Funny in light of the latest Pop Culture Detective video.
Well, most often this is found in sports stories and tales about kung fu or something like that. For these kinds of characters, fighting each other can be a form of self-expression.
I mean, in terms of lawful evil villains you often see less status quo villains and more villains who wish to change the status quo to be more authoritarian, ie Sauron.
When people say this they mean how the characters are coded, not their literal in story status or story function. You cannot throw a rock without hitting a villain who uses behaviors and appearance associated with queer culture to equal evil. Ratcliffe in Pocahontas may be a governor with power, but he's also a effeminate man who loves glitter and owns a pug. It's hayes code bullshit. Even in more modern works character designs that pull from stereotypically queer aesthetics, butch women especially, are only ever seen in villain factions.
Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame does not look like a stereotypical homosexual - so this is not a general rule, but rather one of the options (it is not always possible to tell whether this was the goal).
Pansy - in the first half of the 20th century, either a homosexual man or a man with "feminine habits" was so designated. Also related to the gay scene, but this is a topic in which I understand little.
Ok, maybe I started wrong. But my love for gothic literature taught me that a villain can be a representative of any social group - a monarchist and a republican, a feudal lord and a worker, an Arab and a European, a debauchee and a priest... Anyone.
Or they are killed or otherwise suffer horribly if they are on the protagonist side. "Vasquez always dies", as TV Tropes puts it.
I once worked with a woman who very much insisted that any guy that own a "small girly dog" was himself less of a man. But aside from that his dog is getting manicures and bubble baths and being fed maraschino cherries they want you to think that even his dog is prissy.
I don't know, "depraved bisexual" is an infamously well known trope...
I see.
Nah, Disney knew they were being inaccurate they just didn't care. That's why Pocahontas is aged up and why John Smith is a blonde adonis.
Yes in many cases the Catholic Church tired to ban indigenous slavery or Witch Burnings and people didn't listen to them.
Yeah. There's a preponderance of "villains who upset the social order" in no small part because those are a kind of villain people are very familiar with in real life. There's tons of people and organizations whose idea of changing the social order is turning it into a dictatorship with them at the top, or whose main objection to the present order is that it gets in the way of them slaughtering the people they don't like or converting the world by the sword to The One True Way. People who want to violently overthrow the social order tend to make good villains because they do "villainous" things, and likely have villainous goals.
Yeah; that's why I said "would change the world for the better" rather than "wants to". When your chosen method of "improving" the world involves things like mass graves, your alleged goals stop mattering very much; especially to the people likely to end up dumped in them.
In Scar's case, I'm not sure that it even takes place. The only hint is exaggerated gestures. However, this is standard for villains (especially in the 20th century, when heroes are supposed to be portrayed as stoic) - there is even a trope called "Evil is Hammy"