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Black Fog due to generic villainy.

Black Fog, even though I like unusual C Ms.

Yeah, I'm not feeling Black Fog either even though he sounds like an asshole.

I'm gonna pack up for a business trip in a bit, so now's the right time for me to get the second Roots villain out of the way. As a heads up, the villain in question might be a bit more complicated than Frederick so I appreciate any input you have for the following baddie. Without further ado...

Who is Tom Lea, anyway?

Tom Lea is the Big Bad in Episode 2 and Episode 3. A Nouveau Riche Irish American living in North Carolina, Tom made a fortune in cockfighting (which even back then was considered as a morally ambiguous way to earn money). Despite running into gambling debt, he nonetheless establishes himself as a man who will do anything to become wealthy and respected by fellow Southern plantation owners.

What does he do?

Tom probably owns the world record time for crossing the Moral Event Horizon, and he only gets worse as the story progresses, so buckle up.

After the Wallers sell Kizzy to Tom in Episode 2, Kizzy is sent to his farm. There, Tom makes his first appearance by brutalizing her. As Kizzy tries to escape, Tom horrifically rapes her as he screams "THIS IS MY RIGHT!!!" within hearing distance of his wife. This terrifying scene leads to Kizzy giving birth to Chicken George, the main protagonist of Episodes 3 and 4.

After a timeskip, it becomes clear that Tom uses Kizzy as his Sex Slave to repeatedly rape given his wife is infertile. Tom emotionally abuses his wife and Kizzy has to teach his wife how to read in secret, implying Tom wants her to remain illiterate. After Chicken George is caught browsing through cockerel cages, Tom forces Kizzy to let her son George join his cockfighting under the threat of sending him to hostile Cherokee tribes. Having his biological son with him, Tom begins to manipulate Chicken George into liking the practice of cockfighting, leading to him being scratched and bruised from hostile cockerels. He also lies to him about his father disappearing after a one night stand and, when it becomes clear that George has fallen for Matilda, he manipulates his son to marry him for the sole purpose of breeding and with the condition that one of their children must be named after his master, a condition George's mother is deeply ashamed of (identity is a BIG element in this series).

During an Easter party with other rich Southern folk, Tom is brought to a table with his rivals Master Byrd and Master Jewett. In addition to seeing through Tom's Faux Affably Evil personality, Master Byrd harbors anti-Irish bias. When Byrd claims that Tom's soul is dirt and that he prefers blacks over him, Tom threatens to kill him and later gets into a prolonged (and violent) pistol/sword duel. Despite Byrd yielding after being gravely wounded, Tom prepared to kill him anyway before George intervened (standing down only because it's proper duel etiquette rather than mercy or remorse). When Tom recovers, he's deeper in debt due to reckless spending on gambling and alcohol. He seemingly considers a deal from Marcellus (a freeman) to buy Kizzy her freedom, only to turn a 180 by brutalizing, abusing and raping Kizzy, all the while callously reminding her that any kids George has will be his grandkids too. This scene Kizzy forces to refuse freedom and say goodbye to Marcellus.

Tom's paranoia and abuse grows even stronger come Nat Turner's Rebellion. Revved up by Southern rumors of the wanton destruction brought by Nat Turner, he refuses to save a mortally wounded Mingo, Tom's long-time cockfighting slave (and George's mentor), and pulls a gun on his own biological son. A few years after the rebellion, Master Lea and George are still in business, if more at odds than ever. They travel to a cockfight in North Carolina, where Lea's old dueling rival Jewett and his English relatives coax him to wager $10,000 on a fight. This battle will either cost Lea his farm or finally move him into the upper class. George demands that Lea guarantee his freedom if they win. Their bird wins, but Lea's compulsive gambling leads him to make a $20,000 wager instead. When their bird gets killed, Lea blames the loss on George and reneges on his promise to set Chicken George free. Instead, Tom sells his own biological son to Jewett's cousins in England to pay off his debt.

Just before George is taken away, Tom mentions that he would make George's wife and children free after George returns from England. This is another lie, as its revealed that he sold them to Murray's plantation when George returns (and three of George's children were sold again and are never seen again). For all of Tom's efforts to game the system, he ends up divorced, penniless, and addicted to alcohol… a fate well deserved in my book.

Any Freudian Excuse, redeeming qualities or other mitigating factors?

Tom's Freudian Excuse is that his Irish background puts him at a significant disadvantage in gaining the respect of other wealthy Southerners such as Master Byrd and Master Jewett. As the Internalized Categorism entry in its page describes:

"A point the remake stresses is just how stratified society was in antebellum America: the rich white plantation owners are - generally - fairly civil to their slaves, treating them like horses at worst or sometimes even like pets. Slaves are a major investment of money, so the actual plantation owners don't physically harm them at mere whim. The ones who seem to vehemently hate African slaves are the poor whites, who serve as overseers and slave-catchers, and outright sadistically enjoy mistreating and torturing slaves. Many of these low-ranking overseers are poor Irish immigrants considered barely a step above slaves themselves, and thus have a pathological need to demonstrate that they are superior to the black slaves."

However, as we see in Episode 4, George's English owners and Frederick Murray's father prove that owners can have commanding positions in society and be fairly decent toward their slaves. Moreover, it is established in Episode 3 that Tom has a serious problem of keeping his money due to his addiction with gambling and alcohol, which heavily implies (if not outright states) that Tom is likely not able to own up to his own short-comings.

More damning is his obsessed with power and obedience. When Chicken George comes back to the farm, one of Tom’s last lines is "Who will obey me?" With that simple line, it illustrates that nothing mattered more to Tom than dominance over others. He knew precisely what he wanted to do to others, even if it means emotionally abusing his wife, raping a slave, or tearing his biological son's family on a whim. His Irish background excuse might not be valid enough to justify his actions. The fact that he has no redeeming qualities to speak of doesn't help his case either.

How does he hold up to the standards of the setting?

As I mentioned in Frederick's effortpost, the 2016 remake of Roots is even darker than the original miniseries. It holds no punches to the brutality of slavery nor does it create Out, Damned Spot! moments to sugarcoat and tone down the bigotry and hypocrisy that fueled pre-Civil War American society.

In comparison to the Wallers (who at least loved their own family members) or Mr. and Mrs. Murray (who, Frederick not withstanding, actually treat their slaves decently), Tom is a man who will lie, manipulate, abuse, rape, and kill his way to success. Driven by nothing more than greed, Tom is a psychopath willing to destroy lives to improve his own standing. His wife was disgusted with him raping Kizzy, and it becomes clear that even other Southerners do not respect Tom even if he didn't have an Irish background.

edited 21st Jul '16 10:24:50 PM by sanfranman91

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Also is call of duty gonna get its own monster page soon? I mean they have enough for it to have its own page.

Tom.

Tom.

Tom sounds pretty bad, but how does he compare with Frederick?

@Mediawatcher: Strange. I remember there being a Call of Duty subpage before. The series currently has five CMs in it so it definitely has enough for a subpage.

Tom Lea.

Call of Duty has enough, sure, but they're from 2 entirely different series. I have a list of ones that will probably get their own subpage before long (Daredevil, Teen Wolf, DC Universe Animated Original Movies).

edited 22nd Jul '16 1:15:55 AM by ACW

Modern warfare has three monster, and black ops has 2 monsters, huh, different series sure, but they are still technically the same game series

edited 22nd Jul '16 2:40:42 AM by Mediawatcher

Leaning to Tom, though the Internalized Categorism bit gives me slight pause (as, to a lesser extend, the bit about "proper duel etiquette." Would a CM really care about that?).

I thought we decided that five CM entries wasn't enough to make a page anymore.

I'm going to shut up now

edited 22nd Jul '16 7:10:34 AM by Mediawatcher

Now, see, THAT I disagree with; if for no other reason than I don't feel like going through all 80+ subpages and merging the ones with 5 to the main pages (for starters, I know there's Dragon Age, Mega Man, Shin Megami Tensei, Dance In The Vampire Bund, Pretty Cure, Rurouni Kenshin, When They Cry; that's just from VG and AniManga).
Actually, I just checked; the only other with 5 is Jack Reacher. Plus we got Super Robot Wars and Dresden hanging around for now. Plus several were created when there were 5. So, yeah, I'm fine with not mandating mandating new pages at 5, but I'm opposed to making the minimum more than 5.
If you're referring to Frieza, the Super continuity is different than regular DBZ (I think?).

edited 22nd Jul '16 6:54:26 AM by ACW

Kindly and please stop trying to speak with authority on things you don't know about.

Was I speaking with authority? No. Hence the (I think?) at the end.

And? It's still misinformation and this is, again, a recurring problem that's been mentioned time and again. No, Super is not a different continuity or anything of the sort.

That seems more like a passive-aggressive response when you keep doing the same exact things people bring up (constantly trying to state answers to things from media you don't know). Typing 'Dragonball Super' into Google would fix that.

Passive-aggressive...I dunno, maybe subconsciously? It's not deliberate (at least, I don't think it is).
"Retelling" would probably be the better thing than different continuity.

edited 22nd Jul '16 7:53:52 AM by ACW

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• The Second Cobra Commander, real name Krake, is the egomanical psychopath who took over the terrorist organization Cobra after the previous leader's death. Growing up in a war-torn country, Krake became a dangerous soldier by his teen years, and ruthlessly killed anyone who threatened his livelihood, from innocent slaves who worked too slowly, to his own partners when he suspected one of them might be a mole. Joining up with Cobra, Krake became one of its top enforcers, murdering dozens of innocents and trying to slaughter an entire village of people throughout his missions. Eventually taking over the organization as the new Commander, Krake's first order is to lead to an onslaught on the entire country of Nanzhao, massacring hundreds of innocents, nuking its major cities, and turning it into a radioactive wasteland. Showing no loyalty or care for anyone but himself, Krake regularly attempts mass murder and bombings, from shooting up airports and bombing entire cities, to trying to drop an entire plane onto the city of Paris to kill one person. With slave camps worldwide, Krake has adults and children alike forced to work under threat of death, and, in some cases, sends the children to training camps where they are brainwashed into becoming sociopathic fanatics of Cobra's cause. A homicidal megalomaniac who killed any and all threats or annoyances to himself on a whim, Krake is one of the most wicked Cobra Commanders throughout the G.I. Joe franchise.
• Chimera is a former Green Beret who got rich from manipulating stocks, but when his crimes were discovered and his money taken from him, he murdered his entire family before going on the run. Undergoing facial reconstruction surgery, Chimera bombs the clinic where he had his operation to kill anyone who saw his face, and later murders numerous police officers who try to arrest him. Taking over a gang of thugs after executing their current leader, Chimera kidnaps a governor's daughter, claiming his plans to use her for ransom to his gang, before sadistically murdering her in front of her father to show his true goal isn't money, but destruction. Chimera reveals he has set two timers, one of which will release a toxin that will kill millions of people worldwide, the other which will leak stock market strategies and money laundering secrets to corrupt individuals, and will lead to economic failure within a few years. Though killed while trying to murder numerous Joes, Chimera's money laundering secrets are still leaked online. Demented and sadistic, Chimera may have been one of the earlier major villains the Joes faced, but he was easily one of the worst.
• Skull Buster is the recruit trainer for Cobra, and a sadistic brute to boot. To train potential recruits, Skull Buster takes them on long treks through isolated locations such as deserts or jungles, forcing them to start out naked and starved. When any of the recruits show weakness, such as decreasing mental health or revulsion at eating raw meat, Skull Buster wastes no time in ruthlessly killing them. Along their travels, Skull Buster has his troops murder any and all people they come across, be they Taliban soldiers or innocent villagers-inclusing children—in order to steal their supplies. Doing this routine weekly on separate groups each time, Skull Buster enjoys his job way too much, and takes sadistic pleasure in any of his trainees' deaths, be they by his hand, their own weakness, or suicide. Though having limited appearances, Skull Buster made his mark as the most wicked low-level villain in the story.
• Future Noir: In this non-canon, alternate universe, Dr. Mindbender is portrayed as far worse than his mainstream counterpart. A sociopathic Mad Scientist, Mindbender performs horrifying experiments on numerous innocents, including children, who are drawn into the cult of Cobra. These experiments leave them as hideous monsters in constant agony that he uses to kill anyone who defies Cobra. With raving fanaticism for his leader, Serpentor, Mindbender plans to spread a toxin countrywide that will turn all it infects into monstrous and mangled beasts in order to leave only the "pureness" of the Cobra cult to exist in the world. Commiting his crimes For Science! and misanthropy, Mindbender stood out as a wicked monster who more than made up for the relatively low quantity his crimes with the sheer monstrosity of said crimes.

edited 29th Jul '16 3:19:26 AM by ACW

ACW, I added several updates to my Bob Wolverton's write-up.

Alright, I saw those. See how it looks now.

Tom and leaning on Black Fog, as little as it matters at this point.

How is Black Fog a ? His worst actions listed are attacking or nearly killing the heroes Pokémon. That is generic villainy at it's finest.

Trying to steal someone's soul and putting them into a coma don't sound like generic Pokemon villainy, that's all.