Hot Take:
The hate for Shadow Milk Cookie is completely unjustified.
THANK YOU!!
About God's damned time someone said it! All of this hate is completely unjustified! It started with people not liking how he had more screen time than the other beasts, which I mean... He is literally the leader of the beasts? Everyone knows that the leader of a group of five always gets the most screen time and story relevance within the first two years of being released! (Pure vanilla, Shadow Milk, Longan etc.)
Then it mutated because purelily shippers didn't like is interactions with Shadow milk (why can't people just like what they like and ship what they ship without it being a problem?!) then mutated again because he got his first legendary costume before the other beasts, then the hate piled on again when he became more focused on in the dark enchantress war. (Because they were setting him up to be the next big bad)
And then people started piling on more hate when he got his second costume, and then even more hate was added to the pile when he, the same guy who they planned to have replace dark enchantress as the main bad guy, before they added him into the game, was in a lot of promotional material and merch because of how popular he was with other fans.
And then people began getting even more upset when he finally did take his planned role as the main villain of act 2!
And now that he is just going to keep being piled on because he got his third legendary costume, which is obviously story important because white lily is in the afterlife dealing with her past. (and there will also be time travel shenanigans)
Long story short, it is nothing more than unjustified hate from people who do not understand how writing a story, especially in a video game like this, works.
No he didn't just become the main villain because he's popular and a cash cow, he became the main villain because he was planned to be before he was even conceptualized! Do people honestly think that if a character gets popular enough or people spend money on a character enough, that you go back into your story and change everything just to keep milking that character?! NO!
let's say in another reality, burning spice is the leader of the beasts and takes Shadow milk's role, Shadow milk is still as popular as he is here, burning spice is now the leader.
They would make burning spice the next major antagonist of act 2, despite Shadow milk being more popular! So at the end of the day, all of this hate that piled on and on and on from basically two years ago, is nothing more than unjustified rubbish!




















