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Profiles in Villainy

The Witch of Pickyoon 

The wicked and powerful practitioner of the dark arts known only as The Witch of Pickyoon prided herself on being the most powerful being in all of Pickyoon.  She ruled over the poor people of this land from her dark castle atop a mountain.  Each day she would ask of her magical looking glass, “mirror, oh mirror, shaped like the moon, who is the most powerful of Pickyoon?’  And each day this mirror would respond that it was she, the Witch, who was the most powerful.  

This all changed on the day that Polly Purebreed’s airplane crash landed on Pickyoon and Underdog had come to rescue her.  Now the mirror stated that it was Underdog who was the most powerful of Pickyoon.  

Well, the Witch was not having any of that and she abducted Polly so to force Underdog to bend to her will.  The townsfolk of Pickyoon informed Underdog of the location of the Witch’s castle and he flew there to free Polly.  

The Witch threw all that she had at the hero, including a small army of magical beasts.  Yet Underdog persevered and ultimately bested the Witch.  With her defeat, the townsfolk were free and Pickyoon prospered.

Actress Delo States provided the voice for the Witch of Pickyoon, appearing in the thirty-third episode of Underdog, airing on January 23rd, 1965.

kingnd asked:

You know you always forget Adult Swim put a lot of "thought provoking" anime on it's block. Paranoia Agent was certainly an interesting beast to try & understand at the age of 14 or 15. Still always a pity we lost Satoshi Kon at such a young age.

Yes to all of those. His movie Paprika is one of my all time favorites.

A colleague of mine wrote her thesis on Eastern interpretations of Western psychodynamic theory. Paranoia Agent hadn’t come out yet, but would have fit just perfectly with the central principles of her thesis.

Profiles in Villainy

Lil’ Slugger

The enigmatic menace known only as Lil’ Slugger is a corporal manifestation of panic and anxiety, a presence generated and intensified through mass hysteria who plagued the bureau of Musashino, Tokyo, with a series of brutal and unprovoked physical attacks.  Appearing as a young adolescent, riding inline skates and wielding a golden baseball bat, the Lil’ Slugger would target those individuals experiencing extreme psychological duress.  The rising fear of his attacks only acted to intensify people’s stress, offering the entity greater power and leading to more and more assaults.  It was not long before the wide spread panic had engulfed nearly all of Musashino.

Ironically, those who were assaulted by Lil’ Slugger found their lives actually improving.  Having a clearly identified figure to act as the focus of their anxieties provided an odd sense of relief… as though it was easier to fear a boogyman rather than the more diffuse stressors of ever day life.  

As the specter of Lil’ Slugger continued to spread throughout Musashino, a pair of investigators, Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa, were tasked with tracking down the nebulous origins of the threat and apprehending the culprit.  Through painstaking effort, these detectives were able to discover that Lil’ Slugger had inadvertently been created by a celebrated cartoonists named Tsukiko Sagi who was coping with the accidental death of her dog.  

The young woman had been walking her dog and accidentally let go of its leash.  The dog wandered into traffic and was hit and killed by a car.   The trauma of it all was too much for Tsukiko to contend with. She created a subconscious fiction that the dog’s death was not her fault but rather it had been killed by a delinquent boy on skates who bludgeoned the dog with a baseball bat.  

The psychic energy of this lie somehow manifested the Lil’ Slugger into being.  It was an embodiment of trauma and denial that continued to feed off of the stress and anxiety of the city.  Once the truth of his inception was brought to life, once the unconscious origins of the entity were made conscious, Lil’ Slugger ceased to exist.  

The villain did not have any actual dialogue, yet his vocal sound effects were provided by actor Daisuke Sakaguchi.  The Lil’ Slugger appeared in the anime maxi-series, Paranoia Agent, debuting on May 28th, 2005.

Profiles in Villainy

Brother Zevon

In the post-apocalyptic realm of Thunder the Barbarian, Zevon had been a powerful werewolf who led a pack of wolfmen known as the Brotherhood of The Night.  He could take on a human appearance in the light of day and transform at will into a wolfman after dark.  Furthermore, Zevon had the ability to transform others into werewolves simply by touching them.  Once transformed into a werewolf, such individuals would also become entirely subservient to Zevon’s will.  

As Brother Zevon continued to add new members to his pack, his power grew and his hunting ground expanded.  Soon he took over a territory that had previously belonged to the evil wizard known as Infernus.

Wishing to be rid of the Brotherhood of the Night so to reclaim his territory, Infernus sought out Thundarr the Barbarian and his allies Ariel the Sorceress and Ookla the Mott.  The wizard tricked Thundarr into believing he was kindly and that his interests in defeating Zevon and his pack were strictly benevolent.  Thundarr was tricked once more when, in his human guise, Zevon convinced the barbarian that it was actually Infernus who was the true threat.  

Zevon almost won out, having transformed Infernos as well as Princess Ariel into werewolves.  Yet Thundarr saved the day when he threw Zevon into a magical pool that had the effect of undoing lycanthropy.  The entirety of Zevon’s pack were restored to their human selves.  Whereas Zevon himself transformed into a large, gray wolf… thus indicating that he had never been human in the first place and was actually a wolf with the powers to transform into a man.  With his powers gone, Zevon ran off into the night.    

The name ‘Zevon’ is a homage to musician, Warren Zevon, whose most renowned hit is the song ‘Werewolves Of London.’  Actor Keye Luke provided the voice for the werewolf, first appearing in the seventh episode of the first season of Thundarr the Barbarian, airing on November 15th, 1980.

kingnd asked:

Skeletor would also famously be played by Frank Langella in the MOTU movie. Despite the movie being more of a "guilty pleasure" he's freely admitted it was one of his favorite roles.

I remember it well!

kingnd asked:

How weird is it to have the knowledge that Skeletor is basically He-Man's Uncle? (In some versions at least).

very weird. I take my role as an uncle very seriously. Evil uncles, nemesis uncles, give all us uncles a bad name. For this Skeletor has much to answer for.

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Skeletor

Keldor had been the half brother of King Randor of Eternia. An acclaimed tactician and sorcerer, he lent his skills to protecting the wellbeing of Randor’s many subjects.  Nonetheless, Keldor harbored deep resentment toward his half brother and coveted his position as king.

Seeking enhanced power and magical knowledge, Keldor sought out the fiendish Hordak, ruler of the Evil Horde.  Hordak accepted Keldor as an apprentice and soon made him lieutenant of his forces.  At some point, Keldor was severely wounded.  Hordak healed him yet it resulted in Keldor’s face and head resembling a skinless skull.  With his augmented powers and ghoulish appearance, Keldor took on the new moniker of ‘Skeletor.’  

After Hordak fled to Etheria, Skelitor took over his former masters base of operations on Snake Mountain.  From there he raised an army to try to take over Eternia.  His efforts toward this end have been regularly thwarted by He-Man and his allies.  

Actor Alan Oppenheimer provided the voice for the villain.  Skeletor first appeared in the pilot episode of He-Man and The Masters of The universe, airing on September 5th, 1983.

Profiles in Villainy

The Evil Queen

Lady Grimhilde Malis, erstwhile known as The Evil Queen, was a vile and ambitious tyrant.  She gained tremendous magical powers by selling herself body and soul to the evil spirits of the Harz Mountains.  She went on to gain her royal position by marrying the widowed King, giving her rule over his kingdom following his death. As the realm’s new queen, her every word was law, and all trembled in mortal fear of her wrath.

The vain Queen used her magic to make herself the most beautiful woman in the lands.   She owned a magical mirror that she frequently gazed upon. She regularly asked this magical looking glass who is the fairest in the realm.  ‘Magic Mirror on the wall,’ she would query, ‘who is the fairest one of all?’ And each time the mirror would reply that it was she.  One day, however, the mirror stated that the fairest of the realm was now the young princess, the Queen’s stepdaughter, Snow White.  

The Queen was sent into an envious rage.  She dispatches her Huntsman to slay Snow White.  Yet the Huntsman was taken by Snow White’s beauty and innocence and he chose to spare her, telling her of the threat and helping her to hide in the woods.  Deep in this secluded forest, Snow White found refuge in a cottage and was cared for by seven kindly dwarves. 

Ultimately discovering that she had been betrayed by her Huntsman, The Queen decided to kill Snow White herself.  She created a poisoned apple that will put whoever eats it into a death-like sleep. This curse could only be broken by ‘love’s first kiss,’ yet the Queen was certain Snow White would be buried alive before this could occur. 

Using her magic to disguise herself as an old hag, the Queen traveled to the cottage while the dwarfs were away. The animals of the forest saw through the disguise, but were unable to warn Snow White; instead these animals rushed off to alert the dwarves.  The Queen fooled Snow White into biting the apple, and she fell into a death-like slumber.

The dwarfs returned with the animals as the Queen was leaving the cottage.  They gave chase and the Queen became trapped upon a cliff.  She tried to roll a boulder to crush the dwarves but just then she was struck by lightning and fell from the cliff to her death.

Unwilling to bury her in the ground, the dwarves placed Snow White within a glass coffin and kept vigil over her along with the animals of the woods.  Some time later, a handsome Prince discovered Snow White’s fate and he visited her coffin. Saddened by her apparent death, he kissed her, which had the effect of breaking the spell and awakened her. The dwarves and animals all rejoiced as the prince took Snow White to his castle where together they ushered in a new era of peace and happiness.

Actress Lucille La Verne provided the voice for The Evil Queen, with the villainess first appearing in the 1937 Disney feature, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs.  

Anonymous asked:

Is this an actual obsessive compulsive trait? https://twitter.com/zano_666/status/1716467503021347129?t=PbIDQXv-FyvN9-YdWtVmyw&s=19

It can be.  Although mostly this sort of thing is just mind games the psyche plays on itself as a means of dealing with different types of stress and anxiety.  

Usually these sorts of semi-conscious mind games will occur during times of distress,  Sort of like thinking to yourself, ‘if I see less than three green cars on the way to the doctors office then my test results will be good.‘  The psyche has a hard time contending with matters outside of its control and will sometimes create make-believe situations that offer a kind of illusion of control.

If these sorts of thoughts are recurrent, intense, intrusive and substantially interfere with a person’s ability to function and feel okay about things… then it may pass beyond the threshold of being a part of an obsessive compulsive psychopathology (or a more generalized anxiety disorder).