Villainous Life Natures Research

Understanding villains to help you succeed in life. If you've ever admired the villain, antagonist, rogue, or other renegade even just a little, you're in the right place. We study them to determine the best practices for an effective life....

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This is Disney's Gargoyles Season 1, Awakening part 5. We wrap the episode review, going beat by beat, focusing on the villains. It's the final showdown!

This is the final half of the final episode of Gargoyles Awakening parts 1-5. We’re about to see how the face-off between the clan and an assortment of surprising antagonists. In the first half of the episode, we found that Xanatos isn’t the savior we thought he was. He’s also discovered the gargoyles aren’t as easy to wrangle as he thought they’d be.

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Awakening part 5 <-- | --> The Thrill of the Hunt

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This is Disney's Gargoyles Season 1, Awakening part 5. We start the episode review, going beat by beat, focusing on the villains. Antagonists are revealed.

The final part of the 5-parter is here! The writers made a lot of promises to us during the last 4 episodes. We’re about to see if they’ll pay off. If they do, this’ll be a grand start to a grand series. 

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Awakening part 4 continued <-- | --> Awakening part 5 continued

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This is Disney's Gargoyles Season 1, Awakening part 4. We wrap up the episode review, going beat by beat, focusing on the villains. New villains, new quests.

We’re celebrating by wrapping up the fourth episode of Gargoyles, Awakening part 4! If you missed the first half of the review, go read it.

This half of ep 4 is about wrapping up Central Park and launching the clan on the mission to retake the discs. It’s a transition period, but also a very important one, as we meet a character who will play a critical role in every character’s life from here on out.

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Awakening part 4 <-- | --> Awakening part 5

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This is Disney's Gargoyles Season 1, Awakening part 4. In this episode review, we go beat by beat and focus on the villains. The protags are on the run now!

The final push for the climax is on. The villains are putting even more pressure on the protagonists, while the protags are realizing they need to be proactive if they want to survive. No more minor leagues. This is pro.

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Awakening part 3 continued <-- | --> Awakening part 4 continued

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This is Disney's Gargoyles Season 1, Awakening part 3. We conclude this episode review, going beat by beat and focusing on the villains. Villains up their game!

Episode three’s second half tables the concerns about the evil rival corporation Cyberbiotics stealing trade secrets from Xanatos Enterprises. Now we’re following the gargoyles as they explore the new city and new era.

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Awakening part 3 continued <-- | --> Awakening part 4

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This is Disney's Gargoyles Season 1, Awakening part 3. In this episode review, we're going beat by beat and focusing on the villains. The plot is thickening!

Welcome to episode 3 of a 5-parter! That means we’re half through, and the action, plot twists, and villains will be ramping up. This episode is about all things new: sights, people, technology, food… We’ve seen the last of the Middle Ages for awhile; we’re now firmly in 1994.

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Awakening part 2 continued <-- | --> Awakening part 3 continued

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We conclude our review of Disney's Gargoyles Season 1, Awakening part 2. We're going beat by beat, focusing on the villains. Today we meet David Xanatos.

We wrap up Disney’s Gargoyles Season 1 episode 2: Awakening part 2. The second half feels like another episode, cuz we’re jumping 1000 years into the future to 1994. We meet my favorite antagonist of all time, much less of Gargoyles: David Xanatos. You don’t want to miss his first episode.

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Awakening part 2 <– | –> Awakening part 3

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This is Disney's Gargoyles Season 1, Awakening part 2. In this episode review, we're going beat by beat and focusing on the villains.

Welcome back! In this episode we bid farewell to the Middle Ages and time hop 1000 years into the future, 1994, which is our…well, past now.

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Awakening part 1 continued <– | –> Awakening part 2 continued

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We continue our review of Disney's Gargoyles Season 1, Awakening part 1. We're going beat by beat, focusing on the villains.

Part two of our Awakening review! The episode just keeps getting better. Join us for some Gargoyles appreciation and your daily hit of snark. Check out VLN Research for more.

Awakening part 1 <– | –> Awakening part 2

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IT’S THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE BEST SERIES EVER! This is Disney's Gargoyles Season 1, Awakening part 1. We're going beat by beat, focusing on the villains.

The only episode review that gives villains due credit! You’ll also get your daily dose of snark.

You might also learn a thing or two about the behind-the-scenes details of Gargoyles, as I’ve grabbed the pertinent parts of the Ask Greg archives.

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A Wesker-Legion Alliance (by D.C. Douglas) - x

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Of all the enemies that stalk the world of Resident Evil, Albert Wesker is the apex predator. He would be a formidable opponent even if he was a 100% normal human. He's not.

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Opportunities are disguised as obstacles and hard work. Successful people turn challenges into chances. Albert Wesker from Resident Evil helps us learn how.

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One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. - Ring Poem, The Lord of the Rings

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.- Samuel Smiles

Sauron invested part of his heart in the Ring. Read more about its power and his motives, and what we can learn from him, at the blog.

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Sauron Appreciation post 5/? See previous, See next

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.” - Ring Poem, Lord of the Rings

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.- Albert Camus

Sauron created the rings as a way to help Middle Earth. Read more about his motives and corruption, and what we can learn from him, at the blog.

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Sauron appreciation post 4/? See previous, See next

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The East will fall. So shall the Kingdom of Angmar rise. The time of the Elves is over. The Age of the Orc has come.- Sauron, The Hobbit

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Necromancer lives on with his horde. Read more about Sauron and what we can learn from him, at the blog.

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