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Is there ever such thing as a good one dimensional villain?
- Thread starter DragonSJG
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Camp pantomime villains give me life.
The Daleks at their best are 2-D. I find them more terrifying when their simplistic motivation is 'anything that isn't us is impure and must die'.
Whenever they have some dumb plot to take over the Earth it seems silly.
The Daleks at their best are 2-D. I find them more terrifying when their simplistic motivation is 'anything that isn't us is impure and must die'.
Whenever they have some dumb plot to take over the Earth it seems silly.
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Skynet (T1, T2), Vader/Emperor (Original Trilogy), Sauron/Morgoth are all good. I like the "ominous powerful evil" as the villian.
Anton Chigurh is damn near perfect as something that is closer to an evil force than a character.
"One Dimensional" villains are my favorite kind of villains (Sauron, Palapatine, etc.) or at least the only kind of antagonist I take seriously. I don't believe "complexity" to be an inherent indicator of quality and I don't want to sympathize or "relate" to a villain, it kills the concept for me.
Literally the first thing that came to mind when reading the thread title was Broly, so good job OP! I love Broly because his design is great and he does exactly what he needs to do - beat the living shit out of everyone and inspire some fear. He's a Terminator (there's another good one!). "It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with...it doesn't feel pity of remorse or fear...and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead." That's absolutely my shit.
I agree he's fantastic, although him and several other people mentioned ITT I feel are not "one dimensional" necessarily because they have complexities even if they do not have complex (or even mentioned) motivations.
Except you see signs of depth and conflict in Vader in Return of the Jedi once you know that he's Luke's father.
The guy was cool until we learn the "love" story.
Villains just need to look cool tbh
In HnK, Jagi may be one of the few "main" villain staying true evil until the end.
This joke works on multiple layers.On the right here, the definition of a good one dimensional villain:
Or maybe it's a bad example because it's a multi-dimensional joke š¤.
Well in Sports stories yeah it works. The big bad team the underdogs have to beat. The opposing team is just strong and nothing really else about them.
Also, is he as one dimensional as we think? He had a strong personal tie to kill Harry. While he did want to do the whole, take over thing, those were his motivations beforehand. During the book series, it was all about coming back to power, slowly taking over the ministry, and figuring out how to kill Harry who he had a tangible bond with. It was nicely developed.
Darth Vader has never been a particularly complex villain, but I wouldn't say he was ever one-dimensional either, even before RotJ. He was a fallen Jedi tempted by power in the first movie, and then Luke's father in the second.
The Emperor has never been portrayed as anything other than being evil for the sake of evil from the very beginning.
Why are so many of these from older media, minus Chigurh? Have we lost the art of the one dimensional, cool design, ham master evil characters?
In the wake of that new Dark Crystal show, I'm surprised nobody has said the Skeksis. They're literally the living embodiment of darkness and evil, draining life from the world for the selfish desire to prolong their own.
