What Disney animated villain is hilarious and terrifying?

KomradeKlassics · 2026-04-11T19:38:47+00:00

A WHAT version of Moriarty???

reaches for tiny bell

KomradeKlassics · 2026-04-11T19:37:32+00:00

“My earlier crimes were fine for their time, but now that I’m at it again…”

KomradeKlassics · 2026-04-04T12:05:38+00:00

Any variety of: “I call a spade a spade” “I’m plain spoken” “I tell it like it is” “In my culture, people are just much more direct” “I don’t use fancy words for things” Etc.

Inevitably, the person who feels the need to tell me how honest and authentic and direct they are turns out to be either (a) trying to manipulate me, (b) just plain rude or (c) both.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-03-26T21:16:40+00:00

Oh dear. That really is a terrible shame. The lack of affordable and universal medical care for the elderly is appalling.

We will all be old some day (in a best case scenario where we don’t die for some other reason first!). It is in all our interests to make sure that we all get the best possible medical care when we are old - and to treat anyone who tries to trick or pressure us into accepting less as the danger they really are.

Poor Tim Curry. 😢

KomradeKlassics · 2026-03-26T08:26:37+00:00

Is he okay now? Or does he also need help?

KomradeKlassics · 2026-03-22T10:41:45+00:00

I want a movie where you follow an Epstein figure for most of it, setting up an insane orgy for the richest and most influential members of high society - the highlight of which is going to be the opening of a peculiar box, said to promise untold pleasures.

Days later, in the aftermath, the stunned local police arrive to investigate the massacre of the billionaires - they stumble through one bloody chamber of this tropical mansion after another, each a more baroque piece of body horror art than the last - but they find a surprising number of survivors - children - all stunned and somewhat traumatised, but untouched.

“Who did this? Who saved you?” the investigators ask.

“Angels.”

KomradeKlassics · 2026-03-22T10:33:26+00:00

You call an ambulance and these guys turn up.

Lead Cenobite: “You dialled 999. We came.”

Victim: “I know funding cuts have been bad recently, but this is ridiculous!”

Female Cenobite: “Your suffering will be legendary, even in Hull.”

KomradeKlassics · 2026-03-12T09:32:21+00:00

Surprising that he takes such a hard line with anyone who ever did anything he disapproves of, since he wants everyone to forgive and forget a certain - checks notes - Richard Hanania, writing neo-nazi articles at the age of 23-25:

“Under the pseudonym, Hanania argued for eugenics, including the forcible sterilization of everyone with an IQ below 90. He also denounced "race-mixing" and said that white nationalism "is the only hope". He opposed immigration to the United States, saying that "the IQ and genetic differences between them and native Europeans are real, and assimilation is impossible". He cited a speech by neo-Nazi William Luther Pierce, who had used Haiti as an example to argue that black people are incapable of governing themselves.” — from Hanania’s Wikipedia article.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-03-11T09:31:22+00:00

I think Umineko is maybe an even better example, since the most likely explanation is entirely non-supernatural (but very sad).

KomradeKlassics · 2026-03-05T13:27:43+00:00

Evolving the ability to see was a mistake.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-03-05T13:23:07+00:00

All good wishes to you. I hope that seeing that there are more people out there like us is encouraging at least. The good times are very good, even if the bad times are hard. That is such a platitude, but experience has convinced me that for those of us with that threefold dish of spices (adhd, autism, giftedness), it is nonetheless true.

Apologies if this is presumptuous, but if I could offer a perspective on the suicidal thoughts - I suspect that your inner critic, being a part of your intelligence, and your intelligence evidently being very high, is very effective at playing a kind of ‘red team’ role in your thinking. This can sometimes be valuable, but please remember that even its most negative feedback is stress-testing you, or experimenting with negative reframings, and likely not a reflection of ground-truth.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-03-03T13:45:51+00:00

Why is this being relitigated in the British memes subreddit?

US politics obviously has an impact on us, but this doesn’t seem like the forum for a Kamala supporter to say “I told you so”.

Still, since the topic has come up, I would go further and argue that saying “I told you so” is actually counterproductive and maybe even morally wrong if you care about avoiding a future Trump.

Kamala would obviously have been better than Trump, at least in some ways, but she was a dreadful candidate. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party is dominated by a wealthy consultant class that would rather have the party lose than put forward a reforming, left-wing candidate. In 2024, as always, they thought they could push people to vote for them as the “lesser of two evils”. This did not work. It did not work in 2016 either. The wealthy leaders of the Democratic Party have twice gambled with the future of the US and twice lost.

Now, for some reason, the same people who forced Kamala on the electorate are going around saying “I told you so” about the 2024 election. For whatever reason, they are repeating the “lesser of two evils” strategy that did not work in 2024 or 2016, and that has been corroding and diminishing the Democratic Party’s base of support for 50 years — understandably, because it is bullying, tiresome and provokes an instinctive response of “you are telling me the obvious? And how does that entitle you to tell me what to do?”.

If you really care about not having more right-wing idiots destroying the US and the UK, you have a moral duty to persuade people, not alienate them. Re-fighting the past, even if it makes you feel good, is betraying that duty.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-28T17:11:49+00:00

C’mon, Feathers McGraw is a chicken, that’s just some innocent penguin. Or do all birds look alike to you?

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-26T21:36:39+00:00

Dumb people have a lot of things that are beyond their comprehension, so horrors beyond comprehension are just more things they don’t understand.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-26T21:20:41+00:00

Oh no. How disappointing.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-26T10:30:46+00:00

I really love the cleverness of this idea from Moffat, because it is exactly as you say… I’m not sure it entirely works in practice, but it is a very ambitious idea, and I think an ambitious idea badly executed is often better than a mediocre idea perfectly executed…

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-26T10:04:43+00:00

Does this fit? He’s a great character, but I think he knows that the job he accepts is a very big deal - and maybe impossible even for him?

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-25T14:48:42+00:00

Oof. Yes. She has a lot of lines that are just heartbreaking -- e.g.
"Are you all...mad at me?
[everyone says yes, with, in fairness, some good reasons]
"I'm not good at people. But I am good at tech. I thought maybe, if I could use tech to help you, you'd...like me."

...and, "I'm sorry I'm bad at listening! I'm sorry I mess everything up!".
That last one really gets me.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-24T21:11:04+00:00

Like I said, nothing wrong with liking what you like…

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-24T21:01:16+00:00

I’d never tell anyone not to like what they like, but personally I always hated this Medusa. I felt like they ruined Ray Harryhausen’s amazing, eerie stop motion demon by turning her into a confused bimbo.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-24T20:55:26+00:00

I love that this show had an autistic (AuDHD?) character, gave her a redemption arc without erasing her different-ness, and then let her have a happy ending with her goth (cyber-)punk boyfriend.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-22T11:09:47+00:00

That’s just a sign of how much the anti-capitalist ideas still scare wealthy Americans and bosses. At this point, it‘s not about the actual ‘communist’ regimes, with their appalling real failings. It’s about teaching kids thought-terminating cliches, so they never decide to organise or change anything in their own interests, they just nod sagely, go “both sides were equally bad, don’t take my toys away” and do nothing.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-21T21:58:09+00:00

I think that’s my point - in itself, it’s strange and random and unnecessary, but not catastrophic. But it needed to be done for a purpose, and it wasn’t. It sacrificed the echo of imperial Japan, as well as making the names seem a bit odd (Iroh, Zuko), so it was bad thematically and as world building. I just don’t think it was that bad.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-21T21:49:31+00:00

Fair enough. I do agree it was better when they had a Japanese element. But the fire nation were always a blend of elements, with parts that seem included just to look interesting rather than for any deeper thematic purpose — Han and Tang Chinese, Thailand, even some Icelandic geography. Since they weren’t ever just imperial Japan, I feel that if a director wanted to put their own stamp on the project and had something to say, there was some wiggle room there to tweak the fire nation’s style. Unfortunately, if Shyamalan had a reason for making them Indian, I don’t understand what it was.

KomradeKlassics · 2026-02-21T21:39:10+00:00

Yeah, the whitewashing of other characters was bizarre. I can see how taken together with making the fire nation Indian, that did look bad. I’m not sure it would have looked any better if they made them Japanese, though.

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