3rd November 2003, 11:43 PM
Modern cartoons? Well, old ones yes, those villians WERE just "evil for no good reason" guys, but these days most modern cartoons aren't even American. He-man is, and it sucks. BUT, most of the anime that kids watch these days (and that DOES include the stuff on Adult Swim because parents don't send their kids to bed at reasonable hours any more and think "cartoon = kid") involves villians who DO have decent motivation.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)