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Okay, I was reading the old friendsfriends list like I tend to do, and I found This meme from user ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
liviapenn.
Originally, it started with the Superteam assembly challenge.
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Your team should have five members.
1) The Manipulator (ie, the one very good at playing complicated games & bending people to their will; probably the team leader. See: Lilah Morgan, Ba'al, Danny Ocean, Scorpius, etc.)
2) The Face Puncher (Faith, The Operative, Callisto, Niki Sanders)
3) The Gadget Builder (Kaylee, Niirti, Lex Luthor)
4) The Sex Appeal (Sylar, Mystique, Emma Frost, Eroica, etc.)
5) The One Who Eventually Suffers A Crisis Of Conscience And Turns To Good, Damn Them (Darth Vader, Teal'c, Xena, etc.)
Your team doesn't *have* to be straight-up villains; think of how many fannish characters:
(1) Have a bad reputation/would be considered villains by many in their reality (the Winchesters, most of the cast of Firefly & Farscape, the X-Men, etc.)
(2) Have done something you personally consider to be incredibly sketchy (most of the cast of Atlantis, Willow, Izzie from Grey's Anatomy, etc.)
(3) Have been falsely accused of crimes (Buffy, Teyla, the Winchesters again, etc.)
(4) Used to be a bad guy at some point (Spike, Faith, Xena, etc.)
Which really covers just about everybody. Except maybe Fraser. *G*
Okay, so my Evil Five.
The Manipulator: David Xanatos (Gargoyles). The man is so slick he oozes oily evil. He even has a trope named after him for this!
The Face Puncher: Persuader (Legion of Superheroes). Big-ass masked guy with a Big Scary Axe.
The Gadget Builder: Brain (Pinky and the Brain) C'mon...
The Sex Appeal: Wilhimina Slater (Ugly Betty). Hey, at 40+, Vanessa Williams is DAMN hot. And that's coming from usually-immune ME, of all people. Hence, the icon for this post.
The One Who Eventually Suffers A Crisis Of Conscience And Turns To Good, Damn Them: Bialar Crais (Farscape) I actually liked him in later seasons.
Now, I feel like adding more archetypes! So here's my contributions.
The Loyal Lieutanant: (This is the one who the main villain never...usually has to worry about turning on him. The Loyal Lieutenant is usually very organized, intelligent in their own right, and firmly supports the main villain. Examples: Lt. Braca (Farscape) Zoicite (Sailor Moon), Amelia Voght (X-Men), Wintergreen (DC Comics))
The Mystic: (Self-explanitory. Evil magic-user)
The Evil Dealer: (Not so much a drug dealer as 'Hey, I have got a deal for you. I will give you exactly what you want. You just have to do me a favor in return'. Examples: The Devil (Devil and Daniel Webster or even Faust), Ursula (The Little Mermaid))
The Unstoppable Force: (This is usually just a machine or a mindless, amoral creature bent only on pure destruction. The force that if left unchecked will destroy everything. It takes a lot of power to bring them down. Examples: Doomsday (DC Comics), Godzilla, Bizarro (DC Comics))
The Monster: (Does not have to be an actual creature, but this is a villain that is so broken, so twisted, so scary, that even the rest that he scares the shit out of the rest of his own team. Instead of putting The Monster down like a rabid dog, the villain team keeps The Monster around to scare the heroes, or just so they know where they is so the villains don't have to watch their own backs. Examples: The Joker (DC comics), Johnny Sorrow (DC Comics), Murmur (DC Comics' Flash Rogues), Desaad (Again, DC, they seem to be good at this.))
So, here's my picks.
The Loyal Lieutenant: Diwan (Skyland). She was pretty badass, and didn't even as Oslo treated her like shit.
The Mystic: Malificent (Sleeping Beauty/Kingdom Hearts) Duh.
The Evil Dealer: Neron (DC Comics, Underworld Unleashed)
The Unstoppable Force: Joe Quesada (Marvel Comics)
The Monster: Korudo Akabane (GetBackers). Man, he was a total bastard.
liviapenn.Originally, it started with the Superteam assembly challenge.
Quote from the original post.
Your team should have five members.
1) The Manipulator (ie, the one very good at playing complicated games & bending people to their will; probably the team leader. See: Lilah Morgan, Ba'al, Danny Ocean, Scorpius, etc.)
2) The Face Puncher (Faith, The Operative, Callisto, Niki Sanders)
3) The Gadget Builder (Kaylee, Niirti, Lex Luthor)
4) The Sex Appeal (Sylar, Mystique, Emma Frost, Eroica, etc.)
5) The One Who Eventually Suffers A Crisis Of Conscience And Turns To Good, Damn Them (Darth Vader, Teal'c, Xena, etc.)
Your team doesn't *have* to be straight-up villains; think of how many fannish characters:
(1) Have a bad reputation/would be considered villains by many in their reality (the Winchesters, most of the cast of Firefly & Farscape, the X-Men, etc.)
(2) Have done something you personally consider to be incredibly sketchy (most of the cast of Atlantis, Willow, Izzie from Grey's Anatomy, etc.)
(3) Have been falsely accused of crimes (Buffy, Teyla, the Winchesters again, etc.)
(4) Used to be a bad guy at some point (Spike, Faith, Xena, etc.)
Which really covers just about everybody. Except maybe Fraser. *G*
Okay, so my Evil Five.
The Manipulator: David Xanatos (Gargoyles). The man is so slick he oozes oily evil. He even has a trope named after him for this!
The Face Puncher: Persuader (Legion of Superheroes). Big-ass masked guy with a Big Scary Axe.
The Gadget Builder: Brain (Pinky and the Brain) C'mon...
The Sex Appeal: Wilhimina Slater (Ugly Betty). Hey, at 40+, Vanessa Williams is DAMN hot. And that's coming from usually-immune ME, of all people. Hence, the icon for this post.
The One Who Eventually Suffers A Crisis Of Conscience And Turns To Good, Damn Them: Bialar Crais (Farscape) I actually liked him in later seasons.
Now, I feel like adding more archetypes! So here's my contributions.
The Loyal Lieutanant: (This is the one who the main villain never...usually has to worry about turning on him. The Loyal Lieutenant is usually very organized, intelligent in their own right, and firmly supports the main villain. Examples: Lt. Braca (Farscape) Zoicite (Sailor Moon), Amelia Voght (X-Men), Wintergreen (DC Comics))
The Mystic: (Self-explanitory. Evil magic-user)
The Evil Dealer: (Not so much a drug dealer as 'Hey, I have got a deal for you. I will give you exactly what you want. You just have to do me a favor in return'. Examples: The Devil (Devil and Daniel Webster or even Faust), Ursula (The Little Mermaid))
The Unstoppable Force: (This is usually just a machine or a mindless, amoral creature bent only on pure destruction. The force that if left unchecked will destroy everything. It takes a lot of power to bring them down. Examples: Doomsday (DC Comics), Godzilla, Bizarro (DC Comics))
The Monster: (Does not have to be an actual creature, but this is a villain that is so broken, so twisted, so scary, that even the rest that he scares the shit out of the rest of his own team. Instead of putting The Monster down like a rabid dog, the villain team keeps The Monster around to scare the heroes, or just so they know where they is so the villains don't have to watch their own backs. Examples: The Joker (DC comics), Johnny Sorrow (DC Comics), Murmur (DC Comics' Flash Rogues), Desaad (Again, DC, they seem to be good at this.))
So, here's my picks.
The Loyal Lieutenant: Diwan (Skyland). She was pretty badass, and didn't even as Oslo treated her like shit.
The Mystic: Malificent (Sleeping Beauty/Kingdom Hearts) Duh.
The Evil Dealer: Neron (DC Comics, Underworld Unleashed)
The Unstoppable Force: Joe Quesada (Marvel Comics)
The Monster: Korudo Akabane (GetBackers). Man, he was a total bastard.
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It frightens and worries me.
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The actor is okay, but the character is all messed up, and ...just...a guy who bludgeons people or psionically saws their skulls open to do things to their brains? Not sexy.
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