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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Not Important doesn't have much personality, but other complete monsters such as Ryan Anderson and Micheal Myers didn't have much personality either, so I'm going with a
for him.
Bah, I feel like this vote will go on for a while. >__<
What about Mars? The vote's still 3
and 2
, although from what I've read, some people are on the fence about him. Is there anyone else who feels like voting? It's the same situation with Not Important/The Crusaduer/The Antagonist/That Guy Who Looks Like That Dude From Metalocalypse. The voting's a close call. I wanna have at least 5, maybe 6
before editing his writeup or 5 or 6
before deciding to scratch him.
Another thing on Mars having it difficult to meet the heinous standard, and something Tyk failed to mention: the movie opens with an entirely seperate hostage situation where Bruce Willis fails to prevent a manic guy from murdering his (own) wife and child. Mars has a valid Freudian Excuse, interacts with others in a way that's incredibly hard to place, and he's barely worse than either the Pater Familicide in the opening and the Syndicate members who kidnap and threaten to kill Willis's family.
edited 4th Jun '15 5:03:13 AM by Morgenthaler
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Something that slipped my mind entirely when I was writing up the heinous standard portion. Damn. >___< Okay, let me go through all the movie's villains real quick.
The man from the beginning, who kills his wife and son before murdering himself.
Dennis, who is a huge Jerkass who bashes Walter Smith in the head with his gun and take his family hostage. From certain police chatter, he also went to juvenile hall many times.
Kevin, who is kinda just there because he went along with his older brother, Dennis. An Anti-Villain. Suffers from a Heel–Face Door-Slam.
Mars, who is Ax-Crazy, kills a cop, Dennis, Kevin, and three corrupt(?) FBI agents after setting the house on fire. Has a huge Freudian Excuse and has a somewhat decent relationship with Jennifer before he slowly slips into his Villainous Breakdown.
The Syndicate, who kidnap Talley's wife and daughter, threatening to kill them if they don't recover Walter's DVD.
Walter Smith, a man who works for the syndicate and encrypted the files they want. Largely an Anti-Villain.
An unknown Bigger Bad, who we only see through phone calls and possibly suffers a Karma Houdini.
The corrupt(?) FBI agents who storm the house after it burns trying to recover the DVD. They don't try to kill Walter's children, but they don't try to save them either. The leader also tries to kill Talley when he gets in his way, only to be "saved" when Mars throws a Molotov cocktail at him, giving Talley time to take out his gun and shoot him.
edited 4th Jun '15 5:29:54 AM by Tyk5919
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Bah, Freudian Excuse notwithstanding, it doesn't seem anyone really stands out in heinousness for there to be ANY CM in the work.
So what personality traits does Michael Myers have besides being a psychopath who kills for the sake of killing?
If fact, you don't even need to look at Michael Myers, for example the killer from the creepypasta 1999 only displays a hatred for humanity and considers them to be 'garbage', but nobody had a problem with him qualifying, nor should they have in my opinion. How is that different than the Hatred guy?
I would agree that he has no personality if he was just making one-liners the whole time and that was it, but he explicitly expresses his hatred for people. There's feeling behind what he does, and that's what makes the difference for me.
edited 4th Jun '15 8:04:10 AM by Camberf
I would suggest Bodhi from Point Break as he's similar to the Joker, but he didn't want to personally handle Tyler's kidnapping and left it to Rosie because it'd be too hard for him, so
.
Since there's enough votes, the write up of Geiger:
Speed 2: Cruise Control: John Gieger, though arguably less bloodthristy, is not much different from Howard Payne. While Payne's bombings are a much more conscious seeker of death at every turn, Gieger takes a more calais approach to human life. Yes, he has his indignation about being fired over the copper poisoning he got from the job itself, but to make his point, he plans out a hostile takeover of the ship's controls and plans to crash it into an oil tanker with innocent crewmen who had nothing to do with the Seabourn Legend. In the matter of the cruise ship's crew, it's guilt by association in Gieger's mind, but that doesn't excuse it or when he continues forward even after innocent passengers are still stranded on board. Not to mention that while everyone is distracted by the disaster itself, he robs the ship's vault of priceless jewels. Earlier, he throws the captain overboard just to get him out of the way. He leaves Alex and Juliano to die when they attempt to jam the propeller of the ship too. In sharp contrast to Payne, while Payne had the civility to not use physical force against Annie (though strapping a bomb to her chest is arguably worse and how he got it on to begin with comes to question), Gieger resorts to nearly pummeling Annie and smacking her around so that he can use her as a hostage as well. His roughness when simply using a gun to force her cooperation was purely unnecessary. In many ways, just like Payne, he did it because it was all a game to him.
If it's a little too long, once again, I'll edit it down. He didn't let the passengers escape because he cared, he did it so it would not complicate his plans, much like when Payne let Sam off to be treated for his wounds.
edited 4th Jun '15 8:02:48 AM by futuremoviewriter
Well, the main character does give some cheesy one liners upon performing executions (which do not move him out of the played seriously qualification as his rampage itself is still treated seriously), two examples would be "Let me introduce myself, I'm a man of hatred" and "This is more than a killing spree, it's a mission". Are one liners like that enough to establish just enough of a personality? If you need more samples of his dialogue, I can get it for you.
jjjMichael actually displays a love of screwing with his victims that's absent from most other slasher villains. He moves his sister's tombstone and puts it in the attic in order to spook his next target. He kills a girl while dressed in her boyfriend's Halloween costume in order to mess with her. Throughout the film Michael plays a cat-and-mouse game with the girls, giving out Hope Spots and then snatching them away. He's got a very clear sadistic streak, and he acts on it for the whole movie (and most of its sequels, honestly).
It also helps that we have Dr. Loomis' testimony as to Michael's mental state. He gives us an elaboration, however brief, on just what is going on inside Michael's head, which also aids qualification.
Well, that's a fair point about the Hope Spot. Personally, I think that the Hatred guy expresses his hatred and disgust enough not to be a GDV, but it looks like this will come down to opinion.
edited 4th Jun '15 9:51:33 AM by Camberf

Add me as a "no". Doesn't sound like there's enough personality going on there.