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Rounding down the night - Canada Day
So to make life easier and try to convince the boys to stray from their regular perverted talk that will get them into trouble at some point I have adopted the 'Nerd Points' system with certain topics and questions that will provoke regular social and nerdy conversation between the group with reward of nerd points for good answers and knowledgeable responses.

Tonight is Canada Day and I'm kinda depressed that I can't go to Ottawa and party out this holiday with everyone there, instead I'm stuck at work making time and a half. It kinda works out.
About a week ago I came up with the subject of "Top Ten Villains' and recently added heroes, to the list of' tonight's discussion includes why you picked them and where the character game from. It could be a game, movie, book, etc. Open topic. If you guys are interested, I'll keep posting the topics here so that I can see your answers as well.

I can't post this on face book just yet, but since no one at work involved in the list system knows my journal and will get spoilers I can post it here.

cut for length.

Tashi’s Villain Top Ten

10. Scar – Lion King
He’s my favorite singing villain and a lazy villain. He taunts his food – such as the mouse he catches at the start of the movie. And he raises the army of hyena and he gives raise to Kovu, who may or may not have actually been his son.

9. Rodyle – Tales of Symphonia
Is the most hilariously serious enemy in Tales of Symphonia. In my eyes his not really good or evil, as he works toward his own goals and not those of either his antagonist or the heroes. A scientist with an obsession for dragons that you have to fight repeatedly in the game. He builds a giant cannon which he uses to destroy the Tower of Salvation, one of the important places in the ma for his evil boss.

My most favorite memory being right before the final battle against him, where the heroes stand in front of Rodyle as he proclaims his plan. “If only I had a Cruxis crystal! Oh , here it is….” Even though he never actually had one, so it’s like he randomly found one on the floor. If that were actually possible the game would have been a lot easier and so would this battle.
Rodyle did use a flawed Cruxis Crystal though, which explains why he gets transformed into a horrible monster and why you shouldn’t use crystals you pick up off the floor. There’s a reason someone threw it away!

Crystals are put into people to elevate his power. Lloyd Irving has one on his glove/hand.

8. Sebastian Hiram Shaw – X Men
Because for some reason the X-Men keep forgetting what his powers are and punching him in the face and he’s all. “Are you guys morons? Do you realize what your doing? Okay fine.” And then he kicks their asses and like the Xmen realize “Oh yeah, he kicks our asses when we do that. We’re morons aren’t we?”

A mutant, Shaw possesses the ability to absorb kinetic energy and transform it into raw strength. So if you punch him in the face he’s like “Okay, thanks.” And the harder you punch him in the face is the harder he hits you back and they never remember this between fights with him.

And no one ever remembers his power so when he comes back he’s all.”My god, you guys are still morons.”

That’s why he’s an interesting villain, because he’s a totally uninteresting villain and the xmen are just stupid.

He is the leader of the New York branch of the Hellfire Club, an exclusive secret society bent on world domination, although to the public, he is a legitimate businessman and ordinary human. He once funded the mutant-hunting Sentinel program to keep it under his thumb. In 2009, Shaw was named IGN's 55th Greatest Villain of All Time.

7. Pyramid Head – Silent Hill The Movie
Because I never played the games and only watched about twenty minutes of someone else playing it. I’m just a fan of extremely and obnoxiously large swords and villains that rip peoples flesh from their bodies without effort. He’s just creepy villain. Though I’d like to see Pyramid Head vrs Wolverine for the fact that Wolverine can regenerate and might just piss Pyramid Head off more because he can’t die.

There are flaws though, because you have to be dead to get into Silent Hill and, well.…Marvel can figure it out.

6. Invader Zim
Zim is the one villain that completely fails on taking over the world, but is hilariously enough that I keep watching and I’m really sad this finished.

5 Queen Beryl /Dark Lady - Sailor Moon
One of the most memorial sailor moon villains, and the leader of the organization of antagonists in the Sailor Moon. They are the primary villains of the first story arc in every version of the series, and are responsible for the destruction of the ancient Moon Kingdom. In most versions of the story, she has the ability to corrupt others into serving the powers of darkness. Her generals, for instance, were once the bodyguards and best friends of Prince Endymion, and in most versions of the story she is able to use her powers to sway Tuxedo Mask into her service.

In the manga, Beryl was a beautiful girl on Earth during the age of the Silver Millennium.[1] Beryl was in love with Prince Endymion, but her love was unrequited; when she discovered Endymion with Princess Serenity of the moon, she was crushed. She later states that having Endymion was her sole reason for siding with the evil force from the sun, Queen Metaria

Wicked Lady, from Sailor moon R. When Sailor Moon proved unable to revive Neo-Queen Serenity, a dejected Rini wanders outside the protection of Crystal Palace. Wiseman notices this and decides to come face to face with the little princess. Looking deep into her subconscious, he discovers that Rini, in an attempt to prove just how princessly she could be, had touched the Silver Crystal of the future...and that's when it disappeared. Wiseman senses an opportunity. He searches for the darkest, loneliest thoughts in her memories, bringing them out into the open and using them to convince Rini that no one cared about her, that she was perpetually alone. He eventually wins her trust, and he takes her where he can bathe her in the energy of the Dark Crystal. This energy would transform her, making her into the dark beauty known as Wicked Lady [Black Lady].

4 The Joker – Heath Ledger version.
I like the hidden meanings and the depth of thought put behind this character and how much more psychotic he was made compared to the cartoon.

3 Magneto – Cartoon and Movie
A powerful mutant with the ability to generate and control electromagnetic forces, Magneto has been the X-Men's most prominent enemy ever since his first appearance. In his early appearances, his motives were bent on megalomania, but writers have since fleshed out his character and origin, revealing him to be a Jewish Holocaust survivor whose actions are driven by the purpose of protecting the mutant race from suffering a similar fate. His role in comics have varied from super villain to anti-hero to even hero.

2 Lady Deathstrike – Xmen 2
Wolverines ultimate rival in my mind. Her father Lord Dark Wind created the adamantium-bonding process that was forced on Wolverine. A self-styled warrior, Lady Deathstrike hired the villain Spiral’s "body shoppe" to bond adamantium to her own skeleton in addition to other cyber-genetic enhancements. She has since worked as a mercenary and assassin and feels a need to prove herself by killing Wolverine.

1 The Red Bull – The Last Unicorn
The Last Unicorn is a 1982 fantasy film and my first ever animated movie and good verse evil movie that I can remember that is based upon a novel in 1980’s of the same name.
The short version of the story: The Last Unicorn is about a unicorn who, upon learning that she is the last unicorn in the world, goes on a quest to find the others. She eventually goes to the seaside castle of King Haggard, supposed keeper of the Red Bull, and comes face to face with the Bull (which turns out to be a monstrous fire elemental) that has forced all other unicorns into the ocean where they are held prisoner by King Haggard.

Tashi’s Hero Top Ten

10 Pyro - Xmen
Pyro (St. John Allerdyce) is a fictional character in Marvel Comics and an enemy of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, he first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #141

Despite being a clear villain , he ends on a good note and that is why [beyond being played by Aaron Stanford in the movie] that I list him as a hero.

Pyro contracted the Legacy Virus, a fatal disease affecting mainly mutants.[volume & issue needed] He went to great lengths to find a cure (encountering Cecilia Reyes at one point[13]), several times at the expense of others, but was unsuccessful in his search and succumbed to the virus.[volume & issue needed] This was just after saving Senator Robert Kelly from a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. This act of heroism was also instrumental in changing Senator Kelly's opinion on mutants as a whole, and led to his decision to work toward peaceful co-existence between humans and mutant

9 Cid – Advent Children / Final Fantasy / Dirge of Cerberus The angry sky pirate. He smokes, generally brooding but not to the horrible point of Vincent and he had a huge ship.

He’s the kind of guy that would tell you ‘Hey, if you don’t like my driving, get the fuck off my air ship.”
“Cid. We’re 40,000 feet in the air.”
“You’re level 99. You can survive.”

And you never really see him injured in battle in the movies. At Anime North 2008 Mat cosplayed as Cid and we had a running joke that his broken cigarette would unlock the doom of us all. As if that was the only damage inflected before he lashed out in anger and killed everyone, then light another one with a match off their broken corpses.

8 Vanyel from Mercedes Lackey Magic’s Pawn
He’s a bisexual magician and one of the last surviving in a world that are slowly turning against the kingdom at the lead of an outsider evil magician. Vanyel’s the one hero the repeatedly tries not to be a hero or involved in the story in any way and somehow in a side-ways way is dragged back and pushed into the danger involuntarily, which leaves him in the end without love, family and friends. <- because they were the ones to drag him into danger and ended up dying because of it though Vanyel survives slightly more traumatized then before.
Even in battle against the evil magician’s minion when found in a small village Vanyel has this inner monologue. “I could just join your side, go with you and be evil. It wouldn’t be that hard.”
But he ends up good and dies in the end of the trilogy by sacrificing himself to say his kingdom and becomes the ghostly guard of the mountain boarder.

7 Beast Master
Because no matter how boring my day is, I can always seem to find this on television and it makes my life feel better, because I’m not the beast master.
Also, I recently found out the ferrets have human forms, and that is cool and traumatic.

6 Zelos Wilder – Tales of Symphonia
He is often the comic relief of the group, dropping tactless comments at the most inopportune moment. He also tends to make blunt observations, which are often interpreted as insensitive despite being accurate. He is also quite the ladies' man, approaching most situations trying to impress any pretty girls nearby, and can charm gifts out of nearly every female NPC in the game. He takes every opportunity to hit on his female team members.

As soon as you are able to run around the map as him, I jumped into the settings as you could use the most horrible pick up lines to try and pick up girls and get gold and items even when they respond badly and I loved that. Free gold.

5 Darth Vader
Because he technically did bring balance to the force by taking out the Jedi and evening out their forces with those of their enemies, though in doing so he actually killed off almost all of the Jedi. The intent was there. Despite him going ‘evil’ he was able to make the galaxy a better place by saving his son and betraying his master in the end..

4 Wolverine - Cartoon
For obvious reasons.

3 Garret – Quest for Camelot Quest for Camelot is an animated feature from Warner Bros. Animation, released in 1998. The movie is about a young woman named Kayley who wants to be a knight of the Round Table in Camelot like her father Sir Lionel, a blind young man named Garrett who wishes only to be left alone, and their quest to find Excalibur.
This was the first and I think the only movie I’ve found where the main lead was a blind person and the hero.

2 Sailor Uranus – Sailor Moon
Haruka is a stubborn, protective individual, but is also strong-willed, capable, charming, and occasionally even doting. She is formally introduced in the third story arc, although she appears in silhouette alongside Sailor Neptune in the final episode of Sailor Moon R.
She is a race car driver, which when I was young was something I wanted to be in order to grow closer to my father. Her androgyny and strong will made her a strong role-model for me when I was young, even though I used her as a role model long before I actually saw her on television. Stupid Dub.
Also, my first female crush and the girl that stole my heart threw at least three years of high school was almost a Haruka clone.

1 Merlin Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Legends of King Arthur. I mostly like him as an old and mischievous wizard in Disney’s Sword in the Stone where he and young king Arthur are turned into squirrels and hit on/break the heart of a female squirrel.