Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracked Podcast.

The podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm the head of podcasting here at Cracked.

I'm also known as Shmitty the Clam.

I'm also known as Shmitty the Champ and I am also also hoping I have never pissed off

today's guests or or any skilled writers, including today's guests, because I am joined

today by two fantastic comedy writers to returning guests to the show.

They are Ben Joseph and Chase Mitchell.

All three of us are writers and all three of us have the ability to bring a character

to life from a keyboard and if a writer gets good and mad that writer can bring a character

to life that mocks a real person or or insults a real person or even immortalizes a real

person's name and likeness and personal details as one of the most eval fictional characters

of all time.

And so our topic today is villains and monsters created to insult real people.

One more time that is villains and monsters created to insult real people because that

hypothetical I just said is very real and it's happened a whole lot throughout all of the

pop culture you like movies and shows and even books, you know, they wrote a whole book

just to be mad at somebody which is amazing.

I do not write a book for any reason, not worth it, but that's one of the ways being

alive is more interesting than people think it is that vengeful writing process we describe

or somebody created a villain or a monster just to insult someone who's really in the world.

And we are talking about huge entertainment properties on this one, things that reached

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