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Surprise twist = Kylo Ren was actualy the protagonist. Why else would he be the only one with somewhat of a character ark ? It surely isn't bad writing from a company as big as disney.

Goddammit. You're absolutely right.

In case you don't have time for this video, let me sum it up. "I only like villains with the specific traits and experiences of the villains from movies of my particular youth who had stereotypically male traits such as dominance and who commanded respect. Stories that have their own villains rather than facsimiles of Star Wars archetypes are bad and they make me angry, regardless of the genres of those stories. For example, the comedic aspects of the comedy villains from the comedic series of Charlie's Angels films detracts from these comedy movies because comedically they don't command respect like mysterious Darth Vader, from Star Wars, a space opera in which he maintains control of his emotions at all times. Villains who display anger or lose control of their emotions are failures because for unexplained reasons, any villain who is not like DARTH Vader is a result of poor writing and more importantly, this indicates that the inclusion of women as heroes and appeasement of SJWs is clearly responsible for this general emasculation of the villain in modern movies." You're welcome. I wholeheartedly agree that the girl power trope which prevents films from showing women ever defeated by men reduces the tension of the story since we already know who will always win in mixed gender conflicts, but dude, this is just the bounce back from hundreds - at least - of years which showed women as nothing more than props. Do you really not have a larger perspective than the last 40 years or so? If you're annoyed at this overused trope, imagine how many women must have felt with the incessant tropes throughout our culture that have portrayed women as lesser than men in pretty much every important relevant way, relevance also being defined by the men. We are all going to get tired of the overused girl-power-uber-alles trope, and things will find a new equilibrium. This is the life cycle of any trope. And I'm sure it won't take the thousands of years it took for the pendulum to swing away from the male-power-is-a-given tropes that have existed at least in Western media since - well - the beginning of media. Let the women have a decade or two. I'm sorry you happen to live at the time of this readjustment and not 100 years before or after this moment of realignment since it seems to bother you so much, but those are the breaks. Buck up and stop being a puss in boots who lost his boots about it.

why is it ive been so brainwashed ive never noticed this before being told

Great stuff keep up the good work

Someone's not watching Attack on Titan...

There was better villains in G.I.JOE (the 1984 cartoon)

Snoke looked like a rotting peanut.

1:04 I saw what you did there !

Imagine a remake of die hard with hans gruber's hostage complaining for gluten free food and gender fluid toilet, and about the fact that the terrorist crew is not diverse enough.

But doesn’t sarah connor defeat the terminator? There isn’t any sort of pandering towards the female audience there. As for the Star Wars movies, I agree that Kylo is a problematic villain but a fun character. The problem with the new star wars movies is that they lack any strong central villain, like you mentioned. But looking at a strong, modern villain, I think Roman Sionis is solid. He is childish and is unhinged, but it manifests in acts of violence. He intimidates the people around him, and makes the world a worse off place to be. His power lies in his ability to manipulate and intimidate with a weak psyche. He’s the playground bully turned up to 11. But I think you have a point that some villains are worse than others currently, with writers unsure of how to handle previously established characters and entities, especially Disney.

Ha ha I love your videos & moonshine is aviation fuel!

This man needs more subscribers.

The solution is equal rights . . . and lefts.

What happened to our villains? They were hired by Disney and took over the narrative to destroy entertainment as we know it...

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The best villians I’ve seen are General Grevious 2003 version, Raggyo Kiriuyin from Kill la kill, Tywin lannister GOT DIO from Jojo bizzare adventures

Well I believe things are turning around back to the so called normal again, could be very wrong though

Dr. Claw was more intimidating then these villians.

Made me think of GI Jane with Viggo and Demi

Kylo Ren could have been a great villainous anti-hero if they actually honored the character traits they gave him within the plot and if there were an actual villain to contrast him with and if there was an actual plot that made any sense or if the films weren't generally trash.

You have to downplay men for women to be lead characters...they are horrible action heroes...they can only succeed in a fantasy scenario...weak men are a hollywood fantasy...unfortunately, life imitates art.

Disney villains must not scare children...

For 10:54 John Wick vs Ares.

Adam Driver is so good as Kylo Ren. Even if he wasn't a villain villain. He acted so good. He looks more like the protagonist tbh

And for that, you earned my subscription!

china happened to our villains.

When you said they make you wonder who the real villain is, the footage should be of Johnny Lawrence.

Cant wait for when the Drinker takes on the massive challenge of rewriting the Star Wars sequels so theyre actually good

Facts!!!!!👍🏿👍🏿

Imagine a world were people shout equality but make one sex unequally win 🤣

Faaaaaarken hell.. I had to pause the video for a good 5 minutes after the slaughter of bree larson a minute in. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🥳

It's simple, Disney happened...

Gotta disagree on Thor Ragnarok, ofcourse they didn’t quote the source material word for word but in the comics (minus a few occasions) Thor couldn’t hang with Hela...like not even close. I think that’s the only example I see really grasping at straws

I have completely erased the sequel trilogy from my mind.. Never existed. Star Wars ends with The Return of the Jedi..

Just watched 'i care a lot' and immediately reminded me of this video

These is what women fight all along equality... And now a transgender women is dominating women sports... Haist...

Modern 'female protagonists' are less original and more pathetic than Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Ravenway. As a woman who has always looked up to strong female characters, I must say that they've really run dry. STOP PANDERING PLEASE!!!!! I grew up with Ripley, and Sarah Connor, Ziva David, Hermione, even the Teen Titans! They all make Rey 'Skywalker' look pathetic. Don't get me STARTED on Captain Karen! Stop treating women as *sensitive precious wittle babies* that can't actually do anything unless you make them all powerful! They prech about how they're making women 'strong and brave!' and yet look what they did to Mulan! Cheers, mate!!

So true Mr Drinker!

One of my favorite vilans: Simcoe from Turn.

I thought "Gus Fring" was an awesome villain in "Breaking Bad" - the kind of guy you actually wanted to win.

Heros usually follow a specific archetype, it has always been that way. Villians used to be unbridled and undefined, not anymore.

Could have a female hero go against a female antagonist. There, i solved the idiot rage problem. You're welcome! :D

That’s kinda why, after walking out of the theatre from force awakens, that Rey was gonna fall and Kylo would become the primary protagonist. Cuz they established that he kinda sucks at being villain and that Rey is stronger. Every flaw you pointed out about kylo...it seemed too obvious to be anything but deliberate...but I guess not.

0:09 So the same age then?

The Major in Hellsing Ultimate is the absolute best villain in Anime, especially in the English dub version.

They kill the woman pretty fairly in the John Wick movies...granted semi proving your point by over establishing the bonafides before having the protagonist kill them to elevate his character.

Kylo Renn had the misfortune of being pitted against Mary Sue Skywalker-...eeerrrrrrr....Palpatine.

Hollywood's formula is pretty simple. White males are only allowed to be shown as subservient, cowardly, jealous, underhanded losers. Black males are allowed to be strong, confident, sympathetic alpha males and possible love interest for White females, but they are very rarely used to portray villains.

Man can't beat woman. Woman can beat man. yeah that sounds equal.

it's only coincidence that all of the movie's with weak male villains have strong independent women that are supposed to be the hero, they don't pose any threat because if they do then the sjw's will scream how the female characters were oppressed ...like that matters ... the bigger the monster the bigger the payoff when it falls ... but no if the villain is a man he can only be weak, restrain himself and be dumb, let's be honest if any male bad guy if he lands a punch on a female she should fall and should find other ways to bring them down also it shouldn't matter if a villain man strikes down a female hero they are the villain they are not supposed to be moral, they should stop making all of these movies like the villains are complex being tortured and whatever because most of them leave a lot to be desired and most don't even make sense, even as much as i like marvel's infinity war and endgame Thanos's goal to kill half of the universe so they don't consume all of the resources makes no god damn sense, for technologically advanced beings it wouldn't be that hard to rebuild and in less than 10 generations the population probably would bounce back and in end game he goes full bad guy and wants to remake the universe the way he wants it too ... honestly i would have preferred the original story where he does it to impress Death but w/e.... Villains should be villains they should not be affected by morality and especially not sjw morality

"What is Captain Marvel without Brie Larson?" Actual potential for a good character?

If Thanos was a Strong Muscular Female Alien, she would've ended the entire MCU in endgame.

So true, typically Hollywood trying to create a scenario where everyone all across the board is always equal.

What Hollyweird is doing in the last decade is making us root for the villains as they are the underdogs FFS! Greedy and lazy!

Man, this video is a master class!

Mary Sue, Mary Sue, pretty strong woman Mary sue!

This is why John Wick's fight with Perkins was so surprisingly effective. Because of this trend I really thought she would easily subdue him somehow. Instead we got a great, evenly matched fight with an uncertain outcome.

Loki constantly got his arse kicked But we admired his power and determination We understood his motives And his bravery and cunning And we also knew he was intended anyway as a build up villain

Davros in doctor who The elderly cripple Frail and and physically weak The most intelligent villain Ruthless and stop at nothing Willing to commit torture and slavery and multiple genocides

I don't think the opening scene in TFA is all that bad. It shows that Kylo doesn't care about personal insults, he just wants to get the job done, kind of like Leia commenting "I should have known you were the one holding Vader's leash" to Tarkin. Too bad Disney did a 180 on that.

So basically Hollywood movies these days are just Chota Bheem 😂

Speaking of the villains and heroes. As a little girl, I cheered when Eowyn killed the Nazgul, saying: I am no man. That was a powerful moment, when you were proud of the woman. She wasn't superior and she needed Pippin's help, but at the end, she made one of the best scenes of the movie (in my opinion) and she wasn't even the main hero. Fast forward, Captain Marvel, Rey - They are supposed to be powerful and everything, but I just care less about them anymore.

#firekathleenkenedy #notmystarwars #canceldisneyplus

KR is what happens when someone who doesn't know how to write and doesn't understand literature or the subject matter get the jerb of writing SW movies. They don't understand why things are there, but feel as if they have to put them in anyway because "fans expect it". So you get a soy-villain in a helmet without any comprehensible motivations at all.

Thing is, nobody, man or woman, cares about these movies even a couple years after they were released. They don't have fans at all. Even the people who "like" them, don't actually like them, they just support the movies because they are propaganda for their ideology. But they forget about them as well and move on to the next internet spat.

I give kylo ren a pass because i consider him to be the real protagonist of the sequels. hes like a bad guy protagonist i guess. his fits of rage and unmenacingness are humanizing characteristics, as if he was the protagonist, in a way that rey wasn't

I know it cant happen with disney etc... but they should have used Reys Palpatines heritage and slowly turn her dark and have Kylo on a redemption arc...as this would fit with his conflicted nature throughout

Film is dead, unless you want to watch the same shite over and over, films are just boring now.

What about Thanos.....I never agreed as much with the bad guy as much as I did as with Thanos.....he also wasn't mindless....he fought where he needed to and sometimes I didn't seem to really want to fight people.....who could of killed Starloard easily but he didn't.....he let him live because he didn't need to die....he got what he wanted, so he left....he could have permanently killed the rest of the guardians but once he left they all came back to normal form.......Same with Tony Stark......he was about to kill him but he then got what he truly wanted and let him live.....he wasn't just a villain but he was a man that kept to his word.....I bet Kylo would have taken the time stone and then killed Tony stark.....just because.

Proof the 80’s was the golden age. 2021 we are in the woke joke!

The villains just went from on screen, to off screen writers and directors.

lovely scottish accent

switch the role. would make a better movie. the villain have more room and reasons to grow (and the struggle). The protagonists and all their powers would make a better villain

Wha happened to our villains? Woke Disney happened

Hollywood’s days are numbered. Content will be written and produced by outsiders who won’t need to bend the knee to their ridiculous unwritten gender and race rules.

Go watch Farscape. Scorpius is the greatest villain of all time.

You want make a good hero and story, start with creating the villain.

They become sissies.

I feel like the only current movie that actually let the women loose in a fight was in both Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War. Both times Black Widow lost to Winter Soldier, elevating both Bucky and Natasha.

What if the villain goes through arc and beats hero at the end and film ends😈

nailed it

Well said, Cliff Booth was right in about them

Im glad you put Ben Stiller as White Goodman from Dodgeball in your collage. The guy is a real jackass.

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Amazing video, that got a subscription from me, Cheers!!

The mystery behind the mask was a nose.

Bruh, I remember a complaint on Apocalypse choking Mystique. Like, hes a villain doing bad things. But apparently, Apocalypse cant choke Mystique because shes a woman. Hahahaha.

SPOT ON!!!!

Very valid points made here... Even the better films of these years, ie John Wick, has him beating up a helpless 80 y/o in the final fight! Where's the challenge?

So the trigger mob who are the weakest bunch on the planet want to fake that they are strong, and not want want to reveal any hint that they are weak. There’s a name for this disease.

Well u no responsibility, critical thinking, and challenges that have to be over come are hard and feel bad. And anything bad is not ok. Why cant we just remake life in such a way that everything is perfect and we all start off perfect. Wouldnt that be nice. 👍

Wait wait wait wait..! You're showing Bane as a good villain? WTF? Where's that GoT puking scene, when you need it?

Word!

I miss boobs and violence. That’s a great title for a film.

Were they all white men? I missed a few minutes

They cannot make good villains anymore because that would be toxic masculinity..or something.

I totally agree with your point but I think the thor ragnaroc write did a pretty good job getting around it they made Thor’s victory of hella a moral and idea logical one then summed a fire giant to stab her thraw the heart of a city and have it explored in a sea of fire that was awesome 🤩