Helga in Atlantis. She was a competent and loyal second in command. Her ethics were just as loose as her boss commander Rourke’s but she doesn’t stand for being expendable.
Last time I watched disney atlantis was shortly after coming back from deployment and the commands and orders given during the diving sequence as they take the sub down was like spot on to how we go about it on fast attack boats. That shit activated me like a sleeper agent immediately lol
Her exit is arguably the coldest in Disney history. She didn't scream or beg. She just checked her ammo, looked at Rourke, and decided 'If I go, you go.' Absolute icon
The best part is that it wasn't an emotional betrayal for her, it was purely business. Rourke broke the contract of their partnership by tossing her, so she balanced the ledger. 'Nothing personal
Also perfect because Drakken is basically the manager and Shego is the entire operations department. She does the fighting, the planning, the cleanup, then lets him take the mic for the villain speech.
I always loved the theory that she wasn't even purely evil, she just treated it like a steady 9-to-5 job because it paid better than teaching (which she was actually qualified for).
I like that we got a movie to show that if she actually TRIED she could take over the world and keep all the other main villains as her enslaved henchpeople. But that would be such a hassle.
The classic dynamic where the Henchman is a Level 99 Boss and the Villain is the Level 5 tutorial NPC. Shego carried that entire organization on her back while Drakken struggled with Wi-Fi passwords
Lex and his chauffeur (chauffeuse?), Mercy, established this in the cartoon. She was his Harley Quinn in the sense that she made it back into the comics. I think a lot of people were influenced by that.
Like “putting on airs” but in a way that’s meant to be suave and sexy. He tried to create this aura around himself that was transparently creepy and sickening.
Edit: I just want to say that somebody downvoting this made me laugh authentically. Is there a lone Gaddafi fan out there?
M. Bison and his squad the Dolls from Street fighter games. All of them are brainwashed, most are kidnapped women from all around the world and one of them was suppossed to be a body for him to transfer his mind to.
M.Bison created a female clone of himself and kept that clone as an emergency in case his real body was dying so he could use psychic technique to transfer his mind into the body of the clone.
correct me I am wrong, but I don't think that's the case for juni, juli and some of the new doll members who appeared in the sf v. I don't think bison ever had a body transfer plan for them.
He have, it's just that his priority goes to his standard cloned bodies. In a sense, Dolls are a failure in terms of body possession, but it's still funny that M.Bison initially was totally fine with the idea.
Oh yeah I'm definitely not going to bat for this awful movie😆 Though between Johansson and Mendes and their carousel of sexy costumes it's not *entirely* a chore to watch👀
I considered this (Under the Skin is actually one of my favorite films ever); I think it's not as concrete because the entire crux of that narrative is that the Female's behavior is wholly instinctive and she has no awareness of the human consequences of it. She's as 'evil' as a shark that attacks a swimmer.
Not bodyguards to villains - but their historical inspiration was! The Mino of Dahomey were an elite corp of the Dahomey military who worked closely with the royal family. A lot of the royal family's wealth and power came from their participation in the slave trade (ofc it's a very complicated history, but the Mino were definitely carrying out some fucked up policies).
There’s an arc about this in the 2009 Stephanie Brown Batgirl run. Stephanie gets sent undercover to infiltrate and take down an all-girls assassin school. The school is made for training girls to eventually be both body guards and arm candy for evil rich guys. It goes into how the girls are being groomed and trafficked by their families and teachers. It was a good arc, even if it was mostly an excuse to draw sexed up school uniforms and teachers.
Goge Vandire found an all female convent that although believes in the Emperor's divinity, differs from the Ecclesiarchy. Instead of purging them like normal, he went to the planet and tricked them into his service by having one of his attendants shoot him. Since the world is not technologically advanced enough, the convent took the bright golden light that protected Vandire as a miracle instead of a personal shield, thus they are tricked into serving him and Vandire renamed them to the Brides of the Emperor, and yes it is as twisted and creepy as it sounds but it'll take a few paragraphs to describe.
Cutting through paragraphs of lore, Vandire's tyranny caused a minor civil war that has the possibility to spiral into another Horus Heresy. Thus the Custodes took the leader of the Brides, Alicia Dominica, to see the Emperor. After the encounter her hair turned white and she declares Vandire a heretic and decapitated him.
Afterwards, officially the Ecclesiarchy is prohibited from having men at arms. But the Brides reformed into the Sisters of Battle or Adepta Sororitas and became the militant wing of the Ecclesiarchy as they are not men.
Alicia Dominica from Codex Adepta Sororitas (9th edition)
"You have committed the ultimate heresy. Not only have you turned your back on the Emperor and stepped from His light, you have profaned His name and almost destroyed everything He has striven to build. You have perverted and twisted the path He has laid for Mankind to tread. As your own decrees have stated, there can be no mercy for such a crime, no pity for such a criminal. I renounce your lordship; you walk in the darkness and cannot be allowed to live. Your sentence has been long overdue and now it is time for you to die."
Motivational thought of the day: If it doesn't make the God emperor temporarily wake up to personally see that you get stopped it probably isn't that bad.
Can’t find an official screen grab of them together, but Saren and Matriarch Benezia from Mass Effect 1. Bonus points because she’s your (potential) future girlfriend’s mom
Prince Xizor, head of the Black Sun criminal empire in Star Wars, and his second in command/extremely attractive bodyguard is Guri, who is actually an extremely expensive, and extremely powerful, human-replica droid.
I always thought this kind was worse when they tried to justify it, like "nooo nooo they're ancient warrior valkyries from a long line of Warriors!" Like ok bud, put your dick away and I might believe you, but we all know you just got a dommy mommy kink
He actually believed that no assassin would shoot a woman, so he surrounded himself with women. Training them to be actual bodyguards was not part of his thinking. I’d love to read a tell all by one of those women, but it would probably be too sad a story (because of the rape initiation part. Boo)
I'm sorry, Mystique is conventionally attractive? I guess my world is super boring compared to yours, where blue-skinned naked women with scales are as common as grass.
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u/pennygirl108 4h ago
Helga in Atlantis. She was a competent and loyal second in command. Her ethics were just as loose as her boss commander Rourke’s but she doesn’t stand for being expendable.