What D&D Alignment is Megamind?
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#dnd #dreamworks #megmind
Just what I need, blame - er, credit - for another terrible wordplay =P
Bruh
Terrible wordplay
What are you talking about?
*It’s glorious*
Everyone looks like Markiplier. But Markiplier doesn’t look like anyone. No one says Markiplier looks like Farquaad but everyone says Farquaad looks like Markiplier.
Except for Metroman. Then Markiplier looks like Metroman.
Funny story about Farquaad, He does have a Real life counterpart. Go look up Michael Eisner.
He just has one of those faces.
to be fare all me look the same to me. we all have like the same 5 hair cuts. we all wear shirts and pants. not a lot of variety honestly.
Markiplier is the chicken of faces.
I would like to make one point about Hal; During his "training" arc, he is VERY interested in absolutely MURDERING Megamind. Like when he completely melts the dummy, which scares the hell out of Megamind who is watching it.
Hal was always evil, clearly not even considering that murder is wrong, even in that instance, and even delights in it.
He's not *extremely* evil when he doesn't have the power to be evil, but as soon as he does, he goes full chaotic evil- as he was super-spying on Roxie even before the advice.
It's a style of that old saying. Power doesn't corrupt, it simply reveals the corruption that is already present.
I totally didn't consider that! nice spot
Reminds me of abomination in the hulk movie
Also before Roxane to the museum Hal was offering her to go to his apartment with a wedding photographer and a bouncing castle where there is no place for the bouncing castle to be set up, which gives off very creepy kidnaping vibes.
A lot of good things about this movie is that it allows the audience to come up with their own interpretations on certain themes.
This is one of the examples, “Was Hal always a jerk or was he egged on by Megamind?”
I’m the person who says Hal is somewhere in between the two, but the fact that it can be a discussion elevates the movie because it trusts the audience to come up with their own thoughts, interpretations, and opinions on it.
Does wanting to melt Megamind's face make him evil though? Plenty of Lawful Good characters in D&D have no qualms about killing. Hell, Paladins have a hatred for undead.
Finally, a video on the *incredibly handsome, criminal genius, and master of all villainy.*
Markiplier?
@@AngelPlanes Close. I’m talking about the big-brained blue boi.
@@master0fthearts894 Exactly
@@AngelPlanes I don’t recall Mark being blue 😂
@@master0fthearts894 he wasn't particularly happy when broke his nose last time
I think Megaminds manipulation plays a role in Hal's villainy, but he's gotta have had some underlying mentality before, because he never teaches him to steal for himself.
Yeah the only thing Megamind teaches Hal that carries over into his villain mentality is that whole "save the girl = get the girl" idea. Granted it is coming from an authority figure of "Space Dad", but its not like he took much convincing to treat it as gospel. I'm willing to bet Hal had some entitlement issues prior to this that were only balanced out by a sense of inadequacy, and once said inadequacy was apparently dealt with it only took a nudge to convince he that he "deserved" certain things.
Also, Hal was spying on Roxanne before being told "save the girl, get the girl".
@@notanotaku1101 It’s also coming from an authority figure who has never “gotten the girl” himself, and is basing his teachings on his own experience (to which, his perception of MetroMan and Roxy’s situation would be his most consistent and closest example of what he’s trying to teach).
Add onto that, that his upbringing probably also had some variation on the subject taught by the inmates who raised him, who may or may not have believed similarly; and you have someone who has only _some_ idea what he’s talking about, trying to teach on the subject.
That is to say, MegaMind was less _tricking_ Hal, and just figured that was the natural course of how things worked out.
Hal is the "Nice Guy" type
Possible contentious opinion: pre-hero Megamind is lawful evil (LN tendencies). He did everything because he saw being a villain as his place. This is the order of things, and this is where he fits in it. It's the classic 'code unrelated to literal law' lawful. His actions, varied as they may be, were done to uphold this place.
Nothing contentious there. Megamind, by the rules of his own universe, is definitely lawful. He follows a code, stands by his personal set of values and ideologies, so lawful through and through. At the end of the day, he sees himself as a villain and a lot of his actions (kidnapping, stealing etc) when given the chance shows more of a self-gain / self-interest, so leaning towards evil.
@@christophervennix9861 "stands by his personal set of values and ideologies" By that definition everyone is lawful.
How dare you not mention the best character, Minion (ok, maybe 2nd best, but I have a soft spot for this archetype). I assume Lawful Neutral, since his main motivation is ensuring Megamind's happiness?
Thank you, I forgot what fish Alfred was called.
A pretty rare kind of lawful neutral
Lawful Neutral because he's motivated by routine more than anything. He doesn't like the changes, softly pushes back against Megamind being good, and only goes along with it once he realizes that this IS the new routine.
Minion is bae, you are a man of culture for rooting for Minion.
Or chaotic good, since he breaks laws but wouldn’t kill a random guy
I highly doubt Hal, given his new powers as Tighten, would have ever given up on Roxanne. Had he been around as a villain for a while, he would be the next one to constantly kidnap her and destroy the city in rage when she didn't agree to it.
This movie is one of my favorite movies. It’s a parody of the Superhero genre, but like Incredibles, it doesn’t really make fun of it, more like it tries to re-examine it’s tropes and improve it overall.
All of the characters are great, the actors play them well, it’s well-written… this movie *deserves* a sequel.
And the comedy is top-tier. Seriously, it was a stroke of genius to have the main character not be able to say all words correctly, and there to be constantly hilarious situations happening.
The best parodies always come from a place of love, or at least respect, for what is being parodied.
@@notanotaku1101 I completely agree. That is something they should tell you in writing shool.
EDIT: If anyone asks, the exclusion of ‘C’ in ‘School’ was completely intentional.
However much I may also be a big fan of Megamind, I have to disagree on the whole sequel thing. I feel that there is more than enough closure. Regarding Megamind and Roxanne, their character arcs were wrapped up well, and there aren't really any lose ends to deal with. If anything, I root for a movie set in the same universe, where we can explore other characters and maybe even address Metro Man, er, Music Man some more.
@@notanotaku1101 sometimes people confuse satire with parody or vice versa. A satire is a criticism of a particular thing either political or what-not with a humorous edge, while parody is often an embrace of the thing using humor. They both use humor to represent the thing they are making fun of but one is against and the other is an embrace.
@@aprilbennett4161 There is a lot of closure, but respectfully disagree. I don’t think that a sequel can’t be done. For one thing, there are plenty of standalone movies which have phenomenal sequels, for another, the status quo of Megaminds story can be used effectively as a baseline for a sequel.
(Off the top of my head, now that Megamind is accepted by the general public, he could be terrified to lose that acception. If there are several other heroes in the universe, we can have a number who are corrupt and want to downplay Megaminds name and steal Metro Cities adoration. Or some other superhero-like plotline, as long as it is interesting)
To put it frankly, I think that a sequel to Megamind, if handled correctly, can be done, especially since Megamind is a standalone with sequel potential rather than a pure standalone.
And frankly, I just need more content on this glorious, big brained blue boi who sometimes mispronounces words XD.
That being said, a Spin-Off exploring Music Man and his quest to find his passion would be pretty rad, ngl.
cuzco from the emperors new groove would be great (with honorable mentions to pacha, kronk, and yzma)
My guesses:
Cuzco - Lawful Evil [Selfish jerk but he kinda IS the law. Also Yzma says she practically raised Cuzco so probably INTENTIONALLY taught him to be a bad ruler so his overthrow wouldn't be hated] -> Lawful Neutral [I wouldn't say there's enough to push him to good]
Pacha - Neutral Good; he's mostly concerned about his own family and is breifly willing to abandon Cuzco... but his heart is too big.
Yzma - Chaotic Evil; this dosen't even need explanation.
Kronk - I'm gonna say True Neutral here. Kronk's actually the hardest IMO. He's just a dude caught up in the whole thing. Also his shoulder devil and angel and him in the middle as the neutral party.
@@raikaria3090 id actually say Cuzco is chaotic evil with a character arc towards chaotic good (maybe landing in chaotic neutral). he literally has a guard throw a fragile old guy out a high window for ruining a song and dance number.
Pacha is obviously neutral good, no questions there.
Kronk i would actually put at lawful neutral since he spends most of his time cheerfully following orders while doing both good and evil things. and its not until yzma insults his cooking that he turns on her.
Yzma i would definitely put at neutral evil rather than chaotic evil. she did ask her transformed soldiers if anyone wanted to take the day off when transformed into animals so i dont think shes that chaotic.
tldr; we got each cardinal direction of the tic tac toe square handled
@@oranos2276 yeah I'd definitely agree Kuzko is more chaotic than lawful. My closest reference point would actually be Gilgamesh from Fate, who has a canonical chaotic alignment. He fully believes his word should be law, but he doesn't view this law as some sort of code to follow, but more of a weapon for him to wield and bully others with
@@oranos2276 Yzma also has things like her initial plan to kill Cuzco with making him a cockroach; putting it in a box inside another box and mailing it to herself and smashing it with a hammer. That sort of thing is chaos to a T. She abuses Kronk a lot. One act for rule of funny dosen't make you Neutral evil. It would be a Good ding if anything, but not enough to overall shift her.
@@notanotaku1101 I can't agree with that. Fate alignment is notoriously inconsistent with the creators basically saying that it is actually what each character thinks that their own alignment is which is weird but okay. Also Gil could be a chaotic character not because of his use of law (because even that is technically still lawful; just Lawful Evil) but because he blatantly disrespects the gods and has fought against them multiple times, especially in the case of Enkidu.
so you want a short series to give an alignment for? The main cast of the anime Ghost stories..... Dubbed
i 2nd this
that would quickly just become a question of whether or not slurs move your alignment
Straight Up Yes! My Guess is that they will be nearly all Chaotic Neutral, but having someone talk about Ghost Stories especially like this would be awesome!
No, we need Stuart sane to be an awesome DM, and legitimate business Munchlax.
hell yeah
oh damn i’ve been thinking about this one, Gru from despicable me i think would also make a good alignment video
Oh man the first Deslicable Me is still one of my favorite "found family" stories, I would love to see a video on Gru
Man, you really opened me to the nuances of Hal’s character arc. He really did follow up based on a terrible role model and was trying to sit out the whole villain/hero thing (while at the start of it still robbing some banks or something, not as bad as megamind goaded him is your point) great analysis
Except here's the thing: Hal found out who that advice was from. He found out it was from Megamind. The 'villain'. So why would he still follow that 'save the girl get the girl' advice from Megamind?
@@raikaria3090because Hal is actually pretty dumb. The only reason he saw through Megamind’s disguise was because Megamind got a last second nat 1 on his deception
I miss read the title of the video and mistake it for the crimson demon: Megamin.
“You’re finally doing MegaMeme!?”
Stewart: no, i’m doing Megamind!
Did you mean Megumin or that how Megamind would say it?
Phrasing
@@0_Body Megumin is choatic explosion, obviously
Megamind: the Chaotic Neutral Artificer with the Entertainer background
That Markiplier intro is gold.
6:31 Bane from Harley Quinn?
Also he spends most of the movie off the charts chaotic XD
It's interesting to hear an in depth analysis on Tighten. A lot of people dismiss his character and honestly I kinda did too.
Ben 10 would be pretty cool too see, but that's a lot of episodes to watch, so I totally understand if it never happens.
All they'd need to do is collaborate with The Ink Tank.
That's and there's 3 different versions and 1 has 2/3 different shows. Original, alien force, ultimate. Then there's the that has a different art style and rook in it (I forget it's name) and lastly the episodic reboot
@@ryuudraco592 OG, Alien Force/Ultimate Alien, Omniverse, then the Reboot.
2005 Ben 10, right?
@@AngelPlanes Yes.
I feel like -Titan- Tighten embodies the Joker's saying of "all you need is one bad day," or "madness is like gravity, all it takes is a little push."
Hal could've, with work, become a hero, or at least not a villain. But that evil was already in him, and the combination of his powers and Megamind's push sent him over the edge. And, once over it, there was no coming back.
Bowser in Bowser’s Inside Story would be an interesting one but if I have to pick a superhero, if the black bulls count as superheroes, that’s an idea.
There's a flaw with making the alignment grid a circle instead of a square: at about the 8:15 mark, you have Megamind in chaotic neutral and a lawful neutral ding pushes him into chaotic evil, which seems counter-intuitive.
I know you just did Omni-Man but I would really like to see your take on Cecil Stedman. I think hes a pretty interesting character and one of the quotes about him in the comic that really sums him up is "You get to be the guy who saves the world, but you dont always get to be the good guy."
this video reminds me of omni man too because titan gets super powers but isn't a good guy.
Afro samurai would be an interesting alignment video.
Okay Stuart, here’s a suggestion. Not a super hero, but a Hero of Justice. Somebody determined to save everyone in front of them. I know you’ve read the VN, so you have probably already figured out who I’m talking about.
The three arcs, of Shirou Emiya. Not Archer EMIYA, but Shirou journey in each of the three routes, not counting bad ends.
This would be an interesting video
Before the video: Lawful evil. He has a code, a set of laws about how the battle of good and evil works. “This isn’t how you’re supposed to play the game!”
Agreed. A lot of his motivation is pretty lawful. He's the bad guy because he's "supposed to be". It's his job, his duty.
I think Hellboy from the Del Toro movies could be fun
Megamind at the beginning of the movie is a LAWFUL character because lawful means you have a code, a moral compass, a guide. Megamind does everything to follow the role thinks he needs. He knows what's expected and does it gladly. His character arc is about no longer wanting to play the part and break from his strict guidelines.
He goes from lawful neutral to chaotic good.
Lawful is the rhyme or reason to what you do
Neutral just means you do whatever without really thinking about it
Chaotic means you have no direction and do things spontaneously.
As Megamind transitions to good from his prior state he loses his routine and behind sporadic. He does things on a whim for the hecc of it.
At the beginning he has a routine, he's methodical and plans things out, he has a place he's expected to be and things he's expected to do.
When he does good it's all big and showy, he's unpredictable.
What I really like is how the movie stay neutral on whether Metromans choice to pursue his own wishes over everyone else is right or not. The movie doesn't judge and leaves it to the audience to decide, while also furthering the protagonists journey. Which is a nice touch (this movie is soo underrated).
I'd enjoy if you did Saitama. Would love to see your thoughts on him, even though I think he's pretty obvious.
OK I get the line about megamind saying hal need to earn roxan, but I think that was meant to be more megamind telling hal what he wants to hear rather then him pushing hal into that mind set. You can see earlier in the movie just how mutch of a creep he is, Plus the seen where megamind tells him that "advice" is also taking place when he is spying on roxan. I still think he starts chaotic neutral and becomes chaotic evil, but I think he was right on the edge of evil and him getting powers was what pushed him into evil, megamind just pushed him further into it.
I’m gonna starts at chaotic neutral but aspires to be lawful evil then turns around and ends at neutral good
Update: I was close-ish, starts chaotic neutral ends on the border of chaotic good and chaotic neutral
Huh, I guess I (somewhat) called it! I’m glad you were finally able to write a script for Megamind that you were happy and satisfied with! Great job!
Hal has incidents that are decent fuel to allow him to act in a way that's natural for him, but, Megamind's "goading" didn't cause his downfall. Hall Reacted in his fashion because that's what he would have done, regardless of who gave him that stimuli.
I think seeing a D&D alignment on gravity falls bill cypher and maybe even Mabel and dipper or even Gideon could be interesting it’s only two seasons show with interesting characters
It's a good thing people keep talking about this movie.
“Back; get back you savages!” Amazing xD
Honestly I feel like Megamind is actually Lawful, after all everything he says and does is very face valued and has rules. After all his whole mindset in life is that he is a villain and thus must act like one and that if someone is a hero then they will act like one (cough cough Hal). Not saying at the end he would be Lawful Good but he'd definitely be more Neutral than Evil.
If there was any, I would say if the legendary Pokémon. Cause many of them would fit into Chaotic or Neturel.
i think legendaries are all lawful neutral, they stick to their duties and perform them regardless of who's opposing them
Chaotic would entail that they are willing to bend the rules whenever they see fit
Well, apart from Mewtwo. Cause in the first Pokémon movie, he did killed his creators before escaping. So that would count as Chaotic. But I think in the end, he’s a bit more Lawful neutral, even in the uncannon movies.
@@MinerGameroneinonly Mewtwo is artificial, it's not a real legendary
I'd say that Mewtwo is neutral evil in the movie, maybe chaotic evil (he had reasons to escape, but he really had no reasons to commit mass murder and to kidnap and subdue children), then he shifts to a more neutral stance, yeah
So, in the end, Megamind never left the Chaotic Neutral block. But he's definitely closer to Chaotic Good in the end. One "good" act would've probably tipped him into Chaotic Good territory, but also just barely.
This may be the first time since the movie was created that I saw a person talk about Hal in a neutral way describing his "villain journey" instead of "he was an abusive incel from second 1"
6:31
Love that Spiderman moment because it someone doing what they love instead what other people would want him to do with that type of stuff
It's an interesting take, and it's all pretty damn accurate. But i can't shake the idea that he fits neatly into the Lawful Evil category. He's the bad guy, he wants to be the bad guy, so he follows all the cliche rules about bad guys.
But he's not doing it because he wants to do terrible things, he tried to take over, he believed it was what he wanted, but only after he succeeded did he realise that it was all just part of the show he was putting on.
And the conclusion as true good is spot on.
Man i love this movie
Love this movie. I agree with your assessment. Aside from Hal. From the beginning he saw Roxy as a goal or prize. He was only interested in being a hero to win her. Like how before he got his powers he asked megamind to rob the old lady next door. As a suggestion, how about the alignment of Alucard from Hellsing?
“There is no Queen of England” hits different in 2022 😅😢
I feel like metroman is more chaotic neutral, mainly due to the fact that he is fully ignoring the bad things that happened because he was gone suddenly without even attempting to create a back up. if he did it in a lawful way, would have created some form of back up group or entity that when he 'suddenly' was done in by megamind could have picked up protecting the city, like a justice league/super friends/some sidekick sort of deal. He's clearly very smart, albeit not as much as megamind, so he knows what's gonna happen. Even if he is fairly sure Megamind wont actually hurt anyone intentionally he knows the fear and panic he causes and the dangers he COULD cause if he was even slightly eviler than he was. He ignored the known effects of his actions, and then the resulting heavier KNOWINGLY deadlier threats left. Someone who has a wacked out moral compass has HIS powers now, and he knows it, and knows better than anyone that he is godlike, and he refuses to help. That's not just not doing the greater good that's selfishness on a huge level, because he knows no matter what HE will be fine. It would be like if superman ignored something about to destroy the entire planet because he just didn't feel like it and its not like its gonna kill him. I would have agreed maybe, if it was just megamind left, it could be argued his faith in how basically childish and not truely dangerous megamind is could cause him to ignore that side of things abit. But when you combine it with the knowingly abandoning the city and possibly world to whatever a manchild with his godly powers wants to do to it, that leans toward the ultimately selfish. And i don't say that as a dig at hal, but someone that turns to bloody MURDER violence in anger, and the second they have powers begins full on thievery and such to take what they feel they are owed is someone that hasn't grown up. He is the unfortunately gross stereotype of the nerd people have had in their heads for ages, and he's used as a sort of scapegoat i think to bash on all the nerdy folks in the way of saying that if given powers they wouldn't be heroes, they would be selfish and only use it for their own gain at the expense of others.
I would absolutely love for an Overlord video, maybe after the next season comes out.
I think most of the characters would be pretty easy to find an alignment for but just seeing your thoughts and explain them would be awesome ^-^
I agree with you, but to be fair, most of the characters have pretty cut and dry alignments that are literally spelled out in their character pages. And that's taking into account that the game world Yggdrasil was modeled after DnD.
"I'm completely open for characters coming up..."
Flashes Saitama image.
Me: SAITAMASAITAMASAITAMASAITAMASAITAMASAITAMA!!!!!!
What d&d alignment is ben 10 (og series)
One of the best DreamWorks movies ever with themes wich are pretty heavy all thing considered, and you say:"not ment to be taken seriously"
I'm sure you have a lot of suggestions on the list already, but has anyone suggested Dr. Horrible (or perhaps his superhero counterpart Captain Hammer?) from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog? An alignment video on either of them would be fascinating, I feel like :D
Ok, here's a Megamind-related question: Would you like to have a TV Show sequel? Continuing the story after the movie, seeing Megamind being a hero and introduce new super characters. What do you think? I'm completely fine with just the movie (Which is an underrated piece of art), but I'm not against sequels as long they are good written and help expand the world.
Edit - Oh boy, this aged... Poorly?
In short no.
In long. Story is ok perfectly closed as is. There is no interesting way for this story to continue. Spinn-off in same universe might work, but as other movies shown (Madadascar, Kung-fu panda and more) you can create content, but at least in my opinion it doesn't add anything sensible to the serie.
The main story is closed, there's no reason to reopen it
Anything they could do would be pulled out of nowhere since none of the lore has support for more super characters as it is
No, BUT.
I wouldn't be interested in more Megamind. His arc is complete.
But I would definetely be interested in MusicMan. How he adjusts to his new life, if he manages to find success, how he views Megamind taking over his role...
if well written, that could be an interesting angle.
This aged like milk- ;-;
megamind I love this movie this to me is a great example of how fuzzy good and evil can be in the sense both megamind and metroman while being on the opposite ends of the spectrum at the start they become odd friends by the end of it
This is the content I've spent my entire youtube lifetime searching for.
I'd say Chaotic Neutral.
When circumstance pitted him against a hero he rolled with it and became a villain.
When he invented a true villain, he rolled with it and became a hero.
He is entirely reacting to his strongest opposition.
I'm guessing chaotic neutral before I start. Born under chaotic neutral, lawful evil rising, sun in Pisces
Honestly the line did match him a lot since he was definitely doing chaotic stuff but it was more for the fun of messing with 1 person but I feel the middle part where he was shifted to evil a bit more him getting into a nest of lies where there was no clear way to fix everything after the whole statue nuking
My favorite line from the movie is where Hal says Megamind made him into a fool, to which Megamind retorts with “I made you into a hero! You’re the one who did the fool thing.”
I would like to point out that Hal was acting as a villain before Megamind pushed him to it. He used his abilities to steal all that stuff he had in his apartment, and was trying to convince Megamind that they should team up as villains. All of that happened after he saw Roxanne with Megamind/Bernard. I wouldn't call that accepting she's with someone else and moving on. Not to mention stealing that entire cart of flowers to try and impress Roxanne before that, and then just chucking it over his shoulder without a thought. Plus, he was acting like he deserved a relationship simply because he had powers, well before his attempt at 'rescuing' her (right after dropping her twice). While I agree Megamind's advice was awful, I think his own misconceptions about what being a hero was all about had more of an affect on his fall to villainy. You could argue that part is Megamind's fault as well, but none of what we see Megamind teach him about being a hero involves romance except for that one scene on the bench.
The best thing about this video?
*PRESENTATION*
I agree with most parts of this, but one thing I disagree with is the level of push Megamind had with Hal since it was made clear that while Megamind's theifts were more out of obligation (Chaotic Neutral), Hal's were out of Mallice (Neutral/ Chaotic evil), on top of that, since everyone was under the impression that Roxxane and Metroman were a thing it makes sense that both Megamind and Hal who are probably equally socially inept when it comes to relationships were both already under the assumption that that was just how things worked. But other than that I agree with you for the most part, (personally I would have pushed Megamind up to Chaotic good (Just barely) and put Metroman at Neutral good with emphasis on the neutral part since he's still clearly good at heart and knows that megamind wouldn't hurt someone intentionally unless he either believed they could take it or if it was necessary, heck even his weapons (with the exception of the forget me stick) are all harmless or at least don't have the intention of direct bodily harm.
Megaman is a good guy who believes he can only be evil, so his fights against metroman were always a performance, one he had fun doing. He never "beat" Metroman until Metroman made it happen himself. he didn't even want to, he just wanted the show to go on.
surprised no mention of the fact that Metroman shows up in single-frame instances during the original scene he flashbacks to. It's a literal blink-and-you-miss-it scene, but he actually shows up behind Megamind on the camera feed, and iirc, on top of the building Megamind is broadcasting onto.
One could argue that Hal just heard what he wanted to hear and rolled with it. Your own assessment of it seems perfectly valid though.
Gizmo Duck from Ducktales 2017 might make an interesting vid but I don't know how well that would do.
I argue MegaMind is Lawful not Chaotic. Like you said he acts evil because that is how he "should act" not because he wants to be evil.
To be honest, if you didn't want a short one, I would absolutely LOVE to see your alignment video for Bakugo from My Hero.
He gives Megamind a Chaotic Neutral for killing Metroman but a Chaotic Evil for not considering possible casualties when destroying the Metroman monument? I don't get it. The rationale lacks consistency.
I’d love to see videos that show us a character that is firmly good or evil but shows us exactly where they fit on the spectrum because of their actions, i’d be pretty interested in that
I personally think Crona from Soul Eater would be an interesting character to do a DnD alignment on. Though, it's kind of messy given that the ending of the anime and manga are vastly different and I'm not sure how willing you are to look into the manga. Crona is such a complex character though and it would be interesting to analyze if everything they do is for their mother or is part of what they do truly desire to get rid of their aching fear/pain that resides in them. I suppose it's the classic nature vs. nurture discussion.
Minus the murder and extremely abusive mother, I find a lot of myself in Crona and would love to see a video on them.
Brilliant Idea, they should make it a combo video and do Ragnarok's alignment too as they're literally a package deal and I think Ragnarok is pretty underexplored as a character, at least for the anime I haven't read the manga yet so maybe that's different.
Okay so maybe you won’t ever read this but I need to put my hand up when it came to the statements on Hal aka Titan. I believe you are focusing too much on what is admittedly bad advice when the character of Hal was a horrible hero from the beginning cause he was a crappy person. First off the first scenes we see of him he is mocking the celebration and seems to be jealous of Metroman for not only being able to save Roxanne but his general success. While Roxeanne is being kidnapped behind him he goes on this rambling that shows he does not care for Roxanne platonically, his ideal situation is that she accepts his advances. Watch the language he uses in his rant he tries to play off his word choices but it is clear he is literally putting up his ideal that they will fall in love. Whenever he says something he sees upsets Roxanne he corrects it and tries to play it off as a joke he is trying to mold himself into someone she wants to date. This is commonly known as a red flag because forcing yourself to be someone your not or worse purposely lying about yourself for personal gain shows that you have an unhealthy mindset before a relationship has begun. After metroman supposedly dies he doesn’t really give two shits about it except for the fact it makes Roxanne sad, further detailing an unhealthy attachment. The clincher is the museum steps scene where he attempts to invite her to a ‘party’ under very false pretences he is outright lieing and only reveals the truth when he thinks it will get him what he wants. When this doesn’t work he has a tantrum hating himself for messing up before driving off. While driving off he pulls a hit and run on some nearby property and speeds off recklessly while this is a comedy basic human society laws are in place he does break the law there. This is already the tale of a potentially disturbed guy who really needs to talk to someone about his unhealthy obsessive crush with his coworker. He is not genuine in his affection he accepts the bad advice and acts on it cause that’s what he thinks, Roxanne is not a person to him she is the object of desire he doesn’t legitimately try to just talk with her and I know he’s awkward and nerdy but that’s not an excuse,if he wanted a genuine relationship he had to get to know her like Megamind did open up slowly, share interests (granted he did it under false pretences so Megamind’s getting a ding for that in my book) but that’s not he approach instead he keeps on trying to force his way into a relationship with Roxanne just not overtly until after the powers. All of this happens before the powers before the bad advice, Hal Stewart is CN bordering evil before powers and gets worse from there because at the start he doesn’t have the power to do what he really wants to do, once he gets it he shows his true colours and I have known some bad people like this, if this was not a kids cartoon movie I have no doubts a real life Hal Stewart who perhaps didn’t inherit super powers but did some weight training or got a position of power at his job could be quite the dark character and not the fun kind.
A ve4y good, very short series is Over the Garden Wall, I think it would be fun to look at alignments from that.
I’d love to see Ainz Ooal Gown from Overlord in one of these
Honestly, I always thought he was chaotic neutral.
I think Metroman is Chaotic Good. He's a good person at heart, but he's willing to throw away his social position of being the good guy for his own whims. I do thing TN is a fair assessment, but it implies some form of moral lacking imo.
Leaving the town alone is not good aligned, so it can't be chaotic good
He's in no obligation to help, but he can easily do so, he didn't retire for the good of the people, he retired for his own sake
He does not take drastic actions of any kind but still refuses to commit acts of goodness, which lands him into True Neutral
I mean, you can argue superheroes have a moral obligation to protect others, because their powers allow them to do things normal humans can't. To have fantastic superpowers and then decide "nah fuck those I wanna live alone in an anonymous locale where no one can bother me", that's potentially a moral failing. A justifiable one, but still one.
But even then, that fails to consider that _most humans, as a rule, are True Neutral._ Yes, everyone wants to say they'd be some flavor of Good because they strive to help others, but there's so many times we as a people could do something to help others but decide that we can't due to extenuating circumstances that really just boil down to "I can't, because that would be bad for me". "That would be bad for me" is an Evil act, even if it's a minor one such as "No I can't cover your shift I'm too tired". It's so insignificant that it wouldn't budge the needle on an alignment shift, but to be Good means to actively reject those choices. That's why a lot of people end up actually being True Neutral, because it's the "I'll decide in the moment what I need to do" alignment, and a lot of decisions they make muddy the waters and shuffle them into that dreaded middle category.
In that sense, it's not that Metroman "fell" from being Good down to Neutral, he simply chose to become more human, and the entire point of his segment in that movie was to humanize him to us. And to be human is, more often than not, to be True Neutral.
I think he is lacking morale's if you can do good and you choose not too that's at best neutral. He's not batman he has one villain that he is shown to be massively more powerful than he can have a life as a musician if he wants he didn't need to hide.
@@scottdean185 Well, it's debatable, if you can do good but it requires some effort, you don't become neutral for not wanting to go the extra mile, but that also depends on severity and urgency
He devoted most of his life to fighting megamind, a villain who all in all isn't that dangerous
I'd say he earned a rest and isn't obligated to help the city anymore, nor ever was, tbh
Mind you, he could have just yeeted megamind into space to murder him and just get to live his life carefree, but he didn't even harm him
@@StarkMaximum that was a very well elaborated take.
The whole villain to hero redemption ark reminded me of an older anime; Ronin Warriors. And specifically, the villain turned selfless hero Anubis.
Would be cool to see infinity train characters eventually
The exit sign is explained in the movie. Megamind used it to mean exciting. He even warned Roxanne about it.
I mean, to be fair, Megamind becomes the local superhero by the end, so he technically counts as a hero.
A homelander video would be exquisite, thanks for the videos my guy
Spyro the Dragon D&D character alignment. Legend of Spyro obviously.
Haven’t even watched the video but I’m going to call it right here, he is the embodiment of chaotic good.
I love watching your videos! I have a idea for the next one or a future one..
Beatrix "The Bride" Kiddo
From Kill Bill
My guess is he starts off Neutral Evil, he does bad, but he's not really malicious. Then ends up Neutral or Neutral Good, maybe Chaotic good.
Chaotic neutral at the beginning; chaotic/neutral good at the end
I’ve always had this question about this dnd alignment thing, what would a character whose only goal was to protect another person be? All their decisions are made to keep this person safe, they just kind of follow the person around and dont care about what’s evil and what’s good. They just go along with whatever the person is doing and be their bodyguard. Think like Mifune, the white haired samurai who protected Angela the witch from Soul Eater. Where would someone like that fit?
A perfect, amazing big video that you could do would be "What DND Alignment is every character from Fate:Zero" I cannot express how well it would work and how much I'd be interested in watching it. And with Artoria being your Character for LG you may already be familiar with it or already have a plan for it, although that could be a familiarity with Fate:Stay night instead since that's technically the main one. But in any case Kirei and Waiver Velvet would be fluidly changing people to follow as they change pretty steadily throughout, Kiritsugu would be interesting to analyze and would be very interesting to follow although most of his changes are in the early and late part of his story. The difficult part comes in the sheer number of characters that would be worth giving attention to. Pretty much every character would merit an alignment which is why I suggested the What alignment are all the characters format but it would be worth waiting to do and to watch as it is easily one of the most fitting series to this I've ever seen and is without doubt one of my top three series of all time. Like under the right circumstances I would be willing to pay way too much money to make this happen.
Also side note thank you for making these videos, they're great and they really brighten my day whenever I see them so I really appreciate this and want you to know that they're great.
I have two that are 1 movie - and REALLY GOOD movies at that - which make for interesting alignment stuff. V from "V for Vendetta", and Robert Neville from "I am Legend"
I think you're that megamind's advice played a part in tighten's fall, but I think most of that was all him. It's a pretty big leap from "save her and she's yours" to "kidnap her". And he did melt the dummy megamind's face, so he probably always intended on killing him.
Alex Mercer from prototype 1&2 and the comic book
I would like to ask for Drax alignment bc I feel he goes from lawful good (or neutral) to and more chaotic neutral (or good)
I already watched this, but UA-cam reset the archive and said I didn't. So I'll watch this twice, because Megamind
This just goes to show that alignment is actually very malleable and isnt in any way indicative of a characters choices. Just because you chose lawful good doesnt mean you dont lose your temper or take things too far. Lawful good isnt infallible.
Megamind throughout the movie has the goal of things being the way they should be. He believes that because he fell into the prison, he belongs there. He thinks that because his rival is the hero, he must be the villain. He thinks his purpose in life is to serve as an opposing force to Metro Man. But he is also the type of person who knows how much things can actually hurt and avoids those sorts of actions. Every bad thing he does is intentionally reversible. He has a role and plays it, but he ultimately strives for the world to be what it should be. He is, even at the beginning, the embodiment of Lawful. I even think he might be Lawful Good at the beginning, straying to Chaotic Neutral when his entire raison d’etre is destroyed by the loss of Metro Man. He returns to Lawful Good when his worldview is altered to show that he doesn’t HAVE to do “evil”.
actually saitama would be pretty interesting to see an analysis on. I know he'll still probably end up as neutral, but he's actually a lot more good and heroic than other heroes in one punch man.
Genos is neutral good though.
Tbh, I'd rate him as Chaotic Neutral all the way through the start. Even his more callus and chaotic actions are performed because it's what he wants, not just for the sake of chaos.
Chaotic neutral or Lawful evil just because he very much plays by the "rules" of being a villain.
Trying to find a hero that's worthwhile inside your time limit that you haven't already done is hard, but I think I got one.
David Dunn (Unbreakable)
Megamind movie is comedy with a good message at the end
you don't hath be the Bad guy if world keep kicking you you don't need be villain if person you hate the most is the hero basically you can be good guy even if you don't think you can
I'd argue that Megamind is actually lawful rather than chaotic: even at his most villainous, he largely sees himself in terms of the system imposed by society and is fulfilling his designated role (supervillain) within that system rather than trying to overthrow the system itself. When he does actually over throw it by accident he loses all meaning in his life, a conflict that's only resolved when he then has to defend the system from an actual chaotic threat (Titan).
So it's a character that starts out lawful evil and get pushed into lawful good when exposed to chaotic evil.
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HE SAID THE THING! HE SAID THE GLORIOUS THING!
Naofumi Iwatani from Riseing of the Shield Hero. the 1st season is on VRV and it's only 25 episodes. The 1st episode is about 45 min long but the rest are about 25 min, and it is REALLY GOOD!