The Bad-Ass Anti-Heroes of the Cartoon World

 Lord Voldermort (1997-2011)

Finally, after much awaited  years of  daring,wandering and wondering .... nose less Voldermort uncle  is finally dead. 
But definitively he was one of the biggest bad-ass characters ever-created.


Hence came a thought  to relish and remember those good old bad villains of yesteryear when we were kids.


Cartoons of any form , whether its in comics,television or anime is love child to every one.
They are all but fantasy filled world where toys can dance, cars can jog,animals are billionaire,cats have love stories, and in the end " All is Well"......


So, dear friends, hold back and get ready for a journey towards a AWESOME vintage flashback of BAD-ASS anti-hero cartoon characters.

10.DisHonest John(Beany and Cecil)

Dishonest John is an evil baddie, who he is constantly scheming to foil Beany and Cecil’s adventures. His catch phrase is an epic cry “Nya ha ha!”. Whenever Dishonest John’s schemes are revealed to the heroes, Cecil tends to respond with an aghast “What the heck! D.J., you dirty guy!”. 


Not only is he evil as Dishonest John – but he becomes the supervillian Bilious Beetle who has a big stinger and can fly under his own power! He also occasionally appears in the mechanical squid “Billy the Squid” which he uses to trick Beany and Cecil. Dishonest John was the inspiration for the AC/DC song “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”.(more in winkingpedia :)



9.Dick Dastardly(Wacky races)

who can forget his long thin knife sharp mustache and the horrific sarcastic dog??......


In Wacky Races, Dick Dastardly was one of the racers who competed in every episode for first place in a long and hazard-filled cross-country road rally. As his name implies, Dastardly aimed to win solely through cheating and trickery. His race car, named “The Mean Machine,” featured all sorts of devious traps for him to use against his opponents. Dastardly was always accompanied by his dog Muttley who has a very distinctive emphysemic laugh.



8.Wile E. Coyote(Road Runner)

Ok this guy is super-geek because of various obvious reasons.....


1.he has un-intercepted supply of acme explosives


2. In every episode he attempts to destroy the Roadrunner with a bag of tricks that would make any terrorist envious


3.the end result is SAME in the end. The innocent roadrunner escapes.......and wile blows himself up




7.Cruella de Vil(101 Dalmations)

I don't belive in sexism , so how about a lady villain ??.... who  in the sane world can forget the black and white lady . Elegant she may be… but attractive she is not! 


The evil Cruella spends all of her time trying to catch the 101 Dalmations required to make herself a beautiful Dalmation fur coat. She always has the left half of her hair white and the right half black. Cruella’s name is a play on the words cruel and devil, an allusion which is emphasized by having her country house nicknamed “Hell Hall”.

6.Elmer Fudd(Bugs Bunny)

When the bug bald egg head shaped hunter comes into jungle , its catastrophe. atleast thats what he thinks.We have witnessed numerous legendary episodes of him making foolery of his shooting skills.

 He speaks in an unusual way, replacing his Rs and Ls with Ws, so "Watch the road, Rabbit," is replaced with "Watch the woad, wabbit!" Elmer's signature catchphrase is, "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits", as well as his trademark laughter, "huh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh".

5.Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns aka Mr.Burns

(The Simpsons)

He is a stereotype of Corporate America in his unquenchable desire to increase his own wealth and power, inability to remember his employees' names (including Homer's, despite frequent interactions - which has become something of a recurrent joke) and lack of concern for their safety and well-being. 


Reflecting his advanced age, Burns is given to expressing dated humor, making references to pre-1950 popular culture, and aspiring to apply obsolete technology to everyday life.

4.Team Rocket(Pokemon)

Team Rocket desires to steal Pokémon to further its goal of world domination. They are led by the criminal mastermind, Giovanni. But in the end of every episode, team rocket rockets back into sky and become a star.#epic

3.Dark kat(The Swat Kats)

What happens when two cats fly a fighter jet and save the world.....they become SWAT KATS. My childhood memories had a heavy weightage of swat kats.

Dark Kat was the main arch-enemy of the SWAT Kats. He is very large, intelligent and evil with a black and red hooded coat and purple skin; Dark Kat wanted to destroy Megakat City to create a new lawless town called "Dark Kat City". Being highly intelligent and calculating, Dark Kat often anticipated his foes' actions with great accuracy, and it was a recurring theme throughout the series that all of his hideouts are rigged with explosives

2.Bluto(Popeye)

A classic example of how cartoons can be used as a pathway to make your kids eat healthy green vegetables.

The sailor- popeye in this carttons eats the green ( but in a can) spinach and beats bluto the super-heavy villian who is seldom seen kidnapping the over-skinny size zero Olive Oyl.

#1 Tom ,the CAT(Tom and jerry)

No guesses for top spot...... he is a seriously serious cat who has an oscar award under his belt.

Ladies and gentlemen presenting before you, the terrific,deadly and awesomo-awesome cat-TOM, who has been struggling since decades to win the unparallel ownership over jerry's body. 

His full name "Tom Cat" is based on "tomcat", a phrase which refers to male cats. He is very rarely heard speaking with the exception of a few cartoons.he sets traps, many of which backfire and cause damage to him rather than Jerry. Tom rarely sets out to eat Jerry, only to hurt or compete with him, going to great lengths in order to torment Jerry. However, Tom is shown to get along with Jerry at times.

other notable comics based (ommitted) anti-Heroes are :

1.Magento(X-men)

2.Megatron(transformers)

3.Shredder (ninja turtles)

4.Cobra (GI joe)

5.mumma-ra(thunder cats)

6.lex luthor (superman)

7.Devo(powerpuff girls)

  


BONUS 


Digvijay singh(UPA)

suprised ah??....  as per certain norms digvijay singh qualifies as cartoon because .,


1. he gives illogical answers for logical reasoning


2. whether right or wrong ; his BOSS IS always correct


3.he is king of bull-shitting


4. even after humiliating bashing from media, he still makes it up for next episode.....

"Don't worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will avoid you"

From Economics With Love

My friends in St.Xaviers would know my love towards subject “Economics”. Untill few years they expected me to do majors in it and settle down as an Economist. But things and events turned around, changing the complete prospect of me becoming a economist.

But as you know, true love never fades out.

I never stopped thinking about it.

Hence I am here, exploring some funny Economic theories which may/can blow your mind by sheer simplicity and complete complexion it has embedded in it.

A General Economics/Commerce student would easily know that ECONOMICS is a Science which deals in production, distribution and consumption of Goods and Services.  It’s divided into micro and macro economics. The former deals in small level economic aspects like individual, home and firm level economic things, while the later deals in economy or country (in general terms) as a whole.

Now I would take time to throw light on some humorous and little known economic theories…..

5.Paradox of Hedonism

Take me …. I Have passion of writing silly things with little sense of meaning in it.I do it because I like it, I love it.(now its another issue that I seldom end up eating your head ;)  . 

But in terms of economic theory of  utilitarianism { marginal theory of utility }….. I do writing not because I love or like it..its because I seek pleasure out of it.

Yah, you read it right. Writing for me is an avenue towards acquiring pleasure…

So?

The hedonistic paradox or the pleasure paradox says that if one sets the targets to please oneself too highly then the whole mechanism would in fact jam itself decreasing my happiness and interest in the hobby I do.

# The more I pursue the risk is high, I may end up losing complete interest in writing.

Fact: that’s why students  don’t take studies too seriously. Or else they  would be in danger of losing control on it.

4. Lipstick Effect

Economics has many categories for “goods”. “Luxury Goods” are items that people buy more of as their income rises, as opposed to “Necessity Goods” like food and shelter, whose demand is unrelated to income. Examples of luxury goods include fine jewelry, expensive sports cars and designer clothing.

 The Lipstick Effect is the theory that during an economic calamity(like recent recession), people buy more less costly luxury goods. Instead of buying a fur coat or Swatch watch, people will buy expensive lipstick. The idea is that people buy luxury goods even during economic hardships, they will just choose goods that have less of an impact on their funds. Other less expensive luxury goods besides cosmetics include expensive beer and small gadgets namely ipads.

Interesting Fact: After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, lipstick sales doubled. J

3. Tragedy of the Commons

The tragedy of the commons is a situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently, deplete a shared resource, even when it is not in anyone’s interest to do so. 

The best current example of this is fishermen. 

Nobody owns the earth’s fish populations, indeed, they are a shared resource. Fish are a good that people the world over consume, and as a result, there are multiple fisherman competing for these fish. Each fisherman will try to catch as many fish as possible in order to maximize his profits. However, it is also in the fishermen’s best interest to sustain the fish populations, i.e., leaving enough fish to repopulate, so that down the road, there are still fish to be caught. If each fisherman is concerned with sustainability, and they should be if they don’t want to find new careers in the near future, they theoretically will work to preserve the fish populations. 

Here is the problem: there is a lack of trust. A fisherman that acts responsibly and limits the amount he catches will be screwed if all the other fisherman do not. The other fisherman get more fish than he does, make more in profits, and will ultimately deplete the fish population anyway. So each fisherman, believing that the others will take more than their sustainable share, will take as many fish as he can, and the world’s fish supplies will deplete, even though no one wants them to.

2. Information Asymmetry

Information asymmetry is a prevalent issue in economics. In most sales transactions, the seller has more information than the buyer, and as such has the opportunity to try to pass off low quality or defective products for higher prices. 

This leads to buyer distrust and the old idiom: Buyer Beware.

Best information asymmetry example is the “Market for Lemons”, a term coined by the economist George Akerlof. 

The used car market is the classic example of quality uncertainty. A defective used car (“lemon”) is generally the result of untraceable actions, like the owners driving style, maintenance habits and accidents. Because the buyer does not have this information, their best assumption is that the vehicle is of average quality, and therefore will pay only an average fair price.

As a result, the owner of a car in great condition (“cherry”), will not be able to get a price high enough to make selling the cherry worthwhile. End result: the owners of good cars will not sell their vehicles in the used-car market. This reduces the quality of cars in the used-car market, this reduces the price buyers will pay, this further reduces the quality of cars sold. You get the idea.

1.perverse incentive

A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable effect which is opposite to the initial interests. A type of unintended consequences, perverse incentives are the result of an honest good intention. 

A historical example illustrates the problem: 19th century paleontologists traveling to China used to pay peasants for each piece of dinosaur bone that they presented. It was later found the peasants found bones and then smashed them into many pieces, which significantly reduced their scientific value, to get more payments. More modern examples include paying architects and engineers based on project costs, which leads to excessively costly projects as they overspend unnecessarily to make income.

Bonus : The cobra Effect

                            

This is when the solution to a problem actually makes the problem worse. The term ‘Cobra effect’ comes from an anecdote from colonial India. The British government wanted to decrease the population of venomous cobra snakes, so they offered a reward for every dead snake. However, the Indians began to breed cobras for the income. When the government realized what was going on, the reward was canceled, and the breeders set the snakes free. The snakes consequently multiplied, and increased the cobra population. The term is now used to illustrate the origins of wrong stimulation in politics and economic policy. Unfortunately, Today the failed states like USSR have made people lethargic and lazy because of encouragement of non-working, free subsidies attitude.

if you want more ., do google Paradox of Value,Tragedy of anti-commons,Khazzoom-Brookes Law,Paradox of Thrift.