Thursday, July 15, 2010

Villainess

Most antagonists, especially from Disney princess movies, are always on the dark side. The following list of femme fatales not only loves the dark, but puts it in their personality and appearance as goths.

Mai from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Another awesome show, another awesome goth girl. She's one of Princess Azula's sidekicks , opposite to the happy-go-lucky Ty Lee. (Azula is another character I adore but I don't see her as a goth). She's also Prince Zuko's love interest, like angry emo boy meets cold goth girl. Mai is the daughter of a governor in the Fire Nation. Since she was young, she was given everything she wanted, thus she thinks her life is so boring. She's also bred to be well-mannered and quiet by her parents, thus, she hides her true emotions to others. This is why the show won the Peabody Award for "Unusually Complex Characters." Mai may be from the Fire Nation, but she's not a firebender. Instead, she has stilettos and shuriken knives as her deadly weapons hidden beneath her sleeves. She can take down any soldiers and benders with these, even the main protagonists find her as a fearsome opponent.
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The Trix from Winx Club. This show is so full of magic, and who would be the goths? The witches, of course. The Trix compose of Icy (leader), Stormy and Darcy. Clearly, their name spells out the elements they use in witchcraft and their personality. Icy is cold and cruel; Stormy is ill-tempered and proud; and Darcy is dark and calm. They hate fairies and want to take over the realm of Magix. They became the main antagonists in the first season but the next ones, they served Lork Darkar and Valtor. For a cartoon with stylish fashion designs on the characters, I don't find the outfits of the Trix match them. As witches, they're costumes need more details and in Disenchantix form, they look like belly dancers! But their hairstyles are good and also their make-up, totally goth.
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Marceline the Vampire Queen from Adventure Time. A 1,000-year-old vampire girl introduced as a villain who steals Finn and Jake's homes, but later reveals that she only wanted to scare them to death for fun. Despite seeming evil at first, she is more of a trickster, and her "evil plans" often turn out to be nothing more than harmless jokes and teasing. Yet she generally lets her own interests come before others. She drinks "shades of red" such as the color of strawberries, as opposed to blood, but is still vulnerable to sunlight and is capable of turning into a giant anthropomorphic bat. She can levitate, shapeshift, implement necromancy and pyrokinesis, control her hair and stupefy her victims. Her father is evil incarnate but seems to have a strained relationship with him (just like Vanessa Doofenshmirtz whose voice actress also voiced Marceline). She is a wild rocker girl who doesn't fear anything. She's a gifted musician with an incredible singing voice and plays the axe-bass.
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Zoe Avez from El Tigre!. She's also the Black Cuervo as her alter ego. Her mother is Voltura and her grandmother is Lady Cobbler, and they're called the Flock of Fury. They're all against the Rivera family which consists of the super heroes El Tigre (Manny), the White Pantera (Manny's dad) and Puma Loco (grand dad who's more of a villain). But Zoe has an obvious crush on Manny and would fight him to get close. Her mom and grandmami also have romantic pasts with the Riveras. Since Manny's bestfriend is Frida (whom I think resembles a cybergoth), Zoe also has a rivalry with her for Manny's attention. As a super villain, she mixes physical moves with lasers, has jet-propelled wings and keeps her real identity a secret unlike the other villains of the show. If you don't know yet, cuervo means "crow."
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Ember Mclain from Danny Phantom. She's one of the recurring ghost villains in the show and first appeared in the episode Fanning the Flames. She's kinda more of a punk from the 70's (implying she died that time). Anyway, Emeber is a hard-rocking ghost girl who feeds on her fan's worship of her. Like punk rock music, she's the ghostly embodiment of teenage rebellion. Ironically, Sam doesn't listen to her songs. It's a good thing anyway because Ember's songs can control people's minds and emotions, her main weapon is of course her guitar, and her huge ponytail are actually blue flames. They say she resembles Livewire from the Superman comics.
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Miss Doombringer from The Fairly Odd Parents. She only appeared in the episode No Substitute for Crazy but she vows  to come back, maybe on another season. At first, she's Miss Sunshine, a lovable substitute teacher, whom Timmy wishes to be their permanent teacher. Since this happened, Miss Doombringer is sure that one of the kids has fairy godparents. For you see, she's a fairy hunter, like Mr. Crocker, but with more weapons, technology and crazy. For a second, her book shows that her first name is Mary Alice, and on her car plate, it says Wingpuller.
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Circe from Generator Rex. Introduced in the episode "Beyond the Sea" during Rex's trip to Cabo Luna, Circe is a female Evo whose powers only manifest when active like Rex's. When activated, her mouth prolapses into a tube which she can use to project destructive sonic pulses, which also attract some other Evos to her. She has joined up with "The Pack" because she feels like too much of an outsider anywhere else and she considers its freaky members as her family. She became Rex 's love interest and he constantly tries to get her to switch sides.


Marie from Ed, Edd n Eddy. Marie is the middle of the Kankers Sisters. They live in a trailer park but they're the feared bullies in the cul-de-sac. They're extremely in love with the Eds but in a sadistic sort of way. As for Marie, she's paired with know-it-all and mild-mannered Edd. Like him, she's the most rational in her group, but she's the most aggressive. She's a slugger-thug, and rather tomboyish. She's really strong, sneaky and sly. Though she's not the leader, she can be independent and rebellious, and would side with the youngest sister, May, against Lee. According to Big Jim Miller (the head storyboard artist) Marie is the cutest girl in the show. I also agree. :D
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Jinx in Teen Titans Go! She was re-imagined from the comics, bearing few similarities with her comic counterpart. The animated Jinx's powers portray a manipulation of probability, more specifically, the ability to "bring bad luck" to her enemies. Despite the "bad luck" theme to her powers, they still seem to depend in part or in whole to solid ground and structures, just like they do in the comics, as she primarily causes structures to crumble as a means of attack. She is also very agile, capable of great feats of acrobatics. Her personality is a good example of the perky goth.

Queen of the Black Puddle from Courage the Cowardly Dog. My most beloved cartoon because it sparked my creative writing skills as a tween. And it's the first black comedy animated series in Cartoon Network. The Queen resembles the evil queens in Disney, meaning, she's Gothic not a goth. But I just want to share because of all the scary villains in the show, I think she's the only one who's female. She's first seen in the episode of the same name and came back in Balls of Revenge. She appears in any form of water and seduces men into her underwater lair just to eat them up, like the mythological siren (whose lair is also full of bones).

Irmoplotz from Dave the Barbarian. She's the evil sorceress princess of Hyrogoth. Even her kingdom has goth in it. She became the love interest of Dave. They're opposites when it comes to brains  but they both share the same odd hobbies and interest, like the bad poetry of Ped Xing. Irmoplotz's mother is the evil queen Zonthara who trains her to be evil, too, unlike her father who is good. Dave broke up with her because she's evil. She vowed revenge but still had feelings for him.
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Sedusa from The Powerpuff Girls. In my opinion, her fashion is styled like that of an erotic goth. Besides, she seduces men to do her bidding and she can control her hair like whips, but water ruins her hair. She's also a mistress of disguise, posing as Ima Goodlady and Miss Bellum. She's cleardy based on the mythical Medusa, but there was one episode where she used magical Egytian artifacts. ♦
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Shego from Kim Possible. She's the sidekick of the mad scientist Dr. Drakken, but became Kim Possible's greatest opponent. Unlike the other villains in the show, Shego isn't a megalomania but she's easily irritated or angered. Her power are in her hands which generate green flame-like bolts of energy. Actually, she was a superhero alongside her brothers because they were struck by a rainbow comet that gave them poweres. It sounded cute but Shego turned evil for reasons not confirmed in the show. For me, she's kinda goth because of her appearance and her phlegmatic personality.

Olga Astronomonov from Dexter's Laboratory. Preferred to be called Lalavava, this cute ballerina only appeared in the episode Dee Dee's Rival. Her style of dancing isn't cute like Dee Dee's but forceful and impressive. She's the younger sister of Mandark, the evil boy genius, but actually he's scared of her. In the episode, Lalavava and Dee Dee had a ballet showdown using robots invented by their brothers, but in the end, they wrecked the whole stage and agreed that brothers are stupid. Thus, they became friends, but Lalavava never recurred in another episode.
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Alexandra Cabot from Josie and the Pussycats. Though their comics started during the 60's, she's pretty goth, even with that get up. She has this cat, Sebastian, who's actually the reincarnation of a witch ancestor. Whenever Alexandra holds him, she can cast magic spells. But her power was forgotten after the 80's, the age of goths. She's the antagonist because she was kicked out of the trio for being too ambitious with her talents. And so, she became their manager who's always plotting to destroy them.
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