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I Have Decided to Make a List of my Top 100 POP CULTURE! Villains, Because Villainy is Awesome...


So my top 100 Villains will be from the categories of Movies, Videogames, Books, Comic Books, and Music... And I will be judging Villains based on these traits...


Persistence: One thing many villains lack... Persistence... Take a page from Bowser's book and keep on going, I mean how many times has he been thwarted by small, heroic Italian plumbers, and all he wants to do is start a decent human trafficking business, but this guy never gives up, no matter how many Italian plumbers (which there seems to be an abundance of) take advantage of his weak skull problem and stomp on his head...


Influence: I do love it when Villains, no matter how hated, can say a couple of words and have your head chopped off by their guards. After all, if a Villain has nobody to control they are fairly boring, one person, they have no minions to do their bidding for them, no henchman, no pawns, no pointless carrier bags to dispose of once they're through with them. And then there are villains who take it a step further, such as The Bane in Christopher Nolan's trilogy of Dark Knight movies, who decides to gain control of Gotham and manipulate the majority of the cities inhabitants (and prisoners) into unknowingly doing his bidding.


Ambition: Increasing milk prices! You bastards! So Wonder Woman villains aren't exactly very deadly, but kidnapping princesses to unleash darkness upon the world through use of keyholes is just pure genius... If a villain wants to give me a single cheeseburger when I ask for a double (damn you McDonalds), they aren't really very ambitious, on the other hand if they're taking over the world, then that's ambitious, but possibly a little too ambitious, it all depends.


Crimes: What are our heinous villains wanted for, rape? Murder? Kidnap and ransom? We don't care for those so called villains who killed you on TF2 while you were AFK taking a shit, or those "dastardly" neighbours who trimmed "your side of the hedge". When someone murders multiple people including sidekicks of his arch nemesis... then they gain an audience...

Nemesis: If a supervillain is busy committing crimes, a bit of bank robbery here, a little bit of third degree murder there, then they aren't just going to get away with it! That would ruin just about everything contained within pop culture... Of course they aren't just going to be allowed to kill thousands of people, no, which is why almost every (if not every) villain has an enemy... someone to allow the company to milk the shit out of the franchise... no hero or villain ever wins, or at least if they do another one comes along (don't quote me on that). So one segment of the rating will be how awesome the villains nemesis or main opposing hero is. Bear in mind these aren't all comic book villains but there should be a list for those pretty soon.


Look And Style: Villains need swagger. I am not going to put someone on this list who wears no costume whatsoever without a very, very good reason (unless of course they are wearing stylish clothing, then there's a whole different matter). Awesome costumes make winners... Not just in costume contests... Wear your purple orange and green attire, and be proud!

Success: All villains have to be a teensy bit successful, because if the hero constantly thwarted the villain within two minutes of them creating their devilish plot, everything would be boring... not just Titanic... everything... The villain needs to come very close to defeating the hero, at least. The stage of almost defeating the hero, however, should not lengthen movies by an hour.

Defeats: As well as the villains highs, we need to take into account their lows. We can't credit a villain for blowing up a city, if they forgot how to drive their getaway vehicle and were caught up in the explosion. Killed by a sidekick? That will cost you dearly... Obviously all villains have defeats, but if theirs is planned (which isn't technically defeat) as part of a dastardly plot, brownie points for them... If it works out.


Attributes: If our villain is witty, or clever, or strong, or quick, they'll tally up more of those brownie points. Take The Joker for example, he makes a lot of witty and downright hilarious puns and jokes, in both the movies and comic books. Abomination, (not much of a villain), super strong... So the different segments of the attributes section will be Strength, Speed, Combat, Intelligence, Power, Wealth.


Powers: So not all villains have powers, but a lot of them do, and if they don't, we'll just tally up their awesome points that don't fall into other categories. Powers are awesome, usually, but some can be a pain, or just shit. We obviously have to include powers as one section, to assess everything about the villains.


Sidekick: Although sidekicks could be considered villains all on their own, if they aren't included, we'll add them in somehow. Pretty self explanatory otherwise.


Motive: A character with a dark, mysterious, hate filled background will obviously win our vote, but if a character has a random, funny background, or something to do with insanity, I'll love it.


Apologies for the oncoming hurricane of slow posts, this will probably take me about a century to get out, maybe a little more, so if you just grab a coffee, and wait for one hundred years, then I should be done... This will take me an age... I will probably publish it as lots of separate posts, maybe daily? Who knows... Probably Jean Grey...


After completing my Top 100 Villains posts, I will probably do the same thing again, but with heroes, and also, Comic Book Characters. The posting should start tomorrow if all goes to plan, and I may do the heroes list alongside the villains list.

Stay Tuned!

What Year Is It?

My most sincere apologies at my absence for who knows how long, but I just haven't been able to find the time to blog. Today, I have managed to squeeze in a little time, so I am going to thank everyone for almost 500 pageviews in total and almost 60 pageviews on my Pixar post. I have an IGN blog now which I will run as well as this, and hopefully have no more prolonged periods of absence. :D I said prolonged periods...

So I might as well take this opportunity to tell you about my Top 100 Pop Culture Villains series of posts. which should begin with number 100 tomorrow. I will give you the details of how it will work etc. in a couple of minutes, but until then...

Stay Tuned :P

'Finding Dory', 'Inside Out', 'Monsters University', 'The Good Dinosaur' and an Untitled Movie - I'd Say Pixar are All Set

Pixar Are All Set Without the Shitty Sequels

I ain't no dumb-ass, I know Pixar have two sequels on the way, but the point is, these sequels aren't going to cause the biggest fluctuation in suicide rates since Paranormal Activity, like Cars 2 did. No, these are the good sequels, the kind you get when you combine childhood memories with magic mushrooms. Monsters University promises to live up to the standards of it's predecessor, and if you think that's all they're gonna spit out at us, you're probably right for about a year or so... but then! The Good Dinosaur hits our screens May 30th 2014 (a little over a year from now...) and we're just mind blown again by Pixar's naming team. Toy Story = Story about toys... Monsters Inc. = Company of Monsters... A Bug's Life = About the life of a bug... they're just full of brilliance aren't they!
           

The Good Dinosaur was announced in 2011, although many fans noticed some hints in Up: B-roll 1 which is a promotional trailer for the movie up... see if you notice (if you can't find the the promo trailer 'cause I can't and I have to tell you I searched Google twice, nothing)! However, here's what John Lasseter told us about the upcoming movie: 

"They are kind of cartoony but they are dinosaurs; they are not walking around with clothes on or anything like that, they still are kind of dinosaurs. We focused on mostly the plant-eaters, not the carnivores… Their society becomes more of an agrarian society, meaning farmers. They become farmers. It’s a very funny story about a certain way of life that a young dinosaur has trouble fitting into and he ends up going on this quest. He kind of messes up and he has to put everything right by going on this quest and on that quest he meets this our character that is an outcast from his society too and so the two of them form this bond and it becomes this unique kind of story…"

And there you have it... The Good Dinosaur folks! Technically, doesn't the title imply other dinosaurs are bad? I wonder...
           

             Now on top of this, we have the upcoming Finding Dory scheduled for release on 25th November 2015... I'm hoping they don't screw this up, I'm praying they do it right, so dear lord don't let Dory go missing, because I don't think that's going to fair well with viewers. Andrew Stanton is returning as director, with Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks making another appearance as Dory and Marlin, respectively. The movie is said to be about Dory being reunited with her family but other than that, not much else is known, other than that Nemo and The "Tank Gang" are returning! Oh yes bitches! Jacques is back, the guy sounds like somebody James Bond would defend England from! Except the movie is set off the coast of California, so the England shit just ain't happening... Here's DeGeneres hilarious comment about the movie and Pixar.

"I have waited for this day for a long, long, long, long, long, long time. I'm not mad it took this long. I know the people at Pixar were busy creating Toy Story 16. But the time they took was worth it. The script is fantastic. And it has everything I loved about the first one: It's got a lot of heart, it's really funny, and the best part is—it's got a lot more Dory."

They have been very busy with Toy Story 16 haven't they? It's like that movie Shrek 5: Can't Believe People Still Pay To See This. Official movie guys...
             We still haven't mentioned the movie I'm getting quite excited for (whoever just thought that i'm excited because it's based on a little girl is just sick, I know one of you did -__- I'm watching you!). A new theme to explore for Pixar is inside the mind, which is where Inside Out comes in. Inside Out is to be released on June 19th 2015 and is against the backdrop of a young girl's mind, and is about the human mind and the young girl's emotions. I think this will be brilliant if they add the creative spark which they always manage to squeeze in (no matter how unneeded secret agents are in a movie about racing cars, they manage to fit it in). Here's a synopsis of the movie from the Disney panel at CinemaCon:

"Pixar takes audiences on incredible journeys into extraordinary worlds: from the darkest depths of the ocean to the top of the tepui mountains in South America; from the fictional metropolis of Monstropolis to a futuristic fantasy of outer space. From director Pete Docter (Up, Monsters, Inc.) and producer Jonas Rivera (Up), the inventive new film will take you to a place that everyone knows, but no one has ever seen: the world inside the human mind."

Okay, so it;s really just telling you about everything you ever watched, but still, the latter half of the last sentence is good. Here's a little bit more of a detailed description from John Lasseter's interview with Charlie Rose:

 "Pete [Docter] has this way of constantly trying to figure out something that we’re all familiar with in some way… he’s constantly looking for these kinds of things. You look at people oftentimes and they do something to make you go “What are they thinking?” or it’s like how a song gets stuck in your head and you just can’t get it out. Little quirky thing like this that we all do. Certain emotions just seem to take us over, anger or happiness, where you start giggling and laughing and you can’t stop. He thought “I want to take a look at that, explain that.” His idea is that the emotions of this little girl are the characters and it takes place in the head of this little girl, and shows how they control things that go on. It’s very, very clever and it’s truly unlike anything you’ve ever seen, yet it explains things you've seen."

Sounds pretty amazing if you ask me, but they will have to explore more detailed concepts of the mind than just emotion for me to be hooked, I am a Vulcan as you all know... Anyway here is some concept art...

And our final Pixar movie of the day is untitled as of yet, but is centered around Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead as you may be more familiar with. Barely anything is known, but an estimated release date I'd say would be the latter half of 2016 (latter twice in one post, we're getting fancy here). The movie's working title is The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dia de los Muertos and here is the official synopsis and some concept art:

"From director Lee Unkrich and producer Darla K. Anderson, the filmmaking team behind the Academy Award®-winning Toy Story 3, comes a wholly original Pixar Animation Studios film that delves into the vibrant holiday of Día de los Muertos"

Sorry the concept art is so small, small images to start with, but stay tuned for more news tomorrow :D