the last time I made a post about a character type I really like it went well, so here's another one: I love a character who is a piece of shit loser.
Let me explain: a very specific kind of piece of shit loser. This is a character who is almost never (at least not at first) a major protagonist or a major villain. They might be a mercenary or thief or black-hat hacker or in some other sort of antisocial "bad guy" line of work. They are some sort of henchman, or at least have strong henchman energy: dangerous and/or talented in specific skills perhaps, but also, importantly, undeniably a loser. Their personality sucks. They're uncharismatic and unpleasant. The heroes interact with them only when they must-- and this character deliberately cranks up the cynicism around especially sunny or optimistic heroes. They know the world is a cold, hard place, and the only thing they trust is cold, hard cash (if they're even getting paid for this shit). Things like "hope" and "friendship" are for suckers.
Until... somehow, some incident or confrontation or compounding sequence of events puts a crack in their armor. It's a crack where the light can get in-- and also, alarmingly (to others and to them), shine out. It turns out this piece of shit loser had a little spark of goodness buried deep inside all along, and no matter how much they dig in their heels and insist they don't care, their conscience is steadily pulling them over to the "good" side, and it's winning. And the heroes know it, too: this character might still be a piece of shit loser, but now they're their piece of shit loser, and there's no going back.
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SPOILERS FOR "ELEMENTAL"
Okay so I just watched the new elemental movie and it made me realize something very interesting
Now, I'm not going to get into the plot or the side stories or the fact that movie is just OBSESSED with everyone's dad
What I'm here to talk about it the fact that this movie actually has the 2 main characters utter the words "I love you" to eachother and that got me thinking
I have NEVER once heard the love interests in a disney movie say those words. Like- NOT ONCE- Seriously!
Rapunzel and Flynn: Never said it just got married
Cinderella and the Prince: Never said it, just got married
Jasmine and Aladdin: Never said it, just got married (I have since been corrected!)
Sleeping beauty: Girly is literally in a coma for most of the movie
Snow white and Prince: Guy kisses a 12 year old's corpse, gets married to her and never says a word
And then there are the cases where one of them says it but they never once say it to eachother
Beauty and the beast: Belle says it while her man is literally dying, like–??? He says he loves her in a different scene but they don't say it to eachother
Ariel and Eric: She says she loves him to her father but Eric he never says it
Tiana and Naveen: She says she loves him he never says it back (he says he loves her in a different scene when she isn't there)
Hercules and Meg: Meg had a whole ass song about it but they never said it to eachother
And there's a bajillion other examples
This was just like a total culture shock to me. It's actually incredible that almost all the disney movies, which center around love and couples, never have the two characters who are MEANT TO BE TOGETHER say even a single "love ya shawty" "Aww radical, love ya too bb"
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