For me, it would be GLaDOS.
Portal 2 spoiler
She deleted the one remaining human part of herself because it was just too much to deal with. She releases you at the end of Portal 2 as a path of least resistance measure because “killing you is hard.”
What about you, what is your favorite media villain?
Yeah the writers didn’t like how part of the audience sided with homelander in the first couple of seasons, so they did what writers do and took a hammer to the character.
What? He’s always consistently been the heel of the show. The writers explaining his psychopathy to make you understand is not the same thing as signing off on it. They’ve made that more clear as the seasons have progressed.
i’m not familiar with that idiom. if you don’t realize you’ve been getting an increasingly shallower version of the same character you’ve not been paying attention, it usually happens naturally in tv shows (flanderization) - like how homelander is suddenly asexual and breast milk obsessed. but yes the writers are pulling in every stop to make sure you hate the character because they understandably don’t want people to root for the main villain which for some reason is trump 2.0, as if we needed yet another portrayal of that. the amount of shows that don’t degrade after season 1 is incredibly low unfortunately.
That was a good read. I like hearing about an actor’s motivations when doing a scene, especially that scene, which was the one I was thinking of when I wrote my comment. See, I can acknowledge that Homelander is a psychopath, but as someone who has been hurt as a kid, I empathize with him in that moment. Yeah, you psycho motherfucker, get some. They deserve it. Doesn’t mean I suddenly like him.
Well the show has always been allegorical. It just got to the point where the writers decided they couldn’t be subtle about it anymore. I’m okay with that. Was entertaining to see all the trumpanzees on social media going “Wait…this show is making fun of us!??!?”