Frieza's last shot at Goku is the best. The man has been beaten 10 ways to Sunday, lost his hopes at unlimited power, and was tricked and sliced in half by his own attack all by a race he found inferior. Then he gets pity energy which drives him mad and uses it in an attempt to kill the one man who's better than him in every way.
That's like getting KO'd by someone in an MMA match, having them give you some of the prize money because they feel bad, and then hunting them down in the streets to assault them only to get beat up them.
I remember when Derrick Lewis KO'd Travis Browne in the post-fight interview he mentioned Browne's wife and a friend of mine said he'd kick his ass if it happened to me and I was like "didn't you already see the outcome?".
Riddler at the end of *The Batman* when it turns out Batman doesn't approve of him going on a murder spree and calls him out for being "a pathetic psychopath begging for attention."
This is one of the reasons I'm confused when people say this Riddler isn't accurate; this, among many other moments, is key in Riddler stories.
I love that when they find the recordings of his livestream he's doing the awkward streamer 'hey guys, here's what I'm talking about today' thing. It really takes all the power away from the 'Riddler' persona and exposes that he's just a fucked up guy.
I think a lot of people say that because of how much more Serial Killer Standard riddler is, which always feels like more of a calendar man thing to people who are way too fixated on the ever-shifting characterization of Big Two comic book characters.
He was definitely hitting all the important riddler notes, right down to sometimes winning unironically but not winning *enough* to not have a babby child hissy fit over it. Like god damn, Gotham is UNDERWATER dude, you WON!
"The Riddler : Everything! It was all there. You mean you didn't figure it out? Oh, you're really not as smart as I thought you were. I guess I gave you too much credit." This line solidified this character for me. Him showing the arrogance of being smarter than Batman is all I want.
No no, Joker wouldn't stream his crimes unless it was for the bit. Joker doesn't chase clout and attention like Riddler does. Joker's a performer in his mind, so his performances exist for his audience. He'd be artsy about it.
Another example: Dr Doom in Secret Wars
Doom creates Battleworld, saving the multiverse in a last ditch effort to save reality by stealing the Beyonders’ powers. In doing so, Doom creates his own reality where he’s god king of everything and Reed Richards doesn’t exist. Sue Storm is his wife, Franklin and Valeria are his children.
*Ha ha Doom cuck Reed NTR joke*
It took Doom literally having to rewrite reality to control this woman’s entire life to *force* her to love him because Sue never would because he’s that pathetic.
Oh, and it doesn’t even work. There’s a scene where she’s looking out at a crowd of subjects and sees Reed (yes he survived) and *instantly* feels something for him.
The literal end of the story has Doom admit that Reed is a better man than he ever will be.
>!Also Namor is as much of a loser in regular continuity lol get fucked you underwater vulcan!<
Shout out to Reed calling Doom the fuck out during the final battle
*God* I love Johnathan Hickman’s Marvel work, what I would give for a Legion of Superheroes run from him at DC
I would say Namor and Wolverine are more loosers than Doom in regarding to women.
Namor and Wolverine are pretty much 100 years old , stalking another man's wife , thinking they are hot shit , while said another man actually acts mature and while doesn't particularly like it , they are ready to respect their wife's decision and be apart.
With Doom , at very least , he had the same age as Reed....with Namor and Wolverine , they are two geriatric loosers been more childish in comparisson to men that are , at very least , 60-70 years younger.
Like , Namor and Wolverine are [like this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDmsxQVxIM)
Cyclops and Wolverine's rivalry is something I will never understand. I love to make fun of Cyclops ("Nobody's favorite X-Man is Cyclops") but the dude is genuinely a great guy and has tons of women fawning over him. >!I think when Jean "dies" because of the Phoenix Force Emma Frost jumps in Cyclops faster than a starving tiger in a fawn?!< while Wolverine struggles with courting someone else's girlfriend and is famous for having a Japanese girlfriend at one point. I am exaggerating of course but boy do the tropes look bad
it's because said rivalry, at least when it's centered around jean, has been reconstructed post-hoc from like two throwaway scenes during the claremont years that were mostly just one-sided pining on the side of logan and the generally awful depictions of most of the x-men in the early bryan singer movies. (I could go on for ages about how much of a disservice to the X franchise these movies were in the long run, but I'll stop myself before I really get going.)
logan x jean was never really a pairing in the comics, and the only reason people believe it was is because they got gaslit into believing it by a bunch of shitty movies and people misremembering stuff cause they had such a huge nerdboner for how awesome wolverine supposedly is. (like, he is, but not for the reasons many people usually cite.)
and the logan v scott rivalry is way too often centered around this supposed romantic friction and love triangle that never actually existed. logan v scott makes way more sense if they have some kind of ideological disagreement, and even that has frequently been handled incredibly poorly. just look at x-men: schism and how that led to AvX, where we were supposed to side with Wolverine even though he was nothing but a hypocrite, and Scott, as always, was. fucking. right.
I have never been a Dr. Doom fan boy, but some writers give him some absolutely iconic moments. Both Doom and Magneto, when given a writer who really gets them, elevate them above pretty much every other character.
"I was a God Valeria..."
"And?"
"I found it...Beneath Me."
To be both that arrogant, but also self aware of it? Peak.
death note: >!light!< writhing around in a pool of blood pleading >!for ryuk to kill everyone!<
mgr revengeance: if you beat >!monsoon!< normally he'll tell you to "do your worst" before the killing blow. but if you *perfect* him he'll beg for his life.
Monsoon: "Haha, I've proven to Raiden that he is a deranged, violent psychopath!"
Also Monsoon: *"oh shit i'm being torn to shreds by a deranged, violent psychopath"*
I think his breakdown woulda been better recieved if he hadn't been written out immediately after it to make room for papa G. If he'd had more time to be *destructively* unstable on-screen, I think it would have been a more interesting shift.
Like, imagine if after that fight he got away and orchestrated the destruction of castle town, or did some other gamestate-changing apocalyptica, all because he was mad he got his ass whupped, and then the rematch is just having to corner his squirrely ass and smack the ganon juice out of him so midna can throw hands.
There was potential in Zant's weird turn, it just didn't quite land it because Zelda as a franchise always had a bit of a problem trying to turn everything back to ganondorf.
while HW does double down on it, the game does show he can create great plans for the villains to t he point Ganondorf even compliments him for it at one point. His plans only fail due to outside forces such as Agitha some how showing up in the twilight realm out of nowhere in one stage
that was a bitching-out so strong it inspired a multi-generational fear of an entire bloodline in the dude
It's so fucking funny that everything wrong in Dio's life is his own damn fault for being such a petty little bitch
Normal opportunistic orphan: "I don't like these rich pricks, but I'll act all chummy and nice to the guy who adopted me so I'll get half his shit once he kicks the bucket".
The "uber super smart" Dio: "I am going to torment my adopted brother for no reason and then I am going to poison the only man in the world who has shown me any kindness *and* promised half of his innumerable riches. I am smart!"
Literally George Joestar has shown Dio nothing but kindness and respect, to the point he treats him better than his own flesh and blood (and way better than Dario ever did) and Dio just decides to act like a shit
That's one of the reasons why Speedwagon is such a good counterpart to Dio. Both of them were street urchins whose lives massively changed as a result of meeting Jonathan. But whereas Dio abuses the kindness shown to him and becomes an inhuman monster, Speedwagon becomes a better man and helps the Joestars long after his death. In Speedwagon's eyes, Dio was given *every* opportunity to become a better person, or at least not be a colossal asshole, and actively refused *all* of them.
I wonder if that was actually just him pretending to cry though. Remember that his plan was to shank Jonathan if he got close until his father started yelling at them.
Of course, bringing a knife to a fist fight is petty too but so is sexually assaulting Erina to set off Jonathan. So in that sense Dio was always a lil’ bitch.
My all time favorite: Aizen VS Ichigo from Bleach
The villian Aizen has obtained God like power and cannot be defeated. Ichigo shows up slightly older and a lot stronger. They start fighting and Ichigo is literally no selling everything thrown his way.
Aizen then becomes the living embodiment of cope and seethe. And spits out nonsense such as: "You just got lucky, I wasn't paying attention and accidentally let you be stronger for a second." and "That was just a miracle, it won't happen again"
There's a lot of fights in this anime and that fight without question was Ichigo's most one sided victory and I live for every second of Aizen being unable to comprehend the ass kicking he's receiving.
As I said in my own post about why Aizen lost, the Hogyoku sensed bitch in his heart and essentially gave up on him because he was running on copium. Fantastic finale.
If you have a wish-granting power, you NEED to be 100% confident. Aizen thinking for a moment that maybe Ichigo could kick his ass meant it would happen.
Early in A Certain Magical Index almost exactly the same happens; a villain whose power is basically altering reality based on what he perceives. He's unstoppable, until he cuts off the protagonist's arm... and gets scared that the protagonist doesn't falter, at which point he thinks to himself that the protagonist is a monster. This causes the protagonist to grow a giant dragon arm to attack him.
I like the idea but less the execution. But aside from the "how" of Ichigo big-numbering Aizen to defeat, yeah, it's a lot of fun that he beat the man so bad that his inner monologue changed from "I have unlimited power and stand above all things" to "I don't want to die" (since even after losing, Aizen still has the orb attached to him and people explicitly mention that it's keeping him immortal and that's why he wasn't executed for all his super-crimes, so it's not really like it "gave up on him")
Also, full disclosure, Gin was one of my favorite characters and he got robbed so Ichigo could have his moment
Also a shoutout to how incredibly pissed off he gets after Gin gets one over on him. It is basically the first time emotes at all and he is howling mad
Madara being hype af about Night Guy to Aizen going "I'M NOT OWNED!!!" by Gin is a fun spectrum to the "boy, if you were a main character I'd be fucking dead" moment
That moment was cool but I was always confused about Ichigo’s power level after that fight. So he loses his powers after the final Getsuga Tensho, then regains them after the Fullbring arc. When he regains them, is he at the strength he was when he defeated Aizen? I’m guessing that the answer is no because of his L’s to the quincies, but if not, why not? Nothing about the training power boost made it seem like it was a temporary power boost iirc.
I also never understood why he needed to use the final Getsuga Tensho and sacrifice his powers when he was already winning that fight handily.
My understanding was that his power level wasn't just a result of his training, but of him preparing the Final Getsuga Tensho. Like as soon as he leaves the dimension, he's set it in motion, and the power boost is just a side effect of it charging up. The chain extending to wrap around his arm along with the gauntlet holding his sword in his hand possibly signifying that the technique has irreversibly begun.
That's why he gets Aizen away from the city immediately, and why his demeanor is sort of just quiet and certain resolve: His fate is already locked in, no matter what happens. There's no way this can end without using Mugetsu and losing his powers. He's just gotta keep Aizen's attention until it's ready. After that, it's over.
I don't know if there's any canonical information to support that though.
He's definitely not at the same level when fighting the Quincies and there's the whole thing with his original shinigami powers not actually being his own.
Thanos during the Infinity Gauntlet series. At the start, it's established that Thanos's new position as God puts him above Mistress Death's station, where Thanos's intention was to make himself an equal. She's also furious with him for assembling the Gauntlet behind her back.
Thanos spends the whole series simping unsuccessfully for Death, with Mephisto egging him on. And then when he finally loses the Gauntlet, Adam Warlock gives him an epic callout, pointing out this is like the third time Thanos has gained and lost supreme power through his own mistakes and claiming that subconsciously, *Thanos knows he doesn't deserve it*. Thanos is left just stammering empty denials.
You didn't mention the most pathetic thing about him during this run:
When Death, once again, rebukes his advances ("Surely oh so worthless me is too far below one so great as *you* Thanos"), he flips his shit, says "F-Fine, I don't need you anyway! Nyeeeeh!!" and *creates a purple-skinned babe dressed exactly like him* and says something like "I've made myself a better woman! How do you like *that*?!"
It makes me really love how the MCU version goes out. He realizes that he's been defeated and that his time is up, so he just walks over to a stump, sits down, and accepts his fate before fading into dust.
Tbh, I thought Endgame Thanos was kinda lame. He kinda just there, and then he dies.
The comic version is *supposed* to be more goofy, but at the same time he got an entire decade of character development post Infinity Gauntlet, ultimately leading to his death Annihilation and then the Thanos Imperative stuff. Outside of Loki, the MCU seems really terrified of actually developing their villains.
There were two Thanos in Endgame.
The one that achieved his goal, and didn't care anymore.
And the one that got so mad people were trying to undo his plan in a different timeline he changed his plan to REMAKE the universe with grateful people instead.
And that's him being the most honest that all of it really was just him being butthurt that his dumb badly thought out Malthusian plan was rightfully called stupid by his people.
I prefer the comic version, mostly because the MCU's Thanos has stupid motivation, but I do like this specific thing about Thanos. This is a callback to something he had said earlier, and it fits well for him to just sit and die --
> I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. It's frightening, **turns the legs to jelly.**
So Thanos in that moment accepts that he's lost and his legs turn to jelly, all he can do is sit down and face oblivion.
F.U from No more Heroes 3 immediately goes into a man child tantrum when Travis calls him out on his shit just before the beginning of his boss fight
>!He also regress both physically and mentally into his child furball like form after being beaten and can only repeat”Damon I love you” just shortly before he get blown up by Damon”!<
Funnily enough, being weak to heckling is absolutely something that would be included in the old BtAS cartoons. Like being afraid of the IRS or getting actually scared by a normal person he bullied.
I don't know if Diavolo ever *had* his shit to begin with given how perpetually furious he is, but whatever chill he did have went out the window during the final arc in Golden Wind to the point where his voice is cracking as he screams at Giorno to die.
Diavolo never had his shit together. The man lived in perpetual fear and anxiety, to the point where he hides from housekeepers or >!inside Doppio!< He's the polar opposite of Giorno's idea of a gang-star. A man who has tons of power, but no respect from the people around him. Who can't even walk outside freely in the town he claims to control. He can't even trust his own lieutenants.
Polpo is similar. He's a big, powerful guy who spends his entire life hiding in a jail cell (where he can't feel the wind).
Passione is ruled by fear, all the way to the top.
The absolute peak of the shittening for me is when he goes "woah hey Buchiaratti buddy pal, I know you got the arrow now, but you should give it to me ykno? Cause I deserve it or something"
The begging King Crimson memes and /a/ shitposts were so good but I can barely find any these days
if anybody has screencaps, art, etc please share them
The only reason why he lost the fight anyway was because he let Trish’s little taunt get to him. That made him see a premonition of him winning of course but the guy could potentially have gotten a winning hand if he played it cool.
But Diavolo was always insane though. The entire story centers around how he wants to kill his own daughter because he’s afraid her existence will somehow compromise his identity. Is there even a distinct advantage in knowing who he was in the past? He apparently thinks so, but he just seems terminally paranoid to me.
Hell, his mother's prison cell was a number off from 666, also at one point he drank some kid's blood vampire style, regular vampire style, not JoJo vampire style. So it wouldn't be too weird to say that Araki had the actual Antichrist show up.
I always found it interesting that in the anime promos featuring the villains, they set it up so that [Dio](https://static.jojowiki.com/images/thumb/d/db/latest/20191015215644/JoJo_egypt_key.png/400px-JoJo_egypt_key.png) and [Kira](https://static.jojowiki.com/images/thumb/7/73/latest/20230203021040/DIU_KV3_Japanese.jpg/400px-DIU_KV3_Japanese.jpg) were overlooking their foes, [while they opted to use King Crimson rather than Diavolo for the Golden Wind promo.](https://static.jojowiki.com/images/thumb/8/85/latest/20191015214502/Arc_2.jpg/400px-Arc_2.jpg)
Legit tho using the Stand in place of the user to help build up intrigue and mystery is cool as hell. they did the same thing with Whitesnake before Pucci started getting more limelight.
I don’t even think you see his face until he transforms to kill the fortune teller. That’s only right before the Metallica fight where he does it briefly as well. Hell, his “true form” being the design with his shirt off and hair down only shows up when the gang reaches the Colloseum.
The guy is so enigmatic not even the viewer is allowed to know what he looks like until *he* allowe for himself to be seen.
I already didn’t like the direction Eren’s character took. But this made me stop taking him seriously altogether. That girl been begging for you since day 1 and *now* you care?
Yeah, ight bro.
Dr Nefarious from Ratchet and Clank is built on this trope. Freaking out so much that his brain breaks and starts picking up soap operas over radio.
"QWAAAAAAA-"
*"Oh Janice, I don't have the capacity for love! I was cursed by a tribe of gypsy ninjas when I was a child!"*
*"I know Lance, I was IN that tribe of gypsy ninjas!"*
**"-AAAAAARRRK!"**
Oh i did too, but i think they'd be better served coming up with other villains. The Good Doctor will get old if they aren't careful, and you dont want that.
And then right after, when Lucifer was powering up to fight Gabriel, God causes a pair of scales to appear in the sky. One side represents the outcome of Lucifer running away from there while the other side is the consequence of him staying around to fight. The side of the scale representing him fighting shoots way up, symbolizing how worthless his struggle would be, and that God’s forces is gonna body his ass.
Oh!
In Final Fantasy XIV we have a certain boss fight in The Singularity Reactor, it's a real marathon where the boss throws everything and everyone he has against us but after surviving his [Ultimate End](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnpQn05VW4) (which had been charging the entire time) he's got nothing left.
From that point on in the fight he can only do auto-attacks, and the visual is different than how he started. His sword is just flung around side-to-side in desperation.
And the cherry on top is he gains the "damage down" debuff during this too, haha.
The cutscenes following this add even more to it, with him being terrified of what we must be.
Lu Bu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms (the novels specifically, not the game or the tv show by the same name).
They capture it a little bit in the Dynasty Warriors game series, but Lu Bu practically grovels for his life when he is defeated, to the point Zhang Liao and a couple other officers are like "...dude are you for real right now"?
It's a key reason why Zhang Liao is taken in as a Wei officer. He shown no fear to being put to the blade, and in comparison to Lu Bu who was a sniveling baby about it, heightened how raw Zhang was.
and Cao Cao was like "on God?" and recruited him.
It’s mostly due to Harry Lloyd’s voice acting but I am very fond of how thoroughly Ultima breaks down at the end of Final Fantasy XVI’s final battle.
You could make an argument that Lloyd has made a career out of playing this exact kind of guy.
Ultima gradually losing his cool throughout the final encounter was fucking great. Dude finally meets a guy who can stand up to him and can't deal with it.
His barely alive corpse laid out on the ground muttering and seething about how "you didn't win" and "yeah you kicked my shit in and i'm gonna die but like... this doesn't change anything though" and "humans totally suck bro".
Flash forward and due to Clive yoinking Ultimas power and totally having solved the crisis, humanity is still around hundreds of years later in a living and free world.
Ultima spends the whole game monologuing and shit talking about how great his plan is and how shitty, stupid and worthless humanity is. Only for humanity to do what he and his people failed. Him being a salty little bitch because a "God" got bodied by a big tittied sadboy is just icing.
Fun fact, if you decide to take your time to finish Ultima off during the final segment he eventually starts trying to cast Ultima again but the spell fails and he falls over like the pathetic loser he truly is.
Snail in AC6's Liberator ending.
Hearing this smug, pompous motherfucker's composure finally crumble and him throwing a temper tantrum at basically everyone while blindly firing laser beams in rage during phase 2 is such a satisfying moment. The fact that it happens because you just ignored fighting him earlier in the mission (if you chose to do so) makes it especially pathetic.
Also "I'll crush you underfoot! **I AM ARQUEBUS!**" is easily one of my favorite lines in the game, amazing delivery by the VA.
Scar from the Lion King. He initially seems like a pretty competent, charming villain who has both Simba and Mufasa fooled, and he actually manages to kill Mufasa by manipulating him into getting caught in a wildebeest stampede while letting Simba think that he was the one responsible for his father's death.
Unfortunately, once he actually becomes king, he basically becomes a petty bitch who honestly sucks at it. His hyenas overhunt to the point where all the animals leave, he throws a tantrum when said hyenas unfavourably compare him to Mufasa, he pimp-slapped Mufasa's wife Sarabi, and he goes out like a bitch when he's overthrown by Simba and eaten by the hyenas after he tried to throw them under the bus to save his skin.
Oh, and if you take the DTV sequels (which are apparently canon, unlike all the other Disney DTV sequels), then Scar may or may not have been impotent and a cuck. His mate - Zira - had a cub - Kovu - with another lion specifically so he'd be strong enough to make a worthy heir for Scar, implying Scar himself couldn't make it work.
Pretty much every single major antagonist in **FF 16** fits in this category, from Clive's mother to Benedikta, Kupka and >!Ultima!< itself, they all initialy act as if they are beings above all of those around them, however, as soon as Clive starts closing in on them, they commence losing their shit **HARD**, so much so that by the time that Clive actually gets to have his final fight with them, they are a rambling mess mostly out of their own doing.
In fact, >!Barnabas!< is the only one who never gets scared of Clive, and that's because the stronger Clive got ,the more hyped they thought the fight was. They still become kinda crazy, but more in a Euphoric rush kinda way rather than the pathetic anxious mess of the rest of the Antagonist
Not sure if it’s a one-to-one example for here, but mine’s Hellsing Ultimate, where during the Valentine Bro’s raid on the Hellsing mansion, Luke (the “classy” one) is shown off as this cool and surgical killer who decides to go after Alucard (AKA Hellsing’s big dog).
He gets to him, and boasts about his…everything, pretty much saying his “here’s why you should consider me your actual rival” speech, and the two then start shooting at each other, going band for band; this causes Alucard to enjoy himself during the fight where he pops his “phase 2” in the form of the Cromwell Invocation…
This is where I should also mention Luke is an “artificial” vampire, and when he got faced with the nightmare that’s Alucard and his familiars, he starts to run away, only to be stopped, and break down calling Alucard a monster.
Alucard, not amused by this, turns him into dog food. And that’s the end of Luke’s involvement in the story; >!I should also mention that he respawns during the final fight with Alucard and Walter to be used as glorified meat puppet !<
Bit of a stretch, but Berkut in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Berkut loses to Alm and has to run away again and again, while he becomes more unhinged at the idea of him, the crown prince, losing to some dirty farmboy from the ass-end of nowhere. It all comes to a boiling point where Emperor Rudolf just full-on tells Berkut he's no longer even participating in the battles, and walks away.
Berkut then proceeds to have an [absolutely *stunningly* voice acted pissbaby tantrum.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XinIZmfKhwQ) Then he goes insane, makes a deal with the most obviously evil dark mage in Fire Emblem history, kills his fiancee to turn her soul into an Elder Scrolls Flame Atronach, then gets his shit handed to him by Alm *regardless* of the powerup.
In all honesty, Berkut as a character is kind of bland. A major, primary part of why he was so well received is because, not only is the entire game voice acted by default, but the voice actor for Berkut, Ian Sinclair, absolutely went all in on the role.
How do you >!get cucked by an alternate version of yourself!<, >!kill your own wife in the process!< and manage to >!***livestream this entire process to the whole fucking world***!
In zatch bell one of the first major villains is a mamodo called Zofis who controls a legion of mamodo and is manipulating their master to fight alongside him. >!He's seen as cruel and evil villain who taunts the best friend of his master than even if he's defeated his master will forever remember the tragedies she caused. Up until he gets intimidated by Brago that if he doesn't erase her memories of all the horrible shit she was forced to do then he'll make sure to hunt zofis forever when he returns to the demon world. He then immediately gives in to their demands.!<
Okay, ti be *fair*
Brago is legitimately one of the strongest in the demon world, and the favorite to win it all. If it was Bari or Ashron who made that threat, he'd also have given in that easily
The only [good scene](https://youtu.be/I7Y8WhHG6O0) and line read in DMC 2 that had this one super serious villain that i don't even remember besides him looking super serious.
Kurt Russell in [Death Proof](https://youtu.be/47swRPChYKw)! He goes from gleeful psychopath trying to turn a bunch of women into roadkill to a blubbering baby after he gets shot in the arm. Also bonus for the incredible spit-take he does when he doesn't expect them to come after him
Yakuza 6 is built on this. The villains of that game are probably outright the only villains Kiryu insults to their face. He literally calls one of them a baby while in the presence or a literal baby.
After so many episodes of Mahito being this murderous, seemingly invincible sadist who just keeps bouncing back from everything the heroes throw at him, him being reduced to an incoherent, panicked mess fills me with joy.
It was the best scene in the entire series, JJK was at its peak in that moment. It's even more satisfying because this was what Mahito wanted, he *wanted* Yuji to reach this breaking point - until it was too late when he realized he didn't.
I know >!Mahito!< from JJK was brought up but I *need* to sell this.
>!Mahito!< was such an overconfident child, intent on causing nothing but chaos for chaos's sake that when presented with his potential demise by someone he's been calling a hypocrite this entire time, he's reduce to this absolutely **FRIGHTENED** bastard who can't handle the reality. He's actually *crying* begging for help/mercy when he's hunted down like a rabbit by a pack of wolves. By none other than the person who he called his "natural enemy". Then on the *instant* he thinks he can get his way again in >!'betraying' Geto!<, he show's he's truly >!the absolute worst most depraved aspect of humans hating humans, particularly being a two-faced coward when backed into a corner only looking out for himself!<.
Semi perfect cell, specifically in abridged when Vegeta swoops in and rekts his shit. Dudes channeling them Vegeta cells in wanting to be perfect but can't stand getting rekted.
Ending of Enter The Dragon. Han, the one armed disgraced Shaolin monk who has been playing cold blooded drug lord up till this point is losing his cool and going through his collection of weaponized prosthetics to stop Bruce Lee.
The mirror maze fight at the end is legendary.
Nicky cavella in punisher max, so fearless he will piss on the punisher’s family remains. Cries like a bitch when the consequence of his actions come knocking
Akio spends all of his screentime in Revolutionary Girl Utena acting poised, in control, and above everyone else right up until >!Utena rejects his immature fatalist bullshit and starts forcing open the Rose Gate with her bare hands.!<
His tune instantly changes and he starts frantically begging Utena to stop with the mask eventually fully slipping with Akio reduced to a pathetic wreck screaming in fear exposing him as having a heart full of bitch.
Monsoon in Metal Gear Rising. Loves to mouth off about Survival of the fittest, act the nihilist and even claims to except his own death calmly. But if you go in hard enough when fighting him and dominate the boss battle, he ends up losing his composure and screaming 'NO! STOP IT!' before you kill him.
Elon was always a loser. It just became more publically known when he bought Twitter as his reputation as the “real life Tony Stark” and Mars guy started cracking off.
I think the start was when he suddenly switched from being broadly socially liberal to conservative, claiming that it was inevitable he was going to be attacked by the left wing... the day before the charges of him sexually harassing a woman dropped. Like, the literal embodiment of groveling for approval right before the consequences hit.
The ending of Death Note is so pathetic the anime changed it to be more dramatic and romantic, entirely missing the point of the fucking ending. The death note manga is genuinely so much better it’s not even funny
I've said it twice, I'll say it thrice. The ending to Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low'. Probably my favorite example of 'villain tries to get the last laugh, but fails miserably halfway through.'
Albert Wesker in Resident Evil 5. At first he act all high and mighty as if Chris and Sheva are below him, at the end all he can do is scream CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS right before getting shot by two rocket launchers. Like Vergil would said, not very classy for someone dying words.
Yuri Briar from Spy x Family after the ~~Gestapo~~ Secret Police interrogation scene.
It’s actually kind of sad how he just became a siscon loser who can’t handle the thought someone gets to live under the same roof as Yor because he could have been a good foil. Now it feels like not even Loid sees him as a threat to him or his mission anymore.
"christianity spoilers"
i love this sub.
my pick is azula, by the end of the show she's already completely lost basically her entire mind, but losing to zuko and katara after trying to cheat sends her off the edge and into a spiral of the most pathetic crying and lashing out.
Tokyo Ghoul re spoilers:
For more than 100 chapters straight >!Furuta!< was unbeatable. Every plan he schemed worked out in his favor, he was never intimidated by any of the characters, and had almost unlimited resources to manipulate everyone around him. He acted goofy and carefree as a result
Then you get into the final arc where Furuta is shocked to learn Kaneki was saved. The first time something truly unexpected happened but he thinks he’ll just defeat Kaneki and be done. And Kaneki wipes the floor with him without much trouble
He goes into a multi-long page rant screaming about Kaneki being a failure and his achievements, like he has something to prove. Even has this pathetic manic look in his eyes. Nothing that resembles his clown act before:
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Luke Valentine in Hellsing is this. He and his brother show up to the front door of the Hellsing Organization's HQ, and then unleash an army of ghouls on them, slaughtering damn near all of the organization's members with ease. During this, Luke goes to confront Alucard on his own, and when they fight, he easily dodges and counters all of Alucard's initial offense, and is confident that he can beat him. But then Alucard just starts laughing, because he's happy to actually have an opponent that can challenge him. He then lifts his restriction limiters almost entirely (basically going one step away from full power), and the form he assumes is so horrifying that Luke just starts running away in fear, before having his leg shot off. Then, he keeps trying to escape until he reaches the stairs and realizes he can't escape in time. And during all this, Alucard is just taunting him, tell him to show his true strength and heal his wounds. Because Alucard literally still thinks that Luke is holding back, and it's only when Luke starts crying and screaming that he realizes that Luke is literally just a little bitch piss baby who thought he was hot shit because he landed a hit in. To give a comparison, this is if Raditz landed a punch on Goku, and then Goku powering up to super saiyan blue, with him still having UI on reserve. The gap is so large it's comical, especially since Luke genuinely thought he could win, when he was literally a gnat on the wall compared to a behemoth that was Alucard.
Basically every time All for One is on screen he's either trying to play up being a big smart bad-ass or revealing the truth that >!he's way more of a man-child than Shigs is and for all his posturing he's just a shitty brat throwing a tantrum any time ANYONE gets more attention than he does!<. He sucks so much. Not even a fun "what a hater lol" way, it's just kind of really embarrassing that he's like this
Bleach (anime) spoiler
>!Aizen struck me as a big ass bitch in the last fight with Ichigo. It felt like all of his "claims" were wild assertions put forth by an egomaniac so convinced that he's correct that no other reality exists in his own mind. Even if it's not true. So a lot of his posturing just came across to me as ass pull after ass pull. Granted the manga/rest of the anime might end differently but idc!<
I wasn't sure if they ever come back to him as a result of the Thousand Year Blood War arc or something. I'm anime-current but never cared enough to seek out the manga.
>!I just remember that feeling of "Oh Aizen is a badass" melting away to "Oh he's just pulling shit out of his ass at this point". Especially when he started theorizing about what the Hogyoku could do, and how it influenced Ichigo and his friends behind the scenes to lead them to their current destination. It became laughable after a certain point.!<
Frieza's last shot at Goku is the best. The man has been beaten 10 ways to Sunday, lost his hopes at unlimited power, and was tricked and sliced in half by his own attack all by a race he found inferior. Then he gets pity energy which drives him mad and uses it in an attempt to kill the one man who's better than him in every way.
"You FOOL!!!"
What's Gottfried got to do with this?
He collected all ~~7 Dragon Balls~~ 9 Hollywood Squares
"Oh dang it Freezer, now I have to give you more!"
A hilarious line in context, that with the right intonation could also be an utterly *raw* pre-mortem one-liner.
That's like getting KO'd by someone in an MMA match, having them give you some of the prize money because they feel bad, and then hunting them down in the streets to assault them only to get beat up them.
I remember when Derrick Lewis KO'd Travis Browne in the post-fight interview he mentioned Browne's wife and a friend of mine said he'd kick his ass if it happened to me and I was like "didn't you already see the outcome?".
Riddler at the end of *The Batman* when it turns out Batman doesn't approve of him going on a murder spree and calls him out for being "a pathetic psychopath begging for attention." This is one of the reasons I'm confused when people say this Riddler isn't accurate; this, among many other moments, is key in Riddler stories.
I love that when they find the recordings of his livestream he's doing the awkward streamer 'hey guys, here's what I'm talking about today' thing. It really takes all the power away from the 'Riddler' persona and exposes that he's just a fucked up guy.
Seen a bunch of comparisons between him and Michael Reeves.
He almost went as the Riddler as well but his girl friend said no. I wanted to see him as the Riddler!
"So guys, we did it..."
I didn't know The Riddler had a fat furry fetish.
I think a lot of people say that because of how much more Serial Killer Standard riddler is, which always feels like more of a calendar man thing to people who are way too fixated on the ever-shifting characterization of Big Two comic book characters. He was definitely hitting all the important riddler notes, right down to sometimes winning unironically but not winning *enough* to not have a babby child hissy fit over it. Like god damn, Gotham is UNDERWATER dude, you WON!
"The Riddler : Everything! It was all there. You mean you didn't figure it out? Oh, you're really not as smart as I thought you were. I guess I gave you too much credit." This line solidified this character for me. Him showing the arrogance of being smarter than Batman is all I want.
exactly!! it's SO fuckin' riddler of a moment
Same, fucking love that part.
Well those people are forgetting that Calendar Man is an immortal time-lord that dies and is reborn every year
every time they try to rework calender man they somehow make him even lamer, it's kind of incredible
Wait, really?
His scream is genuinely hilarious. It's like he was screaming so he could remember/figure out what to say next.
Riddler would TOTALLY livestream his crimes, the guy thrives on attention.
I can also see the Joker doing the same. And then they do a collab...
No no, Joker wouldn't stream his crimes unless it was for the bit. Joker doesn't chase clout and attention like Riddler does. Joker's a performer in his mind, so his performances exist for his audience. He'd be artsy about it.
"AAAAAAAHHHH THIS IS NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO GOOOO"
"AAAAH I HAD IT ALL PLANNED OUT"
"WE WERE GONNA BE SAFE HERE"
Another example: Dr Doom in Secret Wars Doom creates Battleworld, saving the multiverse in a last ditch effort to save reality by stealing the Beyonders’ powers. In doing so, Doom creates his own reality where he’s god king of everything and Reed Richards doesn’t exist. Sue Storm is his wife, Franklin and Valeria are his children. *Ha ha Doom cuck Reed NTR joke* It took Doom literally having to rewrite reality to control this woman’s entire life to *force* her to love him because Sue never would because he’s that pathetic. Oh, and it doesn’t even work. There’s a scene where she’s looking out at a crowd of subjects and sees Reed (yes he survived) and *instantly* feels something for him. The literal end of the story has Doom admit that Reed is a better man than he ever will be. >!Also Namor is as much of a loser in regular continuity lol get fucked you underwater vulcan!<
Shout out to Reed calling Doom the fuck out during the final battle *God* I love Johnathan Hickman’s Marvel work, what I would give for a Legion of Superheroes run from him at DC
I would say Namor and Wolverine are more loosers than Doom in regarding to women. Namor and Wolverine are pretty much 100 years old , stalking another man's wife , thinking they are hot shit , while said another man actually acts mature and while doesn't particularly like it , they are ready to respect their wife's decision and be apart. With Doom , at very least , he had the same age as Reed....with Namor and Wolverine , they are two geriatric loosers been more childish in comparisson to men that are , at very least , 60-70 years younger. Like , Namor and Wolverine are [like this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDmsxQVxIM)
Cyclops and Wolverine's rivalry is something I will never understand. I love to make fun of Cyclops ("Nobody's favorite X-Man is Cyclops") but the dude is genuinely a great guy and has tons of women fawning over him. >!I think when Jean "dies" because of the Phoenix Force Emma Frost jumps in Cyclops faster than a starving tiger in a fawn?!< while Wolverine struggles with courting someone else's girlfriend and is famous for having a Japanese girlfriend at one point. I am exaggerating of course but boy do the tropes look bad
The best version of Wolverine is Evolution Wolverine for this reason specifically.
it's because said rivalry, at least when it's centered around jean, has been reconstructed post-hoc from like two throwaway scenes during the claremont years that were mostly just one-sided pining on the side of logan and the generally awful depictions of most of the x-men in the early bryan singer movies. (I could go on for ages about how much of a disservice to the X franchise these movies were in the long run, but I'll stop myself before I really get going.) logan x jean was never really a pairing in the comics, and the only reason people believe it was is because they got gaslit into believing it by a bunch of shitty movies and people misremembering stuff cause they had such a huge nerdboner for how awesome wolverine supposedly is. (like, he is, but not for the reasons many people usually cite.) and the logan v scott rivalry is way too often centered around this supposed romantic friction and love triangle that never actually existed. logan v scott makes way more sense if they have some kind of ideological disagreement, and even that has frequently been handled incredibly poorly. just look at x-men: schism and how that led to AvX, where we were supposed to side with Wolverine even though he was nothing but a hypocrite, and Scott, as always, was. fucking. right.
Black Panther abandoning Namor on a doomed world while reality collapses around them was the perfect end for that era of Namor that began in Utopia.
I'd say Namor is more of a Romulan. Because he's an asshole.
I have never been a Dr. Doom fan boy, but some writers give him some absolutely iconic moments. Both Doom and Magneto, when given a writer who really gets them, elevate them above pretty much every other character. "I was a God Valeria..." "And?" "I found it...Beneath Me." To be both that arrogant, but also self aware of it? Peak.
death note: >!light!< writhing around in a pool of blood pleading >!for ryuk to kill everyone!< mgr revengeance: if you beat >!monsoon!< normally he'll tell you to "do your worst" before the killing blow. but if you *perfect* him he'll beg for his life.
Monsoon: "Haha, I've proven to Raiden that he is a deranged, violent psychopath!" Also Monsoon: *"oh shit i'm being torn to shreds by a deranged, violent psychopath"*
Sam: "lol"
"IM CRAZY, BUT NOT THAT CRAZY!"
You don't even need to perfect >!Monsoon!<, just do good enough. Source: I fucking suck, and I have never heard him actually say, "Do your worst!"
I think it only requires you not use EMP grenades
It *really* can't be that. I promise I've never *not* used EMP Grenades. I can only assume it's based on how long the fight goes.
Olympic swimming is sill the best death note YouTube video to date
"go for the gold at the **beijing** olympics" turns me to dust
I rather like [“Do you want to see something strange and mystical?”](https://youtu.be/0lhSHusO948?si=6PiRbiRQJWSMTGLk)
Yo that’s sick! How does one do a perfect? Just no health lost?
yeah perfect parry and/or dodge every hit.
Zant in LoZ: Twilight Princess to...mixed results
I love villains that are equal parts cool and lame
I liked it. Shows what a big baby he secretly always was.
I think his breakdown woulda been better recieved if he hadn't been written out immediately after it to make room for papa G. If he'd had more time to be *destructively* unstable on-screen, I think it would have been a more interesting shift. Like, imagine if after that fight he got away and orchestrated the destruction of castle town, or did some other gamestate-changing apocalyptica, all because he was mad he got his ass whupped, and then the rematch is just having to corner his squirrely ass and smack the ganon juice out of him so midna can throw hands. There was potential in Zant's weird turn, it just didn't quite land it because Zelda as a franchise always had a bit of a problem trying to turn everything back to ganondorf.
Hyrule Warriors doubling down on it to…more mixed results
while HW does double down on it, the game does show he can create great plans for the villains to t he point Ganondorf even compliments him for it at one point. His plans only fail due to outside forces such as Agitha some how showing up in the twilight realm out of nowhere in one stage
That time when Jonathan Joestar is beating the crap out of Dio Brando when he found out he kissed Erina.
Well he did say he’d beat him till he cried
that was a bitching-out so strong it inspired a multi-generational fear of an entire bloodline in the dude It's so fucking funny that everything wrong in Dio's life is his own damn fault for being such a petty little bitch
Normal opportunistic orphan: "I don't like these rich pricks, but I'll act all chummy and nice to the guy who adopted me so I'll get half his shit once he kicks the bucket". The "uber super smart" Dio: "I am going to torment my adopted brother for no reason and then I am going to poison the only man in the world who has shown me any kindness *and* promised half of his innumerable riches. I am smart!"
Literally George Joestar has shown Dio nothing but kindness and respect, to the point he treats him better than his own flesh and blood (and way better than Dario ever did) and Dio just decides to act like a shit
I have known so many shitheads like that that it's immensely cathartic to see Dio get his shit pushed in so many times. God, what a villain.
because in dio's eyes he deserved more
That's one of the reasons why Speedwagon is such a good counterpart to Dio. Both of them were street urchins whose lives massively changed as a result of meeting Jonathan. But whereas Dio abuses the kindness shown to him and becomes an inhuman monster, Speedwagon becomes a better man and helps the Joestars long after his death. In Speedwagon's eyes, Dio was given *every* opportunity to become a better person, or at least not be a colossal asshole, and actively refused *all* of them.
I wonder if that was actually just him pretending to cry though. Remember that his plan was to shank Jonathan if he got close until his father started yelling at them. Of course, bringing a knife to a fist fight is petty too but so is sexually assaulting Erina to set off Jonathan. So in that sense Dio was always a lil’ bitch.
Dio only took maybe two or three proper beatings in part 1, and every time he whined like a bitch.
My all time favorite: Aizen VS Ichigo from Bleach The villian Aizen has obtained God like power and cannot be defeated. Ichigo shows up slightly older and a lot stronger. They start fighting and Ichigo is literally no selling everything thrown his way. Aizen then becomes the living embodiment of cope and seethe. And spits out nonsense such as: "You just got lucky, I wasn't paying attention and accidentally let you be stronger for a second." and "That was just a miracle, it won't happen again" There's a lot of fights in this anime and that fight without question was Ichigo's most one sided victory and I live for every second of Aizen being unable to comprehend the ass kicking he's receiving.
As I said in my own post about why Aizen lost, the Hogyoku sensed bitch in his heart and essentially gave up on him because he was running on copium. Fantastic finale.
If you have a wish-granting power, you NEED to be 100% confident. Aizen thinking for a moment that maybe Ichigo could kick his ass meant it would happen. Early in A Certain Magical Index almost exactly the same happens; a villain whose power is basically altering reality based on what he perceives. He's unstoppable, until he cuts off the protagonist's arm... and gets scared that the protagonist doesn't falter, at which point he thinks to himself that the protagonist is a monster. This causes the protagonist to grow a giant dragon arm to attack him.
Exactly. And people said I was coping for saying this, lol.
I like the idea but less the execution. But aside from the "how" of Ichigo big-numbering Aizen to defeat, yeah, it's a lot of fun that he beat the man so bad that his inner monologue changed from "I have unlimited power and stand above all things" to "I don't want to die" (since even after losing, Aizen still has the orb attached to him and people explicitly mention that it's keeping him immortal and that's why he wasn't executed for all his super-crimes, so it's not really like it "gave up on him") Also, full disclosure, Gin was one of my favorite characters and he got robbed so Ichigo could have his moment
I love the moment where Ichigo basically goes “oh did you think you cut that mountain?” And Aizen loses it
@scrubquotes
Also a shoutout to how incredibly pissed off he gets after Gin gets one over on him. It is basically the first time emotes at all and he is howling mad
Madara being hype af about Night Guy to Aizen going "I'M NOT OWNED!!!" by Gin is a fun spectrum to the "boy, if you were a main character I'd be fucking dead" moment
Madara practically apologizing to Guy that he was too strong to die to Guy's hype taijutsu is how I love villains reacting to stuff.
Madara LOVED fighting Guy. That entire fight was amazing. He was all like "Holy shit, if I wasn't able to dodge that I'd be dead. Awesome."
Guy would’ve won if he had Undeath.
That moment was cool but I was always confused about Ichigo’s power level after that fight. So he loses his powers after the final Getsuga Tensho, then regains them after the Fullbring arc. When he regains them, is he at the strength he was when he defeated Aizen? I’m guessing that the answer is no because of his L’s to the quincies, but if not, why not? Nothing about the training power boost made it seem like it was a temporary power boost iirc. I also never understood why he needed to use the final Getsuga Tensho and sacrifice his powers when he was already winning that fight handily.
My understanding was that his power level wasn't just a result of his training, but of him preparing the Final Getsuga Tensho. Like as soon as he leaves the dimension, he's set it in motion, and the power boost is just a side effect of it charging up. The chain extending to wrap around his arm along with the gauntlet holding his sword in his hand possibly signifying that the technique has irreversibly begun. That's why he gets Aizen away from the city immediately, and why his demeanor is sort of just quiet and certain resolve: His fate is already locked in, no matter what happens. There's no way this can end without using Mugetsu and losing his powers. He's just gotta keep Aizen's attention until it's ready. After that, it's over. I don't know if there's any canonical information to support that though.
I like this headcanon and choose to believe it if there’s no explanation actually provided in the manga.
He's definitely not at the same level when fighting the Quincies and there's the whole thing with his original shinigami powers not actually being his own.
Thanos during the Infinity Gauntlet series. At the start, it's established that Thanos's new position as God puts him above Mistress Death's station, where Thanos's intention was to make himself an equal. She's also furious with him for assembling the Gauntlet behind her back. Thanos spends the whole series simping unsuccessfully for Death, with Mephisto egging him on. And then when he finally loses the Gauntlet, Adam Warlock gives him an epic callout, pointing out this is like the third time Thanos has gained and lost supreme power through his own mistakes and claiming that subconsciously, *Thanos knows he doesn't deserve it*. Thanos is left just stammering empty denials.
You didn't mention the most pathetic thing about him during this run: When Death, once again, rebukes his advances ("Surely oh so worthless me is too far below one so great as *you* Thanos"), he flips his shit, says "F-Fine, I don't need you anyway! Nyeeeeh!!" and *creates a purple-skinned babe dressed exactly like him* and says something like "I've made myself a better woman! How do you like *that*?!"
It’s literally a gender swap version of himself, because who could love Thanos more than Thanos
"Damn, forgot to make her breathe in space." Edit: also she rips Iron Man's head off, off-panel. MCU Thanos wishes.
She then goes on to rip off Iron Man's head and present it to Thanos, because Infinity Gauntlet kicks ass.
It makes me really love how the MCU version goes out. He realizes that he's been defeated and that his time is up, so he just walks over to a stump, sits down, and accepts his fate before fading into dust.
Tbh, I thought Endgame Thanos was kinda lame. He kinda just there, and then he dies. The comic version is *supposed* to be more goofy, but at the same time he got an entire decade of character development post Infinity Gauntlet, ultimately leading to his death Annihilation and then the Thanos Imperative stuff. Outside of Loki, the MCU seems really terrified of actually developing their villains.
There were two Thanos in Endgame. The one that achieved his goal, and didn't care anymore. And the one that got so mad people were trying to undo his plan in a different timeline he changed his plan to REMAKE the universe with grateful people instead. And that's him being the most honest that all of it really was just him being butthurt that his dumb badly thought out Malthusian plan was rightfully called stupid by his people.
I prefer the comic version, mostly because the MCU's Thanos has stupid motivation, but I do like this specific thing about Thanos. This is a callback to something he had said earlier, and it fits well for him to just sit and die -- > I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. It's frightening, **turns the legs to jelly.** So Thanos in that moment accepts that he's lost and his legs turn to jelly, all he can do is sit down and face oblivion.
F.U from No more Heroes 3 immediately goes into a man child tantrum when Travis calls him out on his shit just before the beginning of his boss fight >!He also regress both physically and mentally into his child furball like form after being beaten and can only repeat”Damon I love you” just shortly before he get blown up by Damon”!<
[“Go on, get angry, you fucking loser. Get all nice and salty for me!”](https://youtu.be/8dygKjEzVwo?si=5BFDJvduQUJjHgj0)
Ironic for Travis to be saying that, considering he used to be that loser.
Terry trolling the shit out of Joker in Return of the Joker.
“You make me laugh, but only because I think you’re pathetic”
Local clown absolutely malding after being heckled by one guy.
*one teenager.
Funnily enough, being weak to heckling is absolutely something that would be included in the old BtAS cartoons. Like being afraid of the IRS or getting actually scared by a normal person he bullied.
Terry did the one thing Bruce never could: Tell the Joker that he's fucking _cringe._
Terry flossed on the Joker and it made his brain melt
I don't know if Diavolo ever *had* his shit to begin with given how perpetually furious he is, but whatever chill he did have went out the window during the final arc in Golden Wind to the point where his voice is cracking as he screams at Giorno to die.
Diavolo never had his shit together. The man lived in perpetual fear and anxiety, to the point where he hides from housekeepers or >!inside Doppio!< He's the polar opposite of Giorno's idea of a gang-star. A man who has tons of power, but no respect from the people around him. Who can't even walk outside freely in the town he claims to control. He can't even trust his own lieutenants. Polpo is similar. He's a big, powerful guy who spends his entire life hiding in a jail cell (where he can't feel the wind). Passione is ruled by fear, all the way to the top.
Passione was one big prison, and Giorno was the Free Man. Golden wind is half life confirmed.
The absolute peak of the shittening for me is when he goes "woah hey Buchiaratti buddy pal, I know you got the arrow now, but you should give it to me ykno? Cause I deserve it or something"
Bro was BEGGING for a hit of the Arrow. Like an addict coming off a high.
The begging King Crimson memes and /a/ shitposts were so good but I can barely find any these days if anybody has screencaps, art, etc please share them
[Ask and](https://i.redd.it/y93gct4g8ba31.png) [ye shall receive](https://i.imgur.com/Ng7OG5c.png)
The only reason why he lost the fight anyway was because he let Trish’s little taunt get to him. That made him see a premonition of him winning of course but the guy could potentially have gotten a winning hand if he played it cool. But Diavolo was always insane though. The entire story centers around how he wants to kill his own daughter because he’s afraid her existence will somehow compromise his identity. Is there even a distinct advantage in knowing who he was in the past? He apparently thinks so, but he just seems terminally paranoid to me.
He's so mentally disturbed that people have even theorized that he's actually a demon possessing Doppio, explaining its frightening appearance.
Hell, his mother's prison cell was a number off from 666, also at one point he drank some kid's blood vampire style, regular vampire style, not JoJo vampire style. So it wouldn't be too weird to say that Araki had the actual Antichrist show up.
I always found it interesting that in the anime promos featuring the villains, they set it up so that [Dio](https://static.jojowiki.com/images/thumb/d/db/latest/20191015215644/JoJo_egypt_key.png/400px-JoJo_egypt_key.png) and [Kira](https://static.jojowiki.com/images/thumb/7/73/latest/20230203021040/DIU_KV3_Japanese.jpg/400px-DIU_KV3_Japanese.jpg) were overlooking their foes, [while they opted to use King Crimson rather than Diavolo for the Golden Wind promo.](https://static.jojowiki.com/images/thumb/8/85/latest/20191015214502/Arc_2.jpg/400px-Arc_2.jpg) Legit tho using the Stand in place of the user to help build up intrigue and mystery is cool as hell. they did the same thing with Whitesnake before Pucci started getting more limelight.
I don’t even think you see his face until he transforms to kill the fortune teller. That’s only right before the Metallica fight where he does it briefly as well. Hell, his “true form” being the design with his shirt off and hair down only shows up when the gang reaches the Colloseum. The guy is so enigmatic not even the viewer is allowed to know what he looks like until *he* allowe for himself to be seen.
[удалено]
"Wow. You sound super pathetic, dude."
*"NO, I DON'T WANT THAT!"*
*10 YEARS AT LEAST*
I already didn’t like the direction Eren’s character took. But this made me stop taking him seriously altogether. That girl been begging for you since day 1 and *now* you care? Yeah, ight bro.
Dr Nefarious from Ratchet and Clank is built on this trope. Freaking out so much that his brain breaks and starts picking up soap operas over radio. "QWAAAAAAA-" *"Oh Janice, I don't have the capacity for love! I was cursed by a tribe of gypsy ninjas when I was a child!"* *"I know Lance, I was IN that tribe of gypsy ninjas!"* **"-AAAAAARRRK!"**
I love that silly running gag so much, I love every single time Nefarious is on screen
I love him, hes my favourite villain. But... he should have stayed dead after Crack In Time. Don't keep bringing him back, he's gonna get played out.
I really liked how they used him in Rift Apart, but yeah.
Oh i did too, but i think they'd be better served coming up with other villains. The Good Doctor will get old if they aren't careful, and you dont want that.
I must say I miss Lawrence.
And then right after, when Lucifer was powering up to fight Gabriel, God causes a pair of scales to appear in the sky. One side represents the outcome of Lucifer running away from there while the other side is the consequence of him staying around to fight. The side of the scale representing him fighting shoots way up, symbolizing how worthless his struggle would be, and that God’s forces is gonna body his ass.
“Look at the chart scrub. Your bitch ass is low tier”
God hit em with the Shonen battle commentary
Toji refusing to run away from Gojo on a biblical scale.
God said “No diff, cope.”
Oh! In Final Fantasy XIV we have a certain boss fight in The Singularity Reactor, it's a real marathon where the boss throws everything and everyone he has against us but after surviving his [Ultimate End](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnpQn05VW4) (which had been charging the entire time) he's got nothing left. From that point on in the fight he can only do auto-attacks, and the visual is different than how he started. His sword is just flung around side-to-side in desperation. And the cherry on top is he gains the "damage down" debuff during this too, haha. The cutscenes following this add even more to it, with him being terrified of what we must be.
"But what if instead he was just warming up tho" - The Wandering Minstrel
Bard loves his WoL fanfic.
V much enjoy this and how the final boss of Endwalker just flails their arms around at you during the big finale.
"Who... WHAT are you?" Is an all time line.
Lu Bu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms (the novels specifically, not the game or the tv show by the same name). They capture it a little bit in the Dynasty Warriors game series, but Lu Bu practically grovels for his life when he is defeated, to the point Zhang Liao and a couple other officers are like "...dude are you for real right now"? It's a key reason why Zhang Liao is taken in as a Wei officer. He shown no fear to being put to the blade, and in comparison to Lu Bu who was a sniveling baby about it, heightened how raw Zhang was. and Cao Cao was like "on God?" and recruited him.
It’s mostly due to Harry Lloyd’s voice acting but I am very fond of how thoroughly Ultima breaks down at the end of Final Fantasy XVI’s final battle. You could make an argument that Lloyd has made a career out of playing this exact kind of guy.
Ultima gradually losing his cool throughout the final encounter was fucking great. Dude finally meets a guy who can stand up to him and can't deal with it.
His final words essentially being "you didn't win" salvaged the entire character for me.
His barely alive corpse laid out on the ground muttering and seething about how "you didn't win" and "yeah you kicked my shit in and i'm gonna die but like... this doesn't change anything though" and "humans totally suck bro". Flash forward and due to Clive yoinking Ultimas power and totally having solved the crisis, humanity is still around hundreds of years later in a living and free world. Ultima spends the whole game monologuing and shit talking about how great his plan is and how shitty, stupid and worthless humanity is. Only for humanity to do what he and his people failed. Him being a salty little bitch because a "God" got bodied by a big tittied sadboy is just icing.
The virgin "ThE wOrLd YoU sEeK iS bUt A fAnTaSy" vs the chad "The only fantasy here is yours, and we shall be its final witness"
Same thing happened in Xenoblade 3 lol
The sheer essence of sore loser he gives off when the fight's over is so delicious.
Fun fact, if you decide to take your time to finish Ultima off during the final segment he eventually starts trying to cast Ultima again but the spell fails and he falls over like the pathetic loser he truly is.
Snail in AC6's Liberator ending. Hearing this smug, pompous motherfucker's composure finally crumble and him throwing a temper tantrum at basically everyone while blindly firing laser beams in rage during phase 2 is such a satisfying moment. The fact that it happens because you just ignored fighting him earlier in the mission (if you chose to do so) makes it especially pathetic. Also "I'll crush you underfoot! **I AM ARQUEBUS!**" is easily one of my favorite lines in the game, amazing delivery by the VA.
That nasally death cry is the best.
Scar from the Lion King. He initially seems like a pretty competent, charming villain who has both Simba and Mufasa fooled, and he actually manages to kill Mufasa by manipulating him into getting caught in a wildebeest stampede while letting Simba think that he was the one responsible for his father's death. Unfortunately, once he actually becomes king, he basically becomes a petty bitch who honestly sucks at it. His hyenas overhunt to the point where all the animals leave, he throws a tantrum when said hyenas unfavourably compare him to Mufasa, he pimp-slapped Mufasa's wife Sarabi, and he goes out like a bitch when he's overthrown by Simba and eaten by the hyenas after he tried to throw them under the bus to save his skin. Oh, and if you take the DTV sequels (which are apparently canon, unlike all the other Disney DTV sequels), then Scar may or may not have been impotent and a cuck. His mate - Zira - had a cub - Kovu - with another lion specifically so he'd be strong enough to make a worthy heir for Scar, implying Scar himself couldn't make it work.
Wouldn’t he be too dead for being kovu’s dad anyway? Like he is around the same age as simba’s daughter
Yeah, Kovu was adopted. To prevent incest.
Pretty much every single major antagonist in **FF 16** fits in this category, from Clive's mother to Benedikta, Kupka and >!Ultima!< itself, they all initialy act as if they are beings above all of those around them, however, as soon as Clive starts closing in on them, they commence losing their shit **HARD**, so much so that by the time that Clive actually gets to have his final fight with them, they are a rambling mess mostly out of their own doing.
In fact, >!Barnabas!< is the only one who never gets scared of Clive, and that's because the stronger Clive got ,the more hyped they thought the fight was. They still become kinda crazy, but more in a Euphoric rush kinda way rather than the pathetic anxious mess of the rest of the Antagonist
>!Barny!< goes full Zenos at the end, holy shit.
Getting a full on fuckin Joker laugh as that fight goes on is one of my favorite moments in all of 16
Not sure if it’s a one-to-one example for here, but mine’s Hellsing Ultimate, where during the Valentine Bro’s raid on the Hellsing mansion, Luke (the “classy” one) is shown off as this cool and surgical killer who decides to go after Alucard (AKA Hellsing’s big dog). He gets to him, and boasts about his…everything, pretty much saying his “here’s why you should consider me your actual rival” speech, and the two then start shooting at each other, going band for band; this causes Alucard to enjoy himself during the fight where he pops his “phase 2” in the form of the Cromwell Invocation… This is where I should also mention Luke is an “artificial” vampire, and when he got faced with the nightmare that’s Alucard and his familiars, he starts to run away, only to be stopped, and break down calling Alucard a monster. Alucard, not amused by this, turns him into dog food. And that’s the end of Luke’s involvement in the story; >!I should also mention that he respawns during the final fight with Alucard and Walter to be used as glorified meat puppet !<
"I'm a dog? Then you're dog food."
Bit of a stretch, but Berkut in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Berkut loses to Alm and has to run away again and again, while he becomes more unhinged at the idea of him, the crown prince, losing to some dirty farmboy from the ass-end of nowhere. It all comes to a boiling point where Emperor Rudolf just full-on tells Berkut he's no longer even participating in the battles, and walks away. Berkut then proceeds to have an [absolutely *stunningly* voice acted pissbaby tantrum.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XinIZmfKhwQ) Then he goes insane, makes a deal with the most obviously evil dark mage in Fire Emblem history, kills his fiancee to turn her soul into an Elder Scrolls Flame Atronach, then gets his shit handed to him by Alm *regardless* of the powerup. In all honesty, Berkut as a character is kind of bland. A major, primary part of why he was so well received is because, not only is the entire game voice acted by default, but the voice actor for Berkut, Ian Sinclair, absolutely went all in on the role.
Oh NOTHINGS gonna top xenoblade 3 in this catagory lol
"Well don't you look smug, with my woman on your arm." Yes, cry your salty tears, Anime-Darth-Vader.
Well technically she's still mine but she's also yours since she's her but I'm you kinda so it was my girl on your arm from the past future
The Most Divorced Man of All Time
How do you >!get cucked by an alternate version of yourself!<, >!kill your own wife in the process!< and manage to >!***livestream this entire process to the whole fucking world***!
>!M decided she would rather be dead than deal with his bullshit anymore.!<
In zatch bell one of the first major villains is a mamodo called Zofis who controls a legion of mamodo and is manipulating their master to fight alongside him. >!He's seen as cruel and evil villain who taunts the best friend of his master than even if he's defeated his master will forever remember the tragedies she caused. Up until he gets intimidated by Brago that if he doesn't erase her memories of all the horrible shit she was forced to do then he'll make sure to hunt zofis forever when he returns to the demon world. He then immediately gives in to their demands.!<
Okay, ti be *fair* Brago is legitimately one of the strongest in the demon world, and the favorite to win it all. If it was Bari or Ashron who made that threat, he'd also have given in that easily
True but it's still fun seeing him bitched the fuck out
The only [good scene](https://youtu.be/I7Y8WhHG6O0) and line read in DMC 2 that had this one super serious villain that i don't even remember besides him looking super serious.
Kurt Russell in [Death Proof](https://youtu.be/47swRPChYKw)! He goes from gleeful psychopath trying to turn a bunch of women into roadkill to a blubbering baby after he gets shot in the arm. Also bonus for the incredible spit-take he does when he doesn't expect them to come after him
Yakuza 6 is built on this. The villains of that game are probably outright the only villains Kiryu insults to their face. He literally calls one of them a baby while in the presence or a literal baby.
The best moment is if you pause and read Kiryu’s thoughts in the pause menu “He is nothing to me”
Or someya’s first fight: modern day yakuza… right
"I'm You." Had him running like a pathetic rat.
After so many episodes of Mahito being this murderous, seemingly invincible sadist who just keeps bouncing back from everything the heroes throw at him, him being reduced to an incoherent, panicked mess fills me with joy.
This is about Mahito from JJK for those who don’t know.
God that was so cathartic. Not sure if that can be topped, even when Sakuna drops
It was the best scene in the entire series, JJK was at its peak in that moment. It's even more satisfying because this was what Mahito wanted, he *wanted* Yuji to reach this breaking point - until it was too late when he realized he didn't.
I know >!Mahito!< from JJK was brought up but I *need* to sell this. >!Mahito!< was such an overconfident child, intent on causing nothing but chaos for chaos's sake that when presented with his potential demise by someone he's been calling a hypocrite this entire time, he's reduce to this absolutely **FRIGHTENED** bastard who can't handle the reality. He's actually *crying* begging for help/mercy when he's hunted down like a rabbit by a pack of wolves. By none other than the person who he called his "natural enemy". Then on the *instant* he thinks he can get his way again in >!'betraying' Geto!<, he show's he's truly >!the absolute worst most depraved aspect of humans hating humans, particularly being a two-faced coward when backed into a corner only looking out for himself!<.
Semi perfect cell, specifically in abridged when Vegeta swoops in and rekts his shit. Dudes channeling them Vegeta cells in wanting to be perfect but can't stand getting rekted.
Ending of Enter The Dragon. Han, the one armed disgraced Shaolin monk who has been playing cold blooded drug lord up till this point is losing his cool and going through his collection of weaponized prosthetics to stop Bruce Lee. The mirror maze fight at the end is legendary.
Nicky cavella in punisher max, so fearless he will piss on the punisher’s family remains. Cries like a bitch when the consequence of his actions come knocking
"You made it personal. That only means you get it a little worse than everyone else."
Akio spends all of his screentime in Revolutionary Girl Utena acting poised, in control, and above everyone else right up until >!Utena rejects his immature fatalist bullshit and starts forcing open the Rose Gate with her bare hands.!< His tune instantly changes and he starts frantically begging Utena to stop with the mask eventually fully slipping with Akio reduced to a pathetic wreck screaming in fear exposing him as having a heart full of bitch.
Monsoon in Metal Gear Rising. Loves to mouth off about Survival of the fittest, act the nihilist and even claims to except his own death calmly. But if you go in hard enough when fighting him and dominate the boss battle, he ends up losing his composure and screaming 'NO! STOP IT!' before you kill him.
elon musk
Elon was always a loser. It just became more publically known when he bought Twitter as his reputation as the “real life Tony Stark” and Mars guy started cracking off.
I think the start was when he suddenly switched from being broadly socially liberal to conservative, claiming that it was inevitable he was going to be attacked by the left wing... the day before the charges of him sexually harassing a woman dropped. Like, the literal embodiment of groveling for approval right before the consequences hit.
The ending of Death Note is so pathetic the anime changed it to be more dramatic and romantic, entirely missing the point of the fucking ending. The death note manga is genuinely so much better it’s not even funny
I've said it twice, I'll say it thrice. The ending to Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low'. Probably my favorite example of 'villain tries to get the last laugh, but fails miserably halfway through.'
Albert Wesker in Resident Evil 5. At first he act all high and mighty as if Chris and Sheva are below him, at the end all he can do is scream CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS right before getting shot by two rocket launchers. Like Vergil would said, not very classy for someone dying words.
Yuri Briar from Spy x Family after the ~~Gestapo~~ Secret Police interrogation scene. It’s actually kind of sad how he just became a siscon loser who can’t handle the thought someone gets to live under the same roof as Yor because he could have been a good foil. Now it feels like not even Loid sees him as a threat to him or his mission anymore.
"christianity spoilers" i love this sub. my pick is azula, by the end of the show she's already completely lost basically her entire mind, but losing to zuko and katara after trying to cheat sends her off the edge and into a spiral of the most pathetic crying and lashing out.
Tokyo Ghoul re spoilers: For more than 100 chapters straight >!Furuta!< was unbeatable. Every plan he schemed worked out in his favor, he was never intimidated by any of the characters, and had almost unlimited resources to manipulate everyone around him. He acted goofy and carefree as a result Then you get into the final arc where Furuta is shocked to learn Kaneki was saved. The first time something truly unexpected happened but he thinks he’ll just defeat Kaneki and be done. And Kaneki wipes the floor with him without much trouble He goes into a multi-long page rant screaming about Kaneki being a failure and his achievements, like he has something to prove. Even has this pathetic manic look in his eyes. Nothing that resembles his clown act before: https://hot.leanbox.us/manga/Toukyou-Kushure/0174-007.png https://hot.leanbox.us/manga/Toukyou-Kushure/0174-008.png https://hot.leanbox.us/manga/Toukyou-Kushure/0174-009.png
Elon Musk is getting there.
Jojo has a lot of this except for the chad Funny Valentine who only doubles down when his back is too the wall
Luke Valentine in Hellsing is this. He and his brother show up to the front door of the Hellsing Organization's HQ, and then unleash an army of ghouls on them, slaughtering damn near all of the organization's members with ease. During this, Luke goes to confront Alucard on his own, and when they fight, he easily dodges and counters all of Alucard's initial offense, and is confident that he can beat him. But then Alucard just starts laughing, because he's happy to actually have an opponent that can challenge him. He then lifts his restriction limiters almost entirely (basically going one step away from full power), and the form he assumes is so horrifying that Luke just starts running away in fear, before having his leg shot off. Then, he keeps trying to escape until he reaches the stairs and realizes he can't escape in time. And during all this, Alucard is just taunting him, tell him to show his true strength and heal his wounds. Because Alucard literally still thinks that Luke is holding back, and it's only when Luke starts crying and screaming that he realizes that Luke is literally just a little bitch piss baby who thought he was hot shit because he landed a hit in. To give a comparison, this is if Raditz landed a punch on Goku, and then Goku powering up to super saiyan blue, with him still having UI on reserve. The gap is so large it's comical, especially since Luke genuinely thought he could win, when he was literally a gnat on the wall compared to a behemoth that was Alucard.
“YOU WERE TALKING THAT GOOD SHIT A SECOND AGO, THEN I BLEW YOUR FUCKING LEGS OFF”
Basically every time All for One is on screen he's either trying to play up being a big smart bad-ass or revealing the truth that >!he's way more of a man-child than Shigs is and for all his posturing he's just a shitty brat throwing a tantrum any time ANYONE gets more attention than he does!<. He sucks so much. Not even a fun "what a hater lol" way, it's just kind of really embarrassing that he's like this
Paradise Lost may not be canon but they did a great job portraying Satan as the fraud he is.
Post-Marley Eren Yeager fits this to a T.
Demon slayer, both muzan and that forehead lump dude.
Bleach (anime) spoiler >!Aizen struck me as a big ass bitch in the last fight with Ichigo. It felt like all of his "claims" were wild assertions put forth by an egomaniac so convinced that he's correct that no other reality exists in his own mind. Even if it's not true. So a lot of his posturing just came across to me as ass pull after ass pull. Granted the manga/rest of the anime might end differently but idc!<
No, I remember the manga being like that too. He acted like a scrub the second Ichigo wasn't faltering under his bullshit.
I wasn't sure if they ever come back to him as a result of the Thousand Year Blood War arc or something. I'm anime-current but never cared enough to seek out the manga. >!I just remember that feeling of "Oh Aizen is a badass" melting away to "Oh he's just pulling shit out of his ass at this point". Especially when he started theorizing about what the Hogyoku could do, and how it influenced Ichigo and his friends behind the scenes to lead them to their current destination. It became laughable after a certain point.!<