Why Black Villains Matter

You kinda messed up by putting thr euphoria beat in there cause I forgot about the video and started rapping the whole entire song 🔥😂😂

Not sure if he’s black but Drago Bludvist from How To Train Your Dragon 2 is voiced by Beninese actor Djimon Hounsou and could use a mention.

30:35 i’m reading it rn and all i can say is there’s a reason people don’t get into the details with it

bro you write these many essays, but wont do your dissertation?! come on brother? smh

You forgot Stinkmeaner from the boondocks

Don't remember Kilmonger saying he wanted a European genocide. Or are you saying that because you know what they will do to protect things and people that they have stolen, historically?

30:28 unfortunate news…I’m a zillenial, and my mixed/indigenous English teacher had us read the book like the grade before we got into to kill a mockingbird, and while I don’t remember much I also dont remember her putting any amount of noticeable emphasis on the problematic nature of the stereotype. This is despite the fact that she largely worked with and brought BIPOC/immigrant families into the community AND had a black child of her own. She also was very vehement about the fact that to kill a mockingbird was her favorite book of all time, but wouldn’t you know it, the reason for that was the white man in it 🫩

A distinction should be made between villain, and anti-villain in the same way a distinction is made between hero and anti-hero. We all know what heroes, anti-heroes and villains are, but less is talked about anti-villains, so here goes.

The anti-villain is effectively the same as the anti-hero, using questionable means for what could be interpreted as a heroic or noble cause. But instead of wanting to repair "the system" as the anti-hero does, the anti-villain sees, like many of us do, that the system is rotten to its core, always has been and needs to be replaced with something else. Now while that character might be compelling to an increasingly disaffected audience, it is also profoundly dangerous to the capitalist status quo and cannot under any circumstance be allowed to succeed. And because for any stories/movies to be sold in a capitalist economy in which the means of producing and disseminating them to a broader public are in the hands of monopolistic corporations that don't want such stories to hit as hard as they could, the anti-villain is always framed as being either too extreme in their means, or the ends they seek are worse than the system they wish to replace. Their moral characters are always sabotaged from the outset and to an extent, written in a way which on reflection isn't very realistic. They are used by the entertainment industry to profit off of our collective dissatisfaction with the system but at the same time diffuse any notions that the system can in fact be replaced by something that would be better and necessarily come at the wealthy elite's expense. Thanos and Killmonger are perfect examples of this per-sabotage tactic.

So stoked to see Big Daddy mentioned, he did it so well, it’s a big bummer we didn’t get to see him alive, his voice is amazing.

14:40 when you standing on BUSINESS! That's how you talk to anybody.

37:07 also love the commentary on a shared language within a culture that outsiders dont understand

1:11:06 this bit is really funny to me as probably one of the few people on the planet that watched Sinners for the first time by renting it from Blockbuster.

56:55 that pronunciation caught me off guard.

Monique didn’t get “lost in the role” TP & Oprah’nem black balled her- ALLEGEDLY