What's with cartoon villains and their tendency to be built up as intimidating and threatening...

What's with cartoon villains and their tendency to be built up as intimidating and threatening, but ultimately go down like a bitch?

Star VS is just incompetent in it's storytelling

Because you are forced to tone down both violence and spooky stuff, cause children are the target audience. You cannot have actually competent villains, or they may actually accomplish evil stuff and hurt or kill people.

You're judging it on the basis of the ending of the story, where, surprise suprise, the bad guy is defeated.

Before Star fixed Magic, he had just managed to effectively destroy Mewni, take out the High Commission, destroy their Magic, broke the wand, and 'killed' Star.

The only thing I was surprised by, was that he didn't try and kill Moon. I mean, your victory is almost complete. Why just walk off?

Officaly it's because they don't want to scare children.

Officiously it is because cartoonists never faced any real danger, and therefore ignore how to express it.

>Officiously it is because cartoonists never faced any real danger
What the hell are you even talking?

One of the reasons Corto Maltese feels so realist in it's depiction of violence is because Hugo Pratt lived through an actual war.

>Have villain win
>Scar children for life.

Most people in the west did not x-perience war. And yet, many artists can depict violence pretty perfect.

So they build up a villain and then kill him off within 10 seconds by a bullshit powerup that comes out of nowhere

it sums up the pacing issues of this show perfectly, it's just too fucking fast constantly

Kids networks tend to hate violent action scenes, so the writers end up being forced introducing win buttons into their stories.

But star melted toffee as gory as a fallout 2 flamer kill

While his menace may have out with a wet fart, Toffee didn't go down like bitch. Being completely magically annihilated is something every villain should strive for as they're way out.

>Officaly it's because they don't want to scare children.
Did you not see that thumbnail up there?

He's a villain. Its the protagonists the execs dont want seeing bloodied

Ideology. Might makes right and if the villain can fight back that raises dangerously philosophical questions.

what you think this is only a cartoon villain problem?

Ask Little Finger how its going, this is a universal problem

>that
>scary

So by that definition, most shonen anime villains go down like a bitch once the protagonist achieves a higher level of power?

Because deus ex machina, convience, and/or the desire to move the plot along without the means and/or skill to do it effectively.

>Little Finger
>intimidating
Yeah, no

Comic books are basically written the way pro wrestling matches are.
>introduce new heel
>build him up with squash matches(terrorizing normals)
>work program with lead babyface to get the marks interested
>babyface eventually triumphs at an emotionally satisfying payoff match
The difference is, wrasslin is better at keeping the heel to face ratio reasonable, whereas in comics every face has like a dozen heels or more that hate them. Which is why the Old Man Logan universe is the logical outcome of this type of world building.