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{{quote|''You're not the '[[Big Bad]]' anymore. You're not even the 'kind of naughty'.''|'''Xander''', ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''}}
{{quote|'''Icy''': What's going on here?
'''Darcy''': It looks like monkey in the middle.
'''Icy''': And Baltor's the monkey.|''[[Winx Club]]''}}
{{quote|''"He has defeated us numerous times; what makes him think he can do it again?"''|'''Tom Servo''', ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|MST3K]]'' commentary for ''[[Prince of Space]]''}}
{{quote|'''Messy''': You may have beaten us this time! And you may have beaten us last time!
'''Lame''': And you'll beat us next time! And the time after that! And the five times...um, what was our point again?!|''[[Mad Magazine]]'', [[Pokémon (
{{quote|[[Fan Nickname|Prince Ali]], yes it is he, but not as you know him
Once the baddest of the bad, but now a flunky
A blast from Setsuna's past
[[Complete Monster|The most vicious man in the cast]]
But now reduced to a spaz, it's Prince Ali!
Yes, Ali's destined to be another flunky<br />▼
A sad fate not even saved by the [[Badass Beard|goatee]]<br />▼
His rivalries are all gone<br />▼
He's just an Innovade pawn<br />▼
And all his screentime is brief little clips<br />▼
And he's just [[Fan Nickname|Evil]] [[Actor Allusion|Amuro]]'s bitch<br />▼
And his fights are shortened, his character thwarted<br />▼
Killed by Lyle Dylandy<br />▼
Farewell, ex-Prince Aaaaalllliiiii!!!!!|''[[Gundam 00]]'' song parody, to the tune of "Prince Ali (reprise)" from Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]''}}▼
{{quote|''Maybe this is the Collective's new strategy. They don't [[Assimilation Plot|assimiliate]] anymore; they just show up and look helpless.''|'''B'Elanna Torres''', ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'', "Drone"}}▼
Farewell, ex-Prince Aaaaalllliiiii!!!!!
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▲{{quote|''Maybe this is the Collective's new strategy. They don't [[Assimilation Plot|assimiliate]] anymore; they just show up and look helpless.''|'''B'Elanna Torres'''
{{quote|''My dear Spencer...how the mighty have fallen. Your umbrella has folded and now you have become a fugitive in the same world you once sought to control. We shall meet again before the conclusion of this drama. Then, you will learn of the history...'''I''' will write for this world!|'''Albert Wesker''', ''[[Resident Evil]]: The Umbrella Chronicles ending'' }}▼
▲{{quote|''My dear Spencer...how the mighty have fallen. Your umbrella has folded and now you have become a fugitive in the same world you once sought to control. We shall meet again before the conclusion of this drama. Then, you will learn of the history... '''I''' will write for this world!''|'''Albert Wesker'''
{{quote|''"In the first film, the Nothing was [[Eldritch Abomination|an abstract entity]]. In the second film, the Emptiness was [[Anthropomorphic Personification|the human form of dying imagination]]. In this film, it's literally just a bunch of bullies named "[[Accidental Innuendo|the Nasties]]"? How fucking uninspiring is that?! To go from complex ideas destroying worlds to [[Jack Black|one half]] of [[Tenacious D]] acting like a dick-mule! [[Sarcasm Mode|Boy, they keep upping the ante, don't they]]?"''|'''[[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]''', in his review of ''[[The Neverending Story (Film)|The Neverending Story III: Escape From Fantasia]]''}}▼
▲{{quote|''"In the first film, the Nothing was [[Eldritch Abomination|an abstract entity]]. In the second film, the Emptiness was [[Anthropomorphic Personification|the human form of dying imagination]]. In this film, it's literally just a bunch of bullies named "[[Accidental Innuendo|the Nasties]]"? How fucking uninspiring is that?! To go from complex ideas destroying worlds to [[Jack Black|one half]] of [[Tenacious D]] acting like a dick-mule! [[Sarcasm Mode|Boy, they keep upping the ante, don't they]]?"''|'''[[
{{quote|Pity the modern supervillain. Unlike Professor Moriarty in [[Sherlock Holmes]], he is not a master criminal. Unlike [[Flash Gordon (film)|Ming the Merciless]], he cannot be a inscrutable Other whose villainy can be neatly reduced via racist pseudoscience to his origins. The [[Cold War]] is over and the overseas box office necessary for capital-intensive movies to actually make back their production and distribution costs narrows the range of potential foreign adversaries for heroes to battle. A combination of Hollywood political correctness and understandable audience discomfort with ten years of war nixes al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or Iran from the list of possible villains. Most Americans have studiously ignored the horrific slaughter perpetrated by Mexican drug cartels. So what drives the modern supervillain and how does he (or she) carry out dastardly deeds?
The modern supervillain is truly a sad creature.
| ''[https://blogtarkin.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/strategy-and-the-supervillain-problem/ Strategy and the Supervillain Problem ]'' by '''Adam Elkus''' on Grand Blog Tarkin}}
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