The Worst Evil Exes
Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World has seven evil exes. Seven. That set us to thinking about some of the worst exes we've of recent memory but be gentle. We're still find closure with some of them.
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By UGO Team August 1, 2010 |
Saffron
In this day and age, if someone offers you a wife, say "no." It may be tempting - hey, free wife - but more often than not, there's some kind of fine print that condemns you to a life of servitude and/or discomfort. This holds true in the future, as well. Take the example of Malcolm Reynolds new wife Saffron from Joss Whedon's Firefly.
She seems innocent, if misguided, until she knocks out the captain, hijacks the ship and attempts to sell it for scrap, leaving the crew to die. Our heroes win in this episode, only to meet up with the succubus later in the series, where she plays the same tricks on the good-hearted crew. For her efforts, she winds up in a dumpster in the desert, which is where I usually put my free wives.
Number 6
We really don't mind so much when Number 6 Tricia Helfer shows up to throw a wrench in the works and imperil the fate of all humankind on Battlestar Galactica - she usually gets naked in order to do it. We first fell for the cylon hottie when she seduced the all-too-human Gaius Baltar in order to gain classified security information and destroy the human population of the planet of Caprica - who wouldn't? After Caprica was blown to smithereens, Number 6 interacted with Baltar's mind, either as a figment of his imagination, a computer chip planted in the doctor's brain, or an angel of god sent to save his immortal soul and give him some kinky dreams. Whatever the details of Number 6's existence in Baltar's mind, her influence cannot be denied. Her psychological manipulation of Baltar resulted in his near mental breakdown, constant fear of death and, ultimately in his choice to turn over the fate of humanity - a second time - to the whim of the cylons. And all this while she didn't even have physical form! If that isn't true love, I don't know what is.
