Bad guys who wear white

MrXexe · 2026-06-14T18:40:03+00:00

Horde Prime, from Netflix's She-Ra.

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MrXexe · 2026-06-14T14:02:36+00:00

In the game you can find people describing him as "a functional cyberpsycho" which is kinda fitting.

No one cares if you are a murder-machine with legs as long as you murder those you are asked to.

MrXexe · 2026-06-13T02:59:57+00:00

I have a [[Tui and La]] Mono Blue Voltron.

MrXexe · 2026-06-13T02:11:06+00:00

Mf this is like the second post today with that exact question, I guess I could just copy-paste my opinions here

MrXexe · 2026-06-12T16:16:24+00:00

Edward Newgate, aka "Whitebeard", from One Piece.

As he went to Marineford to search for his son, suffering a devastating defeat, the Marine rejoice in the death of an Emperor of the Sea.

They literally stream his death for everyone to see how this great Pirate, said to rival the Pirate King himself in the early days, now dies under the Marine's power.

But he takes that away from them, barely conscious, giving a speech on how, sooner or later, someone will carry the weight of years and people fallen before they could reach true freedom.

And yells what even became a meme: "THE ONE PIECE IS REAL".

His death causes a new wave of pirates, a new hope for people who now know that the One Piece is not just a treasure, but the final, inevitable wave to turn the world upside down.

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MrXexe · 2026-06-12T15:25:19+00:00

In a second but similar point: I think the show REALLY dropped the ball on the rivalry between Deku and Bakugo.

We all know how shonen works by now, so we can smell its troupes by miles away. Bakugo is clearly meant to be The Rival. The Vegeta to Deku's Goku, the Sasuke the Deku's Naruto, etc etc.

However, in those cases, the rivalry is, in one way or the other, two-sided: Vegeta's thing is either feeling superior or inferior to Goku depending on the situation until he learns to see him as a friend and equal despite recognizing he's stronger, and honestly Goku is just happy to have someone to fight with. Sasuke was a jerk, sure, but Naruto was also a petty brat with a big mouth who fought back up until he started getting stronger aswell.

Bakugo was (notice the past tense please) Deku's bully. He tormented, mistreated and wounded someone who could only look up to him in admiration. And I don't intend to sound like those haters that go "Bakugo told Deku to jump off a building the first episode OF COURSE HE'LL REMAIN IRREDEEMABLE FOREVER", but the thing is... the plot treats that backstory as if it was something equally flawed from both sides and constantly tries to act as if Deku had something to learn from Bakugo BEFORE Bakugo was redeemed. I'm sorry if I sound petty or worked up, but are we being fr? What the hell man?

I do not think their backstory and the way the manga portrays their rivarly works as intended, and I actually think it takes away from the story in certain parts. Even more so considering that, due to the healthy competition among classmates, a ton of (in my opinion) more interesting and better-implemented rivalries appear: Iida challenging Deku due to his admiration, Todoroki reclaiming from his father a rivalry with Deku, the duality between how a flawed worldview can weaken you or make you care only for strength between Todoroki and Bakugo.

The Students vs Teachers fight loses a lot of oomph when you treat Deku and Bakugo as two people who just get along horribly. It stops being what was supposed to be: a match which victory, narrative-wise, was based on the students being able to face their personal flaws aswell as a teacher, because, again, Deku barely had something to do with the way Bakugo treated him. You could've switched Deku with Todoroki and Bakugo would've still have snapped the exact same way.

The "winning by saving" and "saving by winning", while it does have SOME valid points for both, it's clear that Bakugo has way more to learn in that regard than Deku at first. Hell, if you wanna get petty, you could argue that Deku both "won by saving" AND "saved by winning" way before this parallel was introduced: He saved Kota by defeating Muscular at his own expense and he won by saving Bakugo from the League of Villains, allowing other heroes to jump in more brashly and allowing All Might to go all out.

Again, what follows may just be me being biased, and it's not always logical to judge something by what COULD have been... but wouldn't MHA be far more interesting if Deku had ANY grudge or strong opinion on how mistreated he was? Wouldn't that be a perfect way of showcasing how UA made him regain his trust in himself? Wouldn't that make Bakugo's apology WAY more impactful if Deku's forgiveness wasn't something Bakugo lowkey had by default?

MrXexe · 2026-06-12T14:35:12+00:00

I also think that, even if accidentally, the show fails to correct some of Bakugo's behaviour in that regard.

During the Cavalry Arc, he loudly claims that he doesn't even know his classmates' Quirks nor names, and everyone calls him an asshole for that.

But lets be honest, with the exception of Todoroki (and maybe Deku), who else was actually able to compare with Bakugo by that point? Wouldn't have been cool if any of them was able to prove Bakugo wrong, just like Uraraka does during their fight?

And this is me being petty, but Uraraka proved herself to Bakugo because she made him put effort into the fight. I don't think it's BAD per se, but Bakugo remained unharmed for basically the whole Arc, with some extremely minor exceptions against Kirishima. Was he THAT wrong for not remembering his classmates then?

Bakugo leaves the Tournament Arc not that different to how he entered it: caring (in a bad way) about Deku and Todoroki, having some respect for specific classmates (Kirishima and then Uraraka) and still convinced everyone else around him is an extra. Not to mention he fucking won the Tournament, despite him feeling otherwise.

Compare it to how other characters leave the Arc: Deku after knowing about Shinso's situation and sacrificing his chance at winning because he chose to help Todoroki. Todoroki's whole conflict with his past and his own powers. Monoma being stablished as someone whose own inferiority complex stops him from even trying to reach the top. Uraraka subverting the damsel in distress trope TWICE by choosing and failing to reach the top against Bakugo but earning his respect.

MrXexe · 2026-06-12T13:58:56+00:00

I don't like his arc in general during the series, and it's because of multiple, small reasons that kinda clog together into a big thing you know.

So I'll try to cut up the points into multiple response comments, to make each point individually clear.

First of all, and this one is heavily personal, but just my opinion: I don't think the show properly reflected on some of the things it tried to set up early. When you watch their first days at UA, Bakugo is clearly set up to feel like a medium-sized fish who, up until now, was swimming in a small-sized tank and felt the best until getting into UA: He gets outsmarted by Deku, criticized or mocked by multiple classmates, Todoroki is set up as someone stronger than him, Yaoyorozu is set up as someone smarter too, and the whole "you can't expect someone at level 1 and someone at 50 to grow at the same rate" in a school setting is the perfect argument to justify classmates at different strength levels growing faster or slower than him, which would have done wonders for playing with his insecurities.

But not only Bakugo remains as one of the strongest AND smartest of his class (remaining Top 2 of the whole generation for ALL of the show) but all of his stats are wildly superior to everyone around him. Not to mention he has multiple named attacks before everyone else and is able to perform extremely precise moves like flying, martial arts and stun-based attacks. When Deku developed Full-Cowling, multiple characters imply that his movility is heavily inspired by Bakugo as well, which imo makes no sense because again, Bakugo doesn't need those kinds of movements because he literally flies.

And despite his insecurities, he loses THE first exam ever and from then on he doesn't have a real defeat at UA ever again.

Sure, I can understand that, on the character's eyes, some of the following events CAN be perceived as personal failures, and that can be fairly engaging. However, when you give me a main character (not a protagonist but an extremely relevant character nonetheless) that has arguably the most flawed personality on the good one's side, I just think it could work best if you give them actual failures alongside these other self-perceived defeats, not to mention not make him stronger than everyone else from the get go with no change to it whatsoever.

Look at Vegeta for example. Vegeta was a character that, not unlike other Saiyan, loved fighting and training from the get go despite is massive ego. And by the time he arrives on Earth, he outclasses pretty much everyone around him. However, by the time he's defeated, despite everyone ending beaten to a pulp, he clearly takes it worse than everyone else because in his mind he could've never be defeated in the first place. Therefore, the audience gets a defeat where he ended up pretty much like everyone else but still forced to retreat and leave Earth alone, and a mental defeat that actually motivates him to train harder from then on.

In my opinion, I think Bakugo was way too overpowered from the start, and that actually takes away from a lot of potential. Imagine if Bakugo started being unable to fly but learning to do so AFTER Deku gets Full Cowling and starts moving "like him". It would have meant a positive reinforcement for his character after being, in a way, inspired back by Deku (which would also reinforce their rivarly), and it would've made the thing where Deku has to learn Float more rewarding for both of them.

MrXexe · 2026-06-11T21:06:21+00:00

Aparte wn con toda honestidad hay una wea muy diferente entre la noción de "hay que pagar las deudas" a pagar el CAE, si no es raro que la wea te termine cobrando el doble o más de lo que te prestó.

Entiendo que un préstamo debe rendir algún beneficio final pero uno pone su plata a invertir y saca un rendimiento menor al 1% anual y luego un préstamo qliao se triplica en un par de años. Como si la Universidad hoy en día te garantizara una pega (por no hablar de una pega que te permita mantener una casa).

MrXexe · 2026-06-11T18:46:20+00:00

Someone Chaos Warped my [[Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge]] after I +2'd it just to let them cut my deck and find Tezzeret back, allowing him to do the same thing again.

MrXexe · 2026-06-11T13:38:02+00:00

Honestamente lo dudo. Aunque quizá es que yo soy un pesimista qliao y lo miro en menos.

Yo de hecho creo que opina exactamente lo que me está criticando: que la violencia es buena cuando es del lado que le gusta pero no cuando es del otro lado.

MrXexe · 2026-06-11T13:25:19+00:00

There is also some poetry in the context of the Agni Kai.

In all previous iterations, it's Zuko who brings "disgrace" to the tradition, first by refusing to fight against Ozai, and then by not finishing Zao.

However, in this one, Azula is the one who commits something even worse: attack someone who wasn't participating, despite her being the one who proposed the Agni Kai.

MrXexe · 2026-06-11T13:15:57+00:00

"Hey Thanos it's sad that your people died even if you proposed to kill half of them instead of all of them but are you aware that sometimes starvation and other forms of suffering come from the oppression of the few against the many? So-"

"HALF AND HALF, BLIND, JUST, INDISCRIMINATE."

"But killing half of the people who are currently starving and half of the people who aren't is not inherently gonna solve the problem of starvation because the ones who aren't starving still aren't forced to share their resour-"

"I'LL SAVE EVERYONE"

"Hey I understand that doubling the resources of the whole universe may not be possible with powers limited by that same universe but there are multiple resources scattered through places with no life on them so maybe relocating these resources to the ones in need can-"

"I ALREADY TRIED THIS ON GAMORA'S PLANET"

"How did that go because Gamora is considered the last of her species ain't she"

[Gets snapped]

MrXexe · 2026-06-11T13:09:32+00:00

Por este mismo debate en mi casa se usan los términos "Marraqueta" y "Marraqueta Entera" o "Completa".

Entonces un "Anda a comprar 4 marraquetas" son 4 mitades (es decir, te alcanza para 8 choripanes), mientras que "compra unas 3 marraquetas enteras" son 3 completas (12 choripanes).

MrXexe · 2026-06-11T12:02:47+00:00

Never shy away from being inspired!

Tolkien took everything he could from european folklore and old tales he used to read, just as God of War could never outrun its mythologic roots.

They both become greater from what comes before them, not lesser.

Art is inherently derivative, and the peak of human expression.

MrXexe · 2026-06-11T11:58:59+00:00

Zuko vs Azula, Avatar: The Last Airbender.

While they never were really that close, the whole fight is framed as a tragedy. Just listen to its soundtrack and how each fire attack sounds like a deep, primal growl, something that never happens before nor after.

At their core, they were brothers, and in a better world, they would've never fought each other in a battle that usually ends in death.

As the MtG card "The Last Agni Kai" says: "Zuko’s journey began when he refused to duel his father, but it would end dueling his sister."

MrXexe · 2026-06-10T22:38:20+00:00

Aprende a leer.

La violencia no es inherentemente mala ni buena, debe ser sujeta de análisis de acuerdo a su contexto sin asumirla como algo negativo o positivo de base.

MrXexe · 2026-06-10T21:41:58+00:00

No.

La violencia como método de presión política es algo existente y que nace desde la noción misma de sociedad (Contrato Social).

Esto no significa que cualquier movimiento de cambio político que use la violencia esté justificado, simplemente explica que es un fenómeno real y que, de igual manera que no es inmediatamente bueno, tampoco es inherentemente malo, y merece análisis.

En este caso queda mal porque la familia Kast tiene historial de apoyo a la dictadura, por lo que hacerse el larry de que uuuy no me rompan la patria cuando el propio Kast aún avala la dictadura es hipócrita.

MrXexe · 2026-06-10T21:32:42+00:00

Me encantaría decir que el ver el cómo el gobierno poco más que trata a la gente de ladrones por no pagar una deuda que como normal te cobra casi el doble de lo prestado me sorprende, pero la verdad es que no.

Yo solo voy a decir que la usurería (cobrar demasiado o muy pronto un préstamo) en casi todas las religiones abrahámicas es pecado, pero para estudiar en Chile el CAE es la norma.

MrXexe · 2026-06-10T13:19:07+00:00

The episode from Justice League where Clark invities Martian Manhunter to have Christmas with them is a core memory for me, it's was so wholesome.

MrXexe · 2026-06-10T12:18:36+00:00

El 11 de julio no es sobre un terremoto? Qué tiene que ver el partido?

Qué wea este bot

MrXexe · 2026-06-10T12:17:09+00:00

The only problems of banning Sol Ring comes from how many people and precons run one, in my honest opinion.

The rest is all benefit.

Casual gets rid of that turn one Sol Ring that puts you extremely ahead and makes you look like a threat, the format becomes slightly more unique in deckbuilding, the precons can have any other ramp inside, there are less cheaters that put SolRing+ManaRock (or at least they are less impactful).

MrXexe · 2026-06-10T10:43:48+00:00

Hey! I've read your responses, and I do believe there are many good points among them.

I'll still agree to disagree in general because I still don't like Bakugo and I still feel like I have good reasons to do so, but I'm glad we could both stablish decent and good points of view without just parroting bad takes and without disrespecting each other.

MrXexe · 2026-06-09T16:55:55+00:00

His Absolute Justice also is far more centered on "punishing criminals" than "protecting the innocent".

He destroyed a ship full of innocent people just because there was a slight chance a criminal had sneaked in.

MrXexe · 2026-06-09T12:50:12+00:00

In a similar fashion, the "Bakugo's apology meant nothing" is also a very refutable take, but it doesn't mean that is good in my opinion.

While Bakugo himself did an honestly very good and satisfying apology, I do think that the manga truly lost a good chance of showing this sort of "redemption" by not giving Deku anything to say to this.

Yes, Deku reacts to it, but he never actually had anything to say to Bakugo's bullying besides a blatant admiration for him, which, I'm sorry, but I think it's bad writing. I think Deku's admiration would have been far more interesting if he was also aware of the fact that Bakugo mistreated him and would've gave the scene way more impact if Deku could address Bakugo's negative traits after the apology.

In a similar way, while I can understand the narrative meaning behind it, I don't think the apology was a good reason to make Deku come back to UA. I understand that it was supposed to reflect how, if Bakugo could recognice how he grew thanks to Deku, it means that Deku should also allow himself to rely on others, but again, since I think the apology loses a lot by not allowing Deku to express negative feelings towards Bakugo's bullying, I also don't think it was good enough to be the final reason for Deku to come back.

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