#mayor bellwether

[briarry]

Zootopia 2 as Tweets

9 years later...

Ahhh this was such a cute movie!!

[ultraericthered]

Out of four consecutive Disney Villains that were defined by plot twists regarding them, I've often thought: what made Turbo and the Cybug he merged with in Wreck-It Ralph work out so well and deliver a villain so infinitely stronger than the villains that followed? I'd concluded that mostly it was because Turbo got to be around as an active and characterized antagonist as King Candy and the twisty nature of his villainy was more comparable to Judge Doom than following the Stinky Pete, Henry J. Waternoose, and Lyle T. Rourke route of only being revealed as a villain in the third act and getting to be actively antagonistic for a limited time while taking on drastically different characterization than before like the later Twist Villains (or in Bellwether's case, in only the final minutes of the third act!).

But there was something else too, and it recently struck me.

Hans, Callaghan, and Bellwether all adhere to basically the exact same formula, with only the specifics of their roles differing due to each movie being a different type of story - Frozen is a fantasy adventure-thriller, Big Hero 6 is a superhero story, and Zootopia is a buddy cop mystery. The formula is that not only is the villain introduced as a friendly character in the first act and ultimately shows their true villainous self in the third act, but during the story there's another villainous character thrown at the viewer to serve as the red herring. In Frozen, it's the Duke of Weselton. In Big Hero 6, it's Allister Krei. And in Zootopia, it's Mayor Lionheart. All of these characters seem more like the sort of villains you'd typically expect to pop up in stories of these films' natures, radiating such obvious evil energy that the viewer is naturallly meant to have their suspicions drawn to them rather than the unassuming nice person who turns out to be the real villain of the piece. I'd argue it worked best when first tried in Frozen because the Duke ended up having absolutely nothing to do with the main conflict or how it got resolved, his main contribution being to tell two men to be prepared to kill Elsa at one point and that's it: he was a red herring in the purest sense. With Krei and Lionheart afterwards, they both had increased prominence in the narrative, the former being responsible for what drove Callaghan into grief-stricken, vengeful supervillainy, and the latter at first being Bellwether's boss and actually serving as a secondary antagonist in the plot with his unethical captures and coverups in response to Bellwether's Night Howler conspiracy. And they both are such obvious suspects for being behind evildoing even in-story that it loops around to becoming obviously NOT the true culprits at all. (Not helping is how both the Duke of Weselton and Allister Krei are voiced by Alan Tudyk, at the time still most known for King Candy/Turbo!)

Whereas with Turbo, I think it was so effective because it was sort of flipped around. The story was leading us to look at King Candy as the red herring or ultimately just the diversion, continuing to remind us that the Cybug that Ralph accidentally brought with him into Sugar Rush was lurking below and breeding, which we knew could become a true threat to the game and to the whole arcade world given the way Calhoun talked the Cybugs up. Even when Felix goes into the backstory of "Going Turbo", we're not really linking that to what's currently going on with King Candy, who we at that point had not been given reason to think is anyone but who he appears to be, and King Candy's such a silly, whimsical doofus of an antagonist that we suspect he'll amount to nothing more than food for the Cybugs. How King Candy goes on to manipulate Ralph and the revelation about him as a usurper turns our perspective of him on its head as is, but then it's revealed he's not just any usurpeeeer - he's Turbo! This on its own makes him that much more villainous, but then still we get the kicker: Turbo gets eaten by the lead Cybug, just as we might've predicted would befall him....and his code overwrites the Cybug from within, making him even more dangerous and malicious than ever! So while the Cybugs do indeed become the endgame threat, they're also used as the actual diversion to get you not looking harder at King Candy and figuring out both his true identity and his true nature as the primary, most menacing villain in this story. It is ingenious.

Pulling off a Twist Villain is easy. It takes a lot more thought, skill, style and polish to pull off a Turbo-Tastic villain as Wreck-It Ralph did.

[miki-langelo]

She was the evil friend-at-first turned twist villian before it was cool

[maiwaifu0905]

Hayloft II

she's not a bad sheep

she's not a bad sheep

but she had to do it

[sillaycritter0w0]

Reminder that Dawn is such a bad twist villain that there’s only one page about her in the art of Zootopia (1) book.

Kinda makes you feel like the villain decision was made at the last second

[yummycupcake21rose]

More Pawry Angst!!!!!

I thought of a Super Paper Mario Pawry Au that I think might be interesting.

• Pawbert is Blumiere (aka count bleck)

•Gary is Timpani ( aka tippi)

•I think Judy and Nick could be Mario and Luigi or something

•Titus is Dimentio (yes, Titus from the movie hoppers is in this)

•Bellwether could be the assistant lady that has a crush on count bleck or something

•Cattrick and Kitty could be a part of count bleck’s minions

So some details for the story, after Gary’s “death” Pawbert changed his name to count Roberto and killed his father Milton and steals the dark prognosticus (yay, Milton is dead!!!) Cattrick and Kitty team up with their brother to follow his quest to end the world. Pawbert saves Bellwether from a lion attack and she joins the team, he also saves and recruits whoever is going to be O’chunks. And Pawbert recruits Titus after saving him from a frog attack of sorts, but Titus is planning something and is not what he seems.

so now you got the team ready for the destruction of the world, but they need to have a loveless marriage in order for the end of the world to begin. So they became temporary wingmans for whoever is going to be bowser so he can marry whoever is going to be princess peach. Destruction happens, Nick and Judy meet Gary who’s a pixl now, and they go on an adventure to save the world.

I’m planning on there being characters from all three of these movies (hoppers, Zootopia, the bad guys) and planning on Bellwether getting together with marmalade at the end of the story or something

Anyways, bye!!!!!!

and go crazy on the fan art if ya like

edit: I think marmalade could be bowser and Diane foxiton could be princess peach or something

[ki11er-kitty]

Toxic Yuri anyone?

[imallpointyears]

I’ve been getting into making collages in my sketchbook…my newest victim, the bellwether 🐑 my beautiful nice sweetie pie wife she would never commit crimes

bonus little doodles + sneak peek of my insert!!