Episode 6: Necessary Evil
"The amount of money I spend specifically on alcohol at farmers markets is absurd" ~Diana
The amount of money I spend specifically on alcohol at farmers markets is absurd
~ Diana
The biggest. The baddest. The evilest guys. Today, Endeavorance and Diana dive into Big Bad Evil Guys (BBEGs): how to design them, how to portray them, how to hype them up, and how to handle their downfall.
Spoiler warnings for this episode
We (read: Dev) also talk a lot about some examples of good and bad BBEGs in popular media. So. To that end, spoiler warnings for the following stuff:
- Undertale
- Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul
- Avatar: The Last Airbender / Legend of Korra
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- ...Starfox 64? Can that be spoiled?
Really though, if you've not consumed the above media by now, for shame (but also go play/watch them so we can get hype about stuff together, okay thanks)
Topics covered in this big bad evil episode
- Lavender farming
- How cool is the bad guy?
- Moving up a ladder of baddies
- You should play Undertale
- You'll never defeat Andross
- The BBEG putting the party in their place
- How not to immediately give away a secret BBEG
- Questioning reality because the BBEG makes sense
- Unexpected consequences from felling evil
- The Player Character to BBEG pipeline
- Big Bad Neutral Guys
- How to roleplay as the big bad
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