Quotes / Designated Villain

Fan Works

Dr-J33: Remind me why [Titan] is the badguy again?
Mars: Because the author says so.

— Margolias-Lulamoon and Dr-J33, on My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic

Video Games

Fatguy: Have (the party) ever done good?
Lenny: Like, something actually positive?
Fatguy: ...If we assume Bowser is evil, yes. But Bowser... isn't evil.

— Fatguy703's creator playthrough of Book of Mario 64, a Recursive Translation of Paper Mario 64.

Webcomics

DAVE: what kind of villain is someone you never met who hardly did anything evil to you or your friends directly
DAVE: or even to anyone in your universe for that matter other than through some vague insidious influence
DAVE: who even is this guy and why should i hate him
DAVE: am i really supposed to be pissed off at a green muscle monster i never met
DAVE: cause i aint pissed off at no muscle monster

— Homestuck

Web Original

Killzone: Shadow Fall is about the evil Helghast people being really resentful of the heroes having blown up their planet and killed their entire race. Cor, just can't let anything go, can they? It's funny; if you read the backstory to Killzone, the running theme seems to be the Helghast getting fucked over a picket fence left-right-and-centre, but we're supposed to hate them for bearing a grudge! They could easily work as the heroes if they didn't have the image problem. Glowing red eyes and Nazi hats; yeah, they could probably garner more sympathy if they swapped those out for some star-shaped sunglasses and a fez.

— Zero Punctuation, Exclusives Showdown

"Medusa was cursed by the very goddess she served, Athena, who also gave Perseus the mirrored shield he used to slay her. Raped, betrayed by her god, hunted down like a beast in her own home while she was pregnant, her own children stolen from her and used to glorify and aide her killers and betrayers. And she's supposed to be the monster?"

— From this Tumblr conversation about Perseus and Medusa.

You ever notice Chernabog from Fantasia is considered a villain when all he does is wake up all the ghosties and ghoulies, throw a dance party and then go back to bed? He's not a villain, he's a DJ.

—Anonymous Imgur post on "Night on Bald Mountain" from Fantasia (not entirely accurate but still funny).

"At the last dance, multiple students were murdered."

Spoken by: Principal Holden Honey.

In: 4 x 2

Delivered as an explanation to Toni and Cheryl, as to why there would be no school dance this year. Principal Honey is in fact supremely rational in the cancellation of this dance. This being Riverdale, he is of course treated as an unreasonable tyrant.

—wolfofansbach, "BEING A LIST OF THE THIRTEEN GREATEST RIVERDALE LINES, ON THE OCCASION OF THAT SHOW'S TERMINATION"

Web Video

"Ohhh, but he's an underpaid civil servant trying to ensure that the spoiled, corrupt, moronic youth of this country get a proper education! Truly a villain such as this needs to be punished and humiliated!"

— Dr Insano on Edward Rooney.

"The only things these attractive people have done are be successful and offer a fair price for a robot and let a child have his wishes right? And yet, villains!"

— CinemaSins on Real Steel

"Why does this movie hate its real hero so much?"

— The Cinema Snob on Jillian, Dear Santa.

"We're just supposed to assume that the Gnome is evil because... he saved everyone's lives and people are worshipping him for saving their lives. [...] The episode expects us to assume that the Gnome is doing evil because he is doing the stuff that evil creatures do that aren't directly evil, like demanding people live in his name. But we never actually see the Gnome do anything wrong on camera. He doesn't hurt anyone. Just the opposite, actually- if he didn't intervene, the villains would've won."

—The Mysterious Mr. Enter on The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey"

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