Yesterday I got introduced to a web series cartoon called Villainous, and I seriously love it. This is partially to introduce it to people, and partially to just talk some more about something that I really enjoy. If you don't know, Villainous is basically just about an evil organization that is dedicated to assisting villains in their wicked work. The series has shorts that are mostly about Black Hat (the leader of the organization) showing off some new evil device that his scientist, Flug, has created. The series also has what they call orientation videos, which is basically just Black Hat, Flug, and another one of Black Hat's subordinates named Dementia, critiquing some villains in Cartoon Network shows (this series is associated with Cartoon Network). Villainous is also supposedly going to become it's own series (more than just shorts), but currently there's just a single twelve minute long episode. ...And now I sound like a commercial. Seriously though, this is just a fun series about some strangely dark bad guys (Seriously, this stuff get's dark, but it's still kid-friendly, and I think that's absolutely hilarious). And I know a lot of people like the villains, so why wouldn't you want to watch a show focused solely on the villains being, you know, villainous. (And there's an adorable big blue bear voiced by Markiplier, so...there's that too.)
Honestly yeah, this show is amazing. The character dynamic makes for some really entertaining plots, and some of the character designs are really good. I honestly think there should be more shows centered around villans, even if I can see why there aren't too many, since younger kids would want to watch the show about the good guy being good over the bad guy being bad. One concern I had with the shorts is that, at the show's current state, I didn't know how well it would translate into a full series. However, the Spanish (i think) pilot ended up taking a different approach that worked about the same for me thanks to it having the same entertaining characters and character interactions that I loved from the shorts.