How Monkie Kid Made Villains Interesting Without Tragic Backstories 

I can't believe they made so much effort for a toy company show. LMK is the best

When you mentioned the thing with Azure being shown as more of a hero, even though he is a bad person, and vice versa with MK it kinda made me realize why. They see themselves as that. Azure has his whole thing with being "the good guy", while MK in the very same season is beliving that he is "the bad guy". Anyway- amazing video!!

I love how they took such a minor insignificant demon from Journey to the West and turned her into a badass manipulator that left a huge impact on the main characters. My favorite types of villains are the ones that can make the heroes struggle, by not even doing anything. The ones that control the show from behind the scenes. (The antithesis to that would be Redson, who always makes his presence known and fights his own fights and isn't the brightest flame in the fire. Don't get me wrong, I love him, but he's definitely not my favorite villain archetype)

I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed that the Azure vs Mk fight really seemed like they had swapped roles. So much so that I wanted to make a Reddit post with a screenshot of Monkey MK and Demon Witch Luz and saying something like “Wait… Who’s the hero again?”

I really like DBK. One, I do like the "I want to rule" character, as well as his ties to his family. As well as Steve Blum's killer performance. Spider-Queen was actually pretty lame, but she's an outlier. LBD did a fantastic job being a threat physically and mentally to MK. Azure Lion was just perfectly written in every aspect. Plus, Chris Sabat's acting was phenomenal. Macaque was also just perfect.

this show took me by surprise was sort of forced into watching it but boy do i not regret it. Lady Bone Demon easily top 10 villains of all time for me

You should definitely make more commentary videos! This was a fun warch and I really enjoyed your voice, points, and edititng :) On the more ranty side of me, oh my god you are so right. I LOVE the way lmk does their characters. I love how they both use archetypes and stray from them. Particularly when they flip expectetians, like the thing with Azure and MK you pointed out. My favorite thing they do that with is with Macaque and Wukong, where from what we can tell, despite Macaque being the villain, it was Wukong who was more of the toxic one in the past. Plus even just with giving side characters so puch personality. My favorite character is litterly Nezha when hes in only like 9 or 10 episodes - the s4 Special, and it's because he has so much personality. I love his style, his personality, his relationships with other characters, and so much more. I adore how they did the reverse expectations where "Nezhas not really a bad guy," but he, from everyone's pov aside from Wokong (cause its wokong) was a threat. Mk was *scared* of him when he first met him, and it slowly developed into learning more about him and how he's lowkey kind of a doof who is way to passinote about his job. That concludes my rant but I really hope you make more videos like this! :) 💜

All of these takes were unfathomably real and I agree with them all. Good job man!

The villain that I think comes the closest to LBD is Emperor Belos from the Owl House. Cuz you mentioned that you haven't seen a villain that genuinely terrorizes the protag in a long time, well there he is. Not to mention they both have blue as their primary colors.

Nice video 👍

Daddy Bull King is the goat. Tho I don't think he has a "redemption arc" more so he just shifts priorities of screen and they all just go home. Only then on getting involved with that plot to rescue each other. They never say "I'm sorry" they just chill out and go away. Which I'd honestly so refreshing. Only downside is we just don't get to see them enough. Aldi if you REALLY want backstory, they are all book characters. VERY different in the books, but there is lore like Peng is the half sibling of Buddha. And Spider Queen's chapter is Thee origin of the stock anime hotspring fanserve episode trope where the girls beat up the peeping sex-pest character and the audience claps. Only episode where Wukong isn't up for killing a demon cuz killing girl in the bath is bad, tho it didn't stop him from turning into a bird and stealing the spider sisters clothes so they wouldn't leave the hotspring. I only bring this up because I thought it was genuinely a very funny chapter. I see why she's eager to recover from that humiliation.

Very well done video! Maybe work on speaking more pronounced but that’s just my critic ass talking