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It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Immortan Joe
I need to see the original film again. My only fear is Toecutter might share too much with Johnny, who's the only one of the gang to commit crimes independent of his orders.
And here is an interview with Immortan Joe himself!
....he does consider himself a wronged civil servant for what it's worth (kidding there, it's an interview with Joe's actor, Hugh Keays-Byrne-who incidentally also played Toecutter nearly 40 years who gives the interview in character. It's awesome
edited 22nd May '15 5:14:22 PM by Lightysnake
to Immortan Joe. Not all that familiar with the Mad Max series, but from what you say Lighty, Joe sounds like he sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the other villains.
edited 22nd May '15 5:25:54 PM by Beast
"It's like...a cliff, and if I do it, I'm just gonna...fall." "I think we're already falling."Joe's definitely a keep.
I'm still all for Robotnik qualifying; he's responsible for roboticizing thousands, stripping creatures of their free will, and turning Mobius into a hellish dystopia, Villain Decay or not, which is... out of the norm in kid's shows. The comic version definitely counts, as he's a lot more active about his evil and, unlike Eggman (who, may I add, had a lot more resources than Robotnik by the time of the Super Genesis Wave, by far his worst action), doesn't have any regret over his actions. The only character I might really see getting the ax on the comic list is Stryker, and even then his endgame is genocide. The same thing with Black Doom, in that regard.
edited 22nd May '15 6:04:04 PM by Scraggle
Sat AM Robotnik stays on. His actions were sufficiently heinous and he never showcased any redeeming qualities. Archie Comics Robotnik also qualifies, though he's a strange example of a character whose status as a total villain with zero redeeming features was very much Played for Laughs in the earlier issues and then got played increasingly more straight as Cerebus Syndrome kicked in.
edited 22nd May '15 10:09:58 PM by ANewMan
Legitimately good. This is one of those rare cases where it really is every bid as good as the hype would have you think, if not even better.
EDIT: for perspective, after this movie ended I was practically paralyzed in my seat with my mouth open while I tried to make sense of the brilliance I'd just seen. Last time that happened was the first time I saw Apocalypse Now.
edited 22nd May '15 9:19:47 PM by KyleJacobs
"The Ayatollah of Rock'n'ROLLAH!" Chris Jericho?
Anyway, I was only gonna say "this guy also directed the original film." I didn't even KNOW he directed Babe and Happy Feet.
Anyway, I'll give a
for Joe, assuming that A) the comic is definitely canon and that b) the WIE bit on his character page is BS.
I need to see this movie.
Definite keep for Immortan Joe. Worst Mad Max villain by far, and he doesn't even have Humungus' care for his men.
And yes, this new movie is awesome. It's not often that something manages to combine Feminist Fantasy and Rated M for Manly so brilliantly. They're already talking about a sequel with Furiosa.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"Since I've been playing Dying Light on and off for the past week, I'll give a
to Rais. As stated previously his motivation boils down to the GRE failing to save his brother and him holding them responsible. A scientist who knew him before he went all warlord says he was a frankly horrible person beforehand but that losing his brother pushed him off the deep end, he was initially working for the GRE because they promised to save his brother, and he does say the man he was died along with his brother which is a confession enough that he cared.
- Batman: Earth One:
- Volume One: Mayor Oswald Cobblepot note takes Corrupt Politician to new levels. Cobblepot runs Gotham like his own private Mafia and tried to have Thomas Wayne killed for running against him as Mayor. He represses the courts through fear and intimidation, allows crime to run rampant and utilizes an insane Serial Killer called Birthday Boy by providing him with young, female victims. When a judge fails to stop Harvey and Jessica Dent from investigating him, Cobblepot has the judge's eldest daughter given to Birthday Boy in payment for the assassination of a corrupt officer who has become a liability, promising that should he fail again, the judge's younger daughter will be next. When he finally confronts Batman, Cobblepot tries to slice him to pieces with a sword umbrella, laughing about the corrupt nature of Gotham City and how his only regret was that a mugger got to Thomas Wayne before his plan went off.
- Volume Two: This volume's Big Bad, The Riddler, is a nobody attempting to be somebody. To that end, after Mayor Cobblepot's death, he takes over one fifth of the criminal empire and has aspirations on the other 80 percent. Framing his assassinations as mass killings, the Riddler rigs an elevator with a bomb and gives the inhabitants sixty seconds to answer a riddle, killing all on board (including his target) when time is up. His next target is killed when he bombs an art museum. The third is onboard a public train with families and children aboard. When Batman gets the riddle correct, the Riddler blows up the train anyways and later attempts to blow up the police precinct to tie up loose ends.
- Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey: Bertron, an alien Mad Scientist, was obsessed with creating the so-called "ultimate lifeform." Every day he exposed a newly cloned child to the harsh environment of prehistoric Krypton; when the child died, Bertron would incorporate its memories into the next child, which would be exposed the following day. Bertron continued this process across the course of his lifetime, slaughtering, in his own words, "thousands upon thousands" of children in an effort to achieve the result he wanted. The creature he finally created was, unsurprisingly, completely insane, and sought to destroy everything it encountered, butchering all the life on ancient Krypton, including Bertron himself, before moving onto the rest of the galaxy. Its name was Doomsday, and in it, all of Bertron's malice and Lack of Empathy would live on, devastating all that it encountered.
- The Exorcist III: James Venamun is known as the Gemini Killer due to his carving the Gemini symbol into his victims' hands. A man so evil he became a demon upon execution, Venamun was placed into the dying body of father Damien Karras and while the body recovered, Venamun ended up in an insane asylum. Using his powers to possess comatose or feeble-minded patients, Venamun murders multiple people in hideously ritualistic ways, including a young boy. Venamun plans to kill forever and never cease, using Father Karras's body upon his exit to, as he says, kill the innocent and Karras's friends, all while Karras is forever trapped within the body, Forced to Watch the depravities his own hands commit.
- God of Gamblers Returns: Chau Siu-Chee is an illegal gambler known as the "Devil Of Gamblers". When Mr. Chu decides to put the worlds greatest gambler in charge of managing his "Save The World's Kids" fund, Chau decides to defeat Ko Chun in a gambling competition to prove himself the best and obtain the money. When he and the lawyers show up to tell Ko Chun's pregnant wife of the money and Chau's intents to gamble against Ko Chun, both the wife and lawyers call him out on his rudeness. Chau responds by killing the lawyers before cutting out the wife's stomach and killing her and her unborn baby. Chau later sends his men to kill Ko Chun's new friend when he fails to pay his gambling debts. Chau forces one of his men to gamble with him, and amputates his hands when he loses. When the minion turns on him and tries to warn Ko Chun and his allies, Chau kills the minion and sends his men to kill Ko Chun and his allies, including a young boy.
- Mission Kashmir: In this Bollywood film, Hilal Kohistani is a brutal Islamic terrorist dedicated to carrying out "Mission Kashmir." Brainwashing young boys who have lost people to violence, Kohistani has them carry out terrorist attacks for him to kill the innocent. When one is injured, Kohistani murders him to deceive the authorities with fake plans on the corpse and tells the other young men the victim killed himself for the cause. It is revealed Kohistani's Mission Kashmir is to bomb the holiest Muslim and Hindu sites in Kashmir when they are full of worshippers so as to start a religious war to rip India apart.
- The Power of One (1992 film adaptation): Jaapie Botha, otherwise known as The Judge, was an Afrikaner bully who took an immediate disliking to PK because of his English heritage. Jaapie later tried to sacrifice him and his pet chicken, Mother Courage, to Adolf Hitler; he kills Courage, and he tries to do the same thing to PK after he had humiliated him in front of the other children. Years later, Botha became the sergeant for Colonel Breyton, and he was given the task of investigating PK's multiracial gym. Once there, he severely beats Gideon with a whip, causing him to lose his eye, and he attacks the other boxers. Jaapie later aided Breyton in several attacks, one of which would end up killing PK's Love Interest; they then started a massacre in Alexandra, all in their pursuit of PK and Gideon. Jaapie was found in the middle of savagely beating a boxing promoter, and he still expressed a desire to kill him, even when PK willingly gave himself up.
edited 24th May '15 11:24:31 AM by ACW
