How To Write A Sympathetic Villain - Megamind
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- In today’s video essay, we’re diving headfirst into the world of sympathetic villains, characters who somehow manage to earn our empathy despite their morally questionable actions. Using Megamind as our prime example, we’ll explore the curious blend of writing techniques that allows us to simultaneously root for and against a villain.
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If you ask me, MegaMind was Never really a Villain. He just got dealt the wrong cards in life. the Only ''good'' he ever experienced from earth was in jail. where the ''bad'' guys resided. so he thought that being a villain was what he was supposed to be. but i think he never once was. and the movie finally makes him understand and feel that.
Even after years of being a supervillain, he was more interested in the theatrics of villainy than actually causing harm, to the point Roxanne is totally unfazed by all the deathtraps he shows off. After all, he's just trying to impress her, and Metrocity as a whole, with how "bad" he is. Hal is the opposite, only wanting the power and status of a superhero to get what _he_ wants without consequence.
Megamind being the lead and the film being a comedy helped. I'd like to see more sympathetic "villains" in non-comedic family animated films who aren't the protagonist.
Yeah, let's all just pretend that the follow up series don't exist
What follow-up series? That NEVER happened... 🤫
@@dragontamer6498Exactly there definitely wasn't a straight-to-streaming sequel and atrocious series based on said awful sequel. Neither of those things exist thank [insert deity of choice].
Agreed
I have a villain that is serious but has a slow period of redemption, where towards the end, we learn more about her struggles that makes her a more deep and compelling character
Writing this before I've watched most of the video since I'm only commenting on the intro. But I'd actually say there isn't really a lack of "sympathetic villains" nowadays. A ton of the writers just forget one thing - the sympathetic villain needs their evil actions to be acknowledged as well as the good in them.
Too many writers today make a villain or even a hero, who unlikable, does bad things unapologetically, plays the victim, and then they *don't* call it out. They try to lazily justify their pet character's actions or just ignore the bad things they've done, and expect the audience to side with them and forget all of it.
These writers forget the redemption in a redemption arc, because they don't recognize that their character even DID bad things in the first place, and that makes the "sympathetic" villain (or "hero") impossible to actually sympathize with.
I am writing a novel with my friend, and we are on the quest to make the perfect villain. All your videos in analysis really help and then you did give me a lot of insight. I love your videos and you definitely deserve way more subscribers. Subbed!
OMG, you're writing a novel? That's Awesome!
@@olleselin thank you very much!
Interesting quest but I think there will be no perfect villain. Maybe a really well written one that will be remembered for a long time but there are so many types of villains( like the sympathetic villain, the pure evil villain, the mastermind, the twist villain, the villain wannabe, the force of nature villain, a villain that serves as the evil counterpart of the hero, etc)that it‘s hard to pick which type of villain is the best. Everyone has a different taste in villainy after all. Though I am interested in how you will archive it.
@@bahesb2419 you make a good point and I didn’t literally mean a perfect villain. Of course there’s no such thing as a perfect anything. But I just want to write a villain that people will like and fear. Of course I can’t satisfy everyone, but I just hope to create a memorable one.
@@jjquasar And I hope you will. Wish you luck
literally love megamind, killmonger and loki sm. love to see a video talking about them :)
MCU Killmonger is interesting to me because whether on purpose or on accident, he's a perfect example of how people can and do take real experiences of being oppressed or going through hardship, and go way too far, using it as justification for becoming the thing that they hate.
In the scene where he sits down as King of Wakanda and dictates his plan to send weapons to *his* people around the world to "rise up and kill their oppressors", this one line sums it up perfectly -
"The world's gonna start over, and this time WE'RE on top."
You see people like this all over the internet. They think that flipping some kind of real or imagined relationship of oppression is just and righteous, not realizing that it would be just as evil. They think victimhood equals virtue, but being a victim of something doesn't prevent you from being a perpetrator of something else.
What he went through as a child was real, it was unjust. He was abandoned, his father was killed, he had a hard life that can be sympathized with. But what he chose to do after should not be sympathized with. And T-challa himself shows this, as he stops Killmonger but also takes what good he can from those ideals - the drive to help people with Wakanda's resources - and strips the cruelty away, taking the harder and more just route of doing things like providing aid and shelter to those who need it.
I absolutely adore that people are still talking about the original movie and its brilliance even after the disaster sequel and series were released. Thank you.
What sequel? Megamind doesn't have a sequel...
@@M31l0dY_YT I mean the “spinoff” or “fanfic” on peacock
@@M31l0dY_YT Yeah, it has! Everyone keep forgetting about "Megamind: The Button of Doom" :)
New Channel, Great content. I'm really impressed with your content for only making it for two months! Blend of examples met with writing techniques.
For me, what makes me sympathy for a villain is that it is understandable that there are motives and actions .here, an example I was bullied horrible in middle school. I feel sorry for the victims i happy for their revenge, but I could never feel bad for school shooters because they kill innocent people for zero reasons, I don't care if he or she got bullied if they bullt others or mistreat even kill people who doesn't deserve it. Now, if he/she either beat or killed his bullys, judging how bad the bullys could understand and sympathy, . what im trying to say is just everyone go through something. That doesn't give you a right to hurt other people or do the same. I hope that makes sense. If it doesn't, I apologize
8 views is crazy
Now THIS IS PEAK CONTENT
WHAT
Spoiler alert gggtm
Perfect example: Stanley forbes character in book2
megamind is the protagonist though?
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Bro missed the point of the movie.
How???
@@husseinakhras8357 Megamind is not a villain he's a hero. He barely does anything Villainous.
Bro is cranking out the most generic video essays on the most overdone topics imaginable, cause he knows the NPCs of youtube are still eating them up as if they're fresh and not completely decomposed by this point.
You gotta add at least a _sprinkle_ of creativity or personality dude. Or, yknow, maybe not, considering that the current strategy seems to be working just fine how it is. Depressing, genuinely.