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Best Pokémon Villains Tournament- Individuals Bracket- Round 3: Match 9

Official art of Colress from Pokémon.ALT
Official art of Giovanni from Pokémon.ALT

Colress vs Giovanni

Colress

Giovanni

As we head into the second half of Round 3, matches between heavy hitters aren't letting up!

Colress has won both of his matches with vote shares of over 70%, and both matches were some of the most voted on in each of Round too! he's had strong support from the voters, but how does he fair against the original villain himself?

Everything said about Colress? Also applies to Rocket Boss Giovanni! He's been making it clear that just because he's an early villain, doesn't make him past his prime! But Colress may be the first to be able to give him a run for his money, so he'll have to put up a fight!

pokemonblack3white3

OKAY NO ACTUALLY I WON'T STAND FOR THIS. COLRESS DESERVES THIS WIN.

I really do respect what Giovanni did as the original. Initially, Giovanni did exactly what he was supposed to do incredibly well. He was an evil, one-note villain who didn't need a world-destroying scheme to be evil or threatening, and I think that's what really makes him effective, but it has been nearly thirty years and even though he set the standard does not mean he maintained it.

Every single thing they have tried to add to Giovanni's story with the excpetion of Silver has been actively detrimental to him. Giovanni works best when he is simple and doing stuff like having him battle with Mewtwo or lead Team Rainbow Rocket pulls him away from what made him good and has him teetering dangerously into Lysandre territory.

Colress doesn't have being low-concept weighing him down. He's the antagonist of the most ambitious mainline pokemon game and he shines for it. Unlike Team Rocket, the prescence of Team Neo Plasma is felt throughout the entire game and can't be effectively removed from the story. The trauma the main rival, Hugh, has from them is crucial to his character. Colress was an active threat not just to the protagonist but to the gym leaders, managing to steal the DNA Splicers from Drayden. Colress is the only evil team leader who actually managed to control a legendary pokemon for more than three seconds, and he used its power to attack the hometown of the reigning champion on a giant flying pirate ship. Colress simply cannot be topped.

Colress may have given up the whole evil-doing thing and taken a hike from his home region after being defeated by the protagonist, but so did Giovanni! Even if Giovanni had aged better I would be gunning for Colress, but he hasn't, so it really isn't even a contest. Colress ALWAYS solos Giovanni and that's that on that!!

pokemonblack3white3

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doubladescimitar

okay but does colress have a cat?? I didn’t think so

pokemonblack3white3

Is this the standard for villainy nowadays........ Giovanni isn't even a war criminal 😔

crazyw3irdo
beaft

googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

beaft

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I actually, genuinely think social event aftercare would fix me. I need someone to put me to bed and say "you were fun today and no one hated you"

inkstars1138

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ebonydraygon

#theres a thing called 'larp drop' thats essentially this#esp since when having a great time you might be more inclined to disregard your limits and ignore discomfort#(and forget to eat/drink if its larp whoops)#and then once you have a moment to yourself it all comes crashing in#source: once forgot to eat at larp and had a sobbing fit in my car that ended the instant i bit into a chicken nugget - @queerfarmgremlin

troublepunk-ldn

this is also true of festivals, conventions, pride parades, concerts, and any situation where you have a lot of fun with other people!

crazyw3irdo
lumsel

There's an open pit in the middle of our office plan that drops down into a bunch of very sharp spikes that kill you instantly. This is bad. People keep falling in there and dying. Someone put a sign up, the other day, all bright yellow so you can't miss it, that says "Beware!!! Spikes!!!"

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

We ended up removing the sign. Probably for the better. Still... for a while there it looked like it might have worked...

unusual-pybro

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m1dori-eyes

Nobody has ever been capable of writing a scathingly harsh and well formulated satire about the perils of modern capitalism, that doesn't just get immediately one-upped by some random food service worker talking about their actual week.

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mousegirlheart

im gonna be real what the fuck did padme ever see in anakin? that man is a walking red flag salesman. every time he interacted with her in episode 2 it made me uncomfortable. even padme says a few times that he's making her uncomfortable. girl why did you marry this trainwreck

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

the prophet george lucas predicting grimes x elon

mousegirlheart

Anakin:

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Padmé: I love you but please turn off ur lightsaber or give me a dall. I cannot support the dark side. Please stop this. I know this isn’t your heart.