So this weekend I was moaning about how much easier blogging is during an election cycle. There is literally always something to blog about during elections. Like:
1) What candidates are really saying during debates.
2) How I can wash a sink full of dishes faster than Herman Cain’s slow smile at the end of the funniest and most flabbergasting campaign commercial ever.
3) How every candidate has a Muppet doppleganger.
Well, that got me thinking about Muppets…
Which got me thinking about the next Muppets movie…
Which got me googling Muppets movie news…
And I come to find out Tom Hiddleston is in the next Muppets movie. Tom Hiddleston as in Loki from Thor. As in eeriest (but also kinda the coolest) villain EVER!!
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| I know, he looks so nice here. But as soon as he gets jealous of his brother AND realizes he’s a descendent of the Frost Giants, um, well…he gets a little mean. |
And now I’m scared I won’t be able to bring myself to watch the new Muppets movie next year. Because I’m afraid of Loki. This is distressing.
But hey, it gave me a blog topic…and it’s not even election season!
Ready, set, go: What villain scares you most?
p.s. I realize this is kind of a failure of a blog post, but I’m in the midst of reviewing galleys for Made to Last and racing through rewrites of book two. So this is the best I’ve got today. But on the upside, literary agent Amanda Luedeke is Wednesday’s special guest! And that’s going to be fun. 🙂
p.s. I realize this is kind of a failure of a blog post, but I’m in the midst of reviewing galleys for Made to Last and racing through rewrites of book two. So this is the best I’ve got today. But on the upside, literary agent Amanda Luedeke is Wednesday’s special guest! And that’s going to be fun. 🙂
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LOL, I love the way your quirky mind works. 🙂 The villain that scares me the most is the one I didn’t see coming…as in, getting 3/4s of the way through writing my book and realizing the person I thought was the villain isn’t. And there’s only a month until “dead”line. Yikes, that’s scary!
Um, yes…that is a scary situation…especially the “only a month until deadline” part! 🙂
The villain that scares me is the one who is so nice, has a pet and loves his mother. And yes, Sandra, that’s scary!
Okay, I read that really fast at first and thought you said “pets his mother.” Which is also pretty disturbing. But yes, nice villains can be the creepiest…
Villains like Hannibal Lecture. Charming, off the charts brilliant and cunning like a viper. Oh I do love villains like that. Brings a whole new meaning to saving your skin, eh?
You make me laugh so hard! I’m over here snorting at your hilarious randomness!
Haha, randomness is kinda how I get through Mondays. 🙂
you need to see RETURN TO CRANFORD! all of you ! tom hiddleston is our victorian gentleman friend :
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=307443972684318
Ahhh, I’ve totally seen Return to Cranford, but as we already discussed on FB, I had no idea Tom Hiddleston was in it. I must’ve watched Cranford before Thor…before I developed my fear of Loki. 🙂
The villain in Die Hard (the very first one): and then the villain in Live Free or Die Hard — they come up with some nasty villains for those movies. They have no conscious. No heart. Evil. Evil.
And Loki’s in The Muppet Movie?
Freaky …
I know–freaky! I mean, he’s not playing Loki or anything, but I can’t see the guy without thinking of Loki anymore. Also, Loki would be a really great Muppet name.
The Joker in the Batman movies freaked me out. He’s the stuff nightmares are made of.
Yes, sooo scary. I was in Chicago a couple weekends ago and we stopped at the street where Batman and Joker fought in the Dark Knight–and the post office that’s used as the bank Joker robs in the movie. Too fun.
My 4-year-old loves the Avengers.This morning he was in the bathtub saying, “Black Widow, you stay on the ground. Hulk, smash!” LOL. He also loves the part where Hulk smashes Loki, but my son thinks Hulk says “puny guy” instead of “puny god” because we don’t want him to confuse the true God with Loki and that’s a deep conversation for a 4-year-old. 🙂
Haha, yes, confusing theology for a kid. I love the Avengers too. I credit my brother-in-law for getting me into comic book movies…well, him and Chris Hemsworth… 🙂
This post made me smile. I’ll have to think which villain really scares me. Probably not an actually person, but something like clowns 🙂 Have fun with your galleys!
Clowns seriously can be scary! Especially sad ones…
Your randomness cracks me up this morning!! 😛
Actually, the villains I hate are little kids. They’re supposed to be innocent. When they’re not, it’s just creepy. I generally avoid movies or shows that have that, but occasionally see it and yuck…just gives me a sad, creeped-out feeling.
K, realized how depressing my comment sounded!!
Other than kids as villains, the ones who scare me the most are the ones that seem so normal. Normal enough you wouldn’t have picked them out of a crowd.
LOL yeah…villainous kids are creepy, I agree. 🙂
This will sound silly, but the Wicked Witch of the West scared the heck out of me when I was a child. She was evil. When I see her today, she still gives me the creeps. I think it’s because she was a mean person (in the beginning of the movie – you know, reality part) But then she was the wicked witch in OZ, and when she had Dorothy at her mercy, locked in her castle, she debated “how to do it” – how to kill Dorothy. That put the chill in my spine forever.
The most horribly frightening villains in that movie were her hench-monkeys! The flying monkeys scared me to no end when I was little, just seeing those bat-winged freaky things! Then it was horrendous when they attack everyone, kidnap Dorothy and scatter Scarecrow’s stuffing everywhere. Ewwww!!!
YES to both of your answers. It’s the witch’s laugh that most freaked me out as a kid. And the flying monkeys…for real…freaky. I actually remember tearing up when they scattered the Scarecrow’s straw everywhere as a kid and trying to hide my tears from whoever I was watching it with. Apparently I was embarrassed about being emotional about the Scarecrow… 🙂
Melissa, you always make me smile. 🙂
Can it be a villianess? How about the gal in Misery?! Wow…I still get goosebumps from that one.
I’ve not seen Misery. But if I do, I’ll brace myself…
MTagg!
I have to say that the horror movies that came out when I was a kid (yes I’m going to date myself) Friday the 13th, Jason — those series. I didn’t even like them but my brothers would watch ’em and I could hear them in my room…at night!
Yes, scary! Also, I’m soooo excited to see you in a couple weeks!
HA! You made me laugh, so I say good post:) Plus, you gave me info I was previously unaware of–there’s a Muppet movie coming out??? Though I agree, Loki just can’t hang with the Muppets. That’ll be weird.
My most hated villian?? IT (in the clown form) from IT….ack! Still creeps me out!!
Haha, I never saw IT. I probably wouldn’t make it through it!
I don’t really watch much horror (b/c it grosses me out too much). I’ve seen the scene that introduces Hannibal Lecter in “Silence of the Lambs”, and it is brilliant in presenting him as a frightening villain, so much in control of himself compared to the other psychos in the neighboring cells! The ones who seem to know more than everyone else are the truly scary ones.
But the villain I love to hate, b/c he creeps me out a lot (but in a good way) is Tom Riddle in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”. We only learn in the end that he’s young Voldemort, at which time he’s revealed as a truly sinister mastermind!
As a side note, Tom Hiddleston has a brief heroice part in “War Horse”, which might help your transition to the next Muppet movie! (:^D
Ooh, good to know. Between Tom in Cranford and in War Horse, maybe I’ll get over my Loki fear. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Randall!
Oooh, I am with you, Melissa. Tom does an excellent job with a creepy villain but… The Muppets!? Not sure I buy that. 🙂
This is an awesome blog post, Melissa. Best of luck with all that hard work on your novels. 🙂
Thanks, Rissi! I’m traveling every weekend for the next few weekends, so all the novel work is taking over my weeknights, that’s for sure. 🙂
Magua in Last of the Mohicans. Ice cold and terrifying.
It has been way too long since I watched Last of the Mohicans. Although, sometimes I listen to the soundtrack when I write…but then those scenes end up being too dramatic for romantic comedy. Haha!
The “naughty” queen in the view master pictures my sister and cousin would torture me with when I was a child….along with the clown waste paper basket. Now those were villains! The modern ones I just prefer to stay away from. Give me the Waltons or Anne of Green Gables any day.
HAAA, I remember you talking about the naughty queen! Also, I’m trying to figure out who the villain would be in Anne of Green Gables…Josie Pye? Rachel Lynde? Diana’s mom after Anne gets Diana accidentally drunk? 🙂
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