Netizens Discuss Who They Believe Are The Actual Bad Guys In These TV Series And Films

It's basically an expectations versus reality: media villains edition

Chelsi

• Published in Film & TV
• March 11, 2022

When there’s a hero, there’s a villain. Filmmakers would often make the villain obvious for the audience to identify and they would bite into that agenda willingly.

You’ll see this villain being blamed by everyone for the destruction and if you could throw popcorn towards the screen when they come on, you would. It takes a great actor to make the villain’s intentions believable.

If you look closely though, you’ll notice gray characters that are actually a villain in disguise. Most of the time you wouldn’t think of it since they’re the protagonist of the show.

You might not even notice it right away until someone points it out as these people did in our list. A bunch of people online identified and shared who they thought were the real villains in each show were and you wouldn’t actually be too surprised by some.

The trend started when a meme went around on social media platforms wherein they had the obvious villain on one side and the ‘real’ villain on the other. For example, in the TV show Glee, you would think that the villain is Sue with all the things she did.

And she can be but people see Mr. Schue as the real villain because of the things he did that they let slide. There are a lot more conclusions like that in these posts.

1. In SpongeBob SquarePants the real bad guy is Mr. Krabs who exploits his employees and cuts corners to save money due to his greed

2. When you rewatch the Disney Classic 'The Parent Trap', ask yourself: "What kind of family court judge separates twins?"

3. The vigilante "hero" does not deserve the applause for cleaning up Gotham

4. If Walt had access to free universal healthcare, he wouldn't have had to resort to drug dealing to save his life

5. Kevin's literally forgot him on their overseas trip leaving him vulnerable to all sorts of danger

6. Andy's friends suck as highlighted on that bar scene where she brought them free things from her job and all they did was make her doubt her self. We see you losers especially you, Nate!

7. Sharpay worked hard to hone her talent in performing ever since she was young and out of the blue, Gabriella comes in to undo everything Sharpay and Ryan did

8. Disappointing but not surprised; also very on brand

9. She stole a cheer word for word from another cheerleading team who are, by the way, mainly composed of Black people and POCs

10. The worst guy presented as the classic I'm-a-good-guy is none other than architect Ted Mosby. He is an unreliable narrator determined to show himself as the hopeless romantic who is somehow always the victim. There are theories on the internet discussing how he purposefully made Barney look like a jerk in the flashbacks to make himself look better.

You might be more doubtful the next time you watch a new movie or show. Or you might go back to the ones in these OPs’ posts and realize why they are right with their conclusions.

At least now you can figure out the sneaky ways filmmakers hide the villains by pushing another really obvious one to the forefront of the stories. You could decide the next time who really are the bad guys and make your own meme post.

Who was the most surprising for you? You can share it with us in the comments.

Chelsi