"your bones break like a woman's" was such an incredible line for a dude who's a fucking sadistic psycho. imagine how many ribcages had this asshole broken to know the difference. a great example of brilliant writing which is present through the whole show, kudos to the authors.

1:25 "A gun will never be as beautiful as a sword but with a gun, you can take any sword you want." Fuckin 10/10 line

He’s so unapologetically evil and that makes him so fun

Fowler is a breath of fresh air to me. He's not the usual stereotype of the Irishman who hates the British, even though he personally has every reason to do so. Instead he became one of them, which not enough people realise, many did.

When i first heard fowler talk about his past and how he was forced to eat his own sister to survive, i thought the series would try and make him sympathetic. God am i glad he stayed the same unapologetic evil asshole he was meant to be

What makes Fowler so disturbing, to me at least, is that he never raises his voice or truly rages. He stays calm and collected, if a touch angry at times, throughout the show. Everything he does is done deliberately and with a clear head.

The the chapel scene is gold. Beautifully twisted deconstruction of the "villain seeks god's forgiveness" trope.

“I didn’t ask for it, they just assumed the white man needed a chapel.” 🤣🤣🤣

When Abijah was painting and at the end of the scene, it showed the room he had been relaxing in, with a dead man’s body and his entrails thrown over and around a taxidermies bull. The insanity of this man’s evil-he literally finds it beautiful, aspirational. An art form. A meticulously gruesome murderer. In this way, Mizu and Elijah are foils. They have turned death into a craft. They have perpendicular relationships with death. One who squeezes every last drop of satisfaction out of the experience with a list for blood, and one who approaches it with an icy, unemotional detachment except for a silent screaming rage. Both with outrageous skill

You know what a good villain has? Good monologues. Fowler has some really solid ones.

It's ridiculous to think that this fantastic, sadistic manipulative character is voiced by *Gilderoy sodding Lockheart.*

the one thing that make Fowler a good villain is that he is both charismatic and smart. Fowler is not some super emotional villain who is obsessed with revenge or is easy to provoke, he doesn't go out of his way to go after the hero. he focuses on the big goal, for him what matters is the big plan, Mizu is more like a side quest or something like that. It is very clear that he is a pragmatic businessman before being a villain he dont go " curse you Mizu, i will have my revenger not matter the cost" he is more " Well this has been fun, but if you'll excuse me I have to take care of business"

Irish Ganondorf

The fact he was painting a disemboweled man strewn out in his room. What the FUCK

Love how they made him a behemoth of a man shows how big and strong the Irish men where they were pretty big men

It's really great to see a villain that has been so fleshed out and isn't just a 1 dimensional big baddie for the main protagonist to wail on. He's intelligent, ruthless, cunning, and competent to a scary level. By the end of the season I was firmly invested in his story and didn't want him to be killed off. He hats off to the writers with this one.

Who makes a "best moments" clip of this guy and cuts out the entire bit where he talks about surviving a famine...

“Didn’t I kill you?” “>:-(“

I feel as though villain's like Abijah have always been abundantly rare because there's only so many ways you can write them. Up until he regale's Heiji with his origin story he was just an ostentatious hedonist, psychopath and brilliant tactician. When he tells the story of his sister and family you understand in that moment why he is the way he is. Watching your own parent's starve to death, eating rats then starving after they'd gone, feeding your sister your own blood for two weeks, and to top it off cannibalizing a small part of your own sister before respectfully burying her just so you don't starve to death yourself. This is a man who knows what it is to suffer in ways most of the human race would rather turn a blind eye to. He knows people would eagerly sell their own children for a few extra gold coin's. He knows a king or a shogun smiles and waves to their people while they sit on thrones built by blood and greed. He is the definition of irredeemable, but what makes him great is that redemption is ABSOLUTELY not what he's seeking or that he even believes in it at all. A character who is a direct consequence of the world being grotesque and unfair behind it's fancy silk curtain's.

Here's a thing about Fowler I don't see brought up at all and I think is rather interesting, he a traitor to his people. Fowler is Irish but is working on behalf of the English in Japan. I don't know if the show will go into that aspect of things, but I think it'd be interesting if in season 2 when Mizu is in Britain if they run into some Irish folk who learn about Fowler working with their oppressors and justly wanting their own pound of meat off the damned traitor.

He’s a fun villain, I’ll give him that 😂

The whole attempt to double cross fowler and take the gun shipment only for them to be smuggled in pieces in pianos and one of the conspirators to be the target practice was a good scene. Especially since there's no way Fowler didn't know that the one hand guy was in on it. The whole scene has this "this could have been you, so be grateful I didn't make it so" message

"What a perfect asshole." - Wallace Wells, Scott Pilgrim

London tease in the end got me really excited for S2

Of all the things he did, it's the part where he makes fun of the guys studdering that made me go "Oh Come On Dude!". He's the best villain I've seen in a long time.

I love how his lines make him both completely evil and intelligent. "We invented worse first. Not fair, but here we are." Also, he's the only one who realizes Mizu's a woman due to his sadistic habits.

Sir Kenneth Branagh is just an ICON of playing villains

It is ironic (and hilarious) that Abijah is voiced by the same guy who played Miguel in The Road to El Dorado, both "Men Who Would Be Kings"...

Hes so charismatic. Enough to forget hes a complete psycho even when hes talking about killing people.

"Are you still alive???? Why??!!!"

The genuinely shocked delivery of “Still alive? WhhYyyyYYyy??” Will never fail to make me laugh

"A gun will never be as beautiful as a sword" Idk man thats one gorgeous musket

i like how he seemingly isn't even that afraid of dying. Like an empty husk, who only exists to sow pain and misery, spiteful at the world around him. This man has been dead for years.

I love how massive he is compared to everyone else in the show. It really adds believabilty to Japan thinking of white people as demons; he's practically a bull in a china shop

A villain that we love to hate because of how evil and cunning he was portrayed. And his associates that Mizu was searching for were even worse.

What gives me the most chills about Fowler? Besides him being chaos in human form... it's scary to see a man that size and with that much strength never raise his voice. Fowler may be pissed off, but he never raises his voice or freaks out or anything. Silent anger. This is more frightening than a person who vents his anger. Plus, I love hating Abijah. It's been a while since I've seen such a well-crafted villain.

I have my suspicion Abijah knew very well his partner was behind the mutiny against him but just kept him alive to use his resources n would've killed him after n if his plan had gone through.

This guy is a bastard and easily my favorite character of the show. Here's what I think will happen in season 2. Mizu will drag him along and make him her English translator since they're in London now, so a scene will happen where Fowler will deliberately mistranslate the words being spoken to rile up Mizu and make her almost kill an innocent person. It'll happen like this. Mizu: (Speaking Japanese) Excuse me sir, have you seen or heard of a man named Skavington? Brit: What did he say? Fowler: He wants to know what you know about Mr. Skavington. Brit: Oh yeah he owns a fishing company and Blah Blah Blah. Fowler: Appreciate that. Mizu: What did he say? Fowler: Oh! Are you going to stand for that?! Mizu: what Fowler: He just called you a yellow faced, pajama wearing, worm-eyed, gobshite! And he wants to challenge you to a fight! Mizu being Mizu draws her sword and nearly raises it to his throat but then she stops to hear Fowler laughing his ass off.

An amazing villian. Never boring and I enjoyed every scene he was in- much like many other characters in this series.

I dunno why but his introduction scene with the painting is hauntingly brilliant. He finishes it and states how much he hates it, how much wasted time being good at it represents then burns it and leaves the room. Revealing the actual gory mess he'd been painting. A man that sadistic that he'd have a man and beast killed, just to have something to paint, something that he hates doing but is so bored he feels compelled to. Something he just discards when finished. Just such an effective way to reveal how little life means to him and how evil he is.

I can't believe they got King Henry V himself to voice Fowler.

It’s crazy how he is both irredeemably vile, yet likable. He never came off quite as a mustache twirling villain while also repeatedly showcasing just how horrible of a person he is. Season two, with presumably him and Mizu sharing one of the storylines, will be fascinating to watch.

This guy is such a good villain because I felt actual fear and anxiety with him on screen. Not only are his words scary, but his appearance is scary, too. He's so unpredictable. Not much is told about him. And there are so many villains in media that are redeemed at the end, so having one that stays true to their roots is refreshing and makes it that much more anxiety provoking.

I guess this is based around when the europeans brought guns to japan, right? Because, crazily enough, japanese went so in love with matchlock arquebuses that theirs became some of the best of the time and the strategies used on the battlefield were half a century ahead on their europeans counterparts.

I had no idea who was voicing him right up until he said “2,000 rifles” and then I was like “oh shit that’s Kenneth Branagh” there’s juuust enough of that Walking With Dinosaurs-esque inflection that I could recognise him

YOU SKIPPED THE BEST FUCKING LINE "do it your fucking self" IT WAS SO HSUGIEUGD

I think the dude has the perfect voice

The show is great, but there were small things I'd object to throughout it. Except for Fowler. He is so perfect

He's possibly one of the best villains I've ever seen, unapologetically evil, uncompromising, and yet not one dimensional. He has a painful and tragic background and is the definition of a man forged of hate and fury. But he is intelligent, highly skilled and even philosophical in his adamantly evil position. He reminds me of Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes if not quite so much a mirror to Holmes as a foil to our more ignorent, underestimated, innocent, Blue eye avenger.

The scene where he talks to Jesus in the church they made him is the moment he became Iconic for me. Such a dive into his psyche and how he sees things.

This is why I knew he’s an awesome villain. When he found out Mizu is a woman he just found it more entertaining that she’s one who doing all the killings just to get to him. Just something to have fun in life.

I was pleasantly surprised how fittingly vicious he is. At the end when he’s caught, he could still fight a 2-on-1.

The whole part of him and the spider really feels like the spiders thread tale a little bit

The dynamic between him and Heiji was a highlight for me. Randall Park's voice is just so weirdly funny.

I think a lot of this goes to Kenneth Branagh, the voice actor, he doesn’t miss a beat and gives every line so much…everything, hats off to him

i cant help but love him

1:40 "Y'see...no one murders so well as the British. It's our number one export." DAMN

such a well written villain, you know you did good when everyone loves hating him, and when you feel conflicted hearing the tragedy that made the monster

I was so disappointed when he shredded off his painting. It was beautiful

This is how you write a great and loveable villain

3:15 I love how he says that and sounds like some middle aged suburban housewife just found out the neighbor was cheating on his wife 😂

Considering the hype surrounding Abijah Fowler throughout the series, I feel as if though his defeat was immensely underwhelming.

his va was a spectacular choice

You missed the part in which he describes exactly what will happen with colonialism

There’s something I just realized:In Japanese culture, the number 4 is considered a cursed number, and if you give someone four things, the fourth thing is going to be cursed. Mizu’s mom was r@ped by four men.

The monologue in the chapel is my favorite. His faith is shown to be genuine, but twisted by his narcissism. Its basically him treating God as a business associate, someone he has respect for because he fell for his "con" once upon a time himself. And the fact that he leaves it off trying to strike a Faustian bargain with the Son of God, shows how deliciously twisted he is. TL;DR Fowler is proof that you can write a pure evil villain and still have him be a complex character

I am so shocked that someone did this. A compilation towards a man whom is chaos incarnate

3:48 I'm dying at the way Mizu's eyes enlarge after hearing what fowler said lmaooo

It's like the wise men of time have said "Every generation ,has its Lucifer". And Fowler is a living, breathing incarnation of that enemy of old. But is Fowler really the enemy? Or just another pawn whose desire it is to be king? Lucifer is the same way. Cold, calculated, but he doesn't overtly disrespect his creator. He even said in the church he would allow priests and create a nation of converts. He plays with his enemies, and uses them as playthings. Fowler is not entirely evil, he just serves a greater purpose. And no matter how cruel, how messed up we think he is? There is always a reason for his madness. He serves only to his own ends. He uses others to spread his cruelty, but in the end, wasn't Japan already renowned for their cruelty in battle? He just gave them a more efficient way to kill. He doesn't spread the evil, the evil only spreads because others follow him willingly. So just as Lucifer, he only needs followers to further his goals.

'No one murders so well as the British.' Dude, have you heard of Spanish? XD

Mocking the man stuttering was so petty, wow xD

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that it's Miguel from Road to El Dorado

i love abijah fowler

Я поражаюсь как этот человек может одновременно быть таким серьезным, умным и ужасающим и при этом все еще смешным. Более того, как он может быть одновременно ужасным злодеем и садистом и при этом вызывать симпатию у меня как у зрителя? Браво, сценаристы!

my guy is high in most of these

i loove the way he looks up and off in the distance after saying “your bones break like a woman’s” that little detail that we can see him think about what he just said and connect the dots is so cool to me. props to the animators

I really appreciate how Fowler has this nuanced and subtle admiration for Japan's culture, and an acknowledgement of the unfair nature of imperialist practice and development of war from Europe. He's so much more than "I'll civilize you backwards savages" and is so self aware of the evil he's doing. Refreshing not to see it veiled under some delusions of virtue.

was super disappointed never fought with sword, they hella built up his skill

Just imagine a conversation between him and Jack Horner

He's so deceptively powerful. You get such solid Kingpin vibes.

He's the worst a person can be, I can't wait to see more of him

The casting of Kenneth Brannah was genius

My man got the same vibe as Ganondorf and I'm all here for it

Dude is a Disney Villain

Abijah Fowler is essentially the R rated version of emperor belos

I need more abijah videos.

Now THIS is how you make a villain! Take notes Disney you f#(king... Something.

2:43 damn that one’s just brutal

In the historical timeline they must arrive in Britain a few months before the death of Oliver Cromwell and fall of his regime, I wonder if they take part in it

2:59 Is some really great characterization. He's a scumbag, but he's aware of it. He isn't relishing in racial superiority or anything like that, but just being realistic. He knows how other people will look at him and is so unbothered by it.

2:46 He’s such an asshole. I love it!

I was honestly rooting for him to win. Okay, fine. Ringo, too. Ringo is best boy.

It's interesting how he's thoroughly evil but still not a shallow character.

1:53 “ooh you found your friend” I cannot with this man 😂 Also he is a bisexual, I can just feel it-

He literally reminds me of me of,a HUMAN,version,of LORD SHEN,and just one of the BEST way,to exemplify that,is the episode where he,stormed that fortress,AND moed down all those guards,in the process,basically he,AND,shen give a whole NEW,meaning to the saying,never bring a KNFE,to a GUN fight.

There's also nice part where he says to shogun that his guns spared Edo siege that would result in famine amongs children. Its nice kickback to what he been through during O'Neill uprising and seems he isn't so sadistic to want to inflict that on other people, despite him having quite a streak in sadism. His swordsplay is also mixture of european ane japanese swordfighting, using his strenght and body mass to his advantage.

Another w show with a w protagonist‼️👌

All his moments were good moments

Honestly, by the end of the show he was kinda my favorite character and I was hoping he wouldn’t die, we need more villains that are just gleefully evil.

That word instils fear in me as a an englishman