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Oh my giddy aunt, I made fanart. o_o

How many of you are cool enough to know who this is? Raise your hands! ...Well, there's me, and... maybe Zhe. Hm. We shall see.

Lord Maliss is the villain of the 1993 animated movie "Happily Ever After", and is possibly the only reason I can stand watching it now XD Course, I'd grown up watching this movie and, as with many childhood movies, you go back and watch it again as a young adult and fall over laughing at how corny it actually is, or how bad the animation can get. I just finished watching this one, for the sake of finding good screenshots of Maliss, and I was giggling at stuff all the way through. BUT, I'll admit that Maliss makes an awkward children's movie worth staring at for an hour and a half of your life.

First off, there's his introduction into the Snow White story. He bursts into the wicked queen's castle, interrupting the frolicking henchbeasts, and demands right off the bat, "Where is my sister?" When he finds out she's dead he throws a fit, and when he figures out his beloved sis met her doom while trying to get rid of Snow White, he vows to finish the job. And boy, does he ever try. So, you see, the guy's not much more than a loyal brother in grief. Whoo! ...Although, given the fact that HE'S EEEVUHL, it could be argued that he was visiting his sister with the plan to kill her and take over her lands the hard way, and that he's angry enough with Snow White for beating him to it, so he plots to destroy her for something to do. XD This makes him a more complex character; now that I've entertained the possibility of his wanting to kill his sister, I'm not sure what to think anymore X3

Secondly, he's plainly psychotic. Like any token bad guy, he tortures his minions, sics rabid dogs on his prey, and slaps and pulls hair in fights against female protagonists. As if we needed any more proof, Malcolm McDowell does this tremedous job of cackling and chuckling and exhaling sinister laughing noises throughout the movie. Oh, and he rolls every other R, too. It's a real treat.

Thirdly, getting into the more technical stuff, Maliss is the most well-animated character in the whole movie. Don't try to argue with me! I know it! He easily has the widest range of facial expressions, when you compare his scenes with Snow White's constantly looped animations (I'm not kidding; they put her on loops even when that particular expression is inappropriate for the scene!). He grins, he growls, he pouts, he shrieks, he widens his eyes drastically, he throws back his head to show off his suddenly-existing fangs! None of the other characters are so... well, ANIMATED. I mean, come ON.

Annnnnd fourthly: HE CAN TURN INTO A DRAGON. Instant win.

Done in Photoshit using a screencap for reference (from a scene where he's turning towards the audience snarling, "I'll handle this perrrrsonally!"). About two hours. Some Russian waltz music. The usual.

Lord Maliss is, sadly, NOT mine. He belongs to Twentieth Century Fox. May their animation department rest in peace. ;_;

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Oh my giddy aunt, I made fanart. o_o

How many of you are cool enough to know who this is? Raise your hands! ...Well, there's me, and... maybe Zhe. Hm. We shall see.

Lord Maliss is the villain of the 1993 animated movie "Happily Ever After", and is possibly the only reason I can stand watching it now XD Course, I'd grown up watching this movie and, as with many childhood movies, you go back and watch it again as a young adult and fall over laughing at how corny it actually is, or how bad the animation can get. I just finished watching this one, for the sake of finding good screenshots of Maliss, and I was giggling at stuff all the way through. BUT, I'll admit that Maliss makes an awkward children's movie worth staring at for an hour and a half of your life.

First off, there's his introduction into the Snow White story. He bursts into the wicked queen's castle, interrupting the frolicking henchbeasts, and demands right off the bat, "Where is my sister?" When he finds out she's dead he throws a fit, and when he figures out his beloved sis met her doom while trying to get rid of Snow White, he vows to finish the job. And boy, does he ever try. So, you see, the guy's not much more than a loyal brother in grief. Whoo! ...Although, given the fact that HE'S EEEVUHL, it could be argued that he was visiting his sister with the plan to kill her and take over her lands the hard way, and that he's angry enough with Snow White for beating him to it, so he plots to destroy her for something to do. XD This makes him a more complex character; now that I've entertained the possibility of his wanting to kill his sister, I'm not sure what to think anymore X3

Secondly, he's plainly psychotic. Like any token bad guy, he tortures his minions, sics rabid dogs on his prey, and slaps and pulls hair in fights against female protagonists. As if we needed any more proof, Malcolm McDowell does this tremedous job of cackling and chuckling and exhaling sinister laughing noises throughout the movie. Oh, and he rolls every other R, too. It's a real treat.

Thirdly, getting into the more technical stuff, Maliss is the most well-animated character in the whole movie. Don't try to argue with me! I know it! He easily has the widest range of facial expressions, when you compare his scenes with Snow White's constantly looped animations (I'm not kidding; they put her on loops even when that particular expression is inappropriate for the scene!). He grins, he growls, he pouts, he shrieks, he widens his eyes drastically, he throws back his head to show off his suddenly-existing fangs! None of the other characters are so... well, ANIMATED. I mean, come ON.

Annnnnd fourthly: HE CAN TURN INTO A DRAGON. Instant win.

Done in Photoshit using a screencap for reference (from a scene where he's turning towards the audience snarling, "I'll handle this perrrrsonally!"). About two hours. Some Russian waltz music. The usual.

Lord Maliss is, sadly, NOT mine. He belongs to Twentieth Century Fox. May their animation department rest in peace. ;_;