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He reminds me of one of my favorite villains in recent history, which would be Lord Viren from the Dragon Prince. He is the ultimate example of a "human" villain. He is cruel, cunning, and vindictive. But he isn't one dimensional, it is easy to understand his motivations, and even empathize with him on some level. Imagine if Jafar was a proud father of two, who had a good relationship with the Sultan, and the best interests of the people at heart, but still had all of his darker desires, and tendencies mixed in with it. That is Lord Viren.

Downvoting for the dance and the sexuality cringe

Y'know, the only characters he gives any kind of regard are human. He's super fantasy racist so likely non-humans would always be considered beneath him.

Sorry to hear you Identify as your sexuality

0:45 you forgot "I AM the Senate."

Great video essay. But please use a background for your commentary and subtitles next time. Those were basically illegible.

Something else about the end, where the Brigade finally breaks through the pyramid (36:30) - it's timed perfectly with Dan singing the words "dark side", and the visual given is of a rainbow streaming out of a prism. To me, it immediately called the album art of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to mind, which was _also_ explicitly written about the mental health struggles the band faced as artists. It's a really cool shout out on a surface level, and hits even harder knowing the background behind it.

I mean... the speach about Darth Plagus was pretty fucking good too.

this vid might get me to watch the Owl House

Let's add a 3rd Have line to your roster: Long Live The Banks!

I disagree about the palpatine line but imma let you cook

Daaammn, u got moves, I love it

peak

I will not tolerate the Palpatine slander less than a minute into this video, my guy is so gloriously campy in his evil he carries every scene he’s in when he goes even slightly mask off

0:06 SHAMAN KING SHOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Darth Sidious was the goat, controlling it all, everything behind the scenes. The siths greatest member. He conquered the galaxy, killed all but a handful of jedi. Sidious, sidious is pure evil and an equal or greater than darth Vader through pure manipulation.

0:37 There are entire videos, websites, and forums of people doing nothing but glazing Palpy. He's been dubed the G.O.A.T of villains for a reason. 1:00 Did... Did you not watch Star Wars? Vader is after Luke because the Emperor told him too. The Death Star exists because the Emperor wants it too. Hoth is attacked because the Emperor found the Rebel base. Vader's redemption, Luke becoming a Jedi, Obi-Wan and Yoda's deaths are all only possible because of Palpatine, his actions, and the Empire he created.

Something I find incredibly interesting is that there are very few people who can do spells that are things such as going into the mindscape, teleporting, or summoning, and thats kinda shown with how Luz figures out how to do that. By mixing the glyphs you can broaden the types of spells you cast, when you're in a coven, you cannot mix anything and therefore cannot do the types of spells Belos or Luz can, with the exception of Darius because he is so powerful with Abomination magic he can become an abomination and therefore travel within it since its apart of their environment. Also at 3:31 that was probably just an illusion and teleportation spell

What a good show.

subbed for the "furiously bisexual" line

Thank you, you made me appreciate this movie even more than I did before.

Disney canceled this for “Be an Alpha”

Idk why it took me so long to see this. What an incredible video, your eye for these details in the video is such an amazing talent that became polished with your hard work, you left me speechless so many times haha. Your passion does not go unnoticed, this is a masterpiece.

why am i only getting this *now*

"Unholy Basil"

How dare you make me cry all the way in 2024 with this. Thanks for making it! ♥

Not necessarily true there's straight menaces born from a single frame at times.

Belos has to let Luz live. Spoilers below He knows she's the one who eventually teaches him the light glyph in the past. Its genius writing when you realize it

The best is when the Villain is not only right, but is actively protecting the hero but this is not obvious until it is revealed at the end.

The thing I love about this scene is how it manages to, in 45 seconds, make Belos seem utterly terrifying and make Luz seem incredibly resourceful. It is hard to write fights that reinforces both the hero and the villain's strength, because normally, someone wins, and the other combatant just looks dumb or unskilled as a result. For Belos, this fight was about showing off his power and cold, calculating style. He effortlessly tosses Luz around and is in total control of this fight from the moment it begins. It's all Luz can do to react to what he's doing, and even then, you get the sense that he's holding back. By the end, Belos gets what he wants, partially by overwhelming strength, and partially by that cold, surgical precision, using Luz's friends as bargaining chips to force Luz to give up the portal. He's terrifying. However, they didn't make Belos so powerful that it would only take bad writing to bring him down. Luz holds her own, at least in her way. Sure, magically she's super outmatched, but the panic induced dodging is still a pretty impressive display of magical prowess from our hero. The bigger thing though, is that Luz does get some victories, both by chipping Belos' mask via the ice glyph, and by blowing up the portal. This shows the audience that while Belos is overwhelmingly strong, he's not all knowing. Belos does have blind spots, and while he's capable of reacting pretty quickly to surprises, he's also not invincible. Somehow, this scene makes us proud of Luz for growing, shows Belos as an unstoppable monster in terms of conventional warfare, and gives us hope that someday, somehow, he could have a blind spot that the heroes can sneak through. The show makes us feel that Luz is both powerful and helpless. It makes us feel that Belos is both unstoppable and vulnerable. And it does all of this without being the slightest bit contradictory. It's a really, really hard balance to write, and this scene somehow manages it. It's impressive.

ive never seen the owl house, but ive heard good things. i wont lie, i think this video is gonna be the tipping point for me. excellent video, ill check out the show. thanks homie

The lizard league bugged me because ray + knife or some glass and done

2:57 it's actually on the shoulder

Using this to help me write villains for DnD, thank you so much for the help!

Coming back to this scene after later episodes points to who he realy is. Namely with how Lus basically off easy aftet getting in his way.

*IS THAT S A N S*

Ohhhh this is three years old. Ok makes sense that you didn't know about the whole sigils genocide thing, but surprisingly accurate about order and chaos, it just happens that he sees all witches as chaos

I don’t really understand your thoughts on this scene can you break it down for me? *last two minutes* Oh thanks that clears it up!

I WILL ALWAYS TREASURE THIS SHOW TO A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY ❤

I have to say, Emperor Belos was a lot more intimidating and interesting when he had his uniform. It's a shame they let him run around normally later.

Belos is an amazing villain. Later in the series when Lilith is at the Owl house trying to make up a scrying potion to see into the castle, we see after they all give up and leave that the potion actually works and it peeks in on Belos rebuilding the portal with his mask off, before he puts the mask back on and turns towards the direction of the scrying window and says in a very sinister manner "knock knock, human". Whether or not the scrying window actually showed a portal or was just an invisible eye spying on him, he KNEW he was being watched and without even knowing if it was Luz or not, he decided to go straight for the menace and continue playing his part. And I mean, in all fairness, his menace isn't without reason. The man is like 100 years old still in his 60 year old body thanks to consuming those Palismen and he was given the strongest magic on the isles (at the time) by the Collector as part of their deal to set him free. In his fight against Luz at the end of Season 2, he absolutely DOGS the entire cast like it's nothing and almost kills them all in a single sweeping strike before he gets stopped by the Collector thinking it's all just a game. That one moment alone was like "Oh shit, if we had so much trouble with Belos up until now, how strong is THIS guy?" (proceeds to destroy the isles with ease and moves the moon with a wave of his finger) "OH FUCK! HE'S THAT STRONG!"

Bro's emoting on us xD

Belos even when you find out how pathetic he really is, remains terrifying even then as *everything* went *perfectly* to plan until King Released the Collector. Something he'd have NO way of knowing about, as King, a Titan was from a species meant to be extinct and not even the collector knew about King's whereabouts. He's the most terrifying example of someone living in the past, and it shows

This vid got me into owl house. Thanks