I think the Poptropica villains peaked in 2014, and went downhill ever since 😕
Let me see...
That's not the only thing that started to go downhill, haha. Bad joke
Reminder: the book Mystery of the Map came out in 2014. The island came out a year later. So Octavian counts.
I had to look up the villains that came after 2014:
I like Red Baroness fine... Rumpelstiltskin is cool... I like Dr. Blandston's story... I don't care about the others though.
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Hey everyone I just wanted to make a quick post here to say that I might've accidentally stayed up late last night working on my fanfics...but that's not why I'm here. I'm here to talk about my chatfic that I'm doing and the next chapter is about fanart. Now I wanted to come on here and ask if you have fanart of one of the villains down below and are okay with me sharing it on the chapter (I'll say who made what fanart in the chapter!) feel free to reblog this post with your fanart!
Here's a reminder of who's in the chatfic down below!
Dr.Hare
Binary Bard
Captain Crawfish
Black Widow
Gretchen Grimlock
Ringmaster Raven
Daphne Dreadnaught
Director D
Mustachio Grande
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Woah boy Anon you have no idea what you've just done
Basically the first change is that Zeus is actually a good caring God who wants to protect and help people, and that ended up having consequences for pretty much all other characters.
Zeus takes the form of a teacher at Harvey's University after he's had his accident, getting him the support he needs and harshly punishing those who bully him. Harvey with his help doesn't become bitter and vengeful, instead insisting that he's going to prove everyone wrong by doing good for the world through science and robotics.
Zeus turns into first mate onboard an honest merchant ship and convinces the captain to let Crawfish (who's just a kid at the time) becomes a junior officer. He very quickly proves his skill with ships, rises through the ranks, and eventually when the old captain retires Crawfish is given command of the ship instead. When his home port begins to struggle financially, he uses the ship to bring them supplies
Zeus makes himself curator of an art museum, and makes sure to catch Widow on her very first heist. Instead of turning her in, he encourages her to keep improving her art instead of stealing it from others, and also suggests that if she's good enough to sneak past all that security she could have a future as a crimefighter. She takes him up on it, and with his guidance becomes a secret agent using her public persona as a famous artist as cover.
But Mordred is the one things change the most drastically for.
Mordred's childhood going by King Arthur myths was really not good: His father is King Arthur (making Mordred kind of a prince actually!), and there's a prophecy that Mordred will grow up to overthrow him and destroy the kingdom. Arthur wants to stop that from happening but doesn't know which child is Mordred, only that he'll be born on May 1. So he finds all children born on that day and sends them out onto the sea to drown, where Mordred is the only survivor.
In my normal idea of the world, I'd imagine this is when he washes up on the shores of Astroknights where he later finds out the truth and tries to become king as it's "his right".
In the Hero AU Zeus instead decides to intervene because this whole situation is messed up. He takes baby Mordred to Astroknights himself and gives him to the King and Queen. They're horrified that another king would do something like that to his own child, and adopt Mordred as their own. He grows up as a prince, and becomes a brave and honourable knight.
He sees Elyana as his little sister and they're very close. But as they grow up, people start to pay less and less attention to Elyana in favour of Mordred since he's the oldest child and the one who will become ruler. He also begins to spend less and less time with her as he's busy learning how to be king. She's alone and upset, feeling like everyone has abandoned her.
She begins to resent Mordred for having "abandoned her just like everyone else", and angry that he "stole the throne" from her. Eventually after they get into a huge fight she escapes into space.
Everyone assumes Elyana died in space, and Mordred is absolutely heartbroken feeling like all of it is his fault. The cult pops up believing she actually survived, and Mordred joins them because he's desperate to find Elyana and being her back home safely. Instead when he manages to contact her she attacks the kingdom and takes him away because "if you're gone I can be queen".
The player rescues Mordred, and Astroknights mostly plays out the same. Except despite everything he still cares for her, and when the portal is about to close leaving her stranded in space he tries to turn back for her at the last second.
He has an arm and half his face in the portal when it closes on him. He turns himself into a cyborg to survive.
Following all of that, he doesn't want anything more to do with the kingdom. He's extremely upset and just wants to run away from all of it. He gets into a tiny boat and lets it carry him off into the sea not even knowing if he'll survive or not. He drifts close enough to the "modern islands" to be rescued.
Black widow is an agent, so she becomes involved in figuring out what the heck happened to this medieval robot man they found adrift at sea.
Harvey is one of the best scientists, so she gets him involved too because he's pretty much the only one who can figure out how to repair Mordred's robotics while he's in the hospital.
Crawfish had a similar situation to Mordred of sailing too far from home and being picked up by modern people, so he gets called in because he's pretty much the only one who can fully empathise with being lost in this strange new world.
Mordred's bad situation brings the four of them together, and they decide to stick together as heroes defending Poptropica.
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Describe each Poptropica villain in 2 words or less, the first thing that pops in your head
The first thing that pops in my head? Uh oh. And I'm not doing every villain that exists
Great Booga Shark: Big shark
Dr. Hare: Steals carrots
Copy Cat: Clones herself
Speeding Spike: Runs fast
Sir Rebral: Levitates stuff
Ratman: Controls rats
Crusher: Super strength
Betty Jetty: Flies/Shoots
Director D: Bald spy
Vince Graves: Grave robbing
Binary Bard: Cyborg jester
Black Widow: Steals art
Zeus: Jealous sibling
Captain Crawfish: Pirate
Plant Monsters: um... plant monsters
Gretchen Grimlock: Fortune hunter
El Mustachio Grande: Gangster
Shogun: Evil sibling
Mr. Silva: Evil teacher
Mademoiselle Moreau: Xenophobic reporter
Holmes: Evil robot
Henry Flatbottom: Organized murder
Count Bram: Misses wife
Burt Diamond: Destroys forest
Samuel Brains: Evil businessman
Preston Wilhelm: Rival businessman
Mega Fighting Bots: Rival game
Ringmaster Raven: Makes monsters
Myron Van Buren: Human hunter
Omegon: Evil robot (Part 2)
Schehrazade: Daddy issues
Octavian: Misses wife (Part 2)
Booted Bandit: Evil twin
Red Baroness: German pilot
Chthonians: Demon worms
Rumpelstiltskin: Demon Joker
Dr. Blandston: Jekyll/Hyde
Sir Howard Diggory: A collector
Awantagi: A foreman
Bonus villains:
Arthur Eraser: Erases things
Cactus Von Garlic: Monster hunter
Dr. Cumulo Nimbus: Weather man
Daphne Dreadnaught: Ghost hunter
E.Vile: Another cyborg
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