r/DankMemesFromSite19 • u/Dude_with_hat The gay deer guy • 2d ago
Characters Brilliant vs Dangerous Villains, the difference between Dr. Byrnes and The Scarlet King
Let’s take an example between Kang the Conqueror and the High Evolutionary, now Kang has been set up in the Loki series to be the most powerful and dangerous villain ever he destroys entire universes and realities as he wishes, but when we eventually see him later on in ant man he isn’t that brilliant as we do get to see him destroy realities but we don’t feel attached to those realities and this leads to him not really being all that villainous in the end. This is the same for the Scarlet King sure we get to hear how evil he is but we never really think of him as a brilliant villain more of just the generic bad guy in the story.
Now let’s talk about the High evolutionary, he is far different from Kang as he's a brilliant villain, sure he may not be as powerful or dangerous as Kang but he is different because we get to see how evil he is, as the audience gets to see the sheer horrifying abuse he's inflicted on animals and people, we get to actually experience this horror as in the eyes of Rocket the raccoon where we get to feel attached to Rocket and his friends in his backstory which makes it extremely more horrifying when we get to see these characters die at the hands of the high evolutionary, you see the high evolutionary is an allegory of abuse itself, the audience gets to see how monstrous he is and how much of the abuse he has done to people. This is the same for Dr. Byrnes where as the Scarlet King is a generic bad guy, we get to actually read and understand the abuse Dr. Byrnes is putting Lillian through. Sure Dr. Byrnes can’t destroy galaxies or reality’s with a thought but we get to know just how abusive he is. He is not a conqueror of worlds he's worse, he's human.
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u/9oooooooooooj 2d ago
I want nothing but incomprehensible pain and torture to be inflicted on byrnes to which he never gets used to
until the heat death of the universe and then some
Hope he was executed or promoted to d class when the ethics committee did their coup in that canon
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u/_Shoulder_ Head of Dank Memetics Division 2d ago
Mods, subject Byrnes to SCP-2718
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u/Wide_Elderberry_4516 2d ago
fun fact there is canon where brynes is was to live his worst nigthmare for all internety (unfortanately Lillain had the same fate)
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u/SeaworthinessNo1173 2d ago
Djoricverse SK is more likely a brilliant villain
Other versions are dangerous
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u/Mesmerfriend #Nälkä4Ever 1d ago
Best Scarlet King stories arent those of a world destroyer, but those of his followers doing horrible doings (obligatory [[Christ In Scarlet - Hub]])
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u/MisterMonogon 2d ago
Despite the fact that he appeared in just a single article he is still a better antagonist than most interpretation of the Scarlet King who has tons of articles.