Cartoon statues based on "evil queens" are no better an influence than supervillains
1 Comments Published by Avi Green on Monday, November 14, 2022 at 6:34 AM.
J. Scott Campbell's a talented artist, there's no disputing that. But one of his latest projects, which appears to be based on the evil queen from Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, is decidedly a poor choice for something to market:
Seriously, I find it so galling when not just a villainess is marketed as a big deal in the statue-making business, but also when evil is made to look sexy. There's a lot Campbell's drawn to impress me, but not this item. It just insults my intellect, because already, there's been Joker cultism, Poison Ivy cultism, Riddler cultism and even Dr. Doom cultism, and now we have to have this? No, I'm sorry, this is no improvement.
The foremost focus of admiration and appreciation shoud be heroes and heroines. And good is what should really be made to look sexy.
The foremost focus of admiration and appreciation shoud be heroes and heroines. And good is what should really be made to look sexy.
Labels: animation, golden calf of villainy, licensed products
To be fair, if he tried to do an artwork on Snow White, he'd probably end up slapped with pedophilia charges due to her being canonically fourteen years old, so it's not like Snow White, one of the heroes of the film, would have been a good option for this kind of artwork.
Still, I agree that using someone like the Evil Queen (an attempted child murderer, and that's strictly going by the Disney version of her, as her original fairy tale version was even WORSE in that she was a cannibal as well) for this is distasteful. If they absolutely MUST market villainous characters like this, at least use anti-villainous characters like Lady Death or something. At least those types do sort-of engage in heroism in their own way (and some even get upgraded to heroes in their own right after enough character development like Scarlet Witch in the original comics).