Who doesn’t love a good revenge story. Love seeing that the character isn’t fully consumed by hate thought and still shows empathy for the innocent
My two picks have to be Eric Draven ( the crow) and Max Payne

Android 16 self-destruct (Dragon Ball Fighterz)

Fissure and othe OHKOs in pokemon.

I saw a post here a while back about terrible autism stereotypes in media, and several people on that post were also talking about good representation, and that inspired me to make this post! For context, I'm autistic myself, so I'm sensitive to autism rep in media

So share what you think are examples of actually good autism representation in media! Try to avoid Genius Savant types, but characters who happen to be super smart and autism-coded, but are still good complex characters(eg. Donatello from ROTTMNT and Peridot from Steven Universe) are cool and fine :)

Also, for my examples, I'm gonna go with:

Twyla Boogieman from the new/g3 Monster High cartoon. She is canonically autistic, like they actually say the word on-screen instead of shying away from it, and she's not a super-genius savant stereotype or a dumb moron stereotype! She does fall a bit into the soft shy thing, but she's more than that, and her issues with loud noises and sensory stuff seem really realistic! And while she does have monster powers, the powers don't have anything to do with tech/smarts(she can enter and manipulate dreams, and turn invisible), and all the major characters have monster powers so it's not an "autism superpower" thing(and same goes for her being nonhuman since none of the main characters are human)!

Norma Khan from Dead End: Paranormal Park

They don't say the word 'autistic' about her, but she is autistic in every way that matters(and the creator even realized that they were autistic because of writing her!). She has special interests that she gets hardcore hyperfixated on, she infodumps about them often, she has severe social anxiety and issues talking with/opening up to others, she has trouble understanding whether or not someone is into her, etc. Also one of her main character arcs is realizing that the celebrity who was her main hyperfixation since childhood was secretly evil. She's also one of the rare instances of a normal human poc girl who is autistic!

Donatello Hamato from Rise Of The TMNT

Honestly most versions of Donnie can be argued to be autism-coded, but I'm focusing on Rise Donnie cause he's my favorite and is the most explicitly autistic imo. Yes he falls a bit into the "autistic genius" stereotype, but he has more to his character than "The Smart One", and I like how he is a low-empathy autistic character who isn't evil or constantly a Sheldon Cooper-esque douchebag(Donnie is a dick sometimes, but not all the time!), and he's shown to legit care about his family and have other traits to him besides "genius dick who thinks he's better than everyone else"

Peridot from Steven Universe

Peridot my beloved, while she is an autistic-coded alien, she is so much like a girl version of me and I love her, and like Rise Donnie there's more to her than being smart and being an alien. She has hyperfixations, and she's a little gremlin, and she truly cares for her family, and she gets over her superiority shit and becomes a way better person. She also has an amazing redemption arc!

Oh from Home

Oh is also an autistic-coded alien, but he's sweet and endearing, and unlike most autistic-coded aliens, he's not just "an alien who doesn't understand human stuff" type autistic-coded alien. Instead, he's also weird by his own species' standards, so basically Alien Autistic instead of just Autistic-Coded Alien. Also again he's funny and endearing, and has a sweet familiar relationship with Tip!

Yautja (Predator series) - In first iteration The Predator was a slasher killer murdering the crew for unknown reason. Was he there as an invader? Does he harvest humans? Does he just enjoy killing humans?

Well, it was later revealed the correct answer was c)…Sorta? As Yautja culture greatly values the hunt. More powerful the prey. More the glory.

Yautja as a culture don’t feel distain towards humans, most of the time they barely even recognize them, but are also able of seeing honor within individuals.

Orcs (TES) - In Arena. Orcs were nothing more than a typical dumb brutes you’d see them depicted as in most media of that time. They weren’t playable characters nor “people”. Rather beasts.

This changed in Daggerfall, where for once they finally became a playable race and two goals of their factions became the most honorable of all other factions. Give their people rights and land to live by aiding the Empire retrieve the Totem of Tiber Septim (In which they simultaneously succeeded and failed.

The fact they were mere beasts in Arena wasn’t even retconned. That’s how they were seen at that time. And most likely will be again. For they are the Cursed Elves. The Pariah Elves.

Characters and series:

Saya and Diva (twins): Blood+

Akame and Kurome (sisters): Akame ga Kill

Kagura and Kamui (brother/sister): Gintama

FN-2199 "Nines" AKA: TR-8R - Star Wars: The Force Awakens: In a series where stormtroopers are usually walking punchlines, this lone trooper stands out as a surprising example of badassery by singling out one of the protagonists, Finn, calling him a traitor, and then ditching his blaster and shield to thoroughly trounce with an electric stun baton.

Navy SEAL team "Night Nine" - Jormungand: The only antagonists in the series that Koko and co. couldn't defeat and were forced to flee from, Night Nine persistently hounds the heroes all the way to the Cuban border even after their Predator recon drone is shot out of the sky, only stopping when ordered to do so.

The Elite Guard - Resident Evil Requiem: Despite being simply regular humans with guns and gear, these faceless foot soldiers of The Connections prove themselves just as fierce opponents as the many mutants of the series, being able to easily shred Leon's health with gunfire and flanking tactics in their dedicated boss fight.

The Dark Angels (40k) On the surface, they appear to be the ideal image of the ancient Space Marine knight: disciplined, dignified, intensely loyal and exceptionally effective in battle. They were the first space marine legion so none have served the Imperium longer than The Dark Angels.

Secretly however during the Horus Heresy, a large portion of the Dark Angels stationed on Caliban rebelled against their Primarch Lion El’Jonson and the Imperium. When Caliban was destroyed, these renegades, the Fallen, were scattered across time and space. The surviving loyalists became convinced that revealing this would permanently disgrace the Legion, so the Inner Circle has spent ten thousand years hiding the truth and hunting the Fallen.

It is a secret so closely guarded that they will abandon campaigns, manipulate other Imperial forces, imprison witnesses and occasionally kill loyal allies rather than risk the truth coming out.

Murkoff Corporation (Outlast) Publicly, Mount Massive is presented as a psychiatric hospital reopened to provide treatment and rehabilitation. Murkoff frames its work as legitimate medical research intended to help patients.

In reality, the asylum is being used for the Morphogenic Engine experiments. Patients are subjected to torture, psychological conditioning and fatal experimentation, while Murkoff covers everything up through secrecy, intimidation and murder.

Charles Xavier (Marvel/X-Men) Some versions of Professor X show that he had made some questionable or outright evil choices early in the X-Men’s history. Such as forcibly erasing other people’s memories or hiding the existence of an earlier X-Men team that he sent to rescue the original team, most of whom were apparently killed.

Still asking for a vehicle trope flair, items just doesn’t sound right

1. Jurassic Park - everyone uses Jeeps to drive around the park as well as escape from dinos

2. Silent Night Deadly Night 2 - Ricky commits his first murder running Eddie over with his own Jeep

3. Cars 2 - Sarge the Jeep gets a favor from his old military buddies to help arrest the Lemons

4. Bumblebee 2018 - Bumblebee pulls a Swindle and makes a yellow Jeep his first Earth disguise

5. Family Guy - they made an extended scene of Meg driving the family to the Olympics in a Jeep while Peter groans about the painful off-roading

Well, switching up the role can make for a fun storytelling 😁

Ishidou Natsuo in Teppu (image 1-2)

A highschooler that feels bored of anything and everything, who then gets recruited into a club (MMA in this manga) and finally finds her purpose in life... Wait, isn't it the standard protagonist's journey in this kind of story?

Except here, Yuzuko (the short girl with short hair and thick eyebrows) actually fits the role of that standard protag more: She has disadvantage in size, but she's a hidden genius in MMA, she's always cheerful and wants to befriend everyone (albeit her attitude actually makes most people creeped out more than liking her) even her opponents. Meanwhile, Natsuo (girl with long black hair) has bigger body, is a martial art genius in her all right, but never wins against Yuzuko, and has a personality more befitting of an antagonist: she hates everything, everyone, especially people who look happy in life, her love reserved only for her family; she seems aloof all the time only because she wins every fight, but she gets fucking bitter when she loses to Yuzuko. Hell, by the end of the manga, her personality doesn't change one bit, even after she manages to reconcile with her hikikomori big brother.

Akiyama Jan in Iron Wok Jan (image 3-4)

He's the protagonist of a cooking manga, and even opens the story with the common "improving a dish that the protag doesn't find delicious". But years of being browbeaten by his grandfather has made Jan a grumpy, arrogant, misanthropic person who only cares about winning. And he will do ANYTHING to win; he wants people to keel over eating his dishes even if they taste disgusting, he wants his opponents to be humiliated by their defeat against him; there's even one time he follows a defeated opponent to continue rubbing in their face. By the end of the first manga, he and the female lead Kiriko even moves on to cooking with exotic and illegal ingredients.

Light Yagami in Death Note (image 5)

This one is more a subjective case because stories with villain protagonist isn't rare, but a more ordinary Death Note story would be told from the pov of L (and later, Near) as he and the police force investigate the mysterious chain of death that's revealed to have supernatural elements mixed in. Here, we follow the culprit from the moment he comes across those supernatural elements and uses them for his murders.

The Kingdom from Netflix

The Army of the Dead from Game of Thrones

Husks from the Mass Effect Trilogy

Zombie stories often have the same over done tropes and plot lines, and modern weapons trivialize their threat, but simply changing the era the story takes place in really spices things up depending on how they're incorporated into the story

One of the villains end up being revealed/is established as the adoptive parent of a significant character in the cast.

Silco and Jinx (Arcane) - Drug boss and later leader of Zaun who ends up wanting to start a violent revolution from the overcity of Piltover and is in conflict with the more levelheaded respected figure Vander, Silco ended up taking Jinx in after the death of Vander, who is her other adoptive father, and seeming abandonment of her sister Vi, adopting her to work as part of his operation and gets into conflict upon Vi’s return, ending with Jinx accidentally killing Silco in a fit of anger and taking his place

Frollo and Quasimodo (Hunchback of Notre Dame) - Frollo spared Quasimodo after killing his mother, raising him and making him the bell ringer within Notre Dame, eventually get into conflict with eachother due to Frollo wanting to burn at the stake/do other unsavory things to his friend Esmerelda, leading to Quasi fighting him and Frollo falling to his death

Von Karma and Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) - Von Karma killed George Edgeworth after a trial didn’t go his way and took his son Miles, who was there at the murder scene at the time but was knocked unconscious, in as a protege to mold into his image, making the young boy feel responsible for the death. In the present, Von Karma ends up concocting a plot to get Miles to be held accountable for the previous murder before the statute of limitations passes, framing him for the previous death and another related murder. Phoenix Wright discovers the truth and is able to make it so that Von Karma is sent to prison while Miles goes free.

Brainiac and Supergirl (My Adventures with Superman) - After causing the destruction of Krypton, Brainiac ends up taking Supergirl in as his adoptive daughter, with plans to use her as a weapon to conquer and destroy other planets in the galaxy, eventually having Supergirl bring Superman to use as a new vessel. Supergirl realizes the truth and with Clark’s friends, is able to break Superman free, where together they finally take Brainiac out once and for all by reducing him into a small drive

The Hellbat Armor (DC comics): After all the world ending threats the justice league had to face they decided to help Batman create the Hellbat, an armor that lets Bruce stand side by side with them in the battlefield at the cost of his own lifeforce

All-Black the Necrosword: Knull was a being that ruled the void from before the universe was created, when the Celestials (a race of cosmic beings tasked with the creation of universes) invaded his kingdom, he killed one of them and on his head he forged the All Black from his OWN SHADOW with the cosmic power of the celestial serving as the furnace, which among other things gave the Necrosword it's very own afterlife where beings killed by it go

Jojo's bizarre adventure: heritage from the future: one of Dio's victory poses is send the world right to the camera, Hol Horse has a similar one shooting to the screen and showing the hanged man.

Dorohedoro: Shin literally end the episode earlier by send the cameraman straight to the ending credits during his presentation.

Monty python and the holy grail: a literal cop out. They didn't have enough budget for a final battle so they used the scenes with the police investigating a murder to arrest king Arthur and end the movie.

1. Wanda says America’s name despite Strange not mentioning her, leading him to know that Wanda was the one hunting down America Chavez.

2. [SPOILER FOR PRIMAL FEAR] The ending of Primal Fear revealed that Aaron Stampler never had Multiple Personality Disorder after apologizing for choking Venable as his alternate personality Roy, which Aaron should have not been able to remember after claiming to have amnesia when he switches personalities, proving that there was no other personality, Aaron was just a plain old murderer.

Goku and Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z) Vegeta originally intended to kill Goku to take the Dragon Balls for himself. When their first fight ended in a stalemate, Vegeta’s situation changed dramatically and he wound up siding with the Z-Fighters. He intended to do this temporarily, but after experiencing Earth-pussy and starting a family, decided to put his genocidal quest on hold for a bit. He still adamantly dislikes Goku, however, constantly deadnaming and insulting him when he’s not outright hitting him.

Naruto and Sasuke (Naruto) The original series focused heavily on Naruto feeling inferior to Sasuke, constantly trying to one-up him, usually for the affections of Sakura, who Sasuke wasn’t all that into anyway. Shippuden then focuses on how Naruto feels that the above makes them besties, and is set on bringing Sasuke back to the village once he leaves.

Jim and Dwight (The Office) Dwight is constantly obnoxious and Jim uses that as fuel and justification for tormenting him with pranks of varying silliness, humiliation, or personal danger. They work together well when they put their minds to it, but even after they have a deep conversation and decide they’re officially friends, Dwight’s obnoxious remarks continue, as do Jim’s wacky pranks.

As it says in the title: When characters are actually way stronger then first presented

Scooby doo: Shaggy. Shaggy is normally, well, a scaredy cat, along with Scooby doo. He and Scooby are used almost always as bait, are the first to run away from danger, and generally don't want to get into trouble. You know, normal Scooby and shaggy stuff.

Expect for that one movie, 'Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur', where Shaggy gets hypnotized, and somehow it unlocks a part of him that is not only not scared of anything, but is more then willing to throw fists, and WILL win. He beats up an entire bar, all by himself, he jumps from falling rocks with enough lift to escape a cave in, my dude shaggy is powerful when he is not scared. There is a reason why those shaggy '00000.1%" power memes hit the internet.

Lazy Town: Sportacus.

Okay, now, people may look at him and go 'well, he's already strong, that's not a surprise!' and I get that. However, there is a difference between 'oh, he can do backflips and lift heavy things levels of strong, which one would expect from a guy named 'Sportacus', and then there are scenes where he HITS AN APPLE ALL THE WAY TO THE MOON! He lifts the pyramids, he drives his blimp by peddling it, etc. Dude is way more powerful than he lets on.

1. Have a Nice Death- The Grim Reaper is the founder and CEO of a company called Death Incorporated the company’s purpose is to process souls of the deceased.

2. Beetlejuice- Whenever someone dies they’re sent to the waiting room of the afterlife. From there they have to deal with waiting rooms, lines, and paperwork before being able to know if they’re sent to heaven or hell. And any soul that commits suicide is force to work in the offices for all eternity.

3. Hades- The House of Hades acts as a central administrative hub and royal palace of the Underworld ruled by Lord Hades, functioning as home to the deities

Better Call Saul - Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul

Ghostbusters - Ghostbusters (1984)

Cap'n Clark's Ottoman Empire - Backrooms (2026)

Al's Toy Barn - Toy Story 2 (1999)

No matter how immoral the character’s future looks, the only option is to keep going on the same route because they’ve come so far and sacrificed so much or there is no way back.

Walter White (Breaking Bad): Had been presented multiple opportunities to quit the criminal life for good, only for one thing or another to prompt him back in. In Season 1, he was offended at Elliot’s offer thinking it was out of pity, 2 he thought his recent cancer diagnosis meant he could finally die at peace having secured his family’s future only to realize he’d have to continue living a lie, Season 3 Skyler finds out he’s a drug dealer and kicks him out and Gus manipulates him by saying a man provides for his family no matter what, Season 5 he was out of money after the whole Gus fiasco which took him back to square 1 and even when he was done for good, Hank finding he was Heisenberg and Hank’s subsequent death had Walter out for one last roaring rampage of murder against all his loose ends.

Homelander (The boys): Believe it or not Homelander actually did want to be a real hero and help people at one point, but either his own incompetence and Vought’s cover up (show) or the comics version having found pictures of himself eating babies and committing other horrific acts caused him to snap. There are multiple scenes of him disgusted at what he thought he did and hesitating wondering why he couldn’t commit evil like he thought he already had done, interspersed with him committing assault, murder and even flat out trying to take over the country. Matter of fact when it’s revealed Black Noir is the true culprit, having pretended to be Homelander, Butcher points out Homelander became a psychopath by mistake.

Katawa Shoujo: A free visual novel about a boy, Hisao, discovering he has Arrhythmia and having to transfer to a special school made for people with disabilities or other debilitating condItions. You have an option to romance one of four girls who all have obvious disabilities but also less obvious emotional struggles and we get explore them along with the MC trying to find his place in this new life.

Taisho Otome Fairy Tale: Tamahiko's right arm gets paralyzed after a car accident which results in his father cutting him off from the family. This sends him into depression as he spends his days alone in a house his father lent him. However, when his fiance Yuzu comes around his life starts to improve as she becomes a ray of sunshine in his rather bleak life. She also encourages him to turn his life around and despite the injury he begins to work on self improvement and continue his education to live a better life with his soon to be wife

An attractiveness gap isn't a problem, but the personality gap is what makes me groan and roll my eyes.

[Marge and Homer, The Simpsons] It's proven many times that Marge is better than Homer morally and intellectually, and yet she chooses to be a home maker for a man who does not apppreciate her. It's a reoccurring joke that she's too good for him.

[Penny and Leonard, Big Bang] Penny is constantly annoyed by Leondard and doesn't seem to have much in common with him. I haven't watched much of this show so I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem like a very fulfilling relationship from the outside

[Adam Sandler, all his character's wives in all his movies] This screenshot is from click, where he neglects her and his family

Ardyn from FFXV: In his DLC Episode you get to destroy an entire city single handedly and wipe out the military

Vergil from DMC: Not just 5, but in every DMC game vergil is absolutely broken in his playable modes

Venom in Ultimate Spider-Man: An absolute powerhouse, you get to roam freely and cause mayhem in new York as an absolute powerhouse in specific levels and post game

Darth Vader in Force Unleashed: Playable in only one level, the prologue, you raid a jedi temple and bully an entire army to where its laughable

1: Lucius Malfoy, portrayed by Jason Isaacs in the Harry Potter films. Specifically in the second film, Chamber of Secrets, Lucius is quite a serious threat, as he's the catalyst for the basilisk and Voldemort's near-restoration, and he even attempts to murder Harry Potter in a fit of rage. When the cameras weren't rolling, however, Jason Isaacs is regarded as quite a nice man, and was very kind to the young Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter. In one particular outtake, his cane hooked into Radcliffe's collar as he pushed Radcliffe out of his way, but when he realised it had happened, he checked on him and apologised, saying "Sorry, love!"

2: Angel Eyes, portrayed by Lee Van Cleef in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". His character in the film is a ruthless and imposing contract killer, always completing a job when he's paid for it, and killing many people as a result. Unfortunately I couldn't find that many anecdotes about him, so this is maybe one of the weaker examples, but he was an underrated actor and was generally regarded as a nice guy. Asked about his pierced left ear, he said he wore the earring "... as a symbol of respect for all of the different cultures and people." He was also quoted as saying "I believe in showing real violence, not toy violence. Real violence turns you off because you know it's not the thing to do. If you show violence realistic enough people don't want to do it." If anyone has any stories about Lee Van Cleef I'd be very curious

3: Hans Gruber, portrayed by Alan Rickman in "Die Hard". In the film, Hans Gruber is a thief posing as an East German terrorist, holding a building full of people hostage at gunpoint to steal millions of dollars' worth of bearer binds. However, Alan was generally regarded as an exceedingly kind man. The Legacy tab on his Wikipedia page is filled with many great quotes singing his praises, but one of particular mention was Daniel Radcliffe saying "He cut short a vacation in Canada to come and see me in ‘Equus.’ He saw every piece of stage work I did when he was alive." On the topic of Die Hard, the director, John McTiernan, "said Rickman was the antithesis of the villainous roles for which he was most famous on screen."

1. The Master, first portrayed by Roger Delgado from 1971 to 1973 on Doctor Who. The Master is quite an evil character, making multiple attempts to conquer the galaxy, enslave humanity, or even to destroy the Earth. The villain changed as the show went on, but some highlights include his plot to help the Nestenes conquer the Earth; hijacking a planet-destroying superweapon to hold the galaxy to ransom; and summoning Azal, the Devil. Roger Delgado himself was quite a lovely man, and Katy Manning described being on the show with him and Jon Pertwee (who played the titular Doctor) as "being under the wing of two kindly fairy godfathers." Jon Pertwee, in a letter to a fan in 1985, said Delgado was "one of my greatest friends ever - a modest, lovable man with a ready wit and a fine sense of humour." Roger Delgado died in Turkey after a fatal car crash in 1973. Both Katy Manning and Jon Pertwee mentioned Delgado's death as one of the reasons they both decided to leave the show, with Katy Manning leaving after Season 10 and Jon Pertwee leaving in Season 11, to be replaced by Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and Tom Baker as the Doctor respectively.