Villains That Were Lowkey Onto Something

Thanks to HelloFresh for sponsoring today's video. Go to strms.net/NasuHelloFreshNovemberYT and use code POGNASUNOV70 for 70% off plus free shipping on your first box! Additional comments on the villain at 11:25 below (Persona 5 Royal Spoilers): It is also incredibly hypocritical for the Phantom Thieves to oppose Maruki’s plan to rid the world of suffering through cognitive pscience. They make the argument that everyone should have the freedom and autonomy to go at it on their own. To take the world head on and fight for their own happiness. That if the happiness is just created for them, then it’s not true happiness. But they quite literally did the same thing. Not every one of their targets has been a criminal in need of reforming. Futaba was a palace owner who’s distorted desires they took away to allow her to overcome her trauma. She didn’t overcome it on her own, they actively used Metaverse magic to cure her. How are they any different from Maruki who’s trying to do the exact same thing on a planetary scale? Is it because Futaba asked for it to be done? In that case should they not have woken everybody up and asked the masses whether or not they want to return to the past reality?

Ultron spent one day on the internet and decided humans needed to die. Can’t say I blame him

Gus being a villain doesn't really matter because he made good chicken

What I've come to realize growing up and what fiction writers have been trying to tell us all these years is that there's a difference between Broken people and Evil people.

To me the villain speech that hits home will always be Doflamingo’s speech on justice. On how children that never now peace have different values from those who never know war. And how the victors control what right and wrong. How they choose the future and chose how the past is seen. The winner defines what justice is. “Will justice triumph, you say?” “Of course it will” “Because the winners become justice”

I've met enough evil people in real life to realize that some people are evil for literally no reason. It's not a cliche, it's something that happens in real life.

As someone once said, the best villains are individuals who could've been the protagonists of another story.

Madara was the first villain to make me disappointed that he didn't win, his dream was so good to not be achieved

Thanos plan didn’t account for supply chains, he also got rid of half the work force needed to distribute and make those resources, doesn’t matter if there’s twice the resources when most of its going bad and rotting

"a lonely child is what you're gonna be when I sell you" 💀, still can't believe that's a real line from the show. Cold af.

Fun Fact about Thanos: There's a little detail in Guardians of the Galaxy during the prison line-up scene that says Gamora is the "last of her race", yet Thanos says that her planet is thriving. Dude either didn't check because he was too scared to disappoint his daughter or simply because he didn't want to be wrong.

Don’t you just love how gus is in the thumbnail but not covered in the video

Tbh, one thing Thanos completely underestimated is the fact that people find more efficient ways to use dwindling resources and even find new ways to use resources that were worthless before. Killing half of all people is also killing half of all potential people who could find the next source of bountiful clean energy, or create an agricultural innovation that could help feed millions.

The worst part about the Lisa's death was that Dracula gave them one year to flee the land before he begins to body people, but instead of doing the reasonable thing and FLEEING THE COUNTRY, they chose to CELEBRATE the day of his wife's death instead, which was also the day that DRACULA WAS GOING TO BODY THEM. Btw the anime is called Castlevania

Castlevania has so many moments where the villains are right and the conversations Issac has with his night creatures are so good

“As a human myself” 💀 Best line ever uttered in YouTube

Another interesting one is the phantom troupe from HxH. They're motives and actions are not as clean as these examples however they show they care about the other members and manage to follow a code of conduct better than almost any other group in media I've seen.

Doctor Doom also was pretty logical. He saw every future and the only one without death and destruction was the one where he ruled the planet. He even met Wakanda's panther god (Bast) who kills all impure hearts and survived the encounter.

I'm glad Dracula was brought up here. I love how he displays each stage of grief. By the end of the second second he's just.... apathetic. The hatred and fury is still there, but its barely under this thick grimy layer of "I'm just fucking tired." the only time we see him roused from his lethargy is during the final conflict with Belmont and Sypha, but even then then it's more like mild amusement at the whole thing rather than a blood thirsty quest for vengeance. It's only when Alucard confronts Dracula do we see some of that old fury and hate rise to the surface. This is likely Dracula repressing the very real feelings of love and compassion that he has for his son, because when we later see that façade crack it more or less figuratively cripples him both physically and emotionally. Dracula is one of the few villains I've seen in modern media where their apathy is actually explored. Dracula is a villain with survivor's guilt.

I love that you used freedom and security. Literally gave me goosebumps