Offing the Annoyance
Our villain has had a bad day.
Maybe The Hero stole his girl, killed his favorite Mook Lieutenant, or blew up the third Elaborate Underground Base this month. Or maybe he's just an angry guy in general.
But whatever the reason, the point is that he's in absolutely no mood to be messed with. So, of course, here comes some pitiable fool to do just that. The unfortunate loudmouth shows up just at the villain's most irate moment and immediately starts pissing him off even further.
Weird World, Weird Food
We all know of some silly stereotypes directed at real-world places and their local cuisines (or, more stereotypically, their Foreign Queasine...). As weird as foreign food can seem at times, however, most of it still falls within the realm of sense, or at least isn't too strange when you really think of it. We're limited to what we can eat based on restrictions such as our ingredients, our dietary needs, and our basic concept of taste and presentation. Logically we could make far more creative dishes, but they likely wouldn't taste very good, even if they don't kill us. Such a thing doesn't need to be true for fictional settings, however. If a writer is looking to show how much different their setting is from the real world, one easy way to do it is to fill the local menu with dishes that simply don't exist outside of their universe.
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Episode 369: Episode 344 - Horrify-ing Franchises October 28, 2022
