Evil-E

Evil-E is an evil version of ERod A.K.A The Blockbuster Buster. Every bad film that ERod hates, he loves and every good film that ERod loves, he hates.

Evil-E looks almost identical to ERod. The only differences are that he doesn’t wear the skull ring, his top has the Spider-Man Venom symbol on it and his hair is gelled down instead of up.

Evil-E isn’t a tortured villain; he doesn’t seem to have a tragic back-story. He’s just evil because he likes it. He spends most of his time laughing evilly and grinning. Evil-E revels in the fact he’s evil and is a villain because he finds it fun.

He first appeared at the beginning of the ‘Spider-Man 3’ review. It appeared that Venom had bonded with ERod to create Evil-E. Although Evil-E is evil, he still seems to enjoy reviewing movies and so decided to review ‘Spider-Man 3.’ He called it the best Spider-Man movie and also revealed it to be one of his all time favourite films.

He began the review by introducing the audience to El L0ver. El L0ver summarised the first two Spider-Man movies for Evil-E. Evil-E then thanked El L0ver before laughing and saying, “Stereotypes are hilarious.”

Evil-E enjoyed things about the movie that ERod would normally have hated if he hadn’t merged with Venom. He praised the fact that the opening credits recapped the first two movies by using clips from the previous movies, rather than the artwork which was used in the second movie, calling it cost effective.

What became clear through the review was the fact that Evil-E knew ‘Spider-Man 3’ was a bad movie but didn’t care. It wasn’t that he thought the movie was good - it was just that he enjoyed how bad it was.

Evil-E actually managed to stay in control for more than half the review. It had passed the six minute mark in a nine minute review before ERod could defeat Evil-E. ERod found the power to defeat Evil-E when his darker half started ‘evil dancing.’ ERod struggled for a few seconds before ripping the Venom top off his chest revealing a Spiderman top underneath. He then went on to vent all the built-up rage at the movie, by yelling about how much it ‘sucked,’ which he had been unable to express as Evil-E.

Evil-E wasn’t mentioned and didn’t appear again for almost eleven months after the ‘Spider-Man 3’ review, leading many fans to believe he was just a one-time character. However, fans were pleased to see a return of Evil-E in ERod’s first ever ‘Mystery Review.’

At the end of the credits for the previous review, ‘Top 10 Dumb Daredevil moments,’ ERod said he would be reviewing a mystery movie. Normally, he would just say what movie he planned to review next at the end. When the review began, ERod revealed that he was reviewing the movie ‘Serenity’ which, according to his YouTube page, is one of his favourite movies.

It quickly became clear, however, that something strange was happening. Although ERod looked like himself, he was acting very differently. For example, he started the review by saying, “Greetings legion, I’m ERod and I’m your reviewer,” rather than using his normal catchphrase, “Greetings fanboys and fangirls, I’m ERod and I’m The Blockbuster Buster.”

Things only continued to get stranger as ERod started to say that ‘Serenity’ is a terrible movie and how it should be more like the ‘Transformers’ movies which ERod hates. Not only that but even though ERod was saying he disliked ‘Serenity,’ which was wrong in and of itself, but he didn’t seem angry about it. Instead of his normal ‘fanboy rage,’ ERod seemed to find the things he apparently disliked about the movie funny.

This continued for more than halfway through the review. Then, when he was halfway through a sentence saying how bad the film was, he was interrupted by another ERod asking him, “Who the hell are you?”

The ‘so-called’ ERod who had been reviewing ‘Serenity’ at first tried to pretend that he was the real ERod. However, the ‘new’ ERod had both the trademark skull ring and his Magic Hammer, both of which the ‘fake’ ERod was missing. The ‘fake’ ERod tried to explain the absence of both items but the real ERod pulled out his Hammer and said, “Hammer of Power, give me sight beyond sight!” This caused the fake ERod’s appearance to change to that of Evil-E. Presumably, this is a different Evil-E to the one from the ‘Spider-Man 3’ review. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Evil-E and ERod to both be together at the same time, as the original Evil-E and ERod were the same person. The only other explanation that would make sense would be if ERod had split personality disorder and was hallucinating his other self. ERod himself was confused about how Evil-E could exist when ERod was still there. He stated that it was impossible.

“What’s so impossible about it?” Evil-E asked laughing. “I’m you; well, the ‘you’ that would exist if you had made different decisions between good and bad.” This seems to support the theory that this Evil-E is from some sort of alternate universe.

ERod responded by saying he was still the one with the Hammer. However, Evil-E only laughed at this, asking what ERod planned to do. ERod told Evil-E he was sending him to the Null-Void. This was the first time that the grin was ever wiped off Evil-E’s face and seemed to worry him. Evil-E tried to stop him but ERod banished him by saying, “By the powers granted to me, by the Legion of Bad Ass-a-Tude, accepted by The Blockbuster Buster with pride and gratitude, blessed by the Masters; Stanley, Lee and Ditco… Clatoo Verarda Nicktow!”

Evil-E then faded away screaming, “Noooooooooooooooooo!”

After a one liner, ERod finished the review as if nothing unusual had happened by saying ‘Serenity’ was a great film and one of the few he would happily recommend to anyone.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">At the end of the review, there was a scene where the ‘Mysterious Hooded Man’ spoke for the first time. The ‘Hooded Man’ said, “Damn it; he has evaded me once again. Soon, ERod, the day will come when you will be the one to be ‘Busted.’” From this it can be assumed that Evil-E was either working with or for the ‘Hooded Man.’

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Evil-E’s next attempt to take over was to trick ERod into releasing him. ERod was at a low point. His Agent had just informed him that he’d received a lot of hate messages after saying he enjoyed ‘X-Men: The Last Stand.’ He felt betrayed and underappreciated by his fans. This, and the fact that the planets had aligned, which allowed Evil-E to whisper in ERod’s head and poison his thoughts. ERod wasn’t thinking clearly and removed his ring releasing Evil-E.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The next review revealed what happened after ERod removed his ring. An energy beam flew through space, passing though the aligned planets before finally hitting ERod who collapsed to the floor in pain. The person who stood up afterwards, however, was Evil-E. This scene could be seen as supporting either theory about Evil-E - either ERod let his darker personality take over when he took off his ring, or removing the ring allowed Evil-E to escape the Null-Void and, in turn, trap ERod there. However, the instant change in clothing does seem to suggest that ERod and Evil-E are two different people.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">After escaping the Null-Void, Evil-E went on to review the ‘Unseen 13’ (the so-called 13 worst films, T.V. movies/shows and direct to video movies ever created). He seemed to enjoy them all and called most of them genius. At the end of the review, Evil-E walked off camera only to walk into another shot texting on his phone. He seemed a little surprised to find himself still being recorded and said, “Oh, you’re still here. What are you expecting; ERod to reappear and defeat me? Well um… he’s not coming back!” and then laughing evilly.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The next review continued where the last one left off with Evil-E stating that ERod wouldn’t be coming back. However, half way though his evil laugh, Evil-E was shot by Hellboy from the ‘Trinity of Awesomeness’ (ERod’s action figures of Hellboy, Buffy and Ash). As Evil-E was standing up, Ash rebanished him to the Null-Void by saying, “Alright, say goodnight Gracey… Clatoo Verarda Necktie!” Evil-E realised what was about to happen but he was too late to do anything. As he reached out to stop Ash, he disappeared. However, Buffy was still worried.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Ash honey, I think you said the words wrong,” Buffy said, stating her fears.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“All right so I didn’t say every little syllable but I said ‘em,” Ash replied, slightly annoyed that Buffy had called him out.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Hellboy, however, was more worried about getting someone to do the review while ERod was still missing. So Buffy called Fedora Freddy and asked him to fill in for ERod. Fedora Freddy did review the movie but he didn’t do a very good job of it and before he could Bust the movie, he got distracted by a phone call and left.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Well, that didn’t go so well,” Hellboy stated.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Sorry guys,” Buffy apologized. “I really thought he was going to review the movie.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“By the way Ash, where did you send Evil-E?” Hellboy asked as an after thought.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Beats me,” Ash said, shrugging it off. “At least he won’t bother us anymore.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The video then cut to Evil-E reappearing in the Null-Void shouting, “Don’t!”, still trying to stop Ash from banishing him. He then realised where he was. “Damn it, back in the Null-Void!”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The review ended with Evil-E discovering that ERod was also trapped in the Null-Void with him. ERod, who was missing his Blockbuster Buster outfit and chained to the floor, looked up at him with hatred in his eyes. Evil-E started laughing in delight when he realised that ERod was completely powerless to stop him doing anything he wanted to him.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">At the start of the ‘Resident Evil: Apocalypse’ review, Evil-E discovered ERod’s Hammer. The Hammer was on the floor just out of ERod’s reach. Evil-E bent down to use ERod’s Hammer against him. However, he quickly found that he was unable to lift the Hammer which caused ERod to smirk at the evil version of himself.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“To whoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power…” ERod began quoting the inscription on Thor’s Hammer from the Marvel main universe. However, before he could finish, Evil-E interrupted him, got to his feet and advanced on him threateningly.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Shut up!” Evil-E commanded, towering over the trapped form of ERod who flinched backwards, “You’re exactly where you belong to be, kneeling at my feet.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“What, are you Sod all of a sudden?” ERod asked in surprise.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“I am sick of your stupid little references, you spiky haired pillock! I sabotaged your show so I have the upper hand.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Well I still have one thing you don’t,” ERod said, “Backup!”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The video then cut to someone receiving a message recorded by ERod. The message said, “If you’re listening to this, that means something terrible has happened and I need you to take my place as The Blockbuster Buster. Good luck.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The opening credits revealed that El L0ver was the one to receive the message. El L0ver reviewed ‘Resident Evil: Apocalypse’ but, like Fedora Freddy, he didn’t do a very good job of it and was also distracted by a phone call before he could Bust the movie.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Back in the Null-Void, it was revealed that even though they were trapped there, ERod and Evil-E had some way of watching the normal world as they both knew the movie went unbusted. Evil-E shook his head, as if sad, before grinning at ERod and saying, “Another botched review.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“I gather you’re behind the mysterious phone calls that keep driving my cohorts away?” ERod asked.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Oh, I have a guy,” Evil-E revealed teasing ERod, “On the outside.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“It’s the man in the black hood, isn’t it?”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“You seem to know a lot, don’t you?” Evil-E asked, a little surprised that ERod knew of the Hooded Man’s existence but he laughed it off.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Well, let me tell you something that you think I don’t know. Your Blockbuster Buster powers come from Busting bad movies and the longer you go without Busting bad movies, the weaker you get and the stronger I get. So in a couple of weeks I will take over and YOU…WILL… DIE!”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The review ended with Evil-E laughing evilly again and ERod looking at his captor with pure hatred in his eyes.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“It’s only a matter of time now,” Evil-E said, matter-of-factly, at the start of the ‘Resident Evil Extinction’ review.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“So this hooded man - he’s some warlock of some kind?” ERod asked, still trying to find any information that could help him in his plight.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“But not even he would have the juice to allow you to talk to me from the Null-Void.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“You’re right. You did that yourself. You said the incantation wrong, you idiot,” Evil-E revealed as ERod broke a little at this latest revelation.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“That’s right it’s ‘Lee, Kirby and Ditco’ and you left the window wide open for me.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“You took advantage of me at a moment of weakness,” ERod accused.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Like the snake in the garden of Eden,” Evil-E said, laughing at the accusation, “Well you’re running out of options and you’re running out of sidekicks. Do you really think the boy is going to pull you out of the fire?”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Well he’s never let me down before,” ERod stated, smirking at Evil-E.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">It was then revealed that by saying ‘the boy’ Evil-E meant Nerdlinger. Nerdlinger, with the help of ERod’s Batman action figure, actually did the best job of reviewing a ‘Resident Evil’ movie out of the sidekicks. He seemed to have a good knowledge of the games and pointed out several plot holes from the movie. However, before he could Bust the movie, Nerdlinger fainted at the sight of the naked Alice clones at the end of the movie.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Wow, that was easy,” Evil-E said, back in the Null-Void, “I guess that’s what happens when you send a pathetic little nerd to do a man’s job.” Calling Nerdlinger a ‘pathetic little nerd’ was the last straw for ERod and it made him angrier than anything Evil-E had done up to that point.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“You know Evil-E, there’s something else I’ve never told anyone about the source of my powers. I’m also fuelled by rage and guess what - you just pissed me off,” ERod revealed, which wiped the grin off Evil-E’s face. ERod then turned to his Hammer, which was still on the floor where Evil-E had been unable to move it. “Lucille to me!”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“No!” Evil-E yelled but he could do nothing to stop the Hammer flying into ERod’s hand. ERod held his Hammer aloft as he disappeared from his chains in a crash of thunder.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The ‘Resident Evil Afterlife’ began with ERod reappearing back in his house after escaping from the Null-Void. He looked exhausted and physically drained by the experience.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Oh god, I hate intergalactic travel,” he moaned painfully, “I feel like I just watched ‘Speed Racer.’” As he stood up he noticed a zombie repellent kit and his Blockbuster Buster outfit. This made ERod forget about his exhaustion as he prepared to review and Bust the latest ‘Resident Evil’ movie ‘Resident Evil Afterlife.’

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">ERod finally got to review a movie again. However, as he was talking about the ‘Resident Evil’ franchise as a whole and before he could Bust them, he sensed that something was wrong. He called it ‘a disturbance in the Buster force.’ At that moment Evil-E was able to escape from the Null-Void, due to Ash saying the words wrong, and appeared in ERod’s review room in a crash of thunder.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Did you really think you were going to be rid of me that easily?” Evil-E asked.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Say want you want handsome,” ERod replied, holding his Hammer aloft confidently, “At the end of the day, even with the hooded man’s help, you can’t defeat me.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Is that what you think?” Evil-E snarled as he pulled out a Hammer of his own, presumably given to him by the Hooded Man. Evil-E’s Hammer was black and larger than ERod’s own.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“The Dark Hammer!” ERod realised, in horror. Evil-E charged at him and ERod had no choice but to meet Evil-E’s Hammer with his own. The impact of the two Hammers hitting sent both ERod and Evil-E flying backwards but neither of them was seriously harmed.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Damn it, we are too evenly matched!” Evil-E swore. This time it was ERod’s turn to laugh instead of Evil-E’s.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Evenly matched, are you kidding me?” ERod asked grinning. “You actually tried to kill me by tricking me, vanishing me and chaining me up and I still got away. You want to know why? Because I have a Legion of thousands backing me up and they make me invincible.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Fine, I challenge you,” Evil-E yelled, “Winner takes all.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Alright,” ERod agreed. “You made the challenge therefore I get to name the contest. We battle old school; no magic, no Hammers - just you and me.”

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“I accept,” Evil-E said, putting down his Hammer at the same time as ERod.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">They then began ‘The Ultimate Dance Battle.’ Evil-E went first dancing to ‘Blue’ by Eiffel 65. However, he was no match for ERod who fought back by dancing to ‘Thriller’ by Michael Jackson. ERod easily won the Dance Battle and, as ERod screamed in victory, Evil-E disappeared, yet again, banished to the Null-Void.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“Hail to the king baby,” ERod declared, before finishing the review by shooting all the ‘Resident Evil’ movies.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">At the end of the credits it was revealed that when Evil-E reappeared in the Null-Void, he was confronted by the Hooded Man telling him, “You have failed me for the last time.” Evil-E screamed as the screen went black. Whether or not Evil-E has been killed by the Hooded Man has yet to be revealed but it is clear that it is a big mistake to upset the Mysterious Hooded Man.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">At the start of ERod’s next review ‘Top 10 Fantastic Four Failures,’ he discovered while he’d been trapped in the Null-Void, Evil-E had messed with his schedule giving him nothing but Uwe Boll movies to review.

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">“What a dick,” was all ERod had to say about it.