>>94150590>a character seems colder/more calculating/intimidating as an antagonist than as a supporting cast memberWOW,WHAT A TOTALLY NEW AND IMPORTANT OBSERVATION!
That shit happens literally everytime a villain switches sides in any medium, it's because you almost always know less about antagonists so they seem more mysterious and cooler. It's the Magus effect.
And besides, I think your examples are full of shit.
Peridot wasn't "cold and calculating" in Jailbreak, she wasn't portrayed as the sinister mastermind behind their capture or anything, she was just a rank-and-file Gem middle manager who behaved like it. She was annoyed with Jasper, she was annoyed with her superiors for sending her, she was just generally frustrated at the whole state of affairs, for her, it was just like being asked to help go over some accounts before closing on Friday. A shitty inconvenience to doing her job. ALL SHE DID was stand beside Jasper, complain to her out of impatience, and then winding up trussed up by Amy while Pearl jacked her ride. That is literally ALL SHE DID in that epiosde. She was always a clod.
> "HEY! Let me do something inexplicably stupid and make weird noises so everyone could go meme about it.I have no idea what you see when you watch the show, man. Lars is the one who goes "bingo bongo", I don't think I've ever seen Peridot behave like an Animaniac the way you describe her. The closest was that one episode where she played Wile E.Coyote to a gem mutant's Roadrunner, but that just goes back to what I said above. Peridot's whole deal is "the eccentric weirdo whose endless frustration entertains us".
