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Villains Need Love, Too–So This Artist Has Their Hero Pals Give Them Hugs

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Published on October 26, 2016

by Nacho Diaz
Villains Need Love, Nacho Diaz
by Nacho Diaz

Artist Nacho Diaz believes that many villains would be different people if they got some love. And… that’s a pretty fair assessment for most of them. So he decided to have the heroes in their stories give them great big hugs! And the result is adorable.

For real, it’s unbearably cute.

Pretty sure that Ursula would have let Ariel keep her voice if this had happened. (Note: That is 100% incorrect, I do not assume that at all.):

Villains Need Love, Nacho Diaz
by Nacho Diaz

Kylo doesn’t really deserve hugs at the moment, but Rey is pretty great at taking the high ground either way:

Villains Need Love, Nacho Diaz
by Nacho Diaz

Dozens of these illustrations are going to be assembled into an art book titled Villains Need Love! Diaz has already backed the project on Kickstarter, and you can take a look at more of the sketches on Bored Panda.

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Emmet Asher-Perrin

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Emmet Asher-Perrin is the News & Entertainment Editor of Reactor. Their words can also be perused in tomes like Queers Dig Time Lords, Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction. They cannot ride a bike or bend their wrists. You can find them on Bluesky and other social media platforms where they are mostly quiet because they'd rather to you talk face-to-face.
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