Disagree! With the exception of Gizmo, the mogwai in the movies were jerks who manipulated things specifically so that they'd get turned into gremlins.
he actually isn't a villain, he is portrayed to be equally affected by the patriarchy and anyone who came out of that movie thinking ken was supposed to be the villain is wrong and lacks media literacy.
You see, if you were actually paying attention you would've known that Ken was actually the hero of the Barbie movie and Barbie was the villain. Ugh, media literacy is at an all time low these days. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
I hope that comment was satirical, maybe Ken was more of a goofy antagonist than a full villain, but Barbie is definitely the protagonist of the movie ??
Neither Travis Bickle, Jack Torrance, Patrick Bateman, Regan (I guess unless it's the devil in that pic), Alex DeLarge, or, arguably, Ken are villains.
That's not to say their characters aren't bad people (or dolls). But they aren't the villain, and certainly not the antagonist, of those stories.
Villain: a character whose evil actions are important to the plot.
A villain doesn’t have to be the antagonist. A villain in a story just has to do bad things. Like chasing his family around with an axe, trying to assassinate a politician, chasing people with an axe while listening to Huey Lewis, purposely forcing a societal group to become submissive (even if it was in retaliation for previous submissiveness), or drinking milk as the leader of a gang.
It woulda been cool to have a picture of the Overlook Hotel as the "villain" of the Shining, but I suppose that's more something from the book, in the movie Jack is kinda wacko from the start.
American Psycho didn't have a villain. It just had soulless mental patients being jerks to everyone. Most people with any understanding of the movie have reached the conclusion that Bateman never actually killed anyone, he was just devolving from being an ass to being completely insane.
Also, Ken wasn't the villain in Barbie, the Mattel executives were.
Really, they're both villains. Of course, feeling that there is a definitive argument to be made about the Barbie movie is the truly poor argument to make here. You're not ready for that conversation, though.
That's not to say their characters aren't bad people (or dolls). But they aren't the villain, and certainly not the antagonist, of those stories.
A villain doesn’t have to be the antagonist. A villain in a story just has to do bad things. Like chasing his family around with an axe, trying to assassinate a politician, chasing people with an axe while listening to Huey Lewis, purposely forcing a societal group to become submissive (even if it was in retaliation for previous submissiveness), or drinking milk as the leader of a gang.
>work a menial job to support yourself in a dire setting
>murder pedophile pimp to free young girl
>get called the villain
Also, Ken wasn't the villain in Barbie, the Mattel executives were.