Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5486221-20160803133231/@comment-24922135-20160824211903

irrelevant of how much I disagree with Yopo's opinion, I personally have to detract points from UAF for how much it lived in the shadow of OS. The Highbreed I liked as villains, but S3 brought back vilgax and kept him as a main villain through UA which felt contrived (and they also gave him new gear, implying that he was now weaker than his OS self). I'd have preferred totally original villains. UAF also brought back Zombozo, Animo, Charmcaster, Hex, etc. All characters I would have been fine forgetting considering that UAF never really felt like it had a reason to bring them back. A lot of praise AF gets was for it's change in tone and direction from OS, but the villains kept getting recycled from it and that just annoys me personally. As some one with great love for the original work, it's just jarring to see these villains in the new tone, it doesn't work because the world doesn't contrast them enough anymore.

UA moved away from this a bit more, but it instead was guilty of bringing in the material from the movies. Whilst that kinda worked a but better cos the movies were built for darker tones anyways, it did just seem a bit lazy to me that they had to reuse villains instead of making their own. This fault particularly sticks out because the villains are only used as major villains in odd episodes, and then basically ignored (with the exception of Charmcaster). As devil's advocate for OV, it at least treated villains as minor unless it had a greater plot need for them. Like how Vilgax was mostly treated as a nuisance until 'And Then There Was None'