#Villain Aesthetic

[neon-glowing-rainbow-stims]

🧪 ~ Galaxy Formation ~ 🧪 (luminescent_chemist)

(Credit this post if you use!) (ko-fi)

[sleepinginthelibrary]

Victor Vale.

[nicheguides]

What to Keep in your Vintage Car’s Glove Box

Lucky for you, a lot of these came with the car when you bought it from that russian lady in the fur coat!

[thecabinsixwitch]

how to train your dragon aesthetics: 8/?

Dagur the Deranged

🏹 🔪 🩸 😆

“Run if you want! But Dagur the Deranged will not retreat!”

[lightsabergirl]

so the other post did well enough for me so as promised here are my favorite pics where I think Mr.J looks really cool (honestly I love calling him Mr.J, it matches with the suit, like a business man tee hee)

you see those curls? delicious. I just wanna comb back his hair, fix his suit and tie for him, and give him some cologne as a gift 💚💜💚

[langdonss]

American Horror Story - Delicate

[jaycrakhead]

Villain Greyche

Following Vampire Greyche, here's Villain Greyche

Next up is Demon Greyche (I'm re-doing in high effort my old low effort au designs)

[vampyr-tea]

Kissing a villain mid-monologue to fuck up their entire thought process

[iolite-moodboards]

blackfire moodboard

[darkne1t]

mirror | дзеркало

[cjoatprehn]

My Villain Aesthetic via Pinterest (These are fun to do) | feat. @BassRebels & @CapCutofficial

@a-captions-blog

@bassrebelsmusic

[honestscribe]

Cobra Commander Image Dump

Just some random images I’ve collected on Pinterest. Most of them are official artworks to the best of my knowledge. If you see your work, please tag so I know who the talent is!

[mask131]

Why the Time Bandits remake makes me feel an angry despair (2)

I will, to relieve my burning soul, do a brief breakdown of the trailer and point out the exact problems I have with this remake. Let us begin with the handling of the main villain. "Pure Evil" (which is the name they chose in the remake for Evil / The Evil Genius - and I do regret they did not kept the Evil Genius naming because it was such a clever pun, as he was indeed a carcature of the mad scientist while also being a "genius" in the Latin sense of the term, an embodiment, a personification of the concept of evil, the spirit of evil).

Sigh... And they turned him into your random Devil-stand-in, living in an offbrand Hell and who is just adorned with jeweled bones. Even his minions have just the "classical demons" look.

How much of a poor, broken imagination is that? Who had the idea of taking the clever design of the original villains and turn it into just "random Christian hell"?

Yes the original movie had a God and Devil in it... But the marvel of the original was that God and the Devil were areligious, or non-religious if you prefer. No religious imagery whatsoever, the characters are referred to as "The Supreme Being" and "The Evil Genius". Why? Because Time Bandits never was about religion!

Time Bandits is literaly about imagination and the opening of the mind to the wonders of the world, versus the down-to-earth, mindless materialism that leads to things such as all-consuming technology and the destruction of the environment. LITERALY. This is why The Evil Genus, his lair, and his minions look like this:

Young Kevin lives in a world of consumerism. He is surrounded by parents who only care about buying new cooking items and fashionable machinery - only for all of it to be faulty or not working, and constantly needing buying or repair. By following the Bandits into the world of history that he uses, in his own life, as a form of escapism from the dumbness and idiocy of his parents' universe, he is escaping these dreadful and broken modern times by returning to the "old times" before all of this - Ancient Greece, the Middle-Ages, the Napoleonian Times... Only to be LITERALY hunted down by the embodiment of everything evil with consumerism and of technology gone wrong.

The Evil Genius IS a mad scientist and insane inventor whose magic relies on creepy machines and strange technologies. His own supernatural powers manifest in such a way that he looks like an occult robot or an esoteric automaton. He doesn't just shoot lightning out of his fingers - they literaly open up to throw tiny missiles. The dialogue and worldbuilding makes it VERY clear: one of the reasons the Evil Genius despises the Supreme Being is because during the early days of Creation he focused on things like butterflies and slugs, while the Evil Genius would have started with "lasers and digital clocks". The department the Time Bandits came from was literaly the one in charge of trees, shrubs and the like. God is nature, the Devil here is an insane, lifeless technology and mindless science which very obviously is a sterile environment in ALL the senses of the word (The Evil Genius is stuck in a barren wasteland, he keeps destroying everything around him without re-creating anything, and when he finally talks of his grand plans for the world it is just... switching things around. Turning seas into desert, and mountains into rivers, etc, etc, and just swapping everything, showing how sterile of an imagination he has).

In fact, the entire reason he wants the map is to gain knowledge of modern technology, because he is convinced that with the knowledge of things such as computers and micro-chips he will take over the world. Which was already hilarious back then, the way he spoke about the cutting-edge technology as somehow being more important than stuff like how the suns and galaxies work ; and is even more hilarious today because of how precisely outdated it all is today.

Speaking of outdated things, this is literaly part of the charm of this movie, which DOES age better precisely because of its "old-timey" feeling. I mean, consider again the design and the character of the Evil Genius:

Only a few words to say: "Vintage/retro H. R. Giger". How cool is this? The Evil Genius design was literaly parodying AND paying homage to the Giger way of mixing organism and technology in a creepy way, and this paid of MARVELOUSLY during the final battle, as the Evil Genius unleashed all the horror of his technology body:

The Evil Genius design and concept is one of the ultimate takes on the "technological evil in a fantasy world" concept. (And the following movie in the "Imagination trilogy", Brazil, LITERALY depicts a world where the Evil Genius won). But now, in the remake we have...

Random skull demon guy? Cheap Sauron? Generic fantasy evil overlord? Come on!

This also makes me worry about something... Is the remake going to remove all traces of ambiguity?

One of the powers of the original movie was that it relied on the ambiguity on whether all of this was real or not precisely by using the imagery of the Evil Genius' domain as paralleling Kevin's home-life.

Why are the minions of the Evil Genius all wrapped in plastic? Because Kevin's parents wrap all their furniture in plastic.

And the ambiguity literaly EXPLODED in the final scene where the Evil Genius and Kevin are face to face, because we literaly see that the Fortress of Ultimate Evil has GIANT STONE LEGOS in it, foreshadowing that Kevin will wake up in his Lego-filled room.

How are they going to explain that in the remake, with Pure Evil's minions being classical demons and his domain being a sort of gigantic volcano? Is Kevin going to check out medieval hellish imagery? Are his parents going to be fervent Christians? I... I literaly don't know.

[I know that the ambiguity is dissolved in the very end and it is all real anyway, but that was still part of the marvelous process of the movie. You start out "Oh it is all real fantasy okay", but then as you go along you pick up the clues and you go "Oh wait, it IS in his mind, that's his mindscape, okay" only for the last minutes to seemingly confirm it is all a dream... before showing you it was not! And so you go "Wait, it was REAL? WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS?". The movie has you start out accepting in a normal way that it is all real, but by the end, when it tells you the exact same thing, you are completely baffled by the revelation.]

You have this clever take on what a villain in a kid's own fantasy/imagination might be, the embodiment of everything that opposes and crushes Kevin's own imagination (technology, consumerism, his own parents - it is no wonder the Evil Genius disguises himself as Kevin's parents mixed with their favorite TV show precisely to trick the Bandits into giving him the map). This DOES reflect how this great fantasy adventure is ABOUT Kevin first and foremost.

Versus... Random God vs Devil Christian battle I guess?

[froginamoodboard]

Cassie Howard femme fatale rage moodboard

Requested by: @aldersonsdokis

x x x x x x x x x

[outlawssweetheart]

i hope the bad guys win. i hope the good guys get their skulls bashed in.

The Mountain Goats & Kaki King, Mosquito Repellent