My take on the new Megamind Villain!

- It's dark, it's messed up - and i LOVE it!

- ...😳

- Oh yeah! That's the stuff!

WHERE MY NIGHTY KNIGHT FANS AT

I hated the sequel but I think I can save nighty-knight

I wanted to do my own designs, notes about them under the cut

Lady Doppler:

her hair is intended to resemble a cloud (changes based on active weather effect) and the braids have blue beads which represent raindrops)

i tried to go for a slightly more cohesive color palette

belt buckle is a sun, and the frills below it resemble an umbrella

the bottom of her dress is intended to look like clouds (these do not change based on the active weather effect)

Pierre Pressure:

I tried to exaggerate the diamond shape of his head as well as add more red to his design

changed the stripes on his shirt to hypnotic swirls to emphasize his power

gave him coattails and an ascot

the beret is supposed to have an exclamation point as the little pomf bc it looked cool/mimes don't talk and exclamation points indicate volume

Behemoth:

i dont know why but the fact he had a face annoyed me for some reason so i removed it sorry buddy.

tried to emphasize the shoulders by adding larger rocks than the rest of him.

flames on the lower arms to VAGUELY resemble metro man's costume fringe/bc it looked cool

his face is actually intended to resemble the concept art for the tornado titan from Hercules 1997 (it functions almost like a vacuum he can suck stuff into the lava whirlpool)

Nighty Knight:

his colors are intended to be strictly black/silver/purple (+ very small amounts of blue)

this is due to the backstory i imagine him with

he's got one of those knight visor/mouthpiece covers

i didn't vibe with the very colorful insignia so i changed it slightly to match the rest of his colors

i dented+scratched the armor to signify he's been in fights before

in this one i headcanon him AS a sentient suit of armor (it makes sense with my general headcanons about the world the show/movie takes place in dw)

i gave him claws bc it is epic

Hee hee

Various Welcome Home OCs I have made recently.

GHOST!!!

Dogged of the days + plus a relatable lil buddy!

Also that piloted!dogday by itself:

I don't like the Megamind sequel as much as the next guy BUT

look at this guy.

His name is Nighty-Knight. I have a soft spot for bad puns and knights as well as shamelessly edgy characters. Just look at the lil stars and crescent moons on his armour. HE'S EVEN GOT SKULL KNEE-GUARDS COME ON

- I will call you... Mister Cuddly Snuggle!

this design is so bare minimum yaay give us nothing. im considering doing a redesign of this guy just to see how much harder this design could go (no disrespect to the original its pretty nice tbh but ahh the possibilities)

you

vs the guy she tells you not to worry about

Saw this and I just..

Sorry but not sorry guys. I ship them and will now hyperfixate on these silly men. /hj

On a more serious note, I haven't watched the movie yet, only the trailer/first 6 minutes, and damn are they my favorites so far. Nighty Knight is for sure my #1, but I like the other villains as well.

The writing was... well, writing all right. Some of the animation bothered me and most dialogue was just.. eugh. Maybe it gets better (press x to doubt). I'll watch the movie and show once I can bootleg them, because I'm not paying for that shit.

just finished watching Megamind vs the Doom Syndicate and i have some thoughts!! please do take this with a grain of salt as i'm just one person; i absolutely do not want to rain on anyone's parade!! if this is your favourite movie, don't worry about the gripes of some stranger on the internet 🥰

let's start with the positive!! despite what some people are saying there are things to enjoy about the film, and i think that lies in the fun of Megamind's old crew. although Behemoth looks a little phoned-in and Pierre Pressure was an easy joke, i really enjoyed the designs for Lady Doppler and Lord Nighty-Knight. the scenes they were in with Megamind were definitely the most engaging!! but that's...about where my enjoyment of the film ends. i think the film's biggest sin is the enormous amount of exposition-dumping and telling rather than showing. there were so many times where characters just...stated things about themselves, or spoke aloud why they were feeling the way they are. they're like...character notes that a writer jots down to keep track of emotional journeys. it really breaks the immersion and makes the characters feel mechanical, clunky, and a bit of a hivemind. Megamind and Roxanne in particular feel quite stripped of their original personalities, which is such a shame. then there's drastic reduction of chemistry between Megamind and Roxanne. canonically, this movie only takes place a couple of days after the events of Megamind, but the two are barely affectionate with one another to the point that it's weird. perhaps it was written as them being comfortable with one another, but at times it almost felt like there was dislike between the two of them...especially from Roxanne's side!! Megamind is hardly recognisable compared to his lovestruck counterpart from the first movie, and Roxanne's bold, caring nature seems to have evaporated. it makes it very hard to get invested in their relationship at all 💔 speaking of Roxanne, i find it such an odd choice to make Roxanne have an existential crisis about being dissatisfied with her life just a few days after the events of the previous film...you'd think she'd want to take it easy for a while! i feel this characterisation of Roxanne does her a lot of disservice, and reduces her more to plot functionality. Roxanne doesn't strike me as the kind of woman who'd be starstruck re: some kid's online following and decide she's inadequate by comparison. again, a lot of the things we love Roxanne for were just quite...absent, from this movie. you could predict what she was going to say well ahead of time, because she was just following the beats of the plot 😓 and the time-retcon...isn't it a bit weird that Megamind is a complete Internet n00b? it's one thing for him to be a bit out-of-touch with Gen Z (as he's relatable to us neurotypicals given his alien grasp on certain concepts), but he seems completely baffled by the concept of streaming and followers at all, and this movie takes place in a post-2020 timeframe. it's odd because Megamind is already established as a tech genius in the first movie, and we know he's somewhat affiliated with Internet slang by his use of LOL : ) when texting Roxanne!! perhaps this is a small nitpick that can be explained away, but it seems like a baffling choice and an excuse to write in a trendy character for the kids to relate to 😵 then, moving onto Keiko...she wasn't terrible by any means! but i wish she was more than a social media influencer to get Megamind with the times. if she's Megamind's number 1 fan, surely she would have been his fan while he was a villain...couldn't that have made for an interesting moral dilemma along with the return of the Doom Syndicate: having a child trying to follow in his previously-villainous footsteps? what about Keiko being taken under the wing of the Doom Syndicate after Megamind became a hero? 👀 those are my thoughts for now...i do hope all those talented Megamind fans will build upon these flaws in the movie and create more compelling stories from it 🙏💖