What is favorite character that insists they are evil, but clearly aren't?
What is favorite character that insists they are evil, but clearly aren't?
My favorite is Bog king from Strange Magic - Has a song talking about how evil he is. But all he does is prevent the spread of dangerous mind control magic, and quarantine people under the effects of said magic. Yes he greatly annoys people doing so, but honestly? If I get hit by a love potion, please quarantine me.
Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
He is actually a really good dad throughout the show.
And because he's such a great dad, Vanessa gave him a basket full of recreational self destruct buttons for fathers day.
A thoughtful gift to a mad and self-described evil scientist.
I wish he was less oppressed
I got a platypus controlling me!
Literally Satan.
Among his greatest sins: trying to be a bro and let Adam and Eve know that they were naked in some perv's garden
Edit: come to think of it, it's not entirely accurate, as I don't think Satan ever claims to be evil. But there's a lot of anti-Satan propaganda in the Bible.
TV show Lucifer is a fun watch. The Devil gets tired of running Hell and decides to relocate to LA.
I think you would really enjoy reading paradise lost. OK, maybe you wouldn’t enjoy reading it because it’s written in late 15th century iambic pentameter, and the anachronistic vocabulary makes it a bit of a slog— but it’s an incredible (apocryphal, but what about Satan isn’t?) story about how Lucifer became Satan.
Just make sure to get an annotated copy so you can understand what the hell is going on.
Is it ever stated that the serpent is actually Satan?
Not explicitly. The book of Enoch (non-canon) claims it was Azazel, other sources claim Samael or even Lilith. Now if you want to take a completely secular view it’s important to note that Satan as we think of him now is a Christian concept and doesn’t exist in the Torah or in classical Judaism, but was simply a term meaning “accuser” or “tempter” that wasn’t a person or individual but more of a general concept of sin or temptation that prevented someone from doing the will of god
Satan is referred to as a serpent a couple times in the bible.
I haven't read the Hebrew version, so maybe that telling says it?
Ð notion of Satan as an antagonistic force is not entirely in line wið ð actual þeology.
For example, he's not ð snake. Ðat was a revision introduced in paradise lost, which along wið ð divine comedy are more or less biblical fan cannon.
In actual þeology, ð devil is more or less God's right hand overseeing ð meeting out of afterlife justice. IIRC he's even sought after for council by God or at least perspective for oðer characters speaking wið god.
Job is basically two work colleagues holding a wager as a tool for god to illustrate ð message ðat good deeds must be done for ðeir own sake, and not for ð sense ðat doing ð right þing will lead inherently to a better life.
Satan is literally ðere to remind people ðat ð world being unfair is actually good news, because it means ðat being down on your luck doesn't mean you're a bad person.
Megamind. Dude raised in prison and bullied his whole life, he just want attention from Metroman. Once he got the attention of Roxanne the act basically stopped.
He did more-or-less kill, and then steal the identity of, the museum guy. He's not a paragon of virtue, either.
Yeah, but he isn't evil that he likes to think he is. He kinda mess up the town once in a while while trying to get even with Metroman. Though there's no confirmed kill from him. Titan on the other hand is evil.
LuciGru
Character that insist is evil but clearly isn't: Crowley from Supernatural.
But I think that character that is actually evil but still charming is more interesting, and for that I bring forward Baal from Stargate.
RIP the actor that played Ba’al.
He was a disturbingly good looking man, damn.
Maybe I’m confusing the two, but I always thought Crowley from Supernatural was an evil demon with a streak of humanity. His character arc is a redemption arc as he develops that tiny sliver of humanity
Since my usual suspects are already mentioned, I'll go a little more esoteric - ProZD's "a villain who always does unintentionally helpful things" - https://youtu.be/GPUgjy-Pn-4
Professor Chaos
The Brian, otherwise Pinky wouldn't stay with him.
Well, he never says he's evil but is certainly seen as a villian: Dr. Victor van Doom. He's actually glimpsed all possible timelines of humanity and only the one where he reigns is not ending in destruction. https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4d9668819558c73a8fda43cd4bc0ef0a-lq He is also loved by the people of the country he does rule. And when he had indeed managed to rule the world, it was a time of peace. I mean, mind control peace (he amplified the power of Kilgrave the Purple Man) but still.
If you're asking yourself why Kilgrave didn't simply control him, Doom is one of the few people with so much natural willpower that Kilgrave's powers don't work on him: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/e8/c8/d5e8c8ee71120993b8616128b08a6a22.jpg
Doom does a genocide every other month. There's something to be said for earnestly believing you're the good guy but you can say it about Hitler too.
Maybe I don’t know enough Doom lore but he seems not evil in the same way as Thanos. Sincerely believes that his way is the right way and the ego to try to force it on everyone else.
Or maybe Doom is not evil in the same way as saying Nazis made the trains run on time
Doom in the comics is more like movie Thanos than comic Thanos. Comic Thanos is legitimately mad and killed half the universe just to impress Mistress Death (she was not impressed).
He's basically Stark, Strange and Black Panther rolled into one, with the arrogance of Strange and Stark dialed to eleven.
He's completely capable of doing very evil shit to reach his goals but also has moral principles. He has tried to kill the Fantastic Four countless times and is still the godfather of the daughter of Reed and Sue. Her first word was "Doom".
I Scream from Chikn Nuggit.
Claims to be the epitome of darkness; was exiled from Hell for falling in love with an Angel named Fwench Fwy.
Vegeta
He was pretty evil for a good while, then went back to evil again during ][v][ajin saga for a bit. He did a fair share of evil shit for a good while before he became a bro.
Dr. Cortex is undoubtedly evil; but he MASSIVELY overexaggerates just how much of an evil genius he is. The worst thing he did (other than building a slave army from endangered native creatures) was shoot an emu one time. Most of the other bad things he did were more incompetence than malice
Is he a veteran of the Emu War? Most soldiers are not considered evil for murdering the other side.
No, he just shot an emu in cold blood to advance the plot a bit quicker.
Melkior/Morgoth, they saw that Arda was a deeply flawed creation and attempted to correct it before existence was sung into being.
After the fact their actions are certainly viewed as evil by the world they tried to change but had the rest of the Vala joined his song the world simply would have been different, not worse.
Wasn't he just a proud dude that disagreed with how the song of creation was to be sung - and sung his version anyway? But then it was "all according to plan" anyways?
Pretty much. They were a dick later on, though. I think #melkiordidnothingwrong ended when they stole the silmarils.
Elphaba from Wicked.
I know hating on League is in vogue in some corners of the internet, but I really like Veigar. He claims to be the master of evil but hates that nobody takes him seriously because he's short and he takes umbrage with that. His voice lines are quite fun.
Imho League is an ok game with great lore and a terrible community.
The Warcraft narrator, he says he's an evil man but just wants to disco.
...Wait, I misheard that?
I like the world of warcraft version, too. https://youtu.be/LwqsUSqKzrw
Dr Horrible intended to be evil but never followed through.
If you have ever seen Gabriel Dropout I love the character Satanichia. One of the best anime comedy characters I've seen and yeah she matches this description so well.
Dr. Doofenshmirtz. He is always there for his daughter.
Catra
Inuyasha often said he was evil and played the tough guy so he would be left alone, but he was usually compassionate and had a soft side.
Heinz Doofenschmirtz!!!
Gentle Criminal
Ð poor guy always wanted to be a hero and is basically ð showcase example of how badly a well intentioned mistake can ruin someone's life.
Luckily he got ð protag punch of friendship and goes on to help save ð entire world, but he literally made his initial career being an internet celebrity self declared criminal.
Just stop it
No U.
Hate to break your heart over this, but it ain’t gonna happen. Give up on your dreams of arbitrarily changing orthography with an inconsistent look to the past, and realize that we have “th” in place, which was already taught to English speakers, and is present on every keyboard.
I got two languages on my phone, and I’m not about to install the goddamn Icelandic keyboard so I can triple-tap past Japanese and type some sort of bullshitty shortcut to “th” which were already present on my second keyboard, English.
Y'all are judgy removed for going after phlubba so much. Just stop wasting your energy and move on.
Þank þank
