is built up as this awesome, all-powerful destructive force throughout the first book. He can do things no one else can, and people in their society see him as a literal god. He's effectively immortal, and he appears to have no motivation outside maintaining his own power. He callously orders hundreds of people to be murdered in a public square just to prove he can. When the characters believe they've discovered his journal, that's part of why it plays with the audience expectations. The characters can't see how the reflective, self-doubting person who wrote the diary could become the murderous Lord Ruler. Turns out, he didn't; the actual Lord Ruler killed him and took his power. But I think what's particularly interesting is that in the subsequent books, the audience learns that despite his selfishness and tyranny, the Lord Ruler was literally keeping the world from being destroyed, and he knew it. He was also being pushed into doing things by the spirit of entropy. So he works really well as a pure evil villain for the first book, but we then get more nuance in retrospect with the subsequent books. --END SPOILERS--
Elizabeth Sullivan-Burton
2019-04-19 17:52:01 +0000 UTCWoop woop!
Philip Kruse
2019-04-19 16:05:18 +0000 UTC
