Can a BBEG be genuinely hilarious and still despicable?

Trump is quite funny, isn't he?

Mussolini fits that bill pretty well, actually.

>>51717590
>>>/tumblr/

>>51717551
Yes.

LONG AGO IN A DISTANT LAND

>>51717551
>BBEG

Ugh.

>>51717551
>BBEG.

I have literally no feelings about you using this term or not.

>>51717551
>BBEG

You're a wonderful human being.

>>51717685
You're a terrible sort of faggot though.

>>51717658
>>51717665
>>51717685
I didn't get the memo, when did we start acting contrarian about using the term BBEG?

>>51717551
I dunno, Handsome Jack? Not too hilarious, but he was an affable villain up until shit got real. I still want to hate-fuck him, even now.

>>51717703
Exactly, which is why I've summoned a porcupine using God's toenail clippers to anally violate a bong shot to shove subliminal psychosis in small puppies' face holes to force them to build a giant Techno-dragon out of marmalade flavored SNES cartridges.

>>51717724
It's hardly "contrarian" to think that "big bad evil guy" sounds dumb and you have to be a one hell of a lame guy to use it as part of your personal lexicon, and you need to be an extraordinary queer to try and pretend it's a welcome and encourageable bit of jargon.

>>51717724
I have only been here for like 2 years but up until a month ago people seemed fine with the term. I think it might just be a few a people who are loud enough to catch attention like the petty attention whore they are

>>51717757
You're exactly right, which is why North Korea needs to invade Mordor so we can finally develop anatomically correct dildos for toasters.

>>51717724
It might be because lazy people like OP make lazy villain threads all the time, and whenever someone uses "BBEG" it's like a beacon saying "I'm stupid and lazy."

Like, what? What kind of shitty question is OP even asking?

>>51717590
/thread

>>51717763
People have been complaining about "Big Bad Evil Guy" for years. The early complaints seemed to be mostly about the concept itself, with many people disagreeing that a plot needed a character as a central antagonist.

Now, it seems that some of the complaints are about the language. "Big Bad Evil Guy" was coined to sound corny, and is more of an in-joke than a designation like "Central Antagonist." It's also grown to be somewhat vague, with some people using it as the central antagonist, others using it as the final antagonist, and still others using it as simply any antagonist, which can get confusing when trying to communicate about one of these specific ideas.

As far as the shitstorm, I think that comes in part because it takes very little effort to say "BBEG sounds dumb", which is enough to trigger some people who use that phrase. These people then go to say things like "you need to respect this acronym, it's /tg/'s acronym, every true fa/tg/uy uses BBEG exclusively," and that gets even people who had no real interest in the matter upset, because it starts to sound like there's people who are actually actively trying to push BBEG.

BBEG is a meme, and like most memes it doesn't have much of a shelf life. The old joke has faded, and now it seems like people are just finding it weird for people to be so fervent in holding onto it.

>>51717633
>>>>>/pol/

>>51717551
Of course. The answer is obvious. Do you want us to help you make one? Give us more to work on. Remember that everyone here is a snarky asshole and we will argue about nothing and insult you unless you ask a more specific question.

>>51717821
He's questioning our awareness of the deep void of the human mind, and whether the duplicity of both comedy and evil is not in fact reflections of the human psyche in relation to the world around us.

Because after all, aren't we all a little mad, evil, and funny?

>>51717913
Has any called you a faggot recently? You seem like someone people would call a faggot constantly.

>>51717924
My mother was a faggot, My dad was a tree stump. I'm just a pile of sticks. I wish I was a faggot though.

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>>51717912

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>>51717658
BBEG is in the OP you don't need to chime in

>>51717551
There is Samuel Jackson's character in Kingsman. While he isn't totally despicable, he is somewhat laughable because of his lisp, dialogue and phobia of blood.

>>51717898
Fuck it, let's do it. Why Not? Not like we ever get anything else done.

>The BBEG(make sure you put the emphasis on the second B) lives in a Cyberpunk setting.

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> Can a BBEG be genuinely hilarious and still despicable?

>>51718178
Glib isn't hilarious.

>>51717551
Aku from samurai jack

>>51718340
>>51718340
Define hilarious then, faggot.

What do you mean by hilarious? Do you mean clown laughing and dancing hilarious? Do you mean dark humor somber chuckle hilarious? Personally I think both are possible but the latter is much easier to get right than a genuinely funny and laughing villain who is simultaneously despicable.

>>51717880
delicious pasta.

>>51718382
>>51717639 beat you to it.
https://youtu.be/e51hgWIsY4M

>>51718438
Where? FUCK I WANT SUMMA THAT. I need me some Intestinal breadlings coated in the liquified flesh of tomatoes, and served alongside succulent meat spheres.

>>51718497
Aw fuck dude, I'm already hungry don't make it worse

To the faggot whos just shown up and is whining about a fairly established term in the /tg/ dictionary: learn a bit more about boards before you post on them.

you expected me to insult you there, didn't you? something like "fall in a hole and die?"
this is /tg/ the board people go to to actually talk about the topic of the board in a civil friendly manner.

coming in here and stirring up shit over lame stuff brings us just a bit closer to being /v/. if you had any reason for this fight except your personal opinion, we might be more open, but your coming in here being a raging samefag autist dumping your shit where you feel like it.

we are not, and will never be /v/. learn to have civil discussion.

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>>51718532
>BBEG
>/tg/
>civil discussion
And you have the nerve to call him a newfag?

>>51718561
When irritation is raised to a high enough level, such as when someone throws eggs all over your living room for no apparent reason and refuses to clean them up or acknowledge anything wrong has been done, an argument may be less than what is required and a full blown slanging match may break out. Alternately you may be a furious crack-addict searching for that next hit of sweet sweet crack and provocation may take the form of somebody breathing sarcastically or being somewhere you were planning to walk in the near future. Either way you have reached the edges of argument country and begun meandering around the border with shit-kick land. Rational debate having long ago been thrown out of the window the actual words exchanged are likely to be instead based upon the sturdy pillars of condemnation ("You're just a spoilt little shit..."), prejudice ("...you fat ginger cunt..."), arrogance ("...you know there's only so much I can take from you...") and violence ("...I should just take you outside and punch your fucking lights out."). Still, can be enjoyable, right? A good burst of testosterone never hurt anyone, yeah? Well see if you can say that when you're spitting your teeth into the sink. But if you win... what have you proved exactly? That in defiance of 4000 years of human culture the one with the hardest kick and most effectively unleashed pent-up rage is always right? That you're a dangerous gangsta with a very very short fuse, feared and hated by everybody, especially your friends? That you're going to have to become a professional fighter or risk a hernia by the age of 30? More likely the only thing proved is the existence and continuation of a dumb little spiral of violence.

>>51718561
the sockpuppet samefag act is unbecoming. go get something to drink, think for a while about what you really love about tabletop games, and then come back and tell me what it is.

ill wait.

this is a place of peace my brother. soothe yourself, and we shall talk of joy.

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>>51718532
>>51718703
>/v/ bogeyman
>civil discussion
Where in the hell do you think you are?

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>>51717988

>>51718703
Actually, /tg/ is pretty good at slinging shit. The difference is half of us enjoy it, and the other half are too autistic to realize this is all in fun. Unfortunately, that half is particularly vulnerable to low-hanging bait like the BBEG thing, or 3.5, so we have to figure out a way of neutralizing that shit somehow. Best I can figure is to take absolutely nothing seriously,and post like you're a schizophrenic who's off his meds and on someone else's in reply to bullshit.

>>51717724
TROLLS, SIRE!
We've stumbled into a whole nest of them!

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>>51718769
FORTIFY THE BATTLEMENTS!!! FETCH ME THE BROWN PANTS, AND SUMMON THE ARISTOCRATS FOR DISCUSSION OF WAR.

Ew, no, not those Aristocrats.

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>>51718703
>thinking you know /tg/
>thinking the t is for tabletop
>what even is capitalisation
>reddit spacing
>"""""""sockpuppet samefag"""""""

>>51717551
Haven't you seen batman?

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pls stop fighting! I just wanted to talk about funny bad guys!

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>>51717551
FOOLISH QUESTION!
See pic related, and KNOW the answer is "YES"

>>51718868
Ok, so you've got him on most things except Reddit spacing.

We like to doublespace our paragraphs.

So what? The fact that the same entry is Single space in Reddit, and the fact that you care enough to point it out... Well...

>>51718737
on the only good board.

on the board that tells stories.
on the board that makes worlds.
on the board that slings shit with the best of em, but knows its in fun.
on the board that finds unity through dick.
on the board that loves each other.
on the board built off of one of the most social things smelly losers like us can do, and have fun doing.
the board that builds friendships.
on the board that can have positive conversations even when turbofags like (you) show up.

now respond with something that isnt just a smug reaction image and a greentext from my comment, shitstain.

>>51717551
Xykon.

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>>51718926

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>>51718926
>I'm gonna reply with Greentext and a smug Loli, but that's just cause I'm feeling oppositional defiant and shit.

You get /tg/, but you don't quite 'get' /tg/. Not yet.

>>51718951
>>51718953
im disappointed in you.

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>>51718926
This is either your first day away from tumblr or some exquisitely-crafted bait.

>>51718532
>>51718658
>>51718703
>>51718926
holy fucking shit dude

>>51718991
>>51718953
>>51718951
>>51719024

You realize your all fighting against a dude who actually cares about the board, right?
im going to ignore the conspicuos timings between all your posts and assume ytour diffrent people.
Why fight to have the board be shittier? at least he was positive.

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>>51719044
Welcome to 4chan. Lurk for two years before posting.

>>51719044
Anon, you have to be 18 or older to post on 4chan

>>51717551
who is the classic joker?

>>51717551
Comedic timing is a lot like knowing how to build up an uncomfortable, threatening scene I think. You just have to define what sort of humor and what sort of despicable you're trying to go for.

For example, someone who's funny because he's goofy and things don't go his way, but he manages to selfishly screw you over? Eric Sparrow from Tony Hawk's Underground comes to mind.

Or maybe someone affable and charmingly disarming in how he tries to be humorous and polite, but as the conversation progresses his subtle and dark humor just becomes dark and foreboding, leading into a despicable act of villainy. Think Christoph Watlz's Hans Landa or Chudnofsky.

>>51719044
Anon, I was quite like you once, just gotten away from Reddit and fresh off the 1d4chan boat, eyes full of wonder and the belief that /tg/ was a glowing island of creativity surrounded by the murky waters of 4chan. I soon found I was much mistaken. What had once been an island was now more of a small Archipelago, small islands with waters between them.

I spent the better part of a year trying to figure out what changed. I blamed the removal of Quests, I blamed the trolls, I blamed the mods, and really... nothing fit. Then I came to the realization that it wasn't any one thing. /tg/ could survive without quests, it survived with trolls before, it even survived Nazimod.

What changed was one thing, and one thing only: more people believed /tg/ should be taken seriously, because it was the better board. Crazy, right? Everyone wants /tg/ to be full of Quality stuff that they started hating on everything that wasn't up to snuff. We grew autistic, obsessed with who was right, and how to prove it using logic that we completely missed the point. /tg/ has always been about idiots posting stuff we like and not giving a fuck about anyone else. Now that we do... We're in deep shit.

Now, everyone is far too easily triggered. We're unable to ignore bullshit, and The trolls barely put in any effort anymore, because they can get (You)'s so easily now. No one goes along with crazy ideas to see where they go anymore because "it's not good." Then they pass it off with the same damn line about polishing a turd. It's ridiculous!

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>>51717779
>>51717752

>>51719579
Mmm, pasta.

Eggman

>>51718452
Basically this right here

A Villain can be a funny...but still a threat. Its just not a easy thing to do for some GMs

>>51719879
How is this pasta? Bottom line is that /tg/ needs to loosen up a little, and actually consider if this post will really matter in a year, a month, or even a week's time.

>>51720001
Congratulations, you said in a single sentence what >>51719579 either spent a good 45 minutes writing or paging through a document of appropriate copypasta to add legitimacy to a simple point. While I wouldn't put it past fa/tg/uy autism to write something like that fresh, it's way too long and florid to have come completely off-the-cuff.

>>51720095
Well... huh. Those are both me. I knew I had trouble with brevity... I didn't know it was that bad, Though I was mostly writing because our dewy-eyed Newfag would get something more from it than "/tg/ is still good, just ignore bullshit."

>>51717719
Nova is BBEG? I though he was just chaotic neutral...

>>51717880

Nah, it's fine.

I get the joke now. They are trying to make themselves into this board's very own BBEG. They are pretending to attempt to eliminate a part of board culture for their own trollish ends. Filling the role by pretending to hate it is quite the tactic. What a nuanced and delicious trolling. Even I had trouble seeing the bait for what it really was.

9/10 for being nearly undetectable.

>>51717724
>I didn't get the memo, when did we start acting contrarian about using the term BBEG?

Is just one person trying to force his own term(DDMV I think it was) in crying about it.

>>51718532
> a fairly established term in the /tg/ dictionary

>>51717880
>As far as the shitstorm, I think that comes in part because it takes very little effort to say "BBEG sounds dumb", which is enough to trigger some people who use that phrase. These people then go to say things like "you need to respect this acronym, it's /tg/'s acronym, every true fa/tg/uy uses BBEG exclusively," and that gets even people who had no real interest in the matter upset, because it starts to sound like there's people who are actually actively trying to push BBEG.

>>51717551
it's possible but i'd imagine it to be very tricky to do in a tabletop game
see also >>51718382

>>51720712
it was DDEV i think

>>51717590
>>>shareblue off with you.

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Yes.

>>51717551
The joker from the Batman animated series.

Lots of physical comedy, makes people act as his straight man, murders people casually.

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>>51717912
>>51719042
Correct answer.

>>51717590
He said "despicable", not "majestic".

>>51717724
It's the same kind of people who get anal about GM vs DM.
Nobody with an opinion worth listening to gives a shit.

>>51723958
I know, that's why I said Trump and not someone more respectable.

>>51717886
>>>/tumblr/

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>>51717590
FPBP

>>51717590
>still being this mad

>>51717551
Aku is pretty hilarious but he is still a shapeshifting galactic horror who rules the world with an iron fist and has no problems using kidnapping, threats of killing families, and blackmailing. Hell one of his minions literally enslaved the souls of people he defeated.

>>51717752
This is the sporkiest post I've read in a while.

>>51717551
>genuinely hilarious and still despicable?
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

>>51717752
xDDD
Upvoted!

EDIT: Wow, thanks for the Reddit gold!

>>51719728
>liking what I don't like

>>51719073
>lurk for 2 years
Bullshit. That could be true if they started posting in like 2006, but it's 2017 now. People who are new here from now on will never know what 4chan is actually supposed to be like, no matter how long they lurk before posting, because they missed the formative years of this site and its culture. All you see by lurking now is how much this place turned into Reddit, so you're better off not posting at all in order to avoid perpetuating the cycle.

>>51726128
>current year

>>51723941
I'm not familiar with the sonic series but based on every pic in the thread this guy is a fucking monster. Hope he hangs from a rope whenever these freedom fighters finally topple his ass

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>Control F
>No Hades
Look /tg/, you're better than this. All 65 of you in this thread can come up with effective funny and evil villains when pressed. And this guy shoulda been number one

>>51723958
>majestic
>trump

We're reaching a presidential controversy singularity. Soon, EVERY day Trump will make a retarded mistake if it keeps up.

Which is fine. I'm not American, and a misanthrope so I love to see some nice American-sized firewood.

>>51725254
we're like 3 months into a presidency taht at the very least will last 36 months(and could last 72 if he doesn't fuck the pooch to hard) , it hasn't exactly been a long time

>>51727579
Fuck it guys, pull up a chair. We're going to school over effective comical villains. Let's start with my first example. Please chime in with opinions and counterpoints
>Hades
What makes him work? Well, James Woods obviously, but you're not going to have him in your campaign are you? No, what makes him work is how much he hams it up.
Smarmy is another good adjective. Or campy. He's the over-the-top jokester we've all wanted to play. He's also a God of the Dead, and in the movie example, extremely manipulative. It's a good combination. But, when doing this character
>Never Go Full Edgelord

>>51727579
By the time that film came out I was already too old and bored to bother with Disney's retarded remastication of perfectly fine fables and legends.

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>>51727690
>Barracuda
For those unfamiliar, he's a recurring character in a punisher book where there's not a lot of recurring characters. So obviously he has something that the writers like and keep him around for
It's because he's funny! He's actually psychotic and a complete gangster. And usually writers get this right. But this is also a 12yr old's favorite archetype, so again
>Never Go Full Edgelord
Unless you're a very good writer, because when it gets done right, it's soooo right

>>51725294
>>51718892
I feel Aku's hilariosity largely comes in different scenes. Like, usually when we see him interacting with Jack, or acting as the main villain in some capacity, he's a serious threat (although he will often mock Jack in some funny way), while in the scenes where we just see him do his own things he's more comedic (even if he's not actually doing anything particularly funny, seeing a giant evil demonic overlord doing mundane things like watching TV or brushing his teeth ends up being funny from the contrast). But it seems more to do with the tone of the episode than the character traits.

>>51719117
Xykon is alos a pretty good example. He's funny because he's ultimately a petty, self-absorbed asshole with a tendency to focus on pointless things. But he's also a very powerful sorcerer and a completely unsympathic sociopath, so he's also both a big threat and completely despicable.

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>>51727728
Here we go, here's another,
>Mr. Calvin Candie hisself!
Christ, what an asshole am I right? But also, dare I say, charming? Funny? Racism signals to your audience that the person spouting it is a villain. In fact, it can be their one flaw in a sea of otherwise perfect virtues. Then you get characters like the funny emperor who's still rounding up and executing gypsy orcs

>>51727579
Hades was never really a villain. He's just that dude stuck with ill-reputable job that he's trying to do to the best of his ability. And most of his neighbors and relatives are petty vindictive assholes.

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>>51727816
>Coyote
From the webcomic gunnerkrigg court. All I need to say is "trickster god" and you'll pretty much get the archetype. Again we see the "crazy but evil" angle. And again I'll warn against taking it too seriously. But this can be done well, especially when playing on the inherent danger presented by a deity that doesn't think like humans

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>>51727890
>Robbie Rotten
Yeah yeah, I know, fucking meme character, but he does represent an interesting hurdle for writers. How do you make an antagonist, who's clearly an antagonist to 9yr old's or /tg/? And how do you make them entertaining to boot?
Robbie Rotten, Hades, any villain in a Pixar or Disney or Dreamworks film is going to be a good example of this. Kids, and /tg/, are a unique audience that demands unique villains

>>51728001
So you'd say it's about creating villains that are both threatening and disarming?

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>>51728020
I'd say to a certain degree yes. If you're really going for the "genuinely funny but despicable" angle, then a character who threatens, then disarms the audience with something like humor, is a very difficult but rewarding character to create
>Bullseye
Another punisher villain. Here we have more the "haha what an asshole" approach. Can alienate instead of being enduring, in a sort of "Tom and Jerry" way, so use sparingly

>ctrl+f
>no GLaDOS
extremely disappointed

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>>51728136
>Ice King
This is an unusual one. He's funny because he's pathetic. Or sad. But still, funny. So how do the makers keep him villainous? Well, they don't as the series progresses, but at the beginning they really play up his creep factor. Also he's a god or an avatar or some shit

>>51728246
That's all for now. Last couple notes
>Don't just add constant quips. Fuck that
>If you're going full edgelord some comic relief is almost required
>Children's media is choke full of good examples, because it's a requirement of the medium. Look to that

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>>51727890
For some reason I always imagine Nyarlathotep as like that. Even in a perfectly serious context, I see him as this crazy trickster god who's messing with humanity for shits and giggles on his off time.

Incidentally, that would make a good comedic but threathening villain. He's an edlritch god who'se literally older than the universe and powerful beyond imagination, and he's also decided to personally ruin humanity's day because he's bored and we were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

>>51728298
I dunno if it's really comedic when the time travelling Great Race of Yith has already confirmed that one day Nyarlatotep bores of his great game and exterminates mankind. Humanity won't even get a chance to uplift itself onto the level of Cthulhu as the cultists of Cthulhu hope to achieve.

>>51727865
Hell, if you go back far enough the legend of abducting Persephone turns out to have been elopement because her mother would never have allowed the marriage if she knew. Of course, that far back Persephone was Kore/Cora, and scarier than Hades. Hades kept your soul where it belonged, Kore tortured it for every curse spoken against you by the living.

Would be nice to see a movie get it right for once.

>>51729449
I heard somewhere on the internet that the elopement shit is some revisionist tale to support women's rights and I don't have anything to back that up but I'm putting it out there

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>Can a BBEG be genuinely hilarious and still despicable?

The Dragon BBEG I'm running rn has a weird fascination with collecting teeth. Its hoard is teeth. It talks in creepy whispers but gets high pitched when talking about teeth. The players find it funny.

They also fucking hate him because he is encasing desert city after desert city in sand and capturing innocent people to pluck their teeth and kill them.

>>51717988
>Eggman
Why does Sonic suck so badly as a franchise, but Eggman is such a great character when he's used well.

>>51725254
There's people still pissed that Obama became president eight years ago. There's people still pissed that Constantinople is now Istanbul. Fuck, there's people still pissed that Homo Sapiens became the dominant Hominid.

>>51718372
holy shit, is this for real?

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See Handsome Jack for example.

>>51729499
Well, I know that Kore/Cora was an underworld goddess well before Hades was even imagined. Probably as the early Greeks got to know each other the Hades legend spread from whatever village he came from and people didn't want two death gods, and Hades won out because dispassion is preferable to malice. Kore got rewritten into Persephone, with several versions of the tale (kidnapped, wandered in on her own, rescuing souls, stole a pomegranite, tricked into eating, rape, elopement etc...) leaving us with the most popular version today. But hey that's just a big general guess.

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>>51717551

Baaaaaaby, I have what you neeeeeed...

>>51730493
>He just ruined Biz Markie!
>That bastard is going to pay

>>51727890
It has been a very long time and I stopped reading during the robot society arc due to forgetting to check updates... But does he really COUNT as a villain? He does asshole things sometimes but he just seems to be having fun, he doesn't have a villainous plot or anything.

Not to mention he's friendly to the main character while not being afraid to remind her to show respect to a god. It's a rare character that can be friendly and yet still demand respect and not come off like a total douchebag.

>>51727816
>Racism signals to your audience that the person spouting it is a villain. In fact, it can be their one flaw in a sea of otherwise perfect virtues.

I thought the part where he forced one man to beat another man to death with a hammer for his amusement was also a subtle indicator of his villainy.

>>51730657
He really hammered his villainy into that guy.

>>51717551
>The villain plays yakkity sax as he commits all his heinous deeds

>>51730538
You should really catch up

>>51731203
I will. Eventually.

>>51718868
What the fuck is reddit spacing? I've been on /tg/ for ten years at this point, and all three of the people who actually write multiple paragraphs tend to have the decency to make it readable.

>>51717551

>the Master
>the Joker
>Moriarty
>Sheriff of Nottingham
>GLaDOS & Wheatley
>Negan

Yes.

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>Where there is pain, I am there. Where there is suffering, I flourish. Where there is joy... yes, well, one could hardly have joy without another's suffering, no?

I'm gonna say this guy.

>>51717551
of course, its happened many times before. the best example I can think of now is Hades from the disney Hercules movie. Or James Woods in general.

>>51731790
to add to this, Rothbart from the Swan Princess. and now that I think about it, aren't the majority of Disney villains loveable bastards?

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>>51717551
>genuinely hilarious
>still despicable
>add a dash of infuriating

i got you, OP

>>51727677
No, we're 1 month into it because he was only inaugurated in January. My fucking god this is the entire problem with the internet; people talking when they don't know that they shouldn't.

>>51731306
I think the trick here is you make the villain either villainous in attitude and incompetent in action or vice versa

>>51728246
>So how do the makers keep him villainous? >Well, they don't
Fuck, I was gonna say that

>>51729625
>There's people still pissed that Constantinople is now Istanbul.

Well that's nobodies business but the Turks.

>>51729704
Handsome Jack wasn't really funny though. He gave me plenty of reason to hate him but his jokes were pretty flat, which is a step up from the rest of BL2's jokes that ranged from awful to fucking sad.

>>51717551
They have to be completely immoral but acting like any other generally funny character yet when they are seriously threatened they show the reader how absolutely evil they really are.

>>51731673
My nigga
>Yes...Torture also has it's benefits

>>51717551
Handsome Jack from Borderlands 2 was pretty great at that. Just precisely calulated to make you laugh and hate at the exact same time.

Eh, I don't think so. The main reason a villain can be funny in media is that often times they're seen without the protagonists being able to interject or interrupt. With PCs being PCs though you can be certain that everything they say will be talked over or ignored, and it doesn't make sense to have scenes where the BBEG is there and the players are not.

>>51732265
This generally.
Although, you can sometimes ramble if the villain is holding a detonator or something.

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I think this one speaks for itself.

>>51732308
That entire game was filled with hilarious, terrifying villains.

>>51732330
And excellent music.

>>51732199
Well, I mean, Stratos is my favourite, but Charnel is pretty good. Ballsy to have a game where 3/5 factions arguably are villains, and the other two are boring and/or assholes.

>>51717551
I don't think so, not without being incompetent

Humor is a by-product of safety, and if you genuinely fear for your safety from an amoral psychopath who wields great power and intends to use it, it's pretty hard to get your laugh on

>>51717590
>>>/mu/
>>>/lgbt/
>>>/qa/

Pick your liberal left shithole.

>>51717724
It's just a couple of trolls (I hope it's just a couple) who seem to think that by shitposting any thread that uses "BBEG" instead of "primary antagonist", " central antagonist ", "main villain" or any other synonym for "that prick the party's going to murder because he's probably the biggest evil in the campaign"

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>>51717590
>>51733776
>Burgerlanders injecting their shitstorm into everything

It's not even feasible to tell you all to fuck of back to /pol/, the overflow is unstoppable, the floodgates are broken.

>>51717590
/thread

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>>51717551
Imagine this: a BBEG who does the most horrible things, purely to get a laugh out of things. She also loves, LOVES, bad puns.

>Plans to decapitate the king in public
>Only so she can make a "head of state" joke

>Plants bombs on airplanes/throws grenades at carriages (depending on the tech level)
>Only so she can say "bomb voyage"

>Cuts off the left arms and legs of children in an orphanage
>Only so she can wait for the heroes to turn up and tell them "Don't worry, they're all right"

>Murders an entire village and wears their ears for a coat
>Waits for the heroes to show up and asks them "You got any grievances against me? Do tell, I'm all ears!"

>Confronts an invading army
>"What, no visa's?"

>>51737021
>Recruits a guy prone to seizures and a carer named Julius
>Just so she can yell "Julius! Seizure!"

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>>51737056
>apprehending female PC criminal
>guards and BBEG catch party in dead end alley
>JULIUS!
>SEIZE HER!

>>51737056
>>51737069
>Julius is struggling with crippling depression
>Every time he recieves an order, he mutters "I used to be someone, now I'm just a punchline" under his breath

>>51737091
>>51737021
>>51737056
>>51737069

cease these jests, ere i burst asunder my side plates

>>51717821
Stop using the acronym OP anonymous, it's lazy and stupid, you have to say Original Post.

>>51727637
Wouldn't he have to make a mistake first? He hasn't yet.

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>inb4 randumb

I think he embodies cheeky and whimsical whilst also being deadly and threatening because he is so detached.

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>>51737118
>She equips her soldiers with swords made of hardened bread
>Their battlecry is "loaf baguettes loaf"
love begets love

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PIT

>>51731306
>Negan

Negan is the most try hard, repepetive and exhausting character to ever grace a comic/series as a reocurring antagonist. He literally drags out forever everything he does with a inane speech that's not even funny, just like, someone who's in love with his own voice talking.

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>>51737379

HADES

>>51731203
I'm another one who needs to catch up, what has he done that's villainous?

>>51727502
>not knowing Dr. Ivo Robotnik, genius extraordinaire
>the man with the master plan to rule all of Mobius and create the wonderful Eggmanland

arent there a few iterations of doctor doom that fit that bill?

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>>51717612

Just if you follow British propaganda. Being uttely incapable of running a country and failing in all regards don't make a man "funny".

It makes him pitiful.

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>>51727579

Funny thing is that he probably was one of the "nicest" of the greek gods.

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I'm not sure if he counts as a "villain".

>>51738251
Of course he is, he's just a guy doing a job that got stuck with. Meanwhile, Zeus is causing AT LEAST 75% of the problems of the greeks because he can't keep his fetishes in check and his dick in his toga. The other 25% of the greek's problems were caused by the rest of the patheon acting like petulant children. Except for Hephestus, he just built shit.

>>51737472

>literally describing why the character is a funny villain

His ego and social ineptitude, combined with his violent tendencies, make him a funny villain that you still hate.

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>>51738197
Strange, considering he seemed kinda promising before buddying it up with Hitler.

His headquarters also looked like a stereotypical villain's hideout.

Crowley from Supernatural?

>>51738373
I can't even remember him ever being an "antagonist".

>>51717551
Dark humor

>>51732135
>mein negro

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>>51717551

>>51729614
From memory, the comics with Sally weren't too bad. This was a long time ago mind

>>51732149
all of borderlands 2 was worth it for that one joke where they shot the horse in the telltale game.
got me to actually laugh. Which never fucking happens.

>>51739599
They killed butt stallion?!

>>51718926
>on the only good board.
/tg/ has long since turned into one of the worst boards and was never particularly good in the first place. Don't delude yourself.

>>51739970
>one of the worst boards
HAHAHA

>>51738742
He's pretty much just a questgiver (Lipwig) and a way to establish parameters the protagonist has to work within (Vimes)

>>51739970
Holy shit, you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

>>51733776

back to /pol/ with you ;)

>>51737295

>being so deluded

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>>51740838
Do you need a safe space?

>>51740909
Do you?

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>>51717633
>>51733776
>/pol/ wants a safe space on /tg/ where they don't have to hear other opinions
you can't make this shit up

>>51740932
/pol/ are the ultimate hypocrites.
They want a safe space without other opinions.
They want to immigrate en masse to places that don't want them.
They feel they do not need to learn the culture of places they visit, instead keeping their native culture to the detriment of all.

>>51738545

Kinda promising for what

Italy, as Japan, was a poor non-industrial country. And Mussolini, despite building the basics of "fascism", was in most regards your typical Italian politician: bent on lies, personality cult, nepotism and lack of adequate skillset.

Hitler had merely the luck of being Austrian and getting to control Germany, nuffin' else

>>51717551

Yes, of course.

Just because you have positive traits dont make you good.

You can be brave, smart, funny and all sorts of things and still be bad.

>>51741220
just like refugees

>>51741361
You have successfully analyzed why they are hypocrites, yes.

>>51729614

Because Sonic is in it. The character is a smarmy asshat.

>>51740932
>Be liberal on tg
"..."
>Be conservative on tg
">>>/pol/ is that way, stormweenie"

Its a good thing you showed those hypocritical hicks a lesson.

>>51741444
If only we could build some kind of wall to keep those hicks out.

>>51741506
>>51741444
a big part of the problem here is that 99% of the political spectrum is considered liberal by /pol/ standards, including 100% of the apoliticals.

>>51741361
I need a centuribear to keep me afloat in this sea of hate and disgust

>>51740909

Sexual Assault Task Force

"OK, men. Got a message from the bosses and the numbers are bad. We need at least five rapes to get to the monthly average, preferably sodomy. So get out there, track down something vulnerable looking and turn their sphincters into a yawning maw of pain and humiliation. Any thing will do. Men, Women, Children, small porcelain dogs...After we have caught up, its just filling in the basics. Groping whatever within reach, drunken debauchery, brawling, the usual stuff. Lets get out there and make the Sexual Assault Task Force proud!!"

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>>51723941
Jesus christ, in the games he's just portrayed as goofy and mildly incompetent, like Bowser. The comics sure took a dark spin to it

>>51740909
Welp, this isn't The Onion. Time to glass universities all over the US

>>51741579
Can't spend 2 seconds on this site without someone bringing up muslim refugees.

>>51732149
i liked him in TotBL