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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Jean Dewbery
February 3, 2025 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
I love the Inside Out franchise and if you’ve seen any of my tweets, you’d know how much I attribute these movies to helping me. I know that might sound cliche but when the first one came out, that was around the first time I considered trying to take my life. Yet this scene reassured me everything would be okay.
And now the sequel that came out this year again helped me as I was at a point where I hit another turbulent point as I came out as gender fluid and yes I once again had those dark thoughts. The scene of Anxiety spiraling into a tornado felt all too real.
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A Look at Disney: Christmas Villains Profile: Mr. Jingles
December 4, 2024 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
When I first started doing my Christmas Villains Profile many years ago, one of the first villains I covered was Oogie Boogie (R.I.P. Ken Page).
Today, we are returning to the world of Nightmare Before Christmas to look at a different villain. If you’re familiar with What If then you’ll understand what this series is. A Twisted Tale is Disney’s take on the what if scenario where one thing changes the events of the story.
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Monstrous Musicals Celebrate Alex Brightman: Beetlejuice
October 31, 2024 in Blogs
We’ve reached our final Alex Brightman blog for this Halloween as we look at musical adaption of Beetlejuice. It’s been a banner year for the Ghost with the Most with the sequel doing very well at the box office.
The musical itself has a cult following including people who have never seen the movie and with something like this musical that works as it’s so adherent to the source material. BJ even makes a joke about this in the opening number. And you know the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, he burns it. Musical BJ is still a creep and a villain but not as bad as movie BJ. He’s kinda like if cartoon BJ wasn’t restricted by being in a kids show.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Agatha Harkness
October 30, 2024 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Oh, this is so exciting. Agatha is my favorite MCU villain and she has a lot to delve into. Full disclosure while I have been watching Agatha All Along, I’m writing this before the series ends. This presents such an interesting dynamic as we have a villain starring in her own spinoff and unlike what you usually expect, I don’t believe her show is redeeming her but rather explaining her.
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Monstrous Musicals Celebrate Alex Brightman: Villains Profile: Adam
October 29, 2024 in Blogs
As we continue our Alex Brightman celebration, we come upon something a bit different. Today, I am not looking at a whole musical but rather a musical TV show that my close friend, Marianne got me hooked on. As she joked with me, she corrupted me with it as it is out of the norm of what I typically watch but I enjoyed it all the same. As did many other people, we are looking at the main villain of the Prime Video hit series, Hazbin Hotel.
Hazbin is a fantastic show with great songs and a wonderful message of redemption. That even if you wronged in the past, that shouldn’t define you as who you are now. It is a tightrope to walk asking who is truly worthy of redemption and can they change. This is where Alex’s character comes in as he plays Adam as in Adam and Eve. Aka the First Man. Adam is such an interesting villain as he shows that even angels can be flawed. And also downright nasty, as Adam believes he gets leeway to be a dick as the First Man. That’s basically how he got into Heaven in the first place. He serves as the polar opposite to the show’s bubbly main protagonist, Charlie Morningstar who believes the sinners of Hell can be redeemed. Adam views them as hopeless cases and would rather continue with the extermination of the sinners they’ve carried out for years.
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Halloween with Barbie: It’s Halloween Time
October 28, 2024 in Blogs
Consider this a Barbie bonus. The Barbie YouTube channel uploads a lot of songs and this one was uploaded about two years ago. It’s a fun celebration of Halloween. You’ll notice unlike the previous Barbie show I looked at where they looked more human, this video and others on the Barbie YouTube channel do not hide they’re dolls.
It admittedly took me a while to warm up this animation style as it’s not what I’m used to but it works. I love the fun nature of the video as it shows how fun Halloween can be from the candy to the rides. I appreciate how this focuses on the fun aspect of Halloween as the Dreamhouse episode I looked at was all about the scary. Not, everyone likes scary (this girl). There’s room both fun and scary on Halloween. Some people like spooky and others like spoopy. I fall somewhat in the latter category, I’m okay with some scary but I’m more of have fun person. Neither is wrong.
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Barbie Bonus: Villains Profile: Ken
October 24, 2024 in Blogs
I’m so excited to be doing my second Villains Profile for a Barbie character. Yeah, I know he doesn’t fit the theme of Halloween but I don’t care. I love this movie and I’ve been wanting to cover him ever since the movie came out. I wanna talk about something important though. If you’ve followed my journey for any length of time online, you’ll know this year I came out as gender fluid and this movie played a big part in my gender journey. I don’t know if that makes much sense but it’s the truth. Rewatching it for this blog re-established how important it is. It was when Barbie told Ken that he had to figure out who he is, separate from her.
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Who You Gonna Call: Villains Profile: Rowan North
October 23, 2024 in Blogs
We’ve reached our final Ghostbusters villain for the month and alas we are going out on a whimper. I’m sorry but the 2016 reboot is bad, I wanted to come in here and say it’s not as bad as the hate mob thinks. But no, it’s just not good. You know what the original movie has, that this doesn’t have heart. It just feels so corporate, it lacks soul. This is a reboot meant to keep the IP known in the public eye. Say what you will about legacy sequels and how they play on nostalgia, at least they feel like Ghostbusters movies. I’m not saying this is bad but good Ghostbusters movies can balance the horror and comedy. This one leans too much into the comedy aspect. Yes, I know most people view these movies as comedies and they technically aren’t wrong but the movies in the original timeline can have frightening moments.
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Who You Gonna Call: Villains Profile: Garraka
October 22, 2024 in Blogs
We’ve now reached the latest mainline Ghostbusters villain, Garraka. I really like him and he is my favorite mainline GB villain. I feel he’s the most menacing villain the team has faced. All of the usual tactics they’ve used in the past don’t work on him. Also, he’s an ice villain and I like that as it brings something new to the table.
He also has the most imposing look of any movie Ghostbusters villain imo. He has to be the scariest looking villain they’ve faced and the most imposing one. This again ties back to something I’ve brought up time and again this month, the best villains in this series are the ones that take themselves seriously. We’ll see why comedic villains don’t work when looking at the reboot
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Halloween with Barbie: The Haunted Mansion Mystery (Barbie Mystery Files # 1)
October 21, 2024 in Blogs
A popular trend we don’t see much of anymore these days is placing beloved characters/actors in mystery series. If you were a child of the nineties, chances are you watched one of the Mary-Kate and Ashley tapes where they ran a detective agency.Â
This is what we have here with this 2002 book starring Barbie. It’s very short and light on the haunted house part of the title.
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The Horrors of Riverdale: Fear the Funhouse: Toybox of Terror # 1
October 17, 2024 in Blogs
Archie Horror is always something I enjoy looking at for this time of year and much like last year, I am looking at another YA anthology they released. Whereas last year’s focused on campfire stories and the monsters one would find in the woods, the anthology I’m looking at this year is all about evil toys. Evil dolls in particular, taking dolls and making them evil is nothing new, it is another way to take an aspect of childhood and strip it of the innocence we associate with being a kid. One of the earliest examples of an evil doll can be found in The Twilight Zone.
However, the stories in this comic pull from a more well known killer doll and a newcomer to the genre as the first story is a riff on M3GAN and the second borrowed slightly from Chucky.
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Halloween with Barbie: Nothing To Fear (Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures: Go Team Roberts)
October 16, 2024 in Blogs
I don’t like being scared all that much. I enjoy watching videos of Halloween events such as Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights. Why am I bringing this up in a blog about Barbie? Because that is what this episode has to do with. It’s all about facing your fears.
