Evil
Original: Evil on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (titled "ME IN THE PAST"): A man with flame-like red hair and a beard sits in an armchair watching a television.
Man: "God, movie villains are so boring. They're all just pure evil with no motivation."
Panel 2 (titled "ME NOW"): The same man sits in the armchair in front of the television, now gesturing emphatically with both arms outstretched. The background has turned bright yellow.
Man: "And in fact I am doing the evil thing due to my troubled past, which—"
Man (yelling, jagged speech bubble): "NO! NOT AGAIN! BRING BACK REGULAR EVIL!"
Votey:
A thought bubble above an indistinct face.
Thought: "I wonder when Hitler will get the 'actually he had a traumatic childhood' treatment."
Man: "God, movie villains are so boring. They're all just pure evil with no motivation."
Panel 2 (titled "ME NOW"): The same man sits in the armchair in front of the television, now gesturing emphatically with both arms outstretched. The background has turned bright yellow.
Man: "And in fact I am doing the evil thing due to my troubled past, which—"
Man (yelling, jagged speech bubble): "NO! NOT AGAIN! BRING BACK REGULAR EVIL!"
Votey:
A thought bubble above an indistinct face.
Thought: "I wonder when Hitler will get the 'actually he had a traumatic childhood' treatment."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel one, labeled "ME IN THE PAST," shows a red-haired bearded man relaxing in an armchair watching TV and saying, "God, movie villains are so boring. They're all just pure evil with no motivation." Panel two, labeled "ME NOW," shows the same man in the same chair, now flailing his arms in frustration at the TV against a bright yellow background, complaining that the villain says, "And in fact I am doing the evil thing due to my troubled past, which—" before he yells in a jagged speech bubble, "NO! NOT AGAIN! BRING BACK REGULAR EVIL!" The joke: he wished for motivated villains in the past, but now finds the trend of giving every villain a sympathetic backstory exhausting. Votey (a small bonus panel): a face with a thought bubble musing, "I wonder when Hitler will get the 'actually he had a traumatic childhood' treatment."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.