Homelander from The Boys is such a great villain because every character he encounters knows they have a roughly 10% chance of surviving every conversation with him.
And not all of them are scared by that fact.

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Homelander from The Boys is such a great villain because every character he encounters knows they have a roughly 10% chance of surviving every conversation with him.
And not all of them are scared by that fact.
La Mode illustrée, no. 28, 12 juillet 1874, Paris. Toilettes de Mme Fladry, 43 rue Richer. Chapeaux de Mme Aubert, 34 r. de la Victoire. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
The Seven messing about
I wanted Queen Mauve to be a villain. A Real™ villain. Not just another white woman whose defining offense is being complicit in male villainy.
So this is absolutely a response to the Avengers Endgame women empowerment scene and its safe PG 13 type of feminism.
"Eat shit, Nazi bitch!"
As they try to beat her to death and all the men hang around and acknowledge they are pretty much useless.
Imagine Queen Mauve being all flirty and gay singing Baby it's Cold Outside to a stubborn Lucent like they're back in Beldain for some reason and Lucent is needing to go back to the Daggers after visiting her idk? but Mauve is all like "But babe its colder than the underworld out there" 10/10 I bet Mauve hired an elite/wingman who could control the snow and snow them in