there’s a big difference between “food waste” as in “farmers destroy tons of food to avoid exceeding quotas” or “supermarkets throw away this much edible food because it doesn’t sell”
and “food waste” as in “it is not actually within the capacity of humans to perfectly predict and track household food consumption, so a certain amount of food per household inevitably goes bad and has to be thrown out every year”
the idea that food waste is the product of thoughtless consumers rather than corporate greed is really insidious
Homophobia: Murder, corrective rape, conversion therapy, being disowned, losing your job, getting denied housing, harassment, etc
“Heterophobia”: being called a “straighty” on the internet.
Racism: Murder, police brutality, corrupt criminal justice system, not being hired for a job you’re qualified to do, denied housing, racial profiling, hate crimes, etc
“Reverse Racism”: being called a “whitey” on the internet.
Transphobia: Murder, police brutality, being disowned, being kept out of gendered spaces you belong in, getting denied housing, losing your job or not being hired, etc
Okay, but Jack Noir is THE perfect cartoon villain, and cartoon villains are hard to do well.
-Hilarious:
Goes on a murderous rampage because he doesn’t want to wear a silly outfit, and because he’s bored. Gets off on dog magazines. Which is funny because later he actually becomes a dog. Murderous impulses prevent him from escaping prison. Don’t tell me that didn’t have you laughing your ass off.
But also Terrifying: Ho. Ly. Fuck.
With the body horror chimera thing goin on and the fact he pops out of nowhere and Then he gets the pool ball eyes and Holy Actual living fuck. Bout wet my pants when he killed bro. What good is a villain if they can’t get your heart pounding a little?
-Not exactly a complex well rounded human being-(doesn’t really need to be since we understand he’s supposed to be like a video game NPC)–But multifaceted he can hold his own in comedic, dramatic, and action scenes. And he can do them in quick succession. Hates Queens.
Loves Jade, and Licorice Scotty dogs, and Murder.
-But most importantly-Narratively logical. His motivations are silly, and irrational, but he still HAS very clear motivations we can some up in one or two sentences.
He kills everything in sight because being omnipotent is boring. He chases after the Felt because it’s his town and his turf. He Stabs the guard because we’ve establish over and over again that he kind of is addicted to bloodshed. There’s never any confusion as to what his motivations are. And if there is, it is perfectly obvious a mystery is being set up and we’re not SUPPOSED to know, not because the author doesn’t know. This makes him scarier because we know that he’s actually driven to do evil deeds. And it makes him funnier too because watching strange and quirky characters be themselves in awkward situations is one of the oldest forms of comedy there is.
But seriosuly though, how many cartoon villains, or villains outside cartoon genres, have you seen who only ever want one thing, only ever function in one type of scene?
How many Bond villains are called ingenious criminal masterminds and yet they do the most stupid things imaginable, because their narrative has no logic to it? And how many villains can be BOTH funny AND scary? Not many?
One thing that makes Steve Trevor work in Wonder Woman is that they manage to hit the “Tries and fails to be protective” angle, but without any of the normal sexism you see in that trope.
It’s not “No honey, this is a job for a MAN, You can’t do that!” it’s “Diana! Stop! No! PEOPLE DIE WHEN THEY DO THAT! You can’t do that! I CAN’T DO THAT! NOBODY CAN DO THAT…Except You, apparently”
Yes! Exactly! And not only that but there’s no wounded pride scene where he goes like “How could she do that?”, “Why didn’t you tell me you could do that?” blah blah blah. Instead, he’s more like “Woah, can you show me more?” and “Hey guys, you know that thing we haven’t been able to do? SHE’S DOING THE THING! LET’S GO!”
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
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