#villainous theories

[paper-gold-theories]

Villainous Theory: Black Hat Heals Flug

Alan mentions Black Hat can heal you, but with pain and with a malicious intent.

Evidence to show that is in Episode 3, where despite Flug's body being injured and he was unable to move after his fight with Demencia, but he was able to move to detain Mascara Macabra after being painfully wacked by Black Hat's cane.

And even walk fine and even enjoy a nice vacation with 5.0.5 and Demencia afterwards without showing signs that he was ever injured.

Another possible evidence of Black Hat healing Flug was when he stepped on Flug after he was injured after successfully switching off Hat Manor's security in one of the shorts. It was not shown, but I theorised that he might be fine and healed aftwards.

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Going back to what was mentioned, Alan said that Black Hat heals you with pain, that was shown in these two evidences.

He also does it with malicious intent. So heals Flug obviously not to be nice 😂 but because Flug is less useful and productive evil henchman to him when he is injured and waiting for him to heal naturally is a waste of time.

So he just basically use his painful healing method to heal him but just not make a big deal of it.

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I wonder what's Flug's first reaction thr first time Black Hat heals him? Like an invention or an experiment went wrong and Black Hat just whacks him with a cane and all his bones healed and Black Hat pretends like he didn't do anything.

I kinda imagine Flug, despite the initial pain would be profusely thanking his boss for his kindness, causing Black Hat to give Flug a demonic death glare and turn into a monstrous form, saying he healed Flug's bones because if Flug had to wait for his bones to heal naturally, it would hinder his work and productivity for Black Hat Organisation not out for kindness and says that he will inflict an injury a million fold if Flug ever accuses him of a disgusting thing like that ever again. Flug scared and fearing for his life, just agrees to whatever Black Hat says and just begs him not to kill him, resulting Black Hat to turn back to his human like form and yells Flug to get back to work before leaving.

Hence, every time Black Hat heals him Flug, he just accepts the pain before the healing takes effect and just continues his work without acknowledging the act and pretending like nothing happened.

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Flug is Going to Lose an Arm - Theory

I'm not quite a theorizer, but with Villainous now in the US, I was rewatching season 1A when I noticed something I thought might be worth mentioning.

It's pretty common for cartoons to casually tell the audience major spoilers to the series in a discreet way that flies over the audiences' heads. (i.e. Ducktective in Gravity Falls, or the Cookie Cat song in the first episode of Steven Universe)

So when V.I.R.U.S. listed the spoilers for Código Guajolote at the end of episode 4, I wrote each of them down in case they became important later in the series.

@paper-gold-theories has a post going through each of the spoilers V.I.R.U.S. lists, where they draw a clear parallel between Flug and the character Macias from the show. (So go check out their observations!! Their theory on the "10-year-war" is great!)

One of the spoilers regarding Macias was that Macias "Has no arms."

So personally, I had the thought that Flug would lose an arm at some point, but didn't think about it much at the time, and just added it to a list of "cool fanart/edit ideas".

But later I was going through old saved photos, when I found this livestream sketch of animatronic-versions of the main cast (featuring Demencia ripping off animatronic-Flug's arm):

(Source: This post from @nightfurmoon)

Later, I was rewatching the orientation videos, and Black Hat jokes about ripping off Flug's arm at 6:06 (although, keep in mind that this is in response to what was occurring in the clip he's reacting to).

(link + english fan-sub)

And then, this one's a long shot, but in episode 6, Flug winds up finding an extra detached arm of his as a bit of dark humor (at about 2:11).

This one's definitely reaching, but it's another example of a dismembered Flug-arm, and thought it was worth bringing up.

These could all be coincidences, but I thought it was a cool concept to share none-the-less.

[madscientistenthusiast]

Since October's rolling around and it'll mark the 1 year of Villainous Season 1A being released, I want to talk about some predictions for 1B when it eventually releases

- We'll definitely be exploring more of the gangs Backstories, specifically Flug, some flashbacks to what led him to be working for BH, possibly even some inconsistent memories, since we know how "hard" it is for him to accurately remember things

- possibly a Dem centric episode, girl doesn't get alot of focus, and she deserves to have her own episode, maybe showcasing her solo missions or what she's like when she isn't just obsessing over BH

- most likely some more status quo style episodes like in 1A, but I feel like they'll all be leading up to something :)

- We'll absolutely be seeing more of Goldheart, most likely slightly longer snippets of him throughout the other episodes, letting us get to know him a bit more before the season finale when we finally meet him face to face, I'll elaborate on how I think this episode will go in a later post :)

[the-meme-monarch]

they weren’t kidding that frisk someone can sure strange

anyway so the “see you in the next hell, losers” is inspired by this video ! it made me Think. undertale was their first hell(possessed by the SOUL), deltarune is their current hell(wants the SOUL back)

and the “try as you might, you continue to be yourself” is from when you get a second red flag in Ball Game in undertale ! thought it’d be ironic since. theyre kinda not acting like themself since they don’t have the SOUL anymore. not that they even really know who they were without it

also knight chara is here

[oifaaa]

People bring up the fact that Jason (might have) beaten up Tim that one time like it's the worst thing Jason did ignoring that he literally shoots Damian point blank in the chest all the offence in the world to tim but imo boy got off pretty easy

[taniamitsu]

“Don't let "them" hear”

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

Misery AU where Yoichi is the author of the Captain Hero comics and AFO throws him into the vault when he discovers that Yoichi is planning to kill off the Demon Lord

[lady-harrowhark]

I promise I’m going somewhere with this but I am currently fixating on how seeing Naberius’s trident knife in the beginning of HtN gives Harrow the Gideon Memory Migraine™, despite no clear connection to Gideon:

Ianthe considered this. She nudged the confection basket hilt of the rapier at her hip aside, and took out a long knife that, again, ran a hot rill of pain down your temporal bone. It was—though you had never bothered to learn—Tern’s main-gauche, his trident knife, a long blade from which two other blades would spring at the press of some hidden mechanism; she flicked that mechanism now, and with a snickt they burst out like a firework, two hard points of gleaming steel. She flicked it again, and the blades went snickt back into their housing.

Is it simply that it’s something from the Canaan House era in general? Or is there more going on? Stick with me here.

One of my pet theories I’ve been harboring since Kiriona’s wounds were revealed is that Harrow herself wounded Gideon after she threw herself on the fence, paralleling Jesus’s side wound from being speared after his crucifixion. They needed to ensure Jesus was truly dead, and presumably Harrow also needed to be well and truly sure that Gideon was dead before proceeding. Ianthe says she put a sword through Naberius’s heart to pin his soul in place for her ascension, and we see his body run through with the sword. Harrow needing to do the same to Gideon would certainly be some very juicy angst fuel.

The other crucial component here is one of my other favorite pet theories: that Harrow knew Gideon’s sword was haunted, likely before even coming to Canaan House. I’ve seen a few people do some more detailed explanations about that, but I’ll do a brief rundown here. 

Harrow says as far back as GtN about the sword “I never liked that cursed thing anyway; I always felt like it was judging me.” After the events of HtN with the River and Canaan House 2.0, we know she has an innate and potentially subconscious talent with spirit magic; it seems likely she was able to sense what was in the sword whether she knew exactly what was going on or not.

In HtN, Guideline #3 in her her pre-lobotomy letters to her post-lobotomy self has several stipulations (wipe it down with arterial blood nightly, coat it in regenerating ash, don’t cut flesh or bone with it) that sound a lot like precautions one would take to keep a soul from hopping out of it.

When discussing the sword with Abigail in Canaan House 2.0, we get some very specific qualifiers around how much information Harrow is able to provide about the sword. Directly before remembering that the sword was Gideon’s we have: “Harrow’s brain, though still a jumble, was no longer a mess in a darkened room. Memory had gifted her a small torch she could light the disarray with.”

After that, she struggles to recall further details, her own brain providing obstacles: “The light was not proving helpful enough: she was, in desperation, kicking over piles of the rubble in her own brain.” In the end, she’s able to tell Abigail: “I hated that damned sword for years. I don’t know why; it just felt strange - rancorous. I cannot deny that I often assumed its edge would be the last thing I saw. I don’t know.”

Circling back to the final battle of GtN, we get my favorite little nugget of support for this: Harrow is described as looking “affrighted” when Gideon tells her to go get her two-hander. I’d initially taken that to mean she was startled (and maybe a bit annoyed) to find out that Gideon had brought it at all, or freaked out at the situation in general. But I’ve begun to wonder if she specifically didn’t want Gideon to bring that sword with her to Canaan House because she knew, or at least suspected, what it contained.

Which brings us to the trident knife. If Harrow needed to fix Gideon’s soul in place by impaling her herself, and she knew there was a malevolent soul in the two-hander that could conceivably hitch a ride in another body that it came into contact with, she would have needed a different tool for the job… Which may very well have been the trident knife. Seeing the weapon she used to mutilate her cavalier’s body with seems like exactly the sort of thing that would bring on one of Harrow’s Gideon-induced headaches, no? It’s also notable that when Harrow sees this knife, it’s directly before Ianthe stabs her through the hand, again analogous to crucifixion wounds. I gotta say, if this holds water, there’s a certain poetry to both Harrow and Gideon receiving versions of the Holy Wounds on the blade of the same knife.

(Edit to add: further theorizing prompted by @camilla-rekt‘s fab addition can be found on this reblog)

[bakudekublogblog]

alright I’m bored so here’s my extremely optimistic crack theory: assuming katsuki seeing a vestige means we’ll see him in the vestige realm, when kudo sorted through izuku’s memories he put his forehead on the wall right??

what if izuku is having a crisis about being left quirkless again and vestige katsuki needs to touch foreheads with izuku to show him all his memories of izuku being heroic without a quirk and he tells him “you never needed a quirk. you were always a hero” or something like that because it’s what izuku always needed to hear

[junesfool]

[kikigeh]

Miraculous had 5 seasons to try and turn Gabriel/Hawkmoth into a good, interesting or at the bare minimum a convincing threat but I feel like, even despite all of the brand new lore and backstory, his impact is pretty meaningless when at the end of the day he is going to be facing off against Ladybug and not someone else who'd make infinitely more sense for him to be battling against.

Hawkmoth really has no business thinking Ladybug is his greatest enemy when his own incompetence is the only thing he has ever battled against and Ladybug's gripe with Hawkmoth has more to do with the fact that she can't live her normal teenager life because she was chosen to be responsible to stop him. There's absolutely nothing that connects the two besides the fact that Hawkmoth wants her miraculous and the fact that they are both connected to Adrien somehow.

There's no clashing ideologies that are put at the forefront, they are in no way foils, Hawkmoth's "noble" motive of resuscitating his wife is impossible to root for because he spends the rest of the show being utter shit to his son so you can't convince anybody that he's a good person who deserves to be rewarded. The fact that at the end he's going to be rewarded with anonymity, a wish come true and his son never once being able to learn about anything about his deeds, all to make the showdown about how Hawkmoth and Ladybug have always been destined to fight against one another... it's just so silly.

The show really is a monument to wasted potential because how do you miss the chance to make it at least the kind of show that you'd recommend wholeheartedly because at least "the ending is good", and instead opt for the silliest kind of undeserved ending for the bad guy? It's seriously kind of depressing.

And to top it all off, the show actually gave Ladybug a formidable foe in Felix/Argos but then tossed that storyline away over... Lila??? Man.

[paper-gold-theories]

Villainous Observation: I love that this chapter of the Risky Heist shows how badass Flug is and he's a high tier Villain worthy of working at BlackHat Organization.

At the end of Episode 6, Flug was able to sneak in by himself disguised as a guard, even wearing a paper bag 😂 no less, to walk in and out to see Miss Heed like it was no big deal and nobody's business. He probably hacked into the facility himself as you can see him appear after lights suddenly went out.

But it turns out that the facility was heavily guarded and was way more difficult to sneak into than what it appears.

Ilumiarrow and Mawrasite needed an elaborate plan to sneak into the place, steal keys from the captain and a hacker to disable security in order to break into the facility.

Flug just makes it look easy.

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Mini Theory - Dem's Obsession

If the theories that Flug created, or genetically modified, or brainwashed Demencia are true: Then I think that the research Flug did for his thesis was what he used to make her fall in love with Black Hat.

We know that the formula used for Miss Heed's hypnotizing perfume was flawed, and Flug's isn't.

It would give an external explain as to why:

She could resist Heed's perfume

She glitched out when given the Spurn Detura Flower (made from the same formula)

She took off the Mascara Macabra without hesitation

Also, it could easily just be a stylistic choice, but Dem and Heed's brainwashed victims have similar glowing-pink, popping hearts:

[eclipse-into-your-walls]

Remember that time when Leo made that Multiplication error?

Someone need to make an animation of this scene lol.

Leo Villain arc?-

[irlkisukeurahara]

"why would you want to claim (insert anime character) for the trans community? They're a bad person beca-"

I don't appreciate this insistence that transgender people have to be a good person to be valid. Transgender people are just as likely to be good-for-nothing pieces of shit as everyone else. Why do we all have to be "pure soft good boys" to be enough for you? It's a fictional character anyways, why must they adhere to real life standards?

[robbyrobinson]

Just thought about it, but Magnifico might be one of the most fucked up Disney Villains we haven't seen in a while. Obviously don't think the movie will go into the dark implications, but Magnifico choosing which wishes to grant while erasing people's memories and returning their unanswered wishes made me think...

Well, what if someone had a terminally ill loved one, and they go to Magnifico to ask for their wish to be granted ? He declines it because it wouldn't benefit him, though he could also do so to glaze up his ego further.

Magnifico must have a f-cking huge body count.