The Mad Bishounen

Evil Laughter

The Mad Bishounen

Evil Laughter

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This rant brought to you by Matt Boyd linking to this Dr. Horrible bloke.

What makes a good evil laugh?  There's this powerful stereotype of the Hollywood villianous guffaw, or the Japanese Kefka laugh (Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo), or the occasional evil cackle, but none of them really inspire terror.  I mean, Kefka kind of doees but for other reasons.  Really, the best evil laugh sounds more or less like a normal one, maybe even just a subdued chuckle.  It's mostly an issue of what causes it.

Bystander: "You just fired a rocket full of kittens undergoing chemotherapy into a candy factory!"

Evil madman: *chuckle*

Now that is a terrifying evil laugh, i don't fucking care what hollywood says.
  • When someone actually seems genuinely delighted to be biting the heads off of kittens while they punt small children into a cauldron warmed by the souls of a thousand damned, then one can be terrified.
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