Honestly I am so sick of this recycled villain bullshit Hollywood keeps churning out.

I was eating some toast about half an hour ago, and this early 2000s movie I remember watching as a kid called Cats vs Dogs was on the television. Its basically a movie about an organisation like the CIA, which is run by dogs who are protecting Jeff Goldblum (who is unaware of this) as he makes a cure for dog allergies. The cats, which obviously hate the dogs, want to sabotage this cure to make everybody allergic to dogs, hence making the cat man's best friend. I thought about watching it and decided, why not? I didn't really have anything else better to do. So, I ate my toast and watched.

Now, you may be thinking "How is making a cat the villain recycling? If anything, that's pretty original."

You see, the main cat has a British accent, and he sends a goon squad to infiltrate the lab and stop the dogs. I didn't really think a lot of it, until those cats started talking too. They all had German accents for some bizarre, unexplained reason. This movie is based in the USA, so I thought it was a little odd (not that people can't have non-american accents in the USA), for them to be German.

Afterwards, this goon squad failed, and British cat decides to send another cat to finish the job.

Want to guess what accent this cat had? Russian.

Congratulations Hollywood, you have outdone yourself! Making the villains German and Russian is genius, because obviously everyone from these countries is set on world domination. If you can't tell, that's sarcasm.

I swear, 95% of movie villains are German or Russian.

It makes sense for movies set in WWII or the Cold War to have villains or other characters with these accents (within reason). These two nations were heavily involved, but in modern-day movies this is not necessary. Honestly, why does Hollywood keep doing this? Action movies are the worst offenders.

I'm just gonna chuck a list here of movies that aren't based on a historical event that calls for a Russian of German villain. But trust me, we have a shitton of those movies.

Rocky IV, Iron Man II and X-Men: First Class (unclear), Riot, Die Hard and A Good Day To Die Hard, (many, many) James Bond Films, Air Force One, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull (excuse me while I throw up a bit) and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Salt, Red Heat, Miracle, Human Centipede and so many more.

I mean, other than Chekov from Star Trek (who will sadly not be featured anymore due to Anton Yelchin's passing. May he rest in peace), and Natasha Romanoff (who does not have her accent and does not use her traditional name, Natalia Romanova), Russians are made out to be the work of the devil! I'm still waiting on that German hero.

Every nation has done messed up shit. Quit casting German and Russian actors solely in villain roles, or, better yet, getting someone else to butcher the accent. We've seen the sadistic German/Russian leader trope too many times. Just stop.

In recent times we've slowly started to move away from these nations, only to vilify Muslims, Islamics and middle-eastern people as terrorists and extremists. Religion and race to not make people terrorists. The vast majority of these people are not terrorists. The fact that this vilification in film (as well as other media) seems to be accepted in society is disgusting.

I don't know about you, but having a bogan Australian villain would be hilarious. Why don't we make more villains like the Kingsman villains, who seem to escape this trap completely? Both Valentine and Poppy are memorable, and never feel inadequate as a villain. And, even though this is a different can of worms, I love the fact that Poppy isn't a femme fatal or badass warrior archetype. She's just evil because she wants to make a bit of cash and human burgers.

So moral of the rant, be like Kingsman. Don't be an asshole.