Anyone have a pic of Spike with arrows sticking out of him, looking sad, tied to a chair?
Eh, I'll go look.
EDIT:
This is Spike looking Ineffectual and vaguely Villainous but unfortunately not Sympathetic.
EDIT 2: Gah, crappy fanart of what I actually was looking for.
edited 15th Nov '10 10:25:59 PM by mmysqueeant
How about the "Professor Chaos" version of Butters?
edited 16th Nov '10 3:42:12 PM by neoYTPism
Ineffectual Villain? Check.
Sympathetic? Doesn't come through so well in the pic I linked. VERY difficult to get both sympathetic and villain clearly across in an image though. I think the idea might need to be scrapped.
You're implying that Satan wouldn't be recognizable as a villain? Come on, he's the embodiment of evil in at least the most common religion in the western world. If you can find an image of him that is both ineffectual and pitiable, that would be quite sufficient.
The villain part shouldn't even need clarification.
Try enclosing the word in equal signs on each side, then enclosing THAT in square brackets.
It's not that big a deal, but it's best to get into the habit of avoiding accidental linking; if your word happens to lead to a trope then it might throw people off.
EDIT: As for what's actually on topic, I was referring to the "to get both sympathetic and villain" part; Satan's clearly the latter.
edited 17th Nov '10 1:09:00 PM by neoYTPism
Doesn't show them as sympathetic, nor does it even show them as ineffectual (Beyond being hurt).
edited 5th Jan '11 9:17:17 PM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
It's just a picture of a guy that does not show that he is a villain, ineffectual, or deserving of sympathy. This will probably need to be a two-part pic.
edited 15th Nov '10 10:11:34 PM by SonicGTR