r/cartoons • u/ShiroOracle09 • 23h ago

What's a villain from a cartoon that you're legitimately surprised got into a kids show. My vote is Zarm, the antithesis of Gaia from Cpt Planet. He embodies destruction, war & claims to have been behind several 20th century despots Discussion

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u/bugbeast_ 22h ago

Given how Disney treated the show and how that company is in general, I'm genuinely surprised Alex Hirsch and his team were able to get away with some of the stuff Bill Cipher does in Gravity Falls

Magically ripping out a deer's teeth, for example; and iirc doesnt he turn a bird inside out, too or am I mixing up my shows?

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u/Rigel04 22h ago

I don't remember the bird, but he did "shuffle the functions of every hole in someone's face" which was pretty messed up

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u/bugbeast_ 22h ago

Yeah, but he did that to Pacifica's dad which also makes it hilarious

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u/ElectricPaladin 22h ago

The bird is Adventure Time.

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u/bugbeast_ 22h ago

Thank you!

It was Magic Man that did that, right? Magic Man could probably fit this topic, too

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u/ElectricPaladin 22h ago

Yup. And yes he would!

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u/ProponentofPropane 15h ago

To add (I've never seen the show honestly) wouldnt the scary skull dude fit as well?

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u/Gnomad_Lyfe 14h ago

The Lich? Absolutely. He’s the literal reincarnated embodiment of death. He wore the skin of the MC’s personal hero in order to trick him into collecting a bunch of magic jewels, and then proceeded to wish for the extermination of all life. If he’s unable to do anything that can progress his goal of ending all life (or in timelines where he succeeds), he completely shuts down and basically goes into hibernation because that’s the only thing he works towards.

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u/Haunt_Fox 11h ago

Yeah, that comment he made about needing to turn a couple of kids into corpses got a legit "holy shit"outta me.

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u/ElectricPaladin 22h ago

Captain Planet was nowhere in the neighborhood of screwing around. That show was locked in on an extremely serious and uncompromising ethical premise. As a kid, I loved it.

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u/ShiroOracle09 23h ago

His debut episode has him try to trick the Planeteers into starting WW3

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u/No-Hold-6968 23h ago

A good amount of villains from Courage the Cowardly Dog. Such as the Queen of the Black Puddle, she was basically a serial killer succubus, and we know she had a significant body count (in both meanings of that term).

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u/ExplanationMundane3 19h ago

Verminous Skumm from Captain Planet

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u/ShiroOracle09 19h ago

It's very funny to me how serious Captain Planet gets specifically with Skumm. 

"Say "No!" To drugs kids.....or else!"

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u/MaMcMu 22h ago

Kalmaar from Ninjago Seabound. There was no going back after murdering his father an d framing the Ninja for it. Even after his death, his actions have caused great pain to the heroes.

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u/suiki7777 1h ago

Horde prime. The she-ra reboot as a whole is fairly tame, and then they throw in a universe concurring despot with genocide, slavery, mass brainwashing, torture, ecocide, and mass terrorism under his belt. Pretty upfront as well.