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"Is that common?" "You'd be surprised. Unnamed Terminal Illness gets around." That is hilariously accurate for comic books and I'm surprised it isn't mentioned more.
This is literally what Rhino is; he’s a hired thug 98% of the time, the other two is when he’s angsting about being in the rhino suit. He’s so lovably simple that Marvel has tried to kill him off at least twice.
"So lemme get this straight. You wanna _pay_ me, to run through walls for you?" "I'm a construction contractor. If I can find a way to build a wall that you can't run through, I will get paid billions to make walls like that all around the country. And in the meantime you get to run through all the walls I build for you. And all the ones I will build for you, even after I've cracked that code." "You had me at running through walls."
I think that in one Squirrel Girl comic, she actually convinces Rhino to work in demolition. "Do the work of 10 people and be paid for the cost of 5." Of course, in that case Rhino was an actual Rhino who was given the abilities of a human. But Rhino could not afford a large enough apartment to get the appropriate size of tub to keep herself moisturized. (I thought, LEAVE NYC AND FIND A PLACE TO LIVE WHERE THE POVERTY LINE IS NOT $50k or more A YEAR. But I digress.)
@@andyknightwarden9746 someone should make a fanfiction of rhino not those ugly shipping with children fanfiction actual good fanfiction of rhino just having this job
Rhino has a completely rational reason to get the money: He can build walls with it. Like he hires every single construction company to fill the entire desert with walls he can run through
And it doubles as as way to keep immigrants out completely solving the issue and not creating any other conceivable consequences in the near or distant future
@@kin-3877 Woke US comics..... Just see why M-She-U instead of MCU and DC is Dung Crap or other derogatory versions of DC. Tl;Dr just check any current era US hero Comics/Movie/Series and see WHICH characters have too much Mary Sue syndrome or get lifted in the Powerscale for no adequate reason whatsoever
There was actually a “Flowers for Algernon” story where Rhino developed super-intelligence as a result of an experimental procedure, but eventually gave it up due to feeling isolated and lonely. Sometimes being dumb is better.
I recently read "Flowers for Algernon" and I kinda saw myself in the main character (Charles or Charlie? I don't remember) when they felt frustrated from suddenly becoming more aware.
Good gravy flowers for Algernon had me bawling like a little babe. -10 points from Gryffindor for bringing a tear to my eye. Also pretty sure Homer Simpson had a similar story arc.
I feel like more than half of all the damage that Rhino causes (which is a lot including the games, movies, comics, shows etc.) is caused by running through a wall or maybe a bunch of walls. Including the damage done to living things and inanimate objects
Hah. Hahah. Hah. Hah. Hah. Oh hehehe, I am tickled Besides the obvious joke here the truth is that what just happened in this sort of 'comic' of Spiderman was that the villain here was truly a villain. I'm stupid, but even I'm not stupid enough to be fooled by Rhino's 'I just like running through walls' routine, you really think the antagonist. The guy who is afront of the main character, the guy whose name is the title of the video/comic, a bad guy would tell the truth? No, you would have to dwell among the thoughts of idiots like me to come to such a lowly and simplistic conclusion. The way I see it the Rhino straight up lied to the Spider. He said, "I only like to run through walls", like there's never people ever inside those walls. No, the truth is that that is the unspoken point of being such a massive entity, being such a strong and giant man you can smote walls with a costume and your head. Is that no one can stop you, none can even try and oppose you because you have become a living train, a nearly perfect warrior. Without someone of Spiderman's abilities all form of police would be useless, his body is probably so tight and muscles so durable that low-caliber weaponry would be without affect. Bouncing right off him like that scene from the Incredible Hulk and those guys were shooting the Hulk, but just imagine a towering bloodied monstrous man. Grinning madly as he is smeared in gallons of gore since he plowed through dozens of people, buildings, overturned cars and anything who stood in his path. He lied to Spiderman, he doesn't just revel in the destruction of buildings he wanted the blood. He wanted to taste the sweet bitter iron metallic texture of life's essence coursing over his tongue as it drips down his face. To feel the fallen's guts and bones break beneath his feet like rotten grapes pressed into the press, only he drinks the wine of the fruits from the War-Thorn. If he truly were not a bad man (like me), rather than just some villain with goals and reason for villainy, he'd give his actual reason. But evil is clever... and deception is its most powerful weapon. 'I swear to you I'm cured of that, it'll never happen again... now let me out of this asylum.'
There's an episode of this show where Rhino keeps stealing gold, and it's revealed that he's literally only doing it so he can melt it down and make a statue of himself, which Spider-Man just throws into the ocean for no reason (doesn't even return the gold, just straight up throws it away so nobody can have it).
And for once, JJJ has a Valid point. "That spider menace let the rhino go on a rampage, killing 17, and wounding 23, before finally deciding to get in the way of the police's attempts to neutralize the Horned Homewrecker."
I love how spidey quickly added 'or husband!' To his sentence. Like he had a PTSD flashback to what happened with Doctor Octopus and his ‘mobility legs’ and didn’t want a repeat of the incident.
@@nikolaivladski9905 Villain: how the fuck did you crash whole world economy and cause disarray Rhino: You see... I saw buildings on Wall street. It reminds me of wall so.... Rhino: ... so I just fucking break dem walls x)
@@cloudynguyen6527 I was actually referring to that one super obscure, bottom of the barrel Spiderman villain named The Wall who is a literal walking wall. There's a video out there talking about its origin.
I'm just imagining an alternate ending that goes all: "Rhino, we live in 1960's New-York. The stereotype is that there's always construction. Especially because they're always tearing down and rebuilding on account of all the villain fights. Just find some foreman willing to look the other way when you don't wear a hard-hat on top of the horns and get paid under the table to do what you love!"
That's what I would have told him (and im sure there's some construction companies even in this day and age that would pay under the table for something like that)
Running head first through walls is a unique talent but it has it's downsides, luckily, Rhino has solved the issue of memory loss by simply making the act of running through walls his one and only objective. When life gives you lemons, you make lemons work.
Rhino is legit a nice character to wrap around. If I was like him, I'd probably do the same. Being virtually indestructible and superstrong allows him to do whatever he wants, and much like anyone with powers, he just wants to use them like they're playing GTA with mods lol. In the comics, he started as a very simple character, working for the russian mob, much like Hammerhead, and growing over the years as just a lovable guy. His lack of direction and not very bright behavior shielded him a lot from doing what's right at times, but eventually he became closer to a compassionate personality with a tragic backstory, worthy of exploring. If I was Sony, I'd just make a Rhino movie. He's literally just the big dumb strong dude that goes with the flow, which eventually led him to the life of crime. He's basically King Shark from 'The Suicide Squad' (2021), minus the eating people and breathing underwater parts.
Based on what you wrote, I think he might be perfect for MCU Spider-Man. I also like the idea Sony making that kinda movie. I was hoping Venom to be refreshing... about a reporter going on a mental breakdown because of an alien. Instead, we simply got another typical superhero movie. They could literally set their own Marvel Universe that has a darker tone than MCU which could attract those who got fatigue with the latter. Such missed opportunity.
His simplicity makes him an oddly flexible character, nobody bats an eye when he helps someone, or fights another villain, and nobody says it's a conflict of interest when he goes back to smashing walls afterwards
Y'know, I always overlooked Rhino, but this video is right. There is something refreshing about him. He doesn't have a big, complex backstory or freudian excuse for being evil. And honestly as far as being evil goes, yeah he's a bad guy, but he's more like a 6/10 whereas Spidey usually deals with 8/10 villains. He's just a big guy doing crimes in a silly costume. He and Shocker would probably be buds.
Fun fact, in a comic about Rhino it revealed he truly didn't wish to be a villain. He was literally too stupid to stop though. He took an experiment which made him smarter, but everything hit him and once and he thought there was no point to it at all. This led to him literally trying to off himself, until he was caught and dumbed down again.
I love the irony of how he complains about villains being sympathetic in their goals and motivations, then inmediatly becomes sympathetic of Rhyno and let's him win the mind game
To be fair, the villians with sympathetic backstories only bring them up in the context of trying to make Spiderman feel bad for fighting and stopping them, here he is just trying to help people and stop the guy who will rob and kill, and then they try to make HIM the bad guy, he gets enough of that from the Bugel. Its refreshing not only because Rhino doesn't have some freudian excuse or justification for his crimes, while having powers that probably could earn you money in legal ways to help, but its also refreshing because he doesn't try and BS Spiderman with moral conundrums and try to guilt him. If it wasn't for the innocent bystanders and property damage, Rhino would be the nicest person with powers Spiderman has ever met.
@@timothycarney9652 basically: Spidey to Reptilian Mad scientist: But With your Knowledge and Technology you could do so many Great things, like Curing Cancer or World Hunger! Reptlian Mad scientist: But i don't want to cure Cancer or World Hunger! I want to turn people into dinossaurs!
I don't know if nice but i like how he is simple enough that even in Spectacular Spider-Man, the show were almost every villain is giving more complex personalities and backstory, the Rhino is still just some dude who destroy things
We actually need a Spider-Man villain like this, just a character just there to do what he loves and Spider-Man actually lets him go because he likes the change of pace
@@windego64 Could make it a gag villain, like he's a superpowered menace and COULD cause mass destruction but just enjoys annoying the absolute hell out of anyone and everyone, whether they're a civilian, an authority, another hero or even another villain. That or just has an extremely absurd goal like the dude turning people into dinosaurs like mentioned earlier in this thread.
Remember there is an old comic series where Rhino got super intelligence, and got so apathetic with the state of humanity, the universe, and more, that he gave Spiderman the proverbial keys to his criminal empire, deduced his secret identity, and was planning to off himself. This only stopped when, right before he killed himself he deduced a serum to reverse the process of the "Better Brain Give-inator" used on him and return him to his own simple self. He even asked to have it made a bit stronger to make him "dumber than he was before". Rhino has peak Himbo energy, and you all should read Flowers for Rhino.
This actually isn't too far off cause in the comics He genuinely doesn't want to hurt people, he just robs banks to help pay for his poor family (usually his niece) and I kid you not becomes friends with Miles cause he doesn't want to fight a kid :)
@@robertpolito9209 The comic series is still ongoing at 43 issues, but if you're down the comic run is called Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2019), the first issue has Miles in a generic standing pose in front a green tinted city background. Rhino shenanigans pick up by issue #3, you can thank me later :)
problem is that rhino is too good at that, he'll have all the houses that need tearing down in a week and then he's back on the streets again. also kinda not well thought out to tell someone to try to make rent, in new york, as a labourer. a better job for rhino would be mining, there he can keep smashing his head into a wall forty hours a week and get paid.
(I'm just pasting a comment I made in a related thread:) I'd love to see a show/comic/whatever that's about comic book villains being rehabilitated-not to fight even worse villains, literally just to play their part in civil society and put their powers to good but everyday use. Things like Rhino and Juggernaut working at a demolition company, Electro volunteering to work as a living backup generator, Doctor Octopus using the arms to complete experiments that would otherwise be too dangerous (or becoming a bomb defuser or something), Mr. Freeze opens an ice cream company, Magneto helps locate and recycle scrap metal (like wrecks at the bottom of the ocean), Poison Ivy helps combat climate change with more plants, Scarecrow is a therapist who helps people to understand and conquer their fears, and even stuff like Riddler making crossword puzzles. I feel like it would be amazing watching them use their superhuman powers for seemingly menial tasks, and having a side plot where the superheroes are getting increasingly stressed out/questioning their lives as they no longer play a part as a hero in a society without supervillains could also be interesting.
"People don't get me. I'm not stupid. I'm simple. Big difference. And when I accept a job, I complete a job. I knock into stuff. It falls down. Sometimes, enough times, I get paid for it."
0:14 Kind of nice to know there is actually a villain who has a good relationship with their parents, considering most villain origin stories feature trauma from parental figures. You don't see much of that.
"you know at one point in my life i *was* a villain due to my relationship with my parents, but then i got some therapy and they helped me deal with my issues and accept my parents as flawed people. Nowadays i'm just a villain because apparently that's what you have to do to stop climate change and frankly spiderman i'm very disappointed that you fight on the side of capitalism."
@@Ulekius almost all tf2 characters are like this. They are good with their parents if we see their parents (well scout doesn't count) they just kill people cus why not
“That’s just not how I roll Spider-Man” 😂😂😂 I love that Spider-Man just understands Rhino’s compulsive need to run through a wall and just has a genuine conversation with him.
Honestly I feel like that could be a low budget movie Seriously remember matrix 4? Just cut out the action scenes and make it a story about Trinity and Neo just getting used to a calm and roughly better life
Honestly, the whole villain thing came around full circle. At first every villain was straight up evil, and people liked that. People got bored, so they made villains more relatable. Then it came to the point where you have to put tons of effort to make a villain both relatable, evil, original, and likeable, resulting in straight up evil villains being liked by people again, if written correctly of course.
I think it followed the change in societal opinion on good/evil as well. We went from a black-and-white sense of morality to a "it's all gray" mentality, and as humans we crave both the novel and affirmation of what we're familiar with.
@@hugoeliseu9750 Eggman in the sonic boom cartoons was hilarious. He just does evil things sometimes cus he's a bad guy but he's also just a chill dude at other times.
"Am I the villain are you the villain?" With Rhino is pretty straight forward, the villain is insurance because they definitely ain't gonna cover those buildings which Rhino ran over, and those injured people probably not either, I mean what kind of insurance would cover something like this?
Rhino could really create his own company to demolish buildings at this point. I mean, he could be self-employed and earning money while turning his hobby into lucrative work that actually benefits society. He could even be called in to test out the sturdiness of future building materials and check if they're up to par with the norms. As weird as it sounds, I can honestly imagine a discussion where Spiderman and Rhino talk about this over coffee, you know?
@@changvasejarik62 By design, any other motivation makes it increasingly irrational for one to become a supervillain. If you REALLY want to weave baskets, just let people pay you for the best in trade, rather than seeking seclusion in a secret lair and sending out minions to harness raw materials... which, in itself, would merely make you an eccentric recluse; you'd need to actively hurt people for whatever reason to actually rise to notoriety, and if you insist on making _people_ into baskets, you've just crossed the line into murder or sadism anyway. It's just MUCH EASIER to work with society to get what you want, and the only exceptions are things like unending slaughter of the innocent.
I mean theres plenty of illegal things you could want to do that arent murder and sadism. Like illicit genetic engineering or stealing technology to make something cool or human experimentation. Ok all the examples I came up with right now were science related but, its still accurate. Forming a country is a pretty common one, and thats definitely something that you cant just do legally. @@VestinVestin
Funfact: In the recent "Devils Reign" saga where Kingpin got Supervillains to basically run the city and arrest heroes, Rhino refused to hurt the Champions, a group of teenage superheroes like Miles Morales and Ms.Marvel, based on principle that it's fked up to arrest heroes, let alone underage superheroes.
Sounds like one of the Marvel/DC crossover comics. Can't remember which, but it started with Joker and Red Skull teaming up, and ended when Joker learned exactly which German political party Red Skull was formerly a member of. "I may be a supervillain, but I'm an American supervillain!"
@@mortemtyrannus8813 yeah that did happen also joker met carnage once and carnage was so insane joker was like "nah I'm insane but not this insane!" And just straight up abandoned him
@@Im_Local nah. him and Carnage separated because Joker thought Carnage had no pizzazz or style in his killings. And Carnage thought he was wasting time trying to be fancy with his killings instead of just going for high body counts
After the incident, Rhino was found dead under rubble. His neck, head, and shoulder were crushed. His final words were caught on camera, “Crash, bash, and bang!” Afterwards the building fell on top of him. 50 people dead. 234 were injured. At least 120 were hospitalized.
I'm with Spider-Man on this one. I miss when villains were just dicks who were too full of themselves and were satisfying to slap in the face. Like Freeza, or Carnage, or Palpatine. They're grade A assholes, and they're lovable because they're having so much fun in what they do. Recently I feel like a lot of writers are trying so hard to make their villains "complex" that they often give them equally justifiable or even nobler moralities than the hero. Sometimes you just want a bad guy to punch in the face. What I'm trying to say here is that I, too, like to run through walls.
Hey, it's a better motive than disproportionate retribution. *cough cough* Millions Knives, Injustice Superman, Medea, Gerald Robotnik, and Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.
Honestly it would be good to make any villains just relatable, Joker tells people to lighten up and Mr freeze just says for people to calm down but in such an extreme way where they are kind of forced to look at themselves and just sit back in awe at just how crazy they will go for a simple message
While complexity is okay for older viewers, my morality as a little kid was built upon very basic tenets, being good is good, being bad is bad. Now it seems like they want justification for everything. Hero stops mass murderer who was abused by his family? How dare the hero not understand him and not try to talk to him as he keeps murdering just to vent some weird trauma. I mean, I do understand, but if my nephews are something to go by, they seem to be taking the lesson that it's okay to do bad things as long as you feel that you're expressing your dissatisfaction with something. And social media is not only taking that lesson but running with it.
@@neh1234 Yeah, Wizards of the Coast removed alignment from the monster statblocks for a couple books because of the woke culture being all "MYUR! Orcs and Drow are usually portrayed as Evil! That's racist!" Ultimately though, they couldn't remove it for Non-Humanoid monsters because they either embody the abstract (Aberrations, Celestials, some Constructs, Elementals, Fey, Fiends, some Monstrosities, and Undead), have a high sense of self (Dragons and Giants), or are animals or animal-like (Beasts, some Monstrosities, and most Oozes), or are born of magic (most Constructs and some Monstrosities).
The great thing about Solid jj's videos is that all the characters portrayed act entirely in-character and the only reason you can't imagine the actual writers of the show/movie making such a joke is because it's not their sense of humor and/or they don't have the balls.
Ikr! I loved his Doctor Doom video bc tbh like Doom just needed to go to therapy. He either is a comic book fan or does his research bc the majority of his videos would make a good episode of TV or comic
Usually one character is kind of an audience insert though, rather than really staying in character, like Spiderman here. Hero protagonists are often made to be projected onto, so it's easy to overlook the audience insert.
Rhino is truly the most evil villain spidey has ever faced. He is literally a sociopath whose goal is to run through walls by any means necessary, even if he has to run through multiple innocent people along the way; not caring about the insane amount of damage he can do to anyone or anything. All of this just so he can satisfy this pathological need to run through walls.
@@thebiolibrary5572 Oh, sure! Because, destroying walls is SOOOOO EEEEEVILLL! Rhino merely doesn't care who gets in his way; Carnage is DELIBERATELY out to murder people! He's FAR more evil!
@@thebiolibrary5572 Yeah bro sorry, but Rhino really isn't all that evil. He's ultimately careless and too stupid to understand or feel bad for what he causes, but running through walls isn't that much of a deal unless he takes the building down along with the people inside. He doesn't wanna kill, he just doesn't care if he does. That makes him mental, but not evil...
From what I know, it's because they're easier to do well. Like sure they're more difficult to write on a base level, but it also gives the character a backstory basically built in. Meanwhile pure evil villains are really tricky to make more interesting than just the bad guy the heroes have to defeat without making them also sympathetic or empathetic in some way.
Honestly this version of Rhino could make a killing while having a blast in the demolitions industry. A massive saving on safety equipment and explosives just point him at the derelict building and let him have fun
I think he tried to work for damage controll for a bit when he tried to go civilian, but it didn't work out granted, that was right before they emplyed the demolition squad, and in the long run boy was that a horrible idea...
...Oh crap. I suddenly want to see a gladiatorial throw-down between Rhino and the Kool-aid Man. The arena would have walls scattered throughout... No! It could be an actual maze... NO! BETTER! They could host their duel in The Backrooms!
I knew that the most popular version of “me and the boys” had Rhino added in, but I never knew where the drawing used for him came from. I kind of assumed that someone was able to draw him in a close recreation of the style of the cartoon and added him in that way. The fact that it was just a frame taken from a different scene makes way more sense. I wasn’t expecting to see it here, but man am I glad. Rhino’s expression always was my favorite of the four, so it was nice to see its original version.
@@nicholaspatton5590 from memory it’s electro, goblin, and shocker iirc EDIT: lmfao, vulture duh. the only members of the sinister 6 they’re missing are Otto & scorpion
Humans are scary creatures. When you realize our capacity for pettiness and stupidity, you start to realize how banal and _painfully normal_ evil truly is. Case in point, I want to see someone try to write a compelling villain whose entire premise for his life of crime is that _he was bored._ See /tg/ greentext "Shane the Shy" for what I'm getting at in terms of motivation.
Yesterday I read a few issues in which Rhino appeared for the first time (it kind of is a 3-issue arc). While he does have a more or less tragic backstory. His actions really are as simples as "I'm gonna run through walls and sometimes people, but mostly walls"
Yeah. I love Spectacular Spiderman and how they did most of the villains. I have a few I am not a fan of, but Rhino and Sandman are definitely up there as some of my favorite villains. The Rhino/Spiderman teamup was perhaps one of my favorite episodes.
One time in the comics deadpool invited all of Spider-man's villains to Spider-man's birthday and Rhino was the only one who bought Spider-man a present and it was a hoody in the style of his costume and i just find that incredibly wholesome
My mother died of unnamed terminal illness a couple of weeks ago and I'm really glad to see you spreading awareness about it with these videos. God bless.
Imagine if he helped the Rhino and got him to use his overwhelming joy for running through walls for something good. Like being a demolitionist, or firefighter.
As one commentator pointed out, he could bb living his best life by working under a construction contractor Contractor builds the toughest walls he can. Rhino ties to break them. If he succeeds, Rhino is happy If he fails, the contractor makes billions selling them. Only catch is that he needs to keep building walls for Rhino to break if/when he succeeds…a small price to pay though No one loses here
I’ll admit it is refreshing when all it takes to make someone happy is let them do just one thing, and knowing they’ll never want anything more or less.
If there was an ending to marvel I would want it where every hero and villain excluding the ones who canonically died (with no more retcons) just settled down in life and lived happily ever after, I think Rhino would love working as a demolitionist.
Rhino: "Honey, I'm home." Wife/Husband: "Oh darling, you came right on time for dinner. How was work today?" Rhino: "Oh you know, same ol', same ol'." *sigh* Wife/Husband: "What's wrong, sweetheart? You don't seem very well." Rhino: "Oh I'm ok. It's just... the same thing, you know? I go to work, break some stuff, get paid almost nothing. Like what am I doing? Is this what my parents wanted for me?" Wife/Husband: "Well what do YOU want for yourself, baby?" Rhino: "...flowers. Yeah, just an entire garden. The smell of spring..." Wife/Husband: "Oh, how lovely! We just have to get rid off that old thing in the backyard and--" Rhino: "What? No, that's my pool. Don't nobody mess with my pool. Why don't we take out those old decorations from the front yeard?" Wife/Husband: "Oh no, no, no, no. Those are mine and they're not going anywhere." Rhino: "Why are they still there? They're not even that nice." Wife/Husband: "Wow... I thought our wedding anniversary gift meant something." Rhino: "Ughhh... Why do you always have to bring that up?" Wife/Husband: "Oh I'm sorry I actually try to make this a home while you just keep stomping over everything." Rhino: "Yeah? Well maybe I wouldn't stomp on anything if I could just take a step without one of your damn pottery everywhere!" Wife/Husband: "Oh don't worry, I'll give you all the space you need. I'm going to my mom's house!" Rhino: "No, wait. I'm sorry!" *door slam* Wife/Husband: "And don't bother coming after me, I'm getting a divorce!" *car engine start* Rhino: "Please, let's just talk this through!" *tire screech* Rhino: "...why did I have to listen to that damn Spider-Man?" *goes walking to the bar* Bartender: "The usual?" Rhino: "Yeah."
*sigh* Goddammit Spider-Man, we thought you learned this lesson with Uncle Ben. You let the bad guy go, people die. Great power, great responsibility, all that jazz?
Spider-Man and Batman are the only heroes I ever see who can have good relationships with their enemies, enough to slow down and actually get moments like this
He's a simple man with simple desires, I can respect that. They should just have him on demo sites, rhino is happy running thru walls, already designated buildings get demolished. Two birds one stone
Sometimes the straightforward nature of a villain is their most dangerous aspect. Complexity doesn't always equal great villain & that's something alot of these writers forget today. Sometimes they write them too complexly even but hey that's the struggle of a good writer. You can't make stories too complex or too simple. Ya gotta find what I like to call the "Goldilocks factor" where everything is just write & you know it won't please everybody all of the time but it will please enough people most of the time.
Fun fact: Rhino got a redemption story in which he quit being a villian. During this short-lived event, he falls in love with a diner waitress, only for her to die because of Spider-Man's insistence on Rhino remaining innocent, turning Rhino into a tragic villain with an understandable reason for hating Spider-Man. In the end, you just can't have a simple character
I feel like he remained simple, really. Rhino is a simple guy. He was in the game for the money, got fucking tired of it and decided to get a new life. Got a new life, then some poser comes around saying "I'm your biggest fan! How dare you become so pathetic! Imma kill ya", Rhino, understandably, goes "the fuck?!" and tries to run away. Asshole fan kills his wife, he kills asshole fan, but now is wanted for murder. He doesn't want to go to jail again, and a man needs to eat, so he's supervillaning for the money. Man went full circle. The story got more complex, but he's as simple as ever.
Gotta agree, running through walls is really enjoyable. That is till ya clip through them & end up in that annoying yellow walls place that really needs to replace their carpets.
Yeah, so easy to get lost in there. Thankfully, in my experience the people in there are usually friendly and happy to give directions. Except Pablo. He knows what he did.
There's allot of truth in that. Over the decades (maybe starting in the late 70's or early 80's), Marvel started taking their main villains very seriously, which is a good thing. Most of them usually have a reason why they are the way they are that the reader can actually relate. Comics were very smart and thought provoking when I was growing up. But, yeah. Having a character that just does something because he likes it would be refreshing.
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 That`s why I love green goblins backstory in the comics. When he started his company he did so his son Harry didn`t need to go through the struggles he went through. When he became rich he just kept on working and working and never ever made time for his son. Like when harry failed a test he got bad at his son for failing. any time harry asked for help on studying Norman would just get mad and say he`ll hire a tutor or berate him for not doing it himself. When harry convinced norman to go to a base ball game with him , norman only payed attention to the game and never interacted with harry and berated harry for trying to talk when they could miss the game and norman completely missing the point was to bond with harry to enjoy the game and interact with him which sadly other fathers and sons where doing while they didn`t.
@@TheMatthardyv1 Yeah, people who struggle a lot as a child often have a warped view of what the ideal life for their own child should be. My mother for example is terrible about things such as feelings, she worked hard her entire life to drown me and my sisters in gifts and food, since her childhood was one of starvation and poverty. But feelings, emotions and bonding can't be bought with money, my mother was (and probably still is) convinced that the cure for my and my sisters sadness was to simply buy us things. _"No mother, you will not cure my feelings of hopelessness and my depression with twenty bars of chocolate and a new phone"_ Thankfully, my mother had five daughters before me, who had to pass through the same ignorance, so i had several sisters to confide in and talk about my emotions.
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 I'm sorry to hear that about your mother I hope she learns to connect with you and your siblings more. I'm glad you had siblings to talk to. Also forgot to mention a last tidbit of why I like normans bask story is because when Peter hears the backstory. His first thought isn't oh no thats so sad poor norman , no he more or less thinks that norman is so deranged that he see's himself as a victim when he neglected his own son. Mind you this is like Amazing Spider-Man # 38 or 39. This is years before the trend of sympathetic villain and if it was done today it would be considered subversive for flipping the whole sympathetic villain on it's head. Edit: Sorry if how I wored things I tend to lack tackt so I don't know how to transistion a conversation with it being organic.
@@TheMatthardyv1 Do not feel sorry for your weird way of saying stuff, i myself am not a native english speaker. Most of what i say sound like riddles. As for my mother, alas, we are too far apart (Emotionally and physically) to ever reconcile with each other again. Me and my sisters have gone our own ways years ago, i live alone by myself now and i don't feel like i need anybody else anymore. There's comfort and freedom in loneliness, I've endured a thousand hardships by myself now which has hardened my emotional shield and as long as i take my meds, i don't need to think about the lasting mental illness given to me by my family in old times. Years ago the idea of being separated from my sisters made me cry but now i feel happy with my lone life.
Sometimes the best villians aren't evil because of reasons; but because they like doing evil. Rhino, the joker, Bill cypher. That also makes them the most dangerous, because they can't be sypathised with.
I never realise how simple a supervillain's motives can be until this video Unlike most villains, Rhino pretty much just want to do the simplest evil thing property damage That's it that's as simple as it gets. Thanks for reminding me
