#villain upgrade

[sunderwight]

Bingqiu AU where Luo Binghe's the chosen village sacrifice to the evil deity who lives up the mountain.

Normally the village sends maidens, but they've more or less run out of expendable girls of the right age and, ahem, "virtues". So of course Luo Binghe's early life bad luck kicks in. In the wake of his mother's death there's no one to really care about what happens to him, he's fairly pretty, and the village leaders decide that if they dress him up like a girl the teenaged homeless kid should pass well enough. And hey, y'know, he's probably got a hard life ahead for him anyway -- dying in a brothel of some venereal disease or on the streets of exposure or starvation. At least as a sacrifice, everyone else gets to benefit from his loss! And the kid will get added to a shrine and be remembered as a hero! If anything, he should be happy about this!

Binghe is not happy about this.

But he's also a skinny underfed nobody who is easily overpowered, dressed up like a bride, and tied to a post. So. Not much he can do but wait for the evil deity to come and do whatever horrible thing he's gonna do to him.

Meanwhile, Shen Yuan is pretty sure he's been isekai'd into the over-powered hero of some kind of supernatural adventure story? He's not totally sure because he doesn't recognize the setting, but the signs are there. He's got a shrine-like base of operations (though it seems to have become corrupted/ruined, probably he has to restore it somehow), he has a very resilient and handsome new body with spiritual energy of some kind flowing through him, and a very clearly magical sword. Plus lots of neat starter powers! Though it feels like he has other abilities that have been blocked somehow? Probably he has to level up in order to access them.

When he treks out of his "base" and finds what seems to be a distressed maiden, he takes it for his beginner hero mission. The girl claims that she's been doomed to be sacrificed to an evil god. That sounds a little above Shen Yuan's pay grade for dealing with, so he unties her and decides that they had better just get out of the whole region altogether. He already packed up anything useful from his base, anticipating he might get caught up in an adventure once he left, so they follow the river away from the settlement until they reach another one.

While they travel, Luo Binghe tells Shen Yuan about the cursed deity, Shen Qingqiu, who was cast out of the heavens for slaughtering one of his brethren and has apparently being do-who-knows what to maidens from the local village in exchange for his "protection" ever since. Sounds like a real asshole! And also mid-level boss type bad guy at least. Shen Yuan hopes he doesn't have to fight him, but he probably will.

Thank goodness he found Binghe, though! Clearly the helpful little sister type! He's definitely going to require her assistance if he's going to figure out how to navigate this world and level up his skills enough to take on a god.

[lodium]

Oryx statues

[thorsonoflesbians]

[thevioletcaptain]

i think my villain origin story will just be a ten minute long screenshot montage of people delivering increasingly bad takes based on surface level readings of meta-and-subtextual juggernaut supernatural

[skitskatdacat63]

Fernando 2012 Chair Lore (source: me)

So I've been thinking a lot about Fernando sitting in this particular chair in the Ferrari garage in 2012 for [redacted] reasons:

Originally I just wanted to find more pictures of it for reference, and then went down a rabbit hole of 2012 pictures, trying to figure out when exactly the chair came to be. There's so many pictures of him in it, and it's so funny to me to imagine them hauling this super villain chair all around the world for him. And so now I'm obsessed with the evolution of it:

Pre-Chair - Australia to Bahrain:

He just had this little stool, well I should say big because it somehow still manages makes him look small. Clearly not comfortable; to paraphrase @sweatyflytrap, it's not conducive to his inner Shakespeare villain monologues

The Chair Appears - Spain

He suddenly now has this, aforementioned, super villain chair. Several things, why is it like this. It looks like a sim chair almost ngl. And then the weird plexiglass support is confusing me, like where did they get that. It furthers my narrative they just had this chair that they couldn't put in a car so they put that clear bottom on it. Anyways yes good, now he has somewhere to brood

The Chair Evolves - Silverstone

Look!! They gave him a booster seat!!!

The Chair is Now Here to Stay :)

I downloaded a truly horrible amount of pics him in this chair, so now you all must also look at them >:)

*he still had the chair in 2013, but I think they took it away from him in 2014 :( Is nothing sacred in this world??? I hope he got to take it home hahaha

[thegreatyin]

giggling kicking my feet blushing madly

[fluentmoviequoter]

This is the best news I’ve seen in years. It’s happening!!!!

[dandylovesturtles]

“Hey!” Donnie stomped his foot on the ramp. “I don’t know what kind of prank this is, but it isn’t funny.”

“This isn’t a prank, Dee,” said Leo, his voice nonchalant. “We took a vote, and you’re out.”

“That isn’t how this works!” Donnie took a step toward them. He could feel his muscles tensing, like he was bracing for impact. “You can’t just throw me out with a vote.”

“Well then, how about this,” Raph said, and Donnie shrank back as he stepped up.

In all his life, Raph had never made him feel so small.

“You’re out, Donnie. Leader’s orders.”

His brothers think they don't need him anymore? Well, fine. He doesn't need them either.

The old Donatello is gone. He'll build a new one. One that will make them regret they ever threw him aside.

Building things is what he's good at, after all.

...

MY FIC FOR THE GRAB A SLICE BANG IS LIVE!! please give it a read and check out the awesome artists I worked with!!!

@shroomlingy and @felsicveins

also shoutout to @kiaxet for beta reading!

[shootingcookielover]

Okay okay okay but like, negaduck and darkwing both have giant egos and r super self-absorbed, right? Strange considering they're meant to be opposites, right?

Except no, bc theyre egos are coming from two vastly different places - Darkwing presents himself as the best, the greatest, because he doesn't believe it. Because his self-esteem is kinda shot. He has little to no integrity when it comes to his image and how he's perceived (shoutout to the episode "Let's Get Respectable"), though he does get over that a little bit after the episode ig

Negaduck, meanwhile, is the opposite of that, of course - his ego stems from his actual beliefs. He does think he's the best, worst villain the world's ever seen. He knows this, it's a core belief. He is, absolutely and unquestionably, public enemy nr 1. So when the public doesn't acknowledge this fact, it makes him upset - bc this isn't something to be disputed. It's just a fact.

I wasnt going anywhere with this btw i just rambled at my qpp for like, two hours straight abt darkwing duck yesterday and i wanted to write down smth from it somewhere lol

[nyaskitten]

Could you imagine if the Summer wave also gives all the Wolf Clan new looks... Cinder with a new outfit... Jordana with a new outfit... Ras with a new outfit...

[lord-squiggletits]

Bolts upright from my bed

In an AU where Pharma lives the Adaptus thing and comes back on the Lost Light, wouldn't he find out that the crew had to deal with being cornered and nearly killed by the DJD and a bunch of other Decepticons?

And then Pharma could get to be like "oh I see :) you were under threat by the DJD :))) why didn't you just run? Oh you couldn't and had no means of escape? Funny :)))) didn't you call for help? Oh you did right??? And did anyone come???? :)))))) did anyone come in time to save you from the DJD????? DID THEY????? DID YOU JUST CALL FOR HELP AND RUN AWAY AND THE DJD JUST LET YOU GO????? :))))))))))) OH THE DJD BLOCKED COMMUNICATIONS AND HAD YOU SURROUNDED????? OH HOW TRAGIC I GUESS YOU COULDN'T ESCAPE AFTER ALL AND A LOT OF YOUR FRIENDS DIED :)))))))))))))))) AND THE ONLY REASON YOU WON WAS BECAUSE YOU HAD A LOT OF SUPERPOWERFUL FIGHTERS ON YOUR SIDE???? WOW IMAGINE WHAT MIGHT'VE HAPPENED IF YOU HAD NO FRIENDS AND BARELY ANY MILITARY SUPPORT AND THE DJD CAME HUH??? WOW WHAT A RELIEF THAT DIDNT HAPPEN"

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In other words, I'm pretty much convinced that the reason Pharma is remembered as "the evil cowardly doctor that murdered innocents to save his own skin" instead of "the Autobot that got mindbroken by Tarn into thinking that making a plague and killing everyone was his only way to escape" is because he got introduced before the DJD were established as a pants-shittingly evil and sadistic group of freaks, and unlike Rodimus' crew he didn't have the luxury of being a main character whose thoughts and experiences were shown on screen. Pretty much his reputation as "crazy token evil Autobot" was sealed from MTMTE #5 and by the time MTMTE #50-something brought Dying of the Light, Pharma was a footnote in the story and never got to have this new information about the terror of the DJD factored into his own character.

[diloph]

Coming to you live, the immediate and dreaded realization that a big red mechanical eye in one franchise is actually the big red mechanical eye from the other one.

HERE WE GO AGAIN, FOLKS!

[jihef03]

With Green Goblin probably showing up in the next Insomniac Games, I really hope they get Norman playing scavenger and using some of the dead villains equipment to make his own gear.

For example he could take Vulture's wings and adapt them into his glider, Max's electric tech to make his goblin lasers or even Shocker's gauntlets to make sonic bombs out of it and so on.

It would fit Norman's character to do so and it'd be a nice callback to the other villains.

[upgradegarage]

puts a small pair of cat ears on one of the murderbots

The murderbot in question looks at you with a deadpan stare.

"Nya."

[generalluxun]

You know who would have made a better 'Next Hawkmoth?'

Tomoé.

She's the hea of an international tech company, a trained combatant, her blindness will make fools underestimate her. She has clear ties to the cult-thing. She has a vested interest in the eugenics olot which outs her at direct odds with both Marinette and Felix.

She's a grown adult with no need for weirdness to explain her freedom of movement and resources. And she has never really 'lost' to Marinette/Ladybug. She's been foiled as an akumatized villain, and as part of Gabe's... Whatever, but we haven't seen her on her own terms.

She's an unknown element even though we know a good deal about her, and she has presence.

It sure beats mean girls 2.0

[shadowsong26x]

And after all this time, I'll wash my hands of your charade and celebrate your fall from grace, preserve that sad look on your face; and praise what God might manifest Himself in beings such as us. For vengeance that, at last, is mine comes sweetly after all this time. [After All This Time]