With this guy, PE means two things: physical exercise and pure evil. I plan to cut that down to one definition today.
Hello, everyone! Friendly neighborhood closet monster Postuhenin here! Or less-than-friendly neighborhood tyrant Prince Pastaramen, if you prefer. It's been a while since I last made a CM removal (and I have yet to make a CM proposal, of course), but recently I found another character approved at a time when CM rules were more relaxed. So today, I give you my newest candidate for cutting, Brother Fang.
What is the work?[]
Dr. Vulture is a non-existent webcomic by Jake the Netflix and Anime Critic about the eponymous character's adventures and...actually, I really don't know much about it. I can't find Dr. Vulture anywhere online and Brother Fang seems to be the only character from the work with a VFW page.1 Hmmm, I wonder why that is.
Who is the character?[]
Brother Fang is a major antagonist of the webcomic, being the main antagonist of the Shark Gang arc and the secondary antagonist of the Mutated Animal Army arc. He was formerly a PE teacher2 and a seemingly good man who would encourage his students to try their hardest and push them to their limits in order to bring out their maximum potential. However, when a basketball tournament went awry and his team lost bitterly, he became royally infuriated and the true monster within him was wrought out, turning him into an abusive tyrant whose torment of the students, going so far as attempted murder of one, led to his unceremonious firing from the school. After this happened, he would go on to become the leader of the Shark Gang, one of the most reviled terrorist gangs in the world, and go to war against all those he saw as inferior to him and his kind.
What makes him not a CM?[]
Simple. He's a shock value BoH3 character.
His character development from well-meaning teacher to genocidal monster is practically non-existent, and many of the acts he commits (such as allowing his underlings to rape countless women for the sake of mass-producing future soldiers of his army) come off as tasteless attempts to shock readers and make the character as irredeemably evil as possible without any good reason for doing so. Not to mention, the Dr. Vulture webcomic he supposedly comes from cannot be found anywhere on the World Wide Web, and his VFW page is the only proof that such a webcomic may exist, with even the supposed main character not having any page. As he seems to be the sole character who was given any story at all, it makes it all the more apparent that he and Dr. Vulture as a whole only came into existence for the sake of earning a red lock. Combine this with his shock value crimes, and it becomes quite apparent he was written for the "badge of honor."3
Verdict[]
Easy cut for shock value and being given BoH3 treatment.
Footnotes[]
1. Dr. Vulture has a VFW page linked to, but the page in question is non-existent. Just like the webcomic.
2. No, not that kind of PE, though you'd certainly be forgiven for thinking it considering the nature of this character.
3. For anyone unfamiliar with the term, "badge of honor treatment" (often abbreviated as BoH) is when people treat the shiny red CM lock as an award for a villain, as if being a CM somehow equates to being incredibly well-written or interesting. Many characters on the VFW are created with the sole intent of earning this lock, which may have been allowed back in the day, but is now a blacklisted practice that only leads to CM rejection.