Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-124.197.12.116-20191214194607

People seem to love bitching about how Cinder is a total caricature and over here I'm thinking that's what makes her such a compelling villain. That's exactly what these types of villains are supposed to be.

Nobody ever complained when Frieza was mercilessly blowing up Planet Vegeta or when the Joker tortured Tim Drake into insanity and was planning to burn a giant Smiley face into Gotham in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker all while planning to kill Terry's family and girlfriend in the process just for laughs, but Cinder kills one stupid little girl for power and suddenly everyone starts screaming about how she's some kind of complete monster? Well, no shit. That's literally the point.

Don't get me wrong, I love villains who have depth as much as the next guy. But I also love this type of villain. The ones who don't have tragic backstories, who know full well that their evil and just keep killing and destroying things because they can and because they enjoy it.

In the wise words of Roy Thomas:

When comic book villains are good, they're very, very good, but when they're bad - and really colorful - they're terrific!