[three characters looking awfully bland] The protagonists:
- Annoying goody two shoes leader who’s a paragon of virtue
- Nerdy scientist with no backstory who keeps doing poor puns
- Super bland dude who’s an obvious self insert for the writer
- People die because they’re “good” and refuse to break the rules
- They win battles through plot armor and the power of friendship
[a cool looking grizzled character smokes a cigar in a spaceship interior, a foot up on the controls, while a spaceship blasts a mega laser outside in space] The super evil antagonist:
- Played by the most charismatic actor available on the market
- Keeps doing the coolest looking things (but you must hate it)
- Has the coolest secret lair and his henchmen love him
- Is named Adolf McMurder and genocides with a smile
- Says an awesome one liner before murdering an orphan
[a nerdy dude in flannel points at a storyboard of the two previous images] The naive screenwriter:
- At least this time he’s not writing women, phew
- Has too much trust in his audience’s media literacy - About to give the super evil antagonist yet another zingy one liner
- Surely if we show him killing an orphan the audience will hate him
- Right, guys?… Right??…
Realized I was guilty of this trope while drawing illustrations for a game I’m working on.
So anyway, here’s the entrance to Adolf McMurder’s secret lair (you’re meant to think this is not cool at all):
I don’t really approve of their ethnic purging policy however I do approve of their architecture design policy.
This villain played Mega Man games as a kid.
Then sorry to say, but you failed miserably.
Wow that guy definitely isn’t living in the baddest motherfucking lair that I ever did see that I wanted all myself. Not at all.
By the power of murderskull!
Looks very secret and well hidden;)
If no one survives seeing it then it’s still secret!
… cool 😎