A villain who's a horrible...

>A villain who's a horrible, despicable person that the players really want to knock down a peg but at the same time is goofy and hilarious
Can it be done?

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That's kind of the point of Xykon from Order of the Stick I think.
He's definitely legitimately evil and a dangerous threat, but he's just such a petty dick that you sometimes have to remind yourself how many people he's casually murdered in
imaginative ways just because he'd thought I'd be funny.

He's also fairly intimidating when you actually properly get him mad.

Borderlands series attempts it frequently, both with Handsome Jack and numerous characters (Vasquez, August, etc.) in Tales.

James Woods's Hades.

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Oh yeah, it can be done, you just have to be skilled

Yes.
"Can it be done" is a retarded question.
Literally ANYTHING can be done if you do it right.

Christ I don't want to see what the show did to him.

Hey, I'd say that they did pretty good making Jack a likable villain. He was one that I loved to hate, you know?

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Oh really. Let's see you travel faster than light "the right way". Or make a believable Christian Hindu Jainist homophobic gay paraplegic priest.

You know that's not what I meant.

You're assuming that faster than light travel is impossible, and that there's only one way to do it. Bad form, user.

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Really? Because it's what you said.

Yeah, regardless of whether you think Borderlands if funny, Jack is a great example of how to make a character who's both genuinely hate-able but also funny and entertaining. Even if the quality of the humor is questionable, the way it was implemented and balanced with the serious elements was very well down.

TVTropes "Affably Evil"

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In the reference of making something work in a roleplaying aspect. Being a smartass doesn't fit well with you, maybe you should try something else.
And either way, even if I was referring to real life things like you're trying to suggest, then yes, if you can do something right, it's achievable.

I think it's a great case of playing on expectations.
He starts off as a very annoying and petty villain, with vulgar and actually kind of pathetic taunts, so you start expecting some rich dumb fuck with too much power. Then you get to fear him as he pull out several "fuck you" moves. Then you think there are things he actually care about, humanizing him, and for a moment you may feel sorry for him in the Control Core. Then everything is hate.

So he starts out weak and surprise by being a quite decent villain, leaving a strong impression. Usually, the opposite happens: a villain is hyped and promising but the delivering fails to meet expectations, leaving only disappointment.

First of all, TvTropes, the actual site content, is kind of written like ass. Valuable examples though.

Secondly, pretty sure this is Laughably Evil. Which has said name because they wanted a pun.

Absolutely.

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>wanting to take aku down a peg
but he's so LOVABLE

Yeah, that's because it's a wiki with, as far as I can tell, almost no moderation.

>WE WILL MEET AGAIN, SAAAAMMURAAAAAI!

The biggest problem with the website has was when every annoying anime fan ever made it their special task to try and justify every trope for their favorite shows like it was some kind of fucking contest or something. Like how the "Badass" trope is on very close to literally every character listed there now rather then specifically only a few and only a specific type of character as per when it originally started.

TVTropes might have been useful at some point eventually, but is basically completely useless now. Kinda like a steak you were cooking that might have turned out delicious until a bunch of assholes came in and literally poured dogshit all over the grill while you were using it.

There's plenty moderation. Thread for appealing edit bans is a a frequent good laughs source.

They just moderate /the form/, and only rarely the substance. Most of the substance is left to freely autismify. There's just a few limits, which not always work - for example each editor is allowed to name only ONE thing per show as a Crowning Moment of Awesome/Funny. But due to sheer amount of editors, that still ends up covering every moment of the show.

Dio.
(semi-intentional)