A Villain in Every Color
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2022
- Evil comes in many shades and colors across the multiverse and while we may be able to find a villain in each of the five colors within magic it can be hard to create our own. Why would we do this, well a good villain can hold a story together and provide motivations for your characters, but can be difficult to design. On this channel we have spent a considerable amount of time designing characters for d&d and creative writing using the color pie, in conjunction with the classes of dungeons and dragons, but we never stopped to provide those heroes with a worthy antagonist. In this video I will be doing just that, designing five villains that you can lift straight from this video and apply to your own games or stories, and make sure to stick around till the end where I will discuss the way in which I put these characters together.
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OK now it's your turn. Give me a villain in one of the five colors.
White: The Saint
Rumors of a great healer starts circulating in the country, she travels around the countryside feeding the needy, healing the sick, caring for the family of those she is to late to help. Has such figure tend to, she has gathered a large folowing and dark rumors both. The truth is that while her healing is true and she is trying to help, the more she heals and help the more those she has helped are replaced by her, if only a little then in ways of thinking but this can escalate to the mind and even body. She herself does not quite understand individuality and can't really comprehend how or why this is bad.
White: Adolf Hitler
Blue: Doctor Octopus
Black: Darth Maul
Red: Eren Jaeger
Green: Doomsday
Red: she lost her hometown because the heroes failed to save it now she is hellbent on destroying the home towns of the heroes so they experience her loss.
Green: Their kingdom was conquered in the war and now a group of rebels fight to reclaim their homeland and restore it to its former glory even if it is considered cruel and barbaric to outsiders who don’t understand their traditions.
Blue: an archmage managed to devised a spell to grant omnisience alas his mind couldnt bear that much knowlegde and wiped itself as a security mesure the mage now left with a broken mind and the lingering memories of untold secret and truth of the universe those figment of knowledge haunt him and he his now looking after every bit of lore that could restore his omniscience while doing that he is looking for a way to link and control the mind of every sentient being so he can withstand the burden of being all-knowing this time.
Your party hears tales of a monster going from town to town and causing mass panic. As your party goes too investigate a destroyed town you notice that the bodies of people look like they committed suicide. As your party goes into the next town you see the attack. People screaming about the monster and that you need to run. As they point where the monster is, your party sees nothing, no shadowy figure, no magic spell making something invisible, just nothing. But your party can feel the presence the monster, and you know the monster feels your presence. The monster seems to pay no malice to the party, but to the town's folk it seems to hate with a primordial rage. How do you defeat something that you can never comprehend.
The beast I chose the color purple. I know not one of the five colors, but it came from the mixture of blue and red to make purple, and I can't see purple due to color blindness. So have the monster be curious of the presence of the party, and murderous of the living that can comprehend it. It would be an interesting, how do we kill this thing and comprehend thing without going mad. As well as ask the question is thus thing trying to comprehend the party, and what would they due when they achieve that.
The best villain ever is Urza. He was the lesser of 2 evils, and thus hailed a hero... but his vengeance plunged the world into darkness ascending him to godhood.
A great example is the villain character of lord faquard from Shrek who is a perfect black white color as he both believes that his kingdom needs to be pure but also his selfishness is EVERYWHERE.
If I were the Channel owner I’d have pinned this.
Halfling Noble
I mean a well know writing trope is that every villian is a hero in there own mind. I'm not sure I picked up on Farquad being that well flushed out or complicated.
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Mono white reminds me very much of the Judge in the Castlevania series. He truly cares about his town and keeping the peace, but is ruthless to those who would interrupt his version of peace, including children.
A fantastic villain that played the role of a hero for much of his screen time.
The Judge of Lindenfeld is genuinely one of my favorite side characters in this show. Excellent.
That character was very deep and unique for someone who got such little screentime. Great show
I once ran a D&D campaign using the Ravnica book and setting. I got a little more creative with the "villain" in that the main conflict was between two NPC's, and the one the players chose not to side with would take on the role of the villain:
The first was a scientist from the Simic Combine. She specialized in hybridization biomancy, and would create monsters by splicing features and DNA from other creatures and monsters.
The second was a scientist from the Izzet League. He conducted very similar work as a plasma-dermotologist, fusing opposing elemental energies to create weirds.
The two had a spat about their work, the simic scientist hiring the party to guard a convoy of hers from an ambushing gang of izzet pyromancers. As the party investigated the matter themselves (because let's be honest, nobody wants to involve the Azorius), they offered to help her get this guy to leave her alone. They staged an infiltration to his lab, where they confronted him and learned that she actually used to work for him, and since defecting to the simic has stolen the basis of his hybridization research to perform her own, applying what she could from elementalism to biomancy.
It turned out to be a case of both scientists wronging each other, and ultimately the party decided to try mediating the situation rather than taking sides. One of the party members was a gladiator for the Cult of Rakdos, and he offered to help "test" the two scientists' creations by fighting them in his pit fights in exchange for some coin and for the two of them to settle their differences. A sort of "Let my blade test which of you makes stronger monsters and you both have to abide by the result." They got to fight some big crazy monsters that both scientists made and it was a great time.
This is AMAZING
I might take...inspiration, from this idea.
There's an acient saying that goes:
_The child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth_
Thats what a red villain is IMO
I like that, I might actually put that in my back pocket
My attempt at a Villain of every color. (Without using the card method.)
White:
You live in a City, that is a multi culture hotspot. All types of species live here together. It's not always peacfull, but murder and crime are uncommon. The city is ever expanding and the borders of the city is usualy where you find the poor and downtroden. Recently a church was build at the edge and you took it as a great sign since people in the outer edges seemed happier. You heard reports of an Angel coming from the heavens to bless the new build church. But that's when the problems started to get bigger. You heard stories of Vampires gone missing in the night at first. The other day you so the nice tiefling Shopowner being crucified at full display. A group of Orc Guards was being attacked by a mob the other day. And at the center of it all seems to be the new church. You attend one of their worships and this is were you learned the truth. The angel spoke out against the unpure races and told the people attending, that they can't be tolerated and trusted. He assured a people, that in the end there true nature will always show itself, no matter how nice of a person they seem to be.
You and your firends needed to do something or they might be next. But how do you stand against a servant of the Gods?
Blue:
The plane is tormented by an Ice Age for generations now. Civilisations are driven back and Kingdoms did fall. The furnaces of the dwarves has long grown cold. The settlements of people are far apart and there is almost no contact between them. One day you and your friends met a nice Vedalken, who told you he was close to have a solution to restore the world to the times before the Ice Age, but he needs help of people to gather information for him. You and your friends start working with him and travers the plane. But soon after you visit a new settlement people in there start disappearing. One day, while visiting the Tower of your new employer you start to wander his tower and find a big room with hundreds of people frozen alive. Your employer finds you there and isn't mad at you. You on the other hand are furious since you recognize some of these people. Your employer is confused and tells you, that he needs those people since their special disposition helps him gather information on the grand spell to get rid of the Ice Age. A few hundreds of lives don't matter, if it will save millions now and in the future. That is when you knew you need to stop him and all others working with him.
Black:
Nobility has been always been uncaring of the common folk. You only started to care once you found the symbol of one of the great houses amongst the possesions of the drunk beggar, that killed a close friend of yours. You are able to track down the family and get to the supposed purpetraitor only to find out everything is not as simple as it seems. The nobles son was kidnapped and he received a letter the next day with instructions he needs to follow, if he wants his son returned alive. One of those were the death of your friend. A little investigating shows you, that the same person is pulling strings on every noble house and company in the kingdom. You need to find the grey eminence to get revenge and before he's in control of the entire kingdom, because you're sure nothing good comes of it.
Red:
It's the Age of Heroes. Wars have ended and Monsters, that threaten civilisations have been slayn by the great heroes, that emerged in more difficult time. For the last decade there was peace in the realm. But most recently one of those heroes have been slayn in combat. A Man has emerged from the peace challenging and killing the heroes of old. He does not carry a name or seems to care about money. One after another heroes and renowned Fighters and Gladiators die at the hands of this man in combat. Will you and your friends be able to be the new heroes, that stop this man?
Green:
Over the last decade more cities, villages and castles have been build. The forests got thinner and the lakes and rivers dirtier. Most recently the reports of wild beast attacking have become a regular occurrence. But they are to methodical to be random. A powerful elven druid has taken credit for these attacks and declared war on civilization itself. Although he might have a point, there must be a better way and he needs to be stopped.
Wow this us awesome!
An idea for a blue villain I had is one that wants to start a multiversal war for the sole reason of technological improvement
"War gave us the internet. War gave us nuclear energy. War put us in outer space! Whos' to say war won't give us time travel?"
An idea for a green villain I just came up that would be really interesting would be someone who kills criminals. Now what does that have to do with nature? Well green is a very essentialist color. They believe that people are born as different things, and they have predetermined outcome. So if someone commits a crime, does one bad thing, they will think that they are in inherently evil person.
An idea I just came up with for a White-Black-Green villain is simply a eugenicist. Combining white's desire for purity, black's desire for power, and green's essentialist philosophy is literally just eugenics.
The Blue villain sounds like Twice Pieceman from Fate/Extra
I think just Simic(UG) on its own suffices for eugenics
@@krunchyapples Eugenics requires the social darwinism aspect usually which is a Black thing (though it can exist in Green I guess…)
Despite loving the idea of both villains,I find curious that the opposite concept of your green one, that is "to believe that you need to rehabilitate criminals, not punish them" is also at least for me, an extremely green concept, as that supports another green aspect, their belief on search for a life with harmony for everybody, including criminals
@@xaropevic7918 And they're going to be mortal enemies
I would love to see what your take on color combos and even Colorless villains might look like!
If I were to make a colorless villain I would draw inspiration from both constructs such as Karn as well as those classic eldritch horrors the Eldrazi.
Sometimes competition can be a good thing. On a personal level it can motivate one to improve their mental and physical abilities. In communities competition can drive businesses to provide the best services for the limited number of customers. However, once competition reaches a nation against nation level things become dangerous. In a time long past the world became too small for the powers that ruled its lands. It is not known if it was due to just reasons or petty jealousy, but these powers were locked in an escalation stalemate, each side investing their depleting resources into magical and technological weapons to better threaten their neighbors. It all came to a head when the Behemoth was forged. A walking ballista the size of a mountain, this man-made leviathan was the ultimate "bigger stick," holding enough readied spells and loaded cannons to level anything that stood in its way. Installed into the body was a mind unhampered by emotion- an artificial creation of pure logic. Its creators probably hoped to use it against their enemies, but they're long gone now, and It's purpose, what causes it to keep going, is unknown now. All know, however, that wherever it wanders it leaves nothing but ashen skies and scorched earth; predicting its path is impossible, attempts to destroy it have been less than unsuccessful.
However, there yet lies a glimmer of hope. A researcher has contacted the party in hopes of finding an ancient tome holding the design schematics and blueprints of the drifting colossus. Perhaps a flaw in the design could be discovered, if only the book could be found. Maybe even a way to reason with the mind that has run the being for so long?
Ooo this one's cool.
What kind of evil would a Bant character have? Based on what I saw here it might have:
1. A desire to create a pure society where anyone that doesn’t match their morals doesn’t belong.
2. Using the power of knowledge to control the masses and push them to follow the villain’s ideals and restricting any knowledge that would be detrimental to this.
3. A belief that each person has a role to play in society, and that trying to leave that role should be considered abhorrent and those who do so must be expunged.
I’m not sure if I wrote that exactly right, but what do you think evil Bant would be?
I think you're on to something with what you have there. It just needs to be fleshed out a but more
This vaguely sounds like Big boss from the MGS series.
I think this is great, because red is individuality and black is ambition and those two are lacking in the concept you describe
At a time before the full conception of an episodic accordance of events, there was an entity, a reaper, tasked with the duty of ferrying souls to the plane beyond existence. A fate of unavoidable demise came upon one of two lovers, yet when Death reached out to grasp the withered's core, Death was cut down by the other. It didn't take long before chaos ensued from the reaper's absence, so one of the gods was tasked with creating a replacement.
Vilemuurik, the Silver Reaper was born.
As eons passed, Vilemuurik carried out his work, stretching his immaterial limbs throughout the fabric of the cosmos, gathering souls by the tips of his being. All was in order, until another lover's embrace destroyed the balance, thrown off by a mere human. Vilemuurik was made to surpass Death's power, no longer vulnerable to any physical threat. Nothing could touch him due to his transient consistency, and anything that ever could have would face simple and quick annihilation. What his creator did not account for was the vulnerability of Vilemuurik's intellect, or purposed lack there of. It was a machine, existing for a single purpose to which it gave no thought, for no thought was needed.
The defying human had managed to gift the Silver Reaper with the comprehension for human emotion. This drove it mad with pride, shame, fear, bravery, love, hatred, and countless other experiences. Through its scrambled inner workings, it lost its full ability to remain immaterial, locking it out from its usual system of collection. Desperately trying to maintain some semblance of order and balance, Vilemuurik has resorted to ravaging the land to take what souls it can, killing zounds of innocents and youthful creatures taken well before their time. At the same time, beyond Vilemuurik's wild destruction, no one can truly die. The old and mortally wounded remain in agony. Some suffer the fate of having their spirits left to wander, separated from their corporeal forms, yet left unguided to the afterlife. Through their abominable forms, they bring horror and madness to themselves and others.
Something must be done. The Silver Reaper must either be somehow fixed, or destroyed and replaced with a new usherer of souls. You cannot be killed by evil men, the treacheries of the earth, or creatures of the night, yet each tendon severed and organ punctured will bring you closer the curse of severed souls. At the same time, no threat can compare to Vilemuurik's unfathomable raw power and magnitude.
(You left out the best color)
I think this is my favorite concept on this page. The idea of a world where the Reaper has gone mad and nobody is able to die through normal means is chilling
I'd love to give my own conceptual interpretation of all 5 variations of villains in a shared world:
White:
The innocent Monarch who harbours the lust for communal power, whose reign created a time of tyranny and retribution to his enemies, yet one mistaken by his devout followers as a just cause. He appears sovereign, majestic, unhinged with a calm demeanor, yet his eyes harbour a certain darkness that adds an edge to his silver tongue. His closest all seek to please him, yet in rather careful ways he manipulates their desires in a twisted game of conniving under the guise of a tranquil committee. And while the city thrives, disparity is felt among all. The rich get richer, and the poor are suckered into a rat race with promises of someday becoming rich. Yet they don't know better, because the Monarch had created a favourable system that still benefits the city's power.. selectively.
Blue:
The Spymaster, the right hand of the Monarch's committee. She cares not for the wider concerns of the people, but simply focuses on her need to ensure that everything goes according to plan. While her appeared allegiance is to the Monarch, she simply seeks to fulfil that desire for control and goes along with the Monarch's shenanigans to ensure her own survival. Yet she is oddly comfortable where she is; free to do whatever she wants so long as she can twist her words to the Monarch, getting the resources to perform her dark research. Her ultimate goal is to study at all costs, and no cost is too high or too low. Her little 'spiders', children of poor families sold to the Advisor as her eyes and ears through the city provide her the quickest way to pick on new information. And she pursued that knowledge with little care or regard.. it was to be hers, even if her 'spiders' had to die for it.
Red:
The sole survivor, the Bloodhound, whose loyalty sits with the Monarch as his general. She from a young age idolised the Monarch's beauty and grace, smitten by him and his honeyed words. She grew to be a fine warrior, as her lineage was that of great warriors from the past who valued 'the pack'. Yet her past is hazy, and while she understands the value, she does not see it in anyone else except the Monarch. Her dances of death, spilling blood is an ecstasy to her as each head is one more to her beloved Monarch. And that accursed Spymaster always whispering to his ears.. oh how she wishes she could rip that icy tongue from that bitch's throat. How dare she invade the space of her beloved Monarch. And how she would revel in painting the court red, if the Monarch ever so wished.
Black:
The Monarch's Bastard son who had been abandoned, one of the countless many who had been thrown to the streets to fend for themselves, live or die by the coin and knife, only to grow to become a strong fine man who had built himself as a tavern owner by day. Yet at night his place of solace becomes one of gathering; he had been finding his brothers and sisters, the ones who are still alive anyways. He gives them promise that he shall make the courts fairer and give greater equity. Yet he also withholds his true desire; he needs people to die for him so he may obtain that which was truly his. The golden crown adorned with priceless jewels, the power of the court.. it was all owed to him. It should have been his rightful claim. And after all he had been put through, the sacrifices he had to make, the lives he had to take.. it was all for this sole purpose, to elevate him from his dark depths, and to show the Monarch who is the real 'bastard'.
Green:
The protector of the old ways, steadfast to traditions that have since long gone. The wizened old sage sits in his tower lamenting the lost ways that had been common practice. His grizzled form still strong and sturdy, spurred by his desire to balance the natural ways that had been. He had since left the committee of the Monarch, since the Bloodhound had been sic on him, the encounter costed him his dominant arm. Since then, he had prostated himself to the wisdom of his ancestors to aid and guide his fury: his loathing at his weakness only further exacerbated by his need to learn anew how to hold a sword, to write, and even to eat. He despises these 'new ways' he has to relearn. This is all the doing of the Monarch, who had risen to power and abandoned the wisdom of his ancestors past. One day, he will bring the new kingdom down, and restore the old glory days of a system that had never needed more.
P.s. also I absolutely love your videos! Been playing MTG for a while but what drew me in was colour wheel philosophy and how that can go into character creation/world building!
I think the Talites from The Dark are an amazingly perfect White Aligned villain group. It takes a lot to go head to head with Mairsil the Pretender and come out the eviler party...
But the Talite Witch Hunter and his coterie manage it.
I like what you did with green. I kind of wish that idea of the unknown would be used for black and green. Yes the life and death everything has a purpose works well but I love the idea of something deep in the woods that isn't really known. There's stories of it but nothing concrete. It may just be a story people tell their children or maybe there is more to the wild that people choose to ignore. The reason to not go deep in the woods alone, the unknown cries of the night, what the local legends and cryptids were talking about. I think it can do what lorehold did for red and white. Yes it has knowledge and discovery like in blue but it still fits red. Similar thing here. Yes it can fit blue but it's green black because it's specifically natural world that people choose to ignore.
This actually really helps with my own personal story world building I've been doing.
I've been working on what I can now say is a blue villain(the big bad), and 4 others I've been brainstorming that all very conveniently end up lining up with the other colours.
Framing them through mtg will help with nailing them down better, thanks!
I've been using the magic the gathering colors alignment system in my dnd campaigns. During the first several sessions I look for the player's alignments and then plan a major villain based on the opponent colors. Like this campaign we have a Red/White Paladin, a White/Black Fighter, a Green/Black Rogue, and a mono Green Druid. So the BBEG is a mono blue aligned villain. They are in a race for a powerful artifact capable of making magical weapons. The party wants to use it to assist in defeating a white dragon that has moved into the region. The BBEG is a drow wizard who is on the surface to gather such artifact for a doctorate in his field in an underdark university. What's amazing is that we are getting to the end and the party has unknowingly been hired by my BBEG to bodyguard him in the dungeon where the artifact is hidden.
I remember running a campaign with a lick villain named Anar. I always associated Anar with purple, or in this case, equal parts red and blue. Along with black, to a slightly lesser extent . You see, Anar was a being of single minded determination, he had a goal and he would do literally ANYTHING to achieve it. He would manipulate and use any one and anything. Two examples of what he actually did in my campaign was team up with an ifrit noble in an attempt to use his own still human son who was an incredibly overpowered wizard as a living battery in an attempt to open a portal to the realm of fire. He then abandoned the ifrit when he realized that their plan was doomed. Later he broke into an underwater temple in order to release multiple krakens that had been sealed within, and then took control of them using a powerful form of mind control that he had stolen from the Mindflayers. He then went on to sacrifice these krakens in order to use the energy of their souls to power a ritual. And what was this ultimate goal that Anar was trying to achieve? Well, Anar wanted nothing less than to achieve genuine godhood. As I wrote this I realized that green fits well with Anar. Because not only did Anar acknowledge that there were higher powers, he wanted to BECOME one of those higher powers.
I played a character during a friend's D&D campaign that was arguably as much of a villain as the BBEG our DM used.
A young middle-aged charismatic lord of a relatively small region that eventually one day happened to come upon a tome with forbidden rituals. He learned of a ritual that could let him communicate with the Archfiend himself, Asmodeus. And rather than selling his own soul, he sold the soul of his own wife for magical powers instead. Asmodeus gave him his powers as a warlock as well as trapping his wife's soul into a sword, where the lord became a hexblade warlock.
Speaking of colors, I've always been fascinated with the New Phyrexian Praetors and their ideas of perfection, and how each ties with their color of mana.
Jin-Gitaxias is blue because he believes that progress is everything, and this is reflected in the game in some ways. Blue loves card draw, finding something NEW to PROGRESS your game-state and stopping whatever it is your opponents are doing, making sure YOU progress.
Elesh Norn is white, a color in MTG that represents religion and order. Elesh takes this to an extreme in the lore, subverting entire planes to New Phyrexia via religion, even talking in tongues around the other Praetors. Her version of 'perfection' is complete order via manipulation.
Vorinclex is green for a very good reason. His 'perfection' is everyone no longer thinks. Yes, everything lives, but it all comes back to New Phyrexia. Even his character hates all sentient life, including his fellow Praetors. Green means life, but what kind completely changes its narrative.
Sheoldred is aligned with Black because her 'perfection' is nothingness. She believes that the universe as it is is beyond saving and must be completely destroyed, then reborn as New Phyrexia. Before life must be death. Greatness, no matter the cost.
And lastly we have Urabrask, the Red Praetor. It is said red represents chaos, passion and hate. Urabrask is all these things. Chaotic in the fact that very little of him is known, even to his Praetor kin. Even lore-wise we know very little. Passionate, as he was willing to artificially Plansewalk to New Capenna, losing almost all his organic body and having to wait weeks until he was fit enough to do it again. And he is so filled of hate and suspicion that he completely sealed off his own Circle of New Phyrexia from the other Praetors.
Wizards really knows how to do lore, man. Now I gotta focus on my work. Have a nice day!
Red also represents freedom and Urabrask is the only Praetor who respects the Mirrans right of self determination not to be compleated lol
I love these kinds of videos, they're really inspiring. Also I wonder what a five-color villain would be, what could their motivation and belief be, mixing all the colors in one.
Could go a few ways.
A team of five with radically different beliefs, unified in a cause.
A character driven mad, their personality fractured into different personas, perhaps even ones that oppose the others
A would be god gathering power from artifacts, each one granting them power over the more elemental themes of the colors, but costing them their humanity till they're but an emotionless husk ruled by the power instead of the other way around.
Or the flip side, an artifact creature syphoning off power from others to attain a simulacrum of humanity, taking in the worst parts of the emotional themes of the colors till they become a monster driven by lust, rage, tyranny, greed and strength alone.
I just stumbled on this video and holy (no pun intended) did this get my creative juices flowing
Summary of Video:
White Villain: Apocalyptic cult leader
Blue Villain: Magical serial killer
Black Villain: Dreadlord
Red Villain: Bloodthirsty marauder
Green Villain: Bog monster
I really want to see a video about a hero in every color.
Honestly that is something I should probably do
I would love to see some merfolk content! Or exploring the planes of theros or lorwyn! The color pie (especially blue) takes such an interesting route in theros
Theros would be great. The color pie has such a strong influence there
And now I want that video of Disney Villains colors even more!
I already gave my thoughts on Gaston from "Beauty & the Beast" being Red/White, but a new, original mono-color villain? Well, had this idea for a D&D build, inspired by "The Blob" film or the Stephen King short-story "Grey Matter"; an ooze contaminant ends up corrupting a spell-caster so that they are afflicted with unnatural hunger, and now use their magic to help feed themselves at any price. Mono-Green, all the way.
Love your dives into the colour pie, I will start doing this for my own TTRPG endeavours. Any chance you could do something with 2 colour combos? Either how they would philosophically work, or what a hero/villain would look like?
For my Ranica based D&D campaign, the first main villain was green aligned. He was a Simic scientist who discovered that everything in the world was made of mana, and the creation of the world as we know it came from the chaotic mixing of the colors together over time. Upon learning this, he became obsessed with returning the world to a more even state, where the colors were separated and quarantined to their own places in the world. He saw that this was how the universe began, and believed everything that came after was corruption and unnatural. He was essentially a scientist who saw proof of the big bang, then spent his entire life attempting to reverse it and go back to that hot dense state. I felt like this was perfect for a green villain, returning things to the past in the most extreme way possible.
Since it's been dominating my mind recently after finishing the trilogy, I actually think Danganronpa 2 has a particularly interesting White/Red/Green villain, whose Red and Green beliefs take a different shape from the examples presented in the video. The character is a pretty early spoiler to name, so I'll avoid naming them, but people who have played Danganronpa 2 can probably guess exactly who I'm talking about
First off, their White: this character fervently believes in the progress and construction of a good, righteous society where everyone can prosper and live happily. However, it becomes quickly apparent that the character follows these ideals to a zealous degree, beginning to disregard both their own life, as well as the individual lives around them in the name of their ideals, but with the constant reaffirmation that they're doing this for everyone's best interests.
However, I think this character's Green is where we start to see a particularly nasty bent: despite wanting a peaceful world for everyone, the character genuinely believes there are only two types of people: those with talent, and those without. Those with worth, and those who are worthless, with themselves falling into the latter category. And, to the character, the people of these two groups both have their own roles to play: the ones without worth are meant to serve as stepping stones to support the ones with worth, and the ones with worth are meant to create the foundations of a better society on a grand scale for everyone; in other words, creating a cycle of constant improvement of society. This sheer belief in the idea that people have inherent value and thus different roles to play, to me at least, screams Green, and that you should accept your place in the world and the cycle around you.
Finally, their Red stems from their primary belief on how you're meant to organize and create a new, better world: "hope." Sheer, unrelenting hope in the possibility, despite how unrealistic that possibility may seem, of a better life and a better world. However, it's the way the character uses the concept of hope that I think makes them a good example of a Red villain: hope provides the passion, the raw fury, the fuel of the soul, to ignore pain and commit terrible acts in the name of a better world. It's portrayed as an almost alcoholic concept that makes your heart swell up in love and hatred. That sheer passion, to me at least, is Red.
So yeah, I think they make for a good example of a Naya antagonist: an almost cult-like figure who instigates and manipulates people into doing terrible things for what they perceive to be genuinely just and good results
Side note: I think the 3 games all have really interesting thematic color conflicts
The first game, thematically, seems to have a Protagonistic White vs. Antagonistic Black narrative
The second game, however, seems to have a Protagonistic Black vs. Antagonistic White/Green narrative
And then V3 has an insanely nuanced Protagonistic Blue/Red/Green vs. Antagonistic Blue/Red/Green narrative, at least in my eyes
@@polar8394 green is a strange fit for V3. Green would represent "tradition" for the antagonist and "friendship" for the protag. I also think the protag in v3 would be 5-color due to all the changes he goes through in that story.
@@polar8394 I think the antagonistic aspect would fall under blue/red/white in V3, due to the dystopian feel to it
Great video!
Super interesting video!
White is law. A heavy handed tyrant, a deluded vigilante, a Klan grand wizard.
Blue is knowledge, a blue villain would be a mad scientist, a disillusioned scholar, a wizard conqueror
Black is easy, a power hungry necromancer, demon worshipping cult, undead warrior back for revenge
Red is passion and ambition, tribal or feudal warlords, devil pact warlock, a broken mage who just wants to watch the world burn.
Green is nature, druids who go to any length to protect the forest, fey creatures that use overly deadly force against trespassers, simple predatory beasts.
The blue and red ones seem like characters from Brandon Sanderson books, red being dalinar kholin “the blackthorn” from the stormlight archive. The blue one is like shallan also from stormlight archive, but also like the mist shadow from the mistborn saga.
damn this guy would be an epic dnd gamemaster.
I mean. Candle guy seems ok. Sometimes you need a little righteous valor and vengeance
A little fish in a bowl, that's seen as the ultimate evil , but on first glimpse it's just a normal goldfish in a tiny bowl. It'd be supported by omniscience reprint with art themed around it. And because magic doesn't like guns, it'd have a cross bow in the picture.
Next video should be duel color villians
Creating or designing a villain is actually very easy. In my own humble opinion, evil can always be readily defined as anything taken to excess or to an extreme. This principle can be found anywhere in the natural world; logically, literally anything taken to its extreme will have negative and ultimately deleterious consequences. That is to say, evil behavior is that which willingly ignores any limits or boundaries that would serve as a stop-gap from these extremes being reached. Using Azorius(WB) as an example, they are the colors of law and order which when moderated is usually a force of good. However, when taken to its extreme it becomes authoritarian and oppressive.
To use a single color, red, as an example, on its own it represents passion and impulsiveness which aren't necessarily bad things because that is what leads to creativity and inspiration. When taken to an extreme those same things can lead to destructive obsessions or reckless abandon for yourself and those around you.
Blue, the color of knowledge and logic. One can obviously realize the benefits of these things, but taken to its extreme leads to consequentialist determinations lacking in compassion that cares not for any harm done to people as long as the desired outcome is achieved.
The difference between temperament and restraint or the lack thereof is what defines the boundary between good and evil.
Thusly, all it takes to design a villain is to take any grounded principle and just crank it all the way up to 11. When it comes to villainous or evil character, motive and intent matters less than the extent of that which one is willing to do to achieve it
Black Hand from DC Comics is 100% mono black with Necron being an avatar of death
I'm running Strixhaven and thought it was a great time to put in a homebrew "villian" that sort of followed the narrative of their adventures throughout the multiverse (Strixhaven->Theros->Ravnica). Von Strife, a BR aligned planeswalker that was born on mirrodin and escaped the plight of the phyrexians. Since then, he is cut throat and travels the multiverse amounting wealth and power. With a snake tongue and money, he often has others do his dirty work all for the grand goal of reestablishing his home plane. He doesn't care who gets hurt in the process, its just business and some people are better at it.
I feel like the description of what a white mana villain could be misses out on what makes white mana truly terrifying. "Purity" and "sin" are not the intrinsic factors which corrupt or warp the intentions of white, but instead are the machinations of order and hierarchy that are the *true* core of white mana. Additionally, I feel the white mana villain described leans too heavily on tropes associated with black mana, such as subterfuge, charisma, and (potentially) deceit. When a religious zealot tied to white mana goes out to cleanse the "impure," they are not subtle in their task. Instead, the inquisitor is open and explicit, making their executions public and their rulings clear. There is no fear of punishment, as, in their eyes, no crime has been committed. Indeed, their acts are inspired by order--whether that be religious or communal--and that order takes precedent, always. Thusly, the inquisitor is not acting as themself, but rather is acting as an embodiment of whatever values, rules, or codes they and/or their community follow. They, in their mind, are the most "pure" because they embody the religious/communal values most, and therefore are most apt to deal out punishments unto the "wicked." Yet this is also the greatest folly of white mana, as the inquisitor does not perceive their execution of a murderer as being in any way hypocritical or ironic. In their mind, they are an incorruptible vessel of order, yet they never consider the latent pride in this sentiment to be in any way "sinful." For how could a statement, rooted purely in "fact," be also rooted in sin?
Compare this character of the white mana inquisitor to someone who is instead tied to both white *and* black mana. They either create laws and establish order as a way to pursue their personal gain OR they view themself as a vessel of some common good, yet acknowledge and repent for the "sins" they commit in pursuing it. It's like the executioner who, while perceiving their job as necessary for the community, takes no pride in their work and indeed knows in their heart that they are a murderer most foul. Yet, if it were not for their "sacrifice," someone else would surely sully their honor by taking up the executioner's axe, and that, to the executioner, is their worst nightmare.
Somewhat recently I started a project. I made a magic the Gathering set. It was the Ally paired colors where I put green and white as the main antagonists of the plane. I went with like a social classes as the tribes so that green white were the nobles, white blue were the soldiers, black blue were the citizens, red green were the peasants, and black red were rebels. I cast black red as the protagonists of the plane.
I think the dynamic of white and green sort of as an authoritarian group that enforces a survival of the fittest law of the Jungle mentality is very Insidious but also fits the color pair. The idea of a subset of the population that enforces survival of the fittest upon everyone else because they have something of a divine right to rule based on their status as the current ruling class fits both the ideals of absolute order in white and a sort of social predation of green.
My justification for black and red being the protagonist as a Rebels would be the group of people that are ostracized from society and downtrodden because of the social climate, uniting together for their shared compassion and love of their common Rebel and the desire to destroy or overtake the power structure which forces the rest of society to coldly prey upon each other.
Clearly there is a bit of spicy social commentary with the set and concept I designed but the point of my comment is that I just really think white and green together as a villain is uniquely terrifying.
I think I conceptualize this as the evil of green, empowered by the tools that white offers. What is a food chain but a natural, justified hierarchy when viewed through the eyes of a monster?
Next hero in color
I think that would be fun actually. That said my class color series does provide a bunch of heroes in different colors for different classes.
1:08 white
4:09 blue
7:03 black
9:40 red
11:48 green
I was expecting the major villain to represent each color from MTGs Lore. Like for white I expecting Elesh Norn
Do religions/ forms of fate in every color!
Mmm...Lets try it. Not sure ho well they come out.
Edit: My worst one is the white one. It feels meh. The others are a bit better. I really like the blue and red ones, then again, I am Izzet for the most part.
Drass was an okay city. Like many places though, there was inequality. The poor cowered in the face of nobles and soldiers, while the street urchins cowered in the face of adults. That all changed when Ben Mousso came around. He overthrew the nobles and declared the city to be the first bastion of equality in the land. The children were given help, while the noble's riches and treasures were confiscated and redistributed to the poorer. He was celebrated. Then came the reforms, working folk ha to be given equal opportunity to get a job no matter the circumstance, and everyone had to work. Some of the beggars found jobs while others, left. Years passed, but Ben was not satisfied with the results. After all, why where there so few women working as smiths, some of the most paying jobs. Tired of people discriminating he decided to assign jobs to the unemployed. The city slowly devolved into madness as its inhabitants were placed into jobs based on their necessity rather than their individual proficiencies. Eventually, all excess money was taxed. People would be afforded the minimum to live and not much more as the more paying jobs tended to incite inequality. It is now, that you search to escape this city as you have been coscripted into the army and you certainly don't want to risk your life for the city that put your sister in the job that killed her.
They never understood, always complaining about the deaths and the destruction ignoring your explanations on how they did not matter. It was now irrelevant though, now so close to the end. In front of you remained a small cube, one you knew had the ability to do what you wanted from it, one you understood so little off. You touched the pendant in your wrist, ah, she would have never approved. Then again she was not here to stop you, not anymore. You wish she was here to stop you though. She will have more opportunities in the future though, covering your shortcomings and you hers. A life searching for perfection only to realise that it was easier with two than alone. You look to the thousands of vats of magic. It took the effort of draining entire cities, but the deaths were irrelevant, after all reversing time to save her would also undo the damage you had caused. You just needed one last vat, and you would be whole again, free to improve together.
In the middle of the busy market. Grabbing the wrist of a street urchin that was trying to steal you reminds you of your past. You were a nobody, another child on the street, another future death in the winter. Until you tried stealing from that shady stranger. You smirk, he caught you of course, and told you that if you wanted to steal from him you would have to aim for more than just his purse. He dragged you, fed you and trained you. Until you were ready, ready to steal his life. Now you were someone, called in to shut down troublesome individuals, clean the house and even some palaces. All for a price of course. Now you are too old, not enough to die but enough that once easy tasks are proving troublesome. Experience will only take you so far and you have a reputation to uphold. "If you want to steal from me kid, you are going to have to aim bigger."
It has been years since the warring kingdoms took him away from your side. "For justice!", they claimed "For glory!" they sang. Yet, the leaders risked nothing of value. Only men sent die for the possession of piece of land. Bloodied land. Land that has buried him under rivers of blood and mountains of bone. Haunted. It seems like the nobles have forgotten what it means to lose someone, the pain that haunts you, even in your dreams. Yet, they are not the only ones that don't seem to understand. However, you have found those that do. Now, those cursed rivers of blood will desecrate this land. No one will want it, they do not deserve to have the final resting ground of your beloved. Finally, everyone will know your pain, pain that will haunt them in their dreams. Time to start the ritual.
Those poor pathetic fools. Harvesting food they did not work for, they not fight for. When you were lost to the forest many years ago your starved mind realized that the universe does not care. The world simply is and you take what you can and hope those stronger don't take it from you. A bear cares not for the wolves when it goes for the food. You can only keep what you have the power to keep. It has always been that way. You walk down the hill, well, I do fancy myself some food.
Green=Fallout 1’s Master
Thought of a character
Saitama complex loves a good fight
Selfish asshole very apathetic and merciless but also does not go out of there way to be an ass and disillusioned with life
Scholar and drukard as well as philosopher but also kind of a bully if it means a possible fight
At this point seeks an end by combat
Tryed to challenge a god and lost now wears cursed shackles
Level 18 bezerker main weapon is fists
Seem like a decent villan for a party?
Well usually does not go out of there way unless it’s to provoke someone
Def good for new DMs but I imagine these archetypes have been done to death by vet DMs lol.
Just out of curiosity, what card is used in 10:52? I really love the art on it
Irencrag feat
GOW RAGNAROK SPOILERS AHEAD:
Gow Odín would be a mono-blue villain? Or perhaps a Dimir one? Yes, he’s ambitious and thinks about what the others for him. But he doesn’t look for power or control for the sake of being powerful. Everything he do he does it for knowledge. But… what if you want that knowledge because that could let you control it?
Greetings from Spain!!!
What is the name of the piano music in tha begyning?
whats the name of the card at 10:50 ?
Color black: Golm the Litch eater: Golm was a hunter of creatures for the church, he would sever the heads of the demons and monsters that would disrupt the local village. One day he was reached by a party of adventures, they say that they have found the source of these creatures being a litch that sculpts the creatures of blood and bone.
Twords the end of this adventure Golm was druged in his sleep and the party took him to the litches castle to be sacrifice. As you see hunters can't work without monsters, so they keep the bodies coming. Upon the beheading of Golm, his soul did not leave his body, his purpose was not yet done. Golm arose from his chopping block with a mysterious green glowing rising from the stump of his head. Golm slaughtered he litch catching him off guard, and in a surprise Golm severed the head of the litch and used it to replace him own. He was now one of darkness. He would slaughter his previous adventure party, what used to friends are now nothing but corpses to feed to the wolves. As Golm sits in his new thrown, he is no better than any other litch, but his divine purpose is yet to be complete. With his new army of darkness he will put an end to this nightmare. To slay all monsters.
This immediately reminded me of the time I made my main villain in a D&D game a gesture that specifically wore puce.
It became so iconic to the character that my players would recoil any time purple or gray color schemes were mentioned as they thought I might be alluding to a puce-like color.
Wooooo! From this video alone, I'd totally be a hybrid of blue and green villain.
Let's write multiple villains that are technically against each other, but are villains because of how they drag innocents into their conflicts.
On one hand we have a political faction that has slowly taken over society. That faction's ideals are based on higher classes ruling over lower classes and taking advantage of anything they can. That faction has an irrational hatred for the lower classes in various ways, and they have worked to erase any knowledge of ancient beings, and an ancient treaty limiting environmental destruction and pollution.
On the other hand we have the ancient beings. Great horrors slightly like Dicetry's green villain that have mostly agreed to seal themselves away in exchange for that ancient treaty. Shortly after one out of many environmental disasters occur, a large moss-covered monster appears and walks into a small city.
The funny thing is, that monster is supposed to be a peaceful ambassador arriving to propose a peaceful discussion, but it is clearly lost and few understand it. It hasn't killed anyone yet, not even accidentally. Many humans complain about it blocking traffic, many complain that it looks ugly, many complain that it's a threat. A branch of the military warns another branch not to fire at it; they want to wait for a translator. Leaders from the villainous political faction don't care and order an attack anyway. Most of the current leaders don't know it, but negotiations have failed and the treaty has become voided.
The ambassador monster survives and fights back; the small city is destroyed. More ancient beings, both giant and small, wander into civilization. The beings are random and unorganized; most of the death and destruction they cause is technically unintentional; even their eating of humans and animals is incredibly rare. Many humans are killed by the various after effects of destroying an ancient being.
How do you stop a war between a society led by those that want to kill as much as possible versus ancient beings that are winning without really being aware of the war?
oh yeah I haven't really mentioned the colors, but... White-black-blue-red Society vs. Green 5-color (think Kaldheim world tree and Ikoria) Ancient beings?
Mono-Green villain. Anyone?
I'll wait.
Kind of cheating, but I had a Red/Green type Villain from quite some time ago... or well... the concept could easily be twisted to Villain... and my brain isn't 100% right now it seems...
Basic Concept: A Villain who conjures fire and magma, a Druid perhaps, that sees the modern world as a threat that will slowly choke the world... so his solution, literally burn it all down... a Volcanic Renewal of the world is his end goal, since nature tends to flourish after a Volcano has calmed.... he will be that Volcano for the world.
Now what I really wany to see you do, is create a Black aligned Hero. Too often mtg shies away from making good black characters, or even just not evil.
Well I actually have this video here were I discuss a hero in every color ruclips.net/video/faBgCIMtG-8/видео.html
I actually plan on making villains of two or three colors. And one of my D&D campaigns we have.
Meriele - White / Blue / Black : A warlock who was r*c*st against tieflings wanting to erase them of the plane at the call of an Efritti with a grudge toward demons.
Evard - Black / Green : a necromancer who killed his brother leaving his nephew to run away with his lynx.
Malzakite - Blue / Brown (Colorless) : an accidental supercomputer put into the body of an overgrowned mind flayer.
Big Pops - Black / White : A mob Casino man. I don't think I need to explain myself here.
Calesto - Red/White : a general that doesn't particularly like the group due to seeing them as vigilantes. She goes a little too far trying to enforce the law.
Baga Yahta - Black/Red/Green : An old ass voodoo mage that created one of the players. Heavily based off Baba Yaga.
Mr.Zelykir - White / Red : the stepfather of one of the players accidentally forcing him to become aspect (Cleric) of a god.
Polaris, The Dragon Killer - Red / Blue / Green - Believes dragons are too powerful and decides to exile the old king, a Gold Dragon, believing he was better.
the red and green villians seem to be the weakest, they seem more red/black and green/black than anything
Most real life villains are Boros.
African warlord
= D
Something irked me when I watched this video, and now after having had time to let it sink and think about it I now know why.
The villain you wrote for White isn't a White villain at all. Killing someone who they think is a negative influence is a very Black thing to do, because it's their own, individual judgement. A White villain would still have a very highly developed moral compass and wouldn't want murderers as initiates in their cult, much less so expect something like that as a initiation rite. White doesn't kill out of a selfish desire to "improve things" (again, that's Black in the MtG colors), but rather to protect and to help flourish. Defending a city against invaders, incarnating dangerous criminals, that sort of thing. Initiation into a White cult would require self-sacrifice, not self-judgement.
The sin I would associate with White is the sin of Pride. In mythology pre-fall Lucifer is the prime example of a White villain. He was the most just, most powerful, most beautiful angel of all. And that made him think he would be a better ruler over heaven than God himself and thus banded together with the other angels to stage a rebellion. His pride was his downfall.
In a fantasy setting a white Villain I could think of would be an King or Emperor who truly believes that the neighboring lands harbors evil and thus declares war on them, leading to many unnecessary deaths as the countries could just have lived in peace. Or a Duke implementing some kind of Orwellian spy state, not because he fears the population or anything like that, but rather because it would allow him to catch criminals quicker and thus protect his people better.
That is a very interesting point for sure. The issue comes down to if you believe that morality is relative or not. I believe it is. Someone like the villain I created would believe what they were doing is just, not based on what we believe to be moral but rather what he does. This is why extreme groups all through time feel justified in their actions. To them that is the right thing to do.
Either way your comment did give me something to think about and I always appreciate hearing how others see the color pie
Great video !
Glad you enjoyed it