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    Analyzing Evil 
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"Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of Analyzing Evil"

"Analyzing Evil" is a Youtube series by The Vile Eye that analyses and discusses villains from various media. In it, the narrator covers a villain's history, motives and personality in order to get a better understanding of them and determine how evil and/or sympathetic they are. Occasionally episodes will not just analyze one villain, but a group/setting.

Most villains discussed are from films, however some villains from other works like Griffith and Andrew Ryan are discussed. There is also an episode called "Ranking All The Villains I've Covered (So Far)", which is a tier list of the villains he covered on that point based on how evil they are based on a personal level and the damage they cause.

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[[folder:Society Squad]]

The Joker and his friends fight for "gamer" rights.

On June 2023 Kent Mansley would announce that he plans to eventually leave Youtube and delete his channel due to personal issues with the platform and delete his channel. However he has allowed fans to download and archive his videos. He intends to proceeded to move the Society Squad series to his Twitter label of SquadHub69.

Society Squad provides examples of:

  • Adaptational Heroism: Many members of the Society Squad are villains in canon, and while they're not outright heroic they're portrayed as a lot better here. This is particularly notable with the Joker, who goes from the nihilistic sociopath he was in The Dark Knight to A Father to His Men and a true friend, who's worst crime is being a proud racistnote .
  • Adaptational Villainy
    • The Yoda of Society Squad takes after the ketamine-obsessed meme version of the character, being guilty of a mass shooting and attempted genocide of the furries. Initially it seemed he was also a rapist too and sexually assaulted Peter Griffin, but this turns out to be the work of his Liberal clone.
    • Possible example with Austin Powers. While on the Society Squad's side, he is allegedly guilty of sexual assault when in canon he was very conscientious of consent and refuses to sleep with anyone intoxicated. The "possible" is because it's unclear if he's guilty or simply accused of said crimes like he claims.
  • Anti-Hero Team: Most of the Society Squad are a bunch of racist gamers with their own foibles, some even guilty of murder, but they're all united in a heroic effort to stop gamers from being repressed.
  • Bad Future: Part 1 of "Nightmare" has two different visions of a dystopian future.
    • The "Knightmare" timeline is parodied with ruined, post-apocalyptic society where the liberal Joker clone teams up with Commander Joker to try and undo it. It's revealed as a premonition to the present day Commander Joker by Joe Swanson's ghost.
    • In order to convince Arthur Fleck to embrace his cause, Palpatine shows him a future where the gamers prevail; there are riots in the streets, Commander Joker has set himself up as a king and the Harvesters have ravaged the Earth. Unlike the above this (probably) is a fake timeline he concocted to convert him.
  • Berserk Button: Do not bring up the time he was sexually assaulted to Yoda. He shoots Dr. Phil when he makes light of the time he was raped in a KFC bathroom, and Commander Joker unintentionally making him recall the clone Yoda's assault helps lead into a fight between the two of them.
  • Big Bad: Initially Supreme Leader Snoke is built up as the main villain, being the ringleader of most of the liberals and the one behind both the revival of Hank Hill as Vader and corruption of Bobby Hill. In "Palpatine's Episode" his role is swiftly usurped by Palpatine, who takes charge as the new leader of the liberals. Part 1 of "Nightmare" reveals he's The Man Behind the Man to Hillary Clinton, though it also reveals he has a master.
  • Bigotry Exception: Despite being racist and bringing up the whole "13% crime statistics" meme Commander Joker is close friends with Kanye West. The only time he uses the N-word in his vicinity is when he's really mad due to feeling replaced by Arthur Fleck, and as Kanye is killed shortly afterwards he deeply regrets it.
  • Black-and-Gray Morality: On the one hand you have the Society Squad, who are mostly comprised of racist gamers and some even have criminal offenses, but they also believe in free speech and camaraderie. On the other you have the liberals, who want to take over the world and arrest people who play video games.
  • Composite Character: Hank and Bobby Hill end up taking the roles of Darth Vader and Kylo Ren, with a bit of Han Solo for Hank as he is mortally wounded by Bobby when trying to reach out to him.
  • Create Your Own Villain: Part 2 of "The Nightmare" reveals Yoda's Dark Secret, that being he's behind Bobby's fall to the liberals due to trying to kill him in order to prevent him from becoming a furry. Understandably Hank Hill is furious and kicks his ass.
  • Crossover Combo Villain: In order to increase his powers, Palpatine schemes with Dio Brando so he can be given a Stand of his own to use; On the Dark Side.
  • Decomposite Character: Arthur Fleck is treated as a different, newer Joker who tries to apply for the position after Commander Joker is presumed dead. The Jared Leto Joker is also a different person, more specifically a clone of Commander Joker.
  • Evil Knockoff: Palpatine creates a clone of Yoda and later the Joker aligned to his interests. They're distinguished from the original by Clone Yoda being the CGI Yoda while the OG Yoda had surgery to become a LEGO minifig, while Clone Joker is the Jared Leto version.
  • Freudian Excuse: Yoda hates minorities because he was raped by a black man in a KFC bathroom.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: We're initially led to believe that Palpatine is the biggest threat to gamers and the Society Squad. As such it's a shock that Part 1 of "The Nightmare", he reveals that he has a (yet unseen) master.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Boba Fett is initially a bounty hunter who works for the liberals and kills Kanye West as a loose end. Eventually the liberals prove too much for him to stomach so he helps breaks out Austin Powers and aid the Society Squad.
  • I Fight for the Strongest Side!: The Illusive Man is initially a Mysterious Backer for the Society Squad, but after mistakes on the Joker's part he decides to side with the liberals instead as he's come to see gamers as on the losing side.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: "Remember" has Palpatine reveal to Arthur Fleck that he's his father, with the same wording Vader did in canon. He uses this knowledge, alongside playing on his resentment to try and convert him to his side.
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: After being mistreated by Commander Joker and called a joke, Arthur Fleck defects from the Society Squad. He's captured shortly afterwards and his resentment plays a part in his siding with Palpatine.
  • Money Fetish: Mort Goldman is a very literal example, as he's seen masturbating to cash. Unfortunately for him Arthur Fleck caught him with his pants down.
  • Not in This for Your Revolution: Jotaro helps break Austin Powers out of jail and aid gamers, but not because he believes in the cause. Rather he's after Dio who happens to be working with the liberals.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero: The Society Squad plays on the meme that gamers are racist and hate minorities and women, and the Joker even uses the N-word on Kanye in anger. However they're trying to save the day from liberals trying to take over the world and oppress gamers.
  • Reforged into a Minion: After being mortally wounded by his son Hank Hill is reconstructed by the liberals as Darth Vader. After being broken out of it, Palpatine inflicts a similar fate to the mortally wounded Kanye West, turning him into Electro to psychologically torture the Society Squad.
  • Serial Rapist: The Liberal clone of Yoda is a psychopath who sexually assaults different characters, including Yoda himself. It's revealed that the Yoda in "Yoda Sexually Assaults Peter Griffin" video was actually the clone Yoda and Hillary Clinton tries to frame the real Yoda for his crimes in order to impeach him.
  • We Can Rebuild Him: Grievous (already a cyborg) ends up being overwhelmed from the Joker's epic gaming skills and bursts into flames. They're able to save his consciousness and have his body rebuilt thanks to Ultron.

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  • Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: "How Drinking Almost ENDED Me" has TBA have sex with a girl without a condom due to his judgement being impaired by drinking. He only avoids a One-Night-Stand Pregnancy because of a miscarriage.
  • Approval of God: In-universe, TBA says he appreciates reaction videos of his content in "How To Print Money On Youtube", saying while it can definitely be seen as lazy content it's a valid means of making easy money.
  • Ass Shove: "17 Strangest Things Found In Peoples Butts" is, well, all about this trope. Highlights of bizarre things found up there include a hamster and a gun.
  • Bad Santa: "Telling Santa My Intrusive Thoughts" initially doesn't seem like an example since Santa is disturbed by the intrusive thoughts TBA has...at least until the end when a kid asks for his uncle to stop touching him. The fact he knows his name heavily imply Santa is said uncle.
  • Black Comedy: A staple of the channel is jokes that make light of serious subjects, living up to the "offending everybody" part of the channel name. Some highlights include "How to Be a Terrible Father" or "Which Celebrities Are Freaks"
  • Black Comedy Rape
    • A number of videos have jokes about an uncle or preacher who touches kids inappropriately.
    • "Which Celebrities Are Freaks" is all about making jokes about what degenerate things the celebrities and politicians who were on Jeffrey Epstein's flight list got to on his island, though with a disclaimer at the beginning that just because someone's name was on the flight list doesn't mean they were involved in criminal activities.
  • Convenient Miscarriage: Well, for TBA at least. In "How Drinking Almost ENDED Me" he makes the mistake of having sex with a one night stand without a condom and panics, until learning she had a miscarriage. While it definitely isn't convenient for her, TBA can barely contain his relief he's not going to be a father.
  • Double Standard: Done tongue in cheek in "How To Bang Your High-School Teacher" where he says male pedophiles should be hanged but female pedophiles should be celebrated (so long as the student is above 16 and the teacher is hot), though he says that you shouldn't feel guilty if she gets arrested since she was a pedo. Only to contradict it for laugh
    TBA: "Remember, it's not trauma if you get blown in a sauna."
  • A Good Way to Die: "20 Worst Ways to Die" actually argues a number of deaths would arguably be a good way for your life to end, such as cancer (because you could skip free lines and get a bunch of benefits due to how bad people would feel for you) or botched skydiving (less so with someone else because of the guilt you'd feelnote  but more solo skydiving because your death would be instantaneous and preceded with a huge adrenaline rush).
  • Hilariously Abusive Childhood: "How To Be A Terrible Father" explores how to raise a baby Superman, doing things that would normally harm them as a trick to show off their powers or having them bait a pedophile just close enough that when the kid grows up he has reason to Pay Evil unto Evil the attempted predator.
  • I Love the Dead: "20 Worst Ways to Die" as a segment imaging how traumatic dying during sex would be for your partner, only for the woman to try to get rigor mortis to do its duty and finish their session.
  • Ironic Fear: Played for a joke in "20 Worst Ways to Die" when TBA states his biggest fear is drowning, but his biggest fetish is "being suffocated under a girl's Tonka Truck".
  • Non-Indicative Name: Zig-zagged with "20 Worst Ways to Die". While some are legitimately sucky ways to go out like burning alive, most of the deaths are framed as A Good Way to Die.
  • Pedophile Priest: A regular punchline of pedophile jokes involves Catholic priests and alter boy, with said priest being represented by "Father Cunningham"
  • Take That!: The entirety of "Why Andrew Tate is WORSE than Cancer" is a call-out on how Andrew Tate is a misogynistic douchebag and most likely sex trafficker who exploits impressionable men.
  • Teacher/Student Romance: "How To Bang Your Teacher Your High School Teacher" is dedicated to (joking, obviously) tips on how to seduce your Hot Teacher, partly out of lust but also for the bragging rights.

[[folder:Pointless Hub]]

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  • An Aesop: Concludes his review of The Boys comic with one; that sometimes making fun of something can be just as annoying as the thing you're making fun of.
  • Fan-Disliked Explanation: In-universe, Cody is not a fan of Black Noir having gaslit Homelander since it removes anything that made the latter remotely worse than the other supes, and robs him of the agency that made his TV incarnation compelling.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: The thesis for The Boys comic book is that for all of its' hatred for the superhero genre, it's no less of a power fantasy. It's just that the superhero equivalents are guys in trench-cloaks beating up idiots in regular superhero costumes.
  • Realism-Induced Horror: In Cody's opinion, this is what makes the supes better antagonists in the TV show compared to the source material; by acting like realistically awful people and egotistical celebrities it makes them more effective of an antagonist. By contrast, in the comic they're act so absurdly evil they come off as "crazy cartoon people".
  • Series Escalation: Discussed in his review of Roland Emmerich disaster movies; he notes that said disasters have become bigger over time, going from a glacial cataclysm to a global flood all the way up to the moon itself almost colliding with the planet. After reviewing Moonfall he pitches a movie idea that'd escalate things even further; have Andromeda and the Milky Way collide a few billion years early.
  • So Bad, It Was Better: This is Cody's opinion of the post-Michael Bay live-action Transformers. While very flawed movies "Bayformers" had enough quirks and flaws that it gave the movies a unique flair. By contrast, Bumblebee and Transformers Rise Of The Beast come off as either "good" or simply So Okay, It's Average for him.
  • Take That!: In his review of "The Boys Comic Was Kinda Terrible"
    • When he mentions what makes the supes work as an antagonist is that they are based off "shitty, real-life people", he cuts to a black and white picture of Harvey Weinstein to make a point.
    • While not as harsh of a take that, he compares Garth Ennis to an edgy teenager in the way he writes stuff like The Boys.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Something that Cody brings up in reviews of adaptations
    • He expresses this opinion about World War Z, believing that the plot of the books was a lot more interesting and inventive than the movie, which leaned into a more generic Zombie Apocalypse than anything.
    • "'The Boys' Comic Was Kinda Terrible" acknowledges that a lot of people believe this and say "the book was better", in order to preface how The Boys is one of the few cases where it inverts this trope by the adaptation is considered by most to be better than the original.

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    No Reaper Likes A Death Cheater 
The Grim Reaper or God of the Dead hates those who cheat death.

The death god or reaper of the setting can vary wildly in characterization. Sometimes they're reasonable, sometimes they're malicious. And occasionally they're the butt of jokes. However if there's something more likely to get their goat, it's whenever someone cheats them. Be it coming Back from the Dead, looking for or even obtaining a form of immortality, or just escaping what should've by all rights killed them defying Death is a good way to make them your enemy. Or at the very least they won't like you.

Given their role, the Death entity may perceive cheating death as an insult to their power and their domain. Sometimes it's less out of a personal vendetta and more that it goes against the natural order, and as a being intrinsically tied to said natural order they cannot abide by it. Or maybe it's a bit more selfish and they are worried their station is threatened. That said, just because they don't like you cheating them doesn't mean they'll go after you personally, and the whole cheating death thing is more of a pet peeve. Sometimes they'll even give the person defying them a "fighting chance", possibly via Chess with Death.

Sub-trope of Enemies with Death, which details Death being antagonistic in general instead of having a specific motive to be peeved.

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    • Blackest Night: While Nekron, Lord of the Unliving, sees all life as a transgressor to be wiped out, he and his herald Black Hand hold particularly umbridge to those who have cheated death, which in the DC universe applies to a lot of people. The latter even thinks that Donna Troy's child should never have existed because he was born after she'd come Back from the Dead, and that's why he died young. This viewpoint turns out to be hypocritical on Nekron's end because he himself allowed death's cheapness so the now living superheroes could be used as "sleeper agents" by turning them into Black Lanterns while still alive.
    • Defied with Death of the Endless. When Lex Luthor has a near-death experience he confronts her with the recent Zombie Apocalypse, and is flippant to how she was not only uninvolved but why she's never done anything about the countless examples of cheating death. As it turns out she really doesn't care, arguing that it doesn't matter since eventually even seemingly immortal characters will die and enter her domain, so they aren't really cheating her when resurrecting in the short term.

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  • Final Destination: Cheating death by surviving when they weren't supposed to is the primary motive behind Death causing the elaborate and gory deaths of its victims; people cheating death thanks to the visions of their untimely death really ticks it off, so it makes them die often brutally because of it. Like Nekron Death in Final Destination proves to be a massive Hypocrite since it gives those visions in the first place...that or it's a massive Troll.
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: Downplayed with Death; he admits that he's not a cat person because he resents the fact that cats have nine lives, as he finds it "absurd" that they get to have extra lives when everyone else only has one life. Ultimately his reason for going after Puss is down to him wasting those lives rather than having extra lives in the first place, however it's also clear he doesn't want him to use the Wishing Star to get his nine lives back.

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  • Guild Wars: One of the fallen gods is Dhuum, a cruel and unjust god of death who once ruled the underworld. During his reign he tolerated neither resurrections nor the existence of the undead, and he hunted down all those who cheated death, having promised "death undeniable." He was eventually overthrown by Grenth who doesn't share this viewpoint and is fine with death being cheap, which pisses Dhuum off.

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  • Wicked Black In A Sea Of Blue/Orange-in a race or group of beings with clear alien morality, one Eldritch Abomination is clearly shown with a human morality/being good or evil by human understanding. Examples include Molag Bal (while even "evil" Daedric Princes like Mehrunes Dagon operate above normal morality and has positive traits, he's the one member to be completely and unironically evil), Nyarlathotep (the Outer Gods are described as being beyond good and evil, but he is the one exception by being a malicious Satanic Archetype)
  • Specially Built Earth: When Earth's formation has some special or otherworldly reason for its existence unlike most planets, or even if it was an artificial creation ala That's No Moon to our homeworld. Sub-Trope of Real Event, Fictional Cause. Ie: Earth formed over the Racnoss ship, the entity formed Earth around it as its home, Earth being a giant computer in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Multiversal Singularity: In The Multiverse, a character is unique/doesn't have alternate versions. Examples have propped up in DC, Marvel and Transformers
  • Dawn Of Life: Exploring the events of life beginning on Earth, maybe even what caused it. Examples include Doctor Who (Scaroth kick-started life by his ship exploding), Spore (the game starts with a comet crashing and bringing the cell into the world)
  • Cool Liquid Metal: When liquid metal shows up, usually because of the Rule of Cool and doesn't always behave as it physically should(like taking a semi-solid form or being a metal that melts at much hotter conditions in room temperature). Includes the Meltan line, the T-1000
  • Our Matter Is Unorthodox: Unorthodox forms and states of matter and particles, like strange matter, muon particles, neutronium and such(or made up alien matter), which can have a lot of weird and interesting results in fiction. Super-Trope of Antimatter and Our Dark Matter Is Mysterious. Examples include neutronium in Mass Effect, Futurama (Yivo is made out of electromatter, which can't be harmed by regular matter)
  • Our Celestials Are Different: Cosmic beings of vast power, and entities from a higher plane of existence are typically referred to as celestials. Examples include The Celestials (Precursors who are giant god-like aliens in many ways Above the Gods)
  • Neutral Hater: A character who has a dislike of those who are neutral, don't want to pick a side or don't have a strong opinion. One of the possible reasons for a Neutrality Backlash (when a neutral is the target, instead of people targeting the neutral). Eg: South Park (Stan is ostracized for not choosing between two terrible mascots), Jreg the Anti-Centrist (despises the political center), Zapp Brannigan (regards the Neutral Planet as no different from Always Chaotic Evil)
  • Temporal Do-Over Fight: Time travel is used to win a fight by attacking the opponent at a more vulnerable point. Examples include Samurai Jack, Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), the ending of the Android Saga (in a way)
  • Layered, Visceral Reconstruction: A character is shown resurrecting/reconstructed with their body growing back from a face, typically starting with a skeleton/nervous tissue. For example Dr Manhattan's gradual reconstruction of his body, Frank Cotton, Ego, the Lich becoming Sweet P, it's also featured in the title card of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
  • Trope ideas(feel free to adopt): Chocolate Is Dog Poison (chocolate being point out or shown as poisonous to dogs, usually as a gag), Talking Toilets (Animate Inanimate Object through toilets that can talk and show sentience, usually for some quite literal Toilet Humor or Black Comedy at their existence and expense), Roma Invicta (Alternate History with the premise Rome didn't fall, or at least lasted much longer than it did IOTL), The Tesseract (this theoretical 4-dimensional object (or hypercube if you will) shows up as a sort of macguffin or important object), First Family (the family, First Lady and such of the president), Post Myth Heel Turn (a hero or villain in myth and legends is revealed to have changed their moral allegiance by the "present"), Heel Fanfic Turn (fanfiction that deals with a canonically evil character going through a redemption, or a canonically good character becoming a bad guy, either through a continuation or Alternate Universe Fic), Alternate History Longevity Shift (Alternate History where the main change is someone living longer or less than they did IOTL), Who Sunk Atlantis (if Atlantis is real in the setting, it's often discussed/brought up how it sunk and/or who sunk it), Satan Is Neutral (The Devil or the prime opposing force of God isn't good or evil, usually just a Wild Card), Temporal No Go Zone (in settings with time travel, there are places that are either impossible/very difficult to go to, or are barred/limited entry by the powers that be or the time police), Reaper Complex (a sub-trope of A God Am I where someone thinks they are an agent of death as a force), Endling On Endling Conflict (drama where two characters that are the Last of His Kind are enemies)

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