When The Villain Is Right It Changes Everything

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[00:00:00]Growing up, he was forced by his father to be a garden gnome. His mother failed to love him because he was a bad at kickball. Apparently, his two parents weren't even there to show up at his birth. His life is driven to a cartoonish ex I know it's serious cuz Dufish is actually a sad character, but it's like genuinely how do your parents avoid your own birth gang? How how does that even happen? Who did you come out of, my [ __ ] Wait, no. Heroes are supposed to be right.

[00:00:36]Right. In every adventure cartoon and shownen anime, the protagonists take on heroic traits. They protect the weak, uplift their friends, and save the world. All goals shaped in contrast to those of a villain. Yet, when I look back at the stories that I love, I can't help but be drawn to that villain. In college, I'm reading Beaowolf, an old Norse myth that is a foundation of western storytelling, in which a hero, Beaowolf, kills a villain, Gindle. Yet, despite Beowolf being the hero, I can't help but feel pity for Gindle. He's a monstrous ogrel-like murdering giant compared to a demon.

[00:01:15]>> But he has a mother who mourns him.

[00:01:18]>> Villains are supposed to be evil, terrifying, and wrong. But what happens when villains are more human than that?

[00:01:24]What happens when the heroes falter, stumble, or sin? What happens when the societies that heroes defend are the ones that create villains? What happens when the villain is right?

[00:01:43]What's some villains that y'all got that you guys think were actually corrected their ideology and like you really enjoy? like villains that you would take their side. Like Thanos for a while was my one that was like, "Yo, that [ __ ] he he was lowkey he was lowkey spitted for a little bit.

[00:02:01]Is Ghetto a good example?" I don't know, man. I don't know about Ghetto, bro. I don't know about Ghetto, bro. Actually, Dr. Doom lowkey sensui. Yo, Senui is I think Senui is one of I think he he might be my he's my favorite, but like even objectively speaking, he genuinely might be like the greatest villain written ever. And it's so sad that he's locked behind Yu- Hawk show that's not that popular. Like Yuyu Hakusho needs a remake so bad cuz there's so much good there that's like locked away in an old 1980s anime that was overshadowed by Dragon Ball. the the biggest anime. You came out in the era of the biggest anime of all time. Like, bro, like it's it's it's sad. Zahir. Yeah, Zahir. I'm watching I'm about to finish season three of of Kora right now. Zahir is freaking incredible, bro. Incredible. I don't know about him being right, though. Him being right is crazy. I don't know about him being right, but he was tough. Him being right is insane, though.

[00:03:08]him being right is insane.

[00:03:15]Dr. Dofish, >> Tai Lung, Silo, and even Dr. Dofen Schmmerz are all >> question. So sit back and join me as we explore the world of villains.

[00:03:29]You are being hunted. This villain is chasing you right now. In fact, it's hunting all of us. a slow, terrifying hunt. This is the price of mortality, a price that Puss and Boots cannot accept.

[00:03:44]In doing so, he invites the first villain of this video to prove the hero wrong. In some stories, villains aren't mortal agents of evil, but instead forces of nature in the universe itself, attempting to undo the injustice the hero has created. Forces like death. You know it, you love it. Sometimes it's portrayed as a peaceful shepherd of souls and other times, well, it becomes something out of a slasher film. In Puss and Boots, The Last Wish, Puss faces death, not metaphorically or figuratively or rhetorically, just death himself. In this case, Puss is the character who has sinned. Even though he's a hero, he's indulged in pleasures in each of his nine lives, living recklessly until he realizes he's on his last one. Death decides to end this kitty once and for all. Death is right.

[00:04:36]Puss has taken his lives for granted.

[00:04:39]Death's hunt of Elgato can be seen as an extension of the cycle of life and death. Puss has overstayed. Thus, someone must eliminate him. Yet, I would argue that death is still a villain, not just an antagonist. He's not a completely neutral arbiter.

[00:04:55]>> If he were, wouldn't he have just simply ended Puss's life? Despite the underlying moral justice, death relishes in the fear he causes Puss. Death personified is cackling and playful. He drives Puss into corners, mocks him, brings on anxiety attacks and dread, gaining a sick kind of pleasure in enacting revenge. To me, this is villainous. It's only when Puss learns his lesson that death stops. When Puss accepts his mortality and faces his fear, death stops his attack.

[00:05:25]Disappointed that his prey has ended their game of cat and wolf. Death is averted but to return another day. Death comes for all of us. And in that, he's completely correct. In Beaowolf, when the Nordic warrior kills Grenle, Grenle's mother, and the dragon, are we supposed to bat an eye? The modern idea of a hero and their adventures is so deeply influenced by Beaowolf. And so the modern-day villain must draw from Gindle, right? Gindle, said to be the descendant of Cain, the Bible's first murderer, is clearly supposed to be evil. He attacks a meat hall every night, murdering people in their sleep because he hates the noise of its realry and self.

[00:06:04]>> You look crazy.

[00:06:05]>> And of course, that's terrible. About as monstrous as you can. Oh my goodness.

[00:06:08]But I remember laying in my own college dorm room at night, trying to get some shutye for my exam the next morning when the neighbor next door decides it's finally time to party, blaring music until 4:00 a.m. Is it wrong to want peace? Does Grenle, like death himself, simply want the humans to stop their prideful celebrations? But even when death stoops down to follow more humanlike impulses, his wrath is focused on one person alone. On the other hand, a character like Castlevania's Dracula lets his humanlike impulses drive him to ascend into being a force of nature, >> one that is apocalyptic. Some villains begin with heartbreakingly human intentions. We've all loved before, and in Castlevania, Dracula is no different.

[00:06:53]In this Netflix adaptation, Dracula has a human wife named Lisa, a brilliant woman of science and sass, whom the humans accuse of witchcraft.

[00:07:03]Dracula, >> I haven't seen Castlevania, but everyone says Castlevania is like absolute peak. Absolute peak. I got to watch this.

[00:07:13]>> Had found domestic bliss with Lisa until she was burned at the stake by religious leaders. Dracula took this one action as justification of the evils of all mankind. What was seated in love grew into loss and exploded into something sick and massive. Dracula's plan to destroy all humans with a plague of hellish retribution. He unleashed armies and armies of monsters across the land.

[00:07:40]"If humans could hurt and unjustly punish someone as pure as Lisa, should they be allowed to thrive, any one of them could have stopped it," Dracula says. Like the angry god of the Old Testament, Dracula seeks to cleanse the world. But unlike a god, however, Dracula's efforts are haphazard, grotesque, and disorderly. Instead of that biblical flood of ocean, Wakia is drowned in senseless seas of blood. The other vampires fighting alongside him even wish that his attacks are more orderly, more militaristic. But Dracula doesn't care. He falls into a strange depression with nothing left inside of him but human greed.

[00:08:20]>> Now, a lot of y'all in the chat are saying he's right.

[00:08:24]Now, he does have he he he is um justified in getting his get back, but getting his get back on the entire planet is crazy.

[00:08:35]I say getting the get back on like whatever town that like advocated for her to get destroyed, sure. But this [ __ ] said, "F the whole planet is crazy, bro. F the whole planet is crazy." It was justified for that village proudly. Yes. But he went on a valid crash out on the church, but he went too far. Yeah. [ __ ] went way too far, bro. You can say valid to the [ __ ] who hold her specifically, but like, bro, to everybody, my [ __ ] Not everybody did that, bro. And demonic rage. It's wrong to kill an innocent.

[00:09:05]That's something baked into basic morality. And it's right to mourn those we lose. But while a hero may hunt only those who lead them, >> I'm about to lowkey put a shirt on. Give me a second. I'm lowkey cold. Let's keep going.

[00:09:17]>> Hunt against Lisa. A villain takes his moral failure and uses it to wipe out everyone. perpetuating an endless cycle of violence. Coming back to Grenle, there's a part of me that feels even more pity for his mother. While Grenle and his mother are monsters, they only had each other. Exiles on the edge of human civilization. Beneath that villainous expression of violence, these creatures cling to things that we all do.

[00:09:43]>> Community.

[00:09:44]>> I need to see who where's that Gindle guy from?

[00:09:46]>> When Grenle dies, the only one who mourns for him is his mother.

[00:09:49]>> He's from Lord of the Rings out towards the men who killed her son. Is it wrong to mourn those you love? One of the shest ways to create a villain is to revoke that love from them. It's basically a cliche at this point.

[00:10:00]Villains aren't born, they're made. But in Tailong's case, it bears truth. The villain of the first Kung Fu Panda movie is Tailong, a savage martial artist who was once a child prodigy.

[00:10:12]>> Harry Potter. Y'all saying Harry Potter?

[00:10:15]Okay. I've never seen Harry Potter either. That's another classic series.

[00:10:19]I've never seen I never seen Lord of the Rings either as well. Two series.

[00:10:25]He's mentioned that he's the villain from the Bo Wolf book. Oh, okay. Okay.

[00:10:31]Okay. My fault. I missed that one.

[00:10:33]>> Master Shifue. Master Shifue adopted the orphan, raised him, trained him, and loved him as if he was his own child and as if he was destined to become the dragon warrior. Tailong himself was also exceptionally talented at fighting, mastering all thousand scrolls of kung fu. But despite Tailong's talent, Master Uguay saw only ambition and rage in the young warrior.

[00:10:55]>> Master Uguay denied the role of dragon warrior to Tailong. But Chifu, his master, essentially is >> now one thing that I always that that always caused me to be on Tailong's side is the rage that he saw was only there when he was denied the Dragon Warrior.

[00:11:14]you know, like obviously it was harboring if um U was able to see it, but like we don't see Tylung's past, at least in that first movie, it's not like he was he was uh at least from the backstory that we see depicted. It's not like this [ __ ] was a brash, abrasive kid. It was literally like he was trained his entire life. He did what y'all wanted. And because he had un he had like understated rage, Uguay was like, "Nah." They didn't try to like give the [ __ ] therapy to maybe see why he's so angry. He just said, "Nah."

[00:11:57]Never taught him how to control his rage. They trained him his whole life and then threw away his entire life effort. And they never even tried to like help him with his rage. And again, his rage only came out when you denied his entire life's work and you knew it was a problem and you decided just deny him and let him walk instead of like trying to fix the issue. I I'm on Taiong's side 100%. That I will never not be on Tailong side.

[00:12:24]>> Nothing on his >> I'll never not.

[00:12:26]>> And just like that, Tailong his entire life changed. He took this as betrayal and used his martial arts skills to destroy. He would go on to ravage the valley of peace. then be imprisoned for 20 years in a prison built by Uguay that had its construction overseen by the one person who had shown Tailong love. No wonder that when he broke out, he sought out to unleash his rage, hunting the new dragon warrior, a certain panda. I think there's a whole movie about that, actually. He said that it had been Shifu who filled his head with dreams and drove him to train until his bones broke. Shifue had tried to build a hero out of an outsider. But when that title was denied to Tailong, the spark of family was snuffed out when he did nothing to help his son. Tailong had nothing but his father and Kung Fu. So when one of those abandoned him, what did he have left? His father and the community around Kung Fu locked him away. In some ways, the heroes of the world were proving Tailong's spite right. Rather than try to sympathize with him, rehabilitate him, or find a new pathway for him besides being the dragon warrior, he was left to rot.

[00:13:37]Would imprisoning Grenle instead of killing him be any better? Would exiling his mother do any good but further her rage? Maybe when villains like Tailong are right, they expose something cruel in our idols. Fathers, masters, gods, and kings should not go by unquestioned.

[00:13:53]Villains have the courage to show us the cracks in things like love and tradition. They force us to reconsider the forces we claim to be good. But Tailong's violence is still cruel. His pride is still wrong. Like a toddler throwing a tantrum, he seeks attention in the most destructive of ways. For instead of hunting a person or people, why not target a system?

[00:14:17]Imagine a city of light and progress, a whimsical steampunk metropolis. Sounds perfect, right? I mean, >> Arcane was fire. I haven't seen Arcane since 2021, so I'm not even gonna pretend like I could bring up story details right now and like be accurate, but what I I have I've never seen season 2 either. Season 1 was fantastic, though. Jinx is one of my favorite characters. Just forget the part about this being from League of Legends and you'll be fine. But this utopia is built on top an underground of both lawlessness and community, darkness, and the most scarred forms of hope. In the noxious fumes below, children play without care, while topsiders who venture down must wear masks, unaccustomed to the smog they've created themselves. This is the world of Arcane, and it's very easy to see the disparity between Pilttover and its unders city, sometimes called Zong. But few people work to change this injustice when they spot it. Few people are like Silo.

[00:15:18]Growing up in the unders city, Vander and Silo faced the slums like brothers until Vander betrayed Silo for some reason, leaving Silo scarred and vengeful. Silo grew into a ruthless Kembaron who went to dangerous lengths to control others in the unders city and expand his drug empire. And eventually, when Vander was taken out of the equation, Silo took over more formally.

[00:15:41]Later on, Silo even made a deal with Pilttover, arguing for the unders city to be liberated as the free nation of Zh. And surprisingly, they began to listen to Silo. As violence between the two states grew, the disparity could not be denied any longer. The unders city was being discriminated against and overwhelmed by the effects of pollution, drug abuse.

[00:16:02]>> Absurdly, bro.

[00:16:03]>> But the that is that is insane, though.

[00:16:06]Like I feel like any any villain is justified in Arcane. If you're from the underworld, bro, it's like you're literally treated like less than trash.

[00:16:15]They throw trash down to you like it's got you cuda. Like both of those like combined alone, it's like, yeah, you deserve all right to go up there and like whoop, bro. You deserve all right. You deserve all right to go up there and like destroy them [ __ ] bro. Honestly, >> city was its own being by now. it could not continue to be dragged around and manipulated by Pilttover. At the end of the first season, the council of Pilttover gathered to plan this new change. We see that when the villain is right, sometimes change must happen. But as much as Silo pushed for a free nation of Zh and the council almost let it happen, other dominoes were knocked over. A certain blue-haired girl named Jinx, raised by Silo, chose to kill him.

[00:17:01]And then she let her destructive impulses free. unleashing devastation.

[00:17:07]And now Zh's independence is still up in the air until we find out what happens next in season two. Silo represents not just rage at Vander, an individual, but a larger societal anger with a clear injustice in front of him. Why should his people suffer while topsiders live so peacefully? Why must society damn those below? But in the end, it's another form of betrayal that comes and ends him. In Beaolf, the Nordic tradition is about strength. In King Rothgar's goodness is measured by his capability to conquer.

[00:17:38]>> They killed cows. They killed horses.

[00:17:41]They killed each other.

[00:17:44]>> When Grenle attacks Frothgar's meatall, is he not just a reflection of the society's violence?

[00:17:51]>> I began to be moreused and frightened by them. I think it's the role of the villain to force change in a society and to hold a mirror to the madness that is often overlooked. But what happens when a society traps a villain in this madness and laughs? Dr. Hines doof and Schmmerz is comically, aggressively, and kind of paradoxically evil and pathetic.

[00:18:16]>> Shout out my goofs, bro.

[00:18:18]>> Crazy weapons, fighting a secret agent every day, and he even has his own jingle. Dr. Dou's backstory is also filled to the brim with some of the most tragic and comically tragic moments.

[00:18:29]Growing up, he was forced by his father to be a garden gnome. His mother failed to love him because he was bad at kickball. Apparently, his two parents weren't even there to show up at his birth. His life is driven to a cartoonish ex I know it's serious cuz Dufish is actually a sad character, but it's like genuinely how do your parents avoid your own birth gang? How How does that even happen? Who did you come out of, my [ __ ] Dream because, well, he's a cartoon.

[00:19:02]>> Venice and Furb, his everyday life becomes a kind of loop. Something in his everyday life inconveniences him, such as being insecure about a squeaky voice or wanting to give his teenage daughter a nice birthday surprise.

[00:19:13]>> He a great he a great father though. He a great You can never take that away from him. He a great father.

[00:19:18]>> Do we ever see Doofish? do finish uh not wife but like whoever he cracked to make Vanessa. Bro, do we ever see Muk's? We ever see Maduk's bro cuz Vanessa came back.

[00:19:32]She came out T.

[00:19:36]We do. I got to see what it is, bro. Cuz Vanessa came out over the top.

[00:19:40]>> I didn't see all that. Hold on.

[00:19:41]>> Perry the platypus stops him and it blows up in his face quite literally. As funny as he is, this loop also seems kind of like Sisphus, the old Greek myth of the guy who had to push the boulder up and up, but only for it to fall over and over. Doof is trapped in the society of inconveniences viral fail videos.

[00:20:04]>> Yeah, my disrespect him in the smallest of ways. He's stuck constantly trying the wrist like that. Hold on. I'm letting him yap. Let me go back. I didn't even mean to let him keep playing. Let me go back. Let me go back.

[00:20:17]Y'all say 16. YO, eviscerate that clip off the map, bro.

[00:20:25]Eviscer It literally evviscer Literally eviscerate that clip off the map, bro. I I ain't never said that, bro. I ain't never said that, gang. I ain't never said I never said that, bro. I never said that, bro. Eviscerate that clip off the map, bro.

[00:20:38]>> Like, >> I never said that.

[00:20:39]>> The old Greek myth of the guy who had to push the boulder up. When I was younger, she was tough, but only for it to fall over and over. Doof is trapped in the society of inconveniences. People who laugh at his viral fail videos online or disrespect him in the smallest of ways.

[00:20:58]He's stuck, constantly trying to improve his life, but finding a new issue in his way. He's just like me for real. and his overzealous crazed ability to create dramatic giant machines to deal with every little problem comes from a very human place. Wanting to be respected, wanting to be happy and wanting to make those he cares about safe and happy. We laugh at him not because he's completely wrong, but the ways he tries to solve his everyday issues are blown so far out of proportion. We get the satisfaction of seeing them bite him back in the butt. But there's kind of a katharsis in seeing that. Maybe because it reminds us of our own lives. Being stuck in a loop episode after episode, problem after problem, knowing that no matter what he tries, he'll try again next time. Is that so evil? Beowolf is a story that was initially passed down by oral tradition. People would memorize the poem they heard, then perform it for the next generation, but then it was documented and written down and turned into countless adaptations. It's inspired the fabric of nearly all Western hero stories. It's even one of the key inspirations for the Lord of the Rings. Over and over the story is told and over and over Grenle is killed through the art form of storytelling like Dofen Schmz. He is doomed to repeat his mistakes. Is that madness or is that just life? What does it look like when a villain tries to control the madness of reality? Fighting to protect stability but doing so through violent, often at times overpowering >> Miguel. Look no further than the one in Spider-Man.

[00:22:32]>> I'm not talking I'm not saying Miguel right though. Miguel is not correct.

[00:22:35]Miguel is not correct. I'm so sorry.

[00:22:37]Miguel is not correct. I don't care what any of y'all say. I remember all those video essays of people saying Miguel was right. Miguel was right. It was literally like me watching YouTubers being like, I agree with I can I say that on Twitch? I said on YouTube. I agree with the mustache man. That is literally what it felt like when that movie came out and I saw video after video after video [ __ ] saying Miguel was actually right. Actually, guys, Miguel was right. [ __ ] no, he's not.

[00:23:05]Bro, don't piss me off, man. Do not piss me off, bro.

[00:23:09]>> Come on, bro.

[00:23:10]>> Technically, you might argue that Miguel O'Hara isn't a villain. He's not evil like Green Goblin or the Spot. He's just an antagonist, one that opposes the protagonist, Miles Morales. And with that, I honestly agree. He inhabits a more gray space of somewhere from antagonist to anti-hero to villain. But at the same time, look at this guy. He's got vampire fangs. What can you literally >> That's a villain right there.

[00:23:36]>> Okay, fine. He's not a clear-cut villain. He's an antagonist with both heroic intentions and some villainous traits. Miguel is a Spider-Man that lost his entire dimension. And in this grief, he becomes paranoid. He's a Spider-Man who doesn't quit. amassing an army of different spider people and pigs and horses and trying to control the great web of the multiverse. He surveys it all, trying to make sure that the canon events happen and that order remains in balance. But in doing so, Miguel allows people to die. Canon events can entail horrific tragedies that must happen in order to maintain the universe's stability. What other choice does he have but to become villainous in order to save everyone? From the perspective of Miles Morales, it's easy to see Miguel as a villain.

[00:24:23]>> Oh, that did I Bro, I just realized I full screen myself. That's so my bad.

[00:24:28]That is so so so my bad. I had to type something for um my drive. That is so my bad. My fault, bro.

[00:24:36]>> Spider-Man who has seemingly given up.

[00:24:38]>> Let me go back. I don't know when it happened, but we'll go back.

[00:24:40]>> People to die. Canon events can entail horrific tragedies that must happen in order to maintain the universe's stability. What other choice does he have but to become villainous in order to save everyone? From the perspective of Miles Morales, it's easy to see Miguel as a villain. He represents a darker Spider-Man who has seemingly given up on saving certain people. And when it's discovered that Miles may be an anomaly, Miguel ruthlessly traps him, trying to prevent him from saving his father from another villain. Is it the hero or the villain who should decide the fate of others? The West was Miguel anti-hero and villain.

[00:25:21]>> I don't know. He seemed like he was like 30s. He seemed like he's in his 30s, bro. If I had to guess, I would assume Miguel's in his 30s.

[00:25:28]>> A blur. Miguel is right to try to save the universe. But is it right to let another Ben die over and over? Is it right to watch Gwen Stacy fall to her doom a 100 times over and do anything?

[00:25:40]At what point does it become too much?

[00:25:43]At what point does he become a true villain? Out of the different depictions of Beaowolf, there's a book by John Gardner that follows Grenle's perspective instead. And based on that book, there's a 1981 animated film called Grenle. Grenle Grenle. They have similarities and differences, but in the end, they give the villain of the story the main perspective, and we as the audience can't help but empathize with him. He's still a murderer. He revels in attacking the men of Frothgar's meh hall. But the simple act of following him rather than Beowolf exposes his loneliness, his curiosity, and his humanity. Would Miles Morales become the villain if we followed Miguel's perspective? Heroes are villains, monsters or humans, right or wrong? In this video, I've asked a lot of questions. Believe me, I wish I had more answers, man. But maybe that's the point of a villain being right. When someone supposedly evil has a point, then we question our own ideas of good. Villains reflect the injustices of society, giving us a lens to view our world and notice the darkness and the light. But through the extreme actions they take on, heroes are dragged into the fray.

[00:26:50]Innocents get hurt. In the game of hero and villain chess, the hero has three moves to respond to the villain's moral check. The first is to deny that the villain was right, to find another way.

[00:27:03]In Spider-Verse, Miles runs from Miguel, zooming on his way to find his father, rejecting the idea that all is lost, that people must die to be Spider-Man.

[00:27:12]Whether this is right or wrong, the villain moves the hero to act and to figure out their own truth. The second is for the hero to accept that they were wrong. Puss and Boots realizes that he needs to value his last life instead of recklessly wishing for the next. And the third and final way is somewhere in between. It is to listen to the villain and to try to teach them to engage in a conversation and show them mercy. This is when the hero believes in both the good and the bad of their world. They try to come to an understanding between the flaws that the villain sees in the world and the goodness the hero knows still remains. In the comment section of the YouTube video on Gindle, Gindle Grenle, there's a comment that says that Peter Stenov, the voice of Grenle, said that this film was a tribute to monsters who, after all, are doing their job, keeping us on our toes. I think this bears truth. Monsters and villains all alike force us to stay vigilant and to reconsider what we know. They keep us on our toes. At the end of the film, after watching this bumbling mama's boy ogre observe humans, of the best ones that keep us on our toes is uh Yuyu Hawk Cho Glaze Senui Tooro for sure I put in that camp 100% >> one last time meeting his doom beowolf has arrived and he manages to pull Grenle's arm off >> Grenle begins to die >> he stumbles outside and we watch him lie there alone calling for his mother >> pain as well yes from Naruto pain as well. Yes, >> there alone. I can't help but feel sad.

[00:28:50]I don't think we should let Grenle devour more folks or evil scientists take over the tri-state area. But they do deserve something. They deserve to at least have someone to give them a chance and to listen to them for it is an awful thing to die alone.

[00:29:10]>> Literally, bro.

[00:29:13]Hey, that was a fire video though. Hey, shout out Sam. I appreciate y'all. Like, comment, subscribe.