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[Watch Da Birdie]

You can't spell Perfection without Perfect.

In my "Dragonball Z" marathon, I've reached the Cell Arc. This is the first time I've really watched that Arc, and what impressed me about it is how great Cell is. Dude manages to be threatening, but also really entertaining, and I find him to be a far better villain than Freeza.

But anyway, the idea of a villain just existing to try and aim to be "PERFECT" is an interesting idea. Toriyama wasn't really gifted with writing multi-dimensional villains, most of them are either comedic evil, or just evil, with not a lot of in-between. So him just abandoning any pretense of trying to make a deep villain and just going with a villain who just wants to be perfect, well, I enjoy that.

Any other villains in fiction (or even real-life) who embody this idea? In a way I see the Joker as sort of along the same lines, except he strives to be the perfect villainous embodiment of evil. And, of course, Dio Brando.

 

[Mr.Swag]

Hitler?
His view of perfection I mean of course.


Wait, like perfect themselves?


I guess any villain from a sports movie

 

[Princess Carl]

No, but I hope others do. Very interesting topic.

 

[AlexBasch]

Cell is my favourite DBZ villain for the same reasons you just posted.

Also, I enjoyed how Vegeta screwed it up since he could beat him in his second stage, but thought it would be too easy and he let him absorb C-18.

Then he fucked that midget up.

 

[DrForester]

 

[thefatness16]

Enrico Pucci. Attaining heaven and creating a perfect universe seem to fit the bill.

 

[>:)]

Kefka

Spoiler

Quite literally achieves it, and destroys the world for shits and giggles.

 

[J10]

Clu's exact goal was to eliminate imperfection.

Ozymandias scared the entire world into holding hands.

Thanos could actually see the imperfections of the universe at the cosmic level in the very fabric of time and space and wiped existence clean.

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

Cell is my favourite DBZ villain for the same reasons you just posted.

Also, I enjoyed how Vegeta screwed it up since he could beat him in his second stage, but thought it would be too easy and he let him absorb C-18.

Then he fucked that midget up.

Even though I said Toriyama wasn't good at writing two-dimensional villains, I found Cell oddly endearing. He actually has to work to achieve his goals, he's got to deal with Tenshinhan of all people fucking up his plans, etc. We meet Freeza when he's at the top of his game, so there's no "journey" for him, he's just this powerful villain. Cell we get to see him reach that.

Enrico Pucci. Attaining heaven and creating a perfect universe seem to fit the bill.

It's been awhile since I read Part 6, but I sort of disagree since I think the idea of "PERFECTION" means doing it for yourself...Pucci was obsessed with Dio, and I recall he did all that because he thought it was his duty to what he saw as his God.

 

[Dahbomb]

Walter White.

 

[Loofy]

Im sure theres a villain out there thats been defeated because he was OCD about something.

 

[jackissocool]

 

[akachan ningen]

konishi from air master

He wasn't all that evil, he just wanted to be the perfect fighter.