Sympathy for the Villain

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Both Agatha Harkness and Oz Cobb in their respective series play with the modern day expectations of a villain led narrative. The Penguin even more so Agatha All Along since it has a more adult centric audience. But I think both deserve to be praised and examined in how they took their modern day archetype narratives and turned them on it’s head.

TLDR: This is my excuse to talk about gangster/crime films and witch media.

Time Stamps:

00:00 Intro
02:09 Spoiler Warning
02:43 The Penguin and Gangster Media
19:04 Agatha All Along and Witch's Legacy
34:03 IP Thoughts & Conclusion

Videos References

The Death of Pulp Fantasy | https://youtu.be/cfDbWbX_5lw
How WandaVision Avoided The "Crazy Woman" Trope| https://youtu.be/H8vXxo-N5bU

Sources:

The Gangster Film: Fatal Success in American Cinema (Short Cuts) by Ron Wilson


On Studying Witchcraft as Women's History: A Historiography of the European Witch Persecutions
by Anne Llewellyn Barstow https://www.jstor.org/stable/25002078

Who Were the Witches? The Social Roles of the Accused in the European Witch Trials
by Richard A. Horsley
https://www.jstor.org/stable/203380

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