Relationships are the foundation of every movie ever made, from romantic,
to friendships to enemies. This is exemplified in heist movies, which focus on a gang of highly
skilled individuals who are trying to steal a specific item. This is the basis of The Bad Guys,
which is a children’s version of a heist movie from Dreamworks.
From allies to enemies anyone can be toxic, but which relationship is the most toxic.
My name is Kyle and I’m here with WickedBinge
for Dreamworks’ The Bad Guys’ Relationships: Healthy to Toxic.
Just a quick spoiler warning, it’s necessary for films that have just come out,
so go watch the film before you see this episode, other than that, we can get started.
As always, we’re starting with our healthiest relationships
and moving down to the very bottom of the barrel, these are The Healthy.
Our gold medal of healthiness goes to Mr. Wolf and The Unnamed Cat. This originally starts out
when Marmalade wants the Bad Guys to save the cat from a tree. After a conversation with Diane, Mr.
Wolf manages to save the cat and the two become fast friends. This leads to them connecting and
even at the end of the movie, he adopts the cat, and the cat seems to care about him quite a lot.
These two have no bad or toxic scenes between them, hence why they land here.
Earning our silver medal of healthiness is none other than Mr. Wolf and Diane Foxington. Now,
these two start off the film with a semi-strained relationship due to Diane seeing him and his crew
as kind of two-bit hacks. However, it is implied they share a romantic link by the end of the film,
and they do become quite good friends. In fact, we call them the second-best relationship for
a reason. Diane and Wolf share a very intimate relationship, dancing at the party to Pirahana’s
bop of a song or preparing to face Marmalade together. They show quite the camaraderie during
their time on screen together, and we’re happy it isn’t forced into a full romantic subplot.
The bronze medal of healthiness goes to Diane Foxington and The Bad Guys. Diane originally
seems antagonistic to the group, saying they were pretty much on the way out at the beginning of
the movie. However, she reluctantly agreed to let the group try and become good guys,
and even says she’s rooting for them. Sure, the antagonism isn’t great,
but by the end of the film, she’s pretty much a member of the group and treats them as close
friends, even maybe family. Heck, she even busts them out of prison, which shows they’re
quite close. This shows growth not only on her part but on the part of the Bad Guys as well,
letting her be friends with them. Especially considering that Diane was about to reveal
she worked alongside them and possibly be thrown in jail with them.
Rounding out the healthy section of our list is the titular The Bad Guys as a Gang. Yes,
the gang is a group of criminals, however, the criminals are actually quite healthy
and this is a trope we see often. They treat each other like family, and to be fair they
are quite the found family which shows why they’re healthy. Sure, they fight a bit,
especially during the climax of the film, and Wolf does technically betray them, however,
it’s shown they made the right decision trying to go well. It even gets to the point that when
Snake supposedly betrays them, it’s actually a ploy to defeat Marmalade. The group only
falls this low because they do have quite a few bad moments, which we can’t ignore.
However, with our Healthy Relationships out of the way, we can now move on to the Gray Area.
Starting off the Gray Area of our list are Mr. Snake and Mr. Wolf. Now,
Wolf and Snake consider each other best friends for most of the movie,
in fact, Snake considers Wolf the only person he can trust. This is until the climax of
the film when the Bad Guys are caught due to Marmalade’s influence and Snake considers Wolf
turning good a betrayal. In fact, the second half of the film kind of shows their relationship in a
very toxic light after their friendship breaks up, but despite Snake’s vitriol,
Wolf risks his reputation and everything else to save Snake. The two of them make up,
and this stops them from falling further, but we couldn’t in good conscience list them as Healthy.
Next on our list is the relationship between Diane Foxington and Chief Misty Luggins.
Diane and the Chief honestly don’t interact much in the movie,
and they seem amicable at least. However, it is implied that the two aren’t particularly friendly
all the time. Misty completely disagrees with Diane on multiple occasions and seems happy
to arrest her if necessary, and even seems happy to do so based on her working with The Bad Guys.
The two of them don’t really see eye to eye and this is why they land in the Gray Area.
Up next on the list is none other than Professor Marmalade and Cuddles.
Cuddles is the human employee and assumed butler to Professor Marmalade who keeps up his good-guy
facade. He helps him both in the good guy stuff and with the heist at the end of the movie. We
assume Marmalade must pay well, considering he has Cuddles nearly murder Diane and Wolf,
and it seems like Cuddles might…enjoy doing that? We’re not entirely sure about the character as a
whole, but they only stay in the Gray Area because they’re a very weird situation.
As we plunge further we move on to Mr. Snake and Mr. Shark. Mr. Snake and Mr. Shark are members of
the Bad Guys and are supposedly good-ish friends. However, the thing about these two specifically
is that they fight…a lot. This comes down to Snake being kind of a rude guy most of the time. Almost
every time Snake wants to have an ice cream snack he tricks Shark and then eats it himself,
leading to the two physically fighting each other. However, by the end of the film,
Snake does give the only push pop to Shark because of how sad he was,
showing significant growth in him and placing them here.
Rounding out the Gray section of our list is The Bad Guys and Tiffany Fluffit.
Tiffany Fluffit is the reporter who appears quite often throughout the film.
The thing about her is she doesn’t seem to care too much about the deeper facts of the matter,
reporting mostly on the surface level information. This leads her to constantly berate the Bad Guys
and label them as villains which is part of the issues behind the film. This leads to a pretty
bad relationship between the groups, leading to a very strained situation, although there
doesn’t seem to be any maliciousness, hence why we can’t say they’re toxic.
But now we can move down into the worst relationships on our list, being The Toxic.
Starting off the toxic section and earning our bronze medal of toxicity are The Bad Guys and
Chief Misty Luggins. The Bad Guys, being a group of criminals is constantly having run-ins with the
police and very specifically Chief Misty Luggins. Misty has been trying to arrest The Bad Guys for
a good while, at least a few years by the start of the movie based on how many artifacts the group
has. The team and the chief can be considered archenemies because they run up against each
other quite often. The only reason they grab bronze instead of lower is that they don’t
physically fight, although it can definitely seem like they might lead that way sometimes.
Earning our silver medal of toxicity are Diane Foxington and Professor Marmalade.
This is the first relationship on the list we can call physically violent
because while Diane and Marmalade seem to start off on the right foot,
it’s not for long. When Marmalade frames The Bad Guys, Diane not only notices but goes out
of her way to free them. This leads to Diane and Marmalade fighting physically throughout
the latter half of the film. Marmalade tries to kill Diane, and it shows that this is a
very toxic relationship, but it is slightly outdone by the next relationship on our list.
Our gold medal of toxicity goes to none other than The Bad Guys and Professor Marmalade.
This is one of the most central relationships in the film, especially towards the end. It starts
off quite nice, with Marmalade helping the Bad Guys go good, however, we find out later this is
all a ploy to frame them and put them away for good. Marmalade not only frames them but nearly
kills Wolf, tries to tear the gang apart, and even tries to pretend to be good when he’s caught. They
are the main rivals throughout the film and it makes sense they’re the most toxic, because they
try to kill each other, multiple times. But let us know in the comment section
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