r/villainessGang

I hate this trope sm i cant even 😭😭. Why does the FL buy a slave for a ridiculous amt of money to save them ?? It’s literally perpetuating the cycle and helping the criminals afford more slaves bc its profitable to them. isn’t there a better way to do this ?? i want to know if anyone else has an idea on how this trope could be better executed

i have this idea in my head for awhile, i don't have all the details finalized and i don't wanna give spoilers in this post if i even decided to write on.

you know how in most stories after a condemnation event, the villainess gets exiled or straight up executed. then years later (after the exile/reincarnation) or during, we see the downfall of the kingdom due the crown princes & OGFL foolish actions (since the villainess was the important one holding things together despite the mistreatment) and it's viewed as karma retribution & calm revenge for what they did to her. (since the most reality revenge is living your best life while your enemies' shrew in their terrible actions)

what-if instead of the kingdom's downfall, years after the villainess exile/reincarnation, the kingdom is said to be genuinely thriving. like the OGFL & Crown prince grow and/or showed some level of competent and responsibility despite how they behaved last time (after all some people change if realized their actions and choose to change). this infuriates the villainess as while she did make a comforting life for herself, the fact that the people who hurt her can just... have a happy life, with a kingdom that love them is just... grrrrr

So she sneaks into the kingdom, incognito just to see how everything has change: from the people she knows to the kingdom's systems. and throughout the stories you learn bit by bit on what happened based on her interactions on familiar & new people... you learn that the whole story of the Exile Villainess who was humiliated and falsely accused by the Baron Daughter... isn't as it seems

please ignore my terrible video editing skills and cringe taste in music XD

Cu, i'm really curious, recently... I've been seeing Manga like "The Heinous Villainess's Mistaken Path To Saving the National" and the "Tearmoom Empire Record" i've been trying to search for any manhwa or manga with si miliar tropes or mc... Do u guys have any recs?

I've been thinking on how within the first timeline of *any "*reincarnated/transgression" OI, the supposed villains succeeded in their goals (becoming queen/empress, marrying another woman, fortune/status, etc) and ruined/killed the FL. So, you figure that once the FL goes back in time, she'll have to outsmart some extremely cunning and clever individual who is ten steps ahead and is a formidable opponent

Only for the new timeline to start and the villains are nothing but stupid petty man-children with the subtly of a sledgehammer. They act so loud, petty, extremely cruel and inept that, you have to wonder how they even succeed in their goals in the first timeline outside of dumb luck. Since they have no skills or intelligent in politics, or social etiquette. They can't even pretend to be decent beings to form allies and alot of how they behavior makes themselves look bad & incompetent in high society.

It makes it very transparent that they only act this way to make the FL look better and the revenge to be satisfying w/o any repercussions. Instead of writing the FL as clever individual who uses her knowledge of her previous life to outsmart her opponents, they just make everyone around her stupid and incompetent to make her look better. Villains that are written as extremely childish and stupid but your still supposed to treat them as serious antagonists, not only makes the FL look worse since they don't have to put in any effort to best her enemies, but you just start to pity the villain for basically being a punching bag

If both the FL and the antagonists have the same power level (whether in strength, politics, wealth, status, charm, allies etc). It would have make for a much interesting conflict that the FL/ML beating them so easily

So we all know the just of these reincarnated, as the villainess animes, there's a villainess engaged to a prince, and she really loves the prince, but the prince doesn't really love her. He finds the heroine and the villainous bullies her, and it continues and escalates until he finally snaps, breaks up with the villainous and gets married to the heroine. My issue here is, why did it take that much for you to break it off with the villainess? The Prince has clearly cheated. That's why she is pissed off and bullying the heroine in the first place. He is cheating on her. And we never touch on that topic. He could at least break it off with the villainess, first and then go pursue the heroine that he has fallen in love with. Its still bad but not cheating. But he never does that, no. He lets the villainess suffer through his adultery, and then gets the girl in the end. That's messed up. That's not okay. It's never okay. But it's always treated as yeah, it's fine. And we all know that since a set in this society of aristocracy, that she can't break it off herself. She is in a position below him. He is the prince. So he has to be the one to break it off. But he doesn't. And if she just found someone else too, then she would be seen in the wrong still, because how dare you cheat on the prince who do you think you are? like it's messed up. Why can't we have an anime that talks about the fact that he is still cheating on her? And that he doesn't get the heroine in the end cause that's messed up too. Why does he get rewarded for cheating? Its emotional abuse along with adultery. And on the heroine, why tf cant she reject the man. She hears that he is someone else’s fiance and doesnt think "hm maybe I shouldn't be pursuing him..." NO she doesnt she continues to try to date and chase after him. They BOTH should know better and stick with their people and/or break up with their attachment. I pity the villainess in these otome game/animes so much man.