David Xanatos

[@raylampert1243]

"Revenge, as they say, is a sucker's game." I love Xanatos's mentality. He's above petty things like revenge; he always looks for the most profitable, efficient solution. Even when he loses, he wins.

[@bthsr7113]

And a later version of Lex, with some of the same behind the scenes creative personnel, would say the same thing, almost verbatim.

[@dwaugh2215]

"Pay a man enough, and he'll walk barefoot into hell." A cool quote and one time you ever hear the curse word on a kid's show

[@cunningsmile4166]

Hell is just heaven for bad people

[@QUEENOBSCURE]

I always loved how David went from Villains to Villains??? to Ani-Hero then a man in love.

[@barone8889]

And a father.

[@Cerdo_asqueroso]

I have never seen him as a villain. I don't understand why he is considered a viilain. I see him as greedy and normal like any other person.

[@EmptyMan000]

@@Cerdo_asqueroso Greedy and normal people don't arrange their own assassinations or hire mad scientists to create genetic monsters. If that's normal to you, I suggest a serious personal morality reassessment. He's a villain through and through. The only change is that he effectively devoted time to be father after settling down.

[@LadyLeomon]

“That was merely the icing, *you’re* the cake” ... damn, a 90s cartoon villain talks a smoother game than most modern movie stars 😎😎😎

[@Nachohatboy]

Xanatos could beat Seto Kaiba in a children's card game.

[@yamiblade]

I think Kaiba wouldn't bother playing him. He know he'd lose.

[@NateSean]

With an Uno deck no less.

[@barone8889]

Thats because Xanatos is the result of putting Seto Kaiba and Lex Luthor (Young Justice or Smallville version) into a blender.

[@animeotaku307]

@@yamiblade And that even if he did win, it'd still benefit Xanatos somehow. Hell, not playing at all might be benefiting him for all he knows.

[@jman217]

Woah! That's a heavy accusation. Lol

[@nerdydude1.882]

Dude literally became a millionaire by using God Damm time travel I don't think you can top that

[@davidcarty7584]

He's not a millionaire he's a billionaire

[@chrisleitzel2659]

He's a self-made man.

[@chrisleitzel2659]

@@davidcarty7584 There is no way this man is just a billionaire! He's built the largest building in the world, that can reach above the clouds, with a damn castle on top, that he had moved brick by brick. David Xanatos is the literal incarnation of "fuck you money."

[@davidcarty7584]

@@chrisleitzel2659 everything you just described is something any billionaire would be able to do you seriously don't understand how wealthy billionaires are and what they're capable of also when you're a billionaire you literally have fuck you money.

[@chrisleitzel2659]

Nah, Xanatos has Mansa Musa money.

[@jackdavenportsbaby11]

David Xanatos is an evil Tony Stark

[@Cerdo_asqueroso]

I don't see him evil, I don't even understand why this guy is consideres a villain.

[@davidcarty7584]

@@Cerdo_asqueroso it's only because he's goals and ambitions go against the heroes of the story that's the reason he's considering a villain well that and the fact that Xanatos is ruthless enough to eliminate any who would get in his way.

[@Shintigercurl]

@@davidcarty7584 its more like........xanatos is amoral, not evil. he will do things for his own benefit but to a certain degree. like he knows where the gargoyles live but chose not to kill them because they could be useful to him. that's what seperates him from other villains of the age: he doesn't have an inflated ego. everything he does is for a purpose and not out of petty revenge or spite. really, it's better to label xanatos as an antagonist than just a straight up villain.

[@davidxanatos1632]

Just checking my favorite quotes

[@Cerdo_asqueroso]

Mr. Xanatos, I don't think you are a villain. Could you explain why everyone consider you a villain?

[@edwardgaines6561]

@@Cerdo_asqueroso Probably because "everyone" else is used by him, either directly or indirectly, to his own benefit.

[@fablelost2642]

That line about time traveling should be a meme.

[@eliaspuppet9973]

Now we know how David xanatos became rich he went back in time and receive instructions from himself with an ancient gold coin that was worthless in 975 ad but by 1975 the coin will be worth about 20 Grand

[@undertaker11ism]

Elias puppet and he used the 20 grand to start his corporation. A true G

[@SalinaMoonfall]

​@@undertaker11ism Not only that but has it delivered by the Illuminati who of course would then keep an eye on him and eventually bring him into the fold, in addition, the 20 grand acts only as "start-up" capital thereby ensuring he earns the rest of it and gains the experience earning it brings him to make him who he is now.

[@christopherg2347]

"I am my own beginning." - Guardian of Forever, Star Trek, TOS. Apparently Xanatos could say that to :)

[@ricardoramos1059]

Now heres the real question if xanatos getting the coin is a loop in time how did it start in the first place

[@edwardgaines6561]

I'm still scratching my head on that one. Doesn't that present a convoluted time loop? Was it predestined that Xanatos would *always* travel back in time?

[@PeachWookiee]

@ nachohatboy: picture a meeting between Seto Kaiba, David Xanatos, Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark.

[@juneomarbenitez3501]

Epic Meeting

[@Cyberium]

Kaiba and Xanatos would have the best synergy, both like to do their things without opposition and disregards moral in most cases. Tony Stark would enjoy working together, coming up with ideas but not necessary the execution Kaiba and Xanatos propose. Bruce Wayne would smile and nod, then come out at night to haunt the evildoing.

[@PeachWookiee]

Cyberium Tony and Bruce would probably team up against Xanatos. Seto Kaiba is more of an antihero and he'd realize which way the wind is blowing. "Okay, we all know what a Xanatos Gambit is, right?"

[@eliaspuppet9973]

4 rich guys cool.

[@animeotaku307]

Xanatos and Bruce would practically be playing a chess game with how much they're trying to outwit the other while Tony is more interested in Kaiba's holographic technology and how he could possibly apply it.

[@Sirvantir]

@Kaagh178 Firstly, he has a castle as a penthouse. Secondly, he's banging that chick. Thirdly his last name is Xanatos, XANATOS. Fourthly, he does what he wants, who he wants, when he wants. And finally, David Xanatos is voiced by Johnny Frakes! He is the polar opposite to Bruce Wayne in every which way possible!

[@thedukeofchutney468]

He’s kinda a morally ambiguous emotionally stable Bruce Wayne.

[@r.danielramirez6405]

I forgot Owen had a british accent.

[@Shintigercurl]

i wouldn't exactly call it British. there are British characters in the show and he doesn't really sound like that.

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

1:25 bootstrap paradox

[@podsmpsg1]

that's Commander Riker doing his voice

[@CraigSmithII]

Johnathan Frakes' real life wife does the voice of Fox

[@ThirdTwin3]

@@CraigSmithII Laura San Giacomo voiced Fox. Frakes' wife is Genie Francis.

[@Shintigercurl]

you will find a crap ton of star trek alums doing voices in this show.

[@carlossegovia77]

Wait, he became a millionaire using a time paradox?

[@edwardgaines6561]

Yes, but the most infuriating thing about it, is how does it start to begin with? Unless it was predestined by fate, I don't get it.

[@davidcarty7584]

No he became a billionaire using a time paradox

[@davidcarty7584]

@@edwardgaines6561 it has no beginning it's simply something that's just suppose to happen

[@edwardgaines6561]

@@davidcarty7584 Hence, the bootstrap paradox.

[@KingNazaru]

So if Xanatos went to the past to tell his future self how to start his fortune, how did this time loop begin?

[@ThirdTwin3]

It's a bootstrap paradox

[@KingNazaru]

@@ThirdTwin3 Pardon?

[@ThirdTwin3]

@@KingNazaru it's just the name of this specific kind of paradox, which has no identifiable beginning.

[@EmptyMan000]

@@KingNazaru There is no beginning. Just a continuous loop. It happened because it already happened and because it happened it will happen. Just a loop, no beginning or ened.

[@KingNazaru]

@@EmptyMan000 The loop has to have had a beginning in the first place to have even occurred. These things don’t just spontaneously happen.

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

"Do I really need an excuse to have a good time in my own home?" . XD XD XD . I would not have caught the underlying suggestiveness of this line as a kid, that he's... unconventional... in his choice of personal hobbies in some way that involves reckless firearm usage. Puts me in mind of that scene in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, when the neighbors hear their gunfight and call the cops, and the Smiths open the door looking very obviously 'interrupted midway through kinky sex' and the concerned citizens have no idea what to say in the face of the implication that their fellow 'wholesome suburbinites' neighbors could be getting down with some freaky taboo stuff in there.

[@GregXB3]

It's a tattoo, not an eye patch.

[@Shintigercurl]

and you see why this guy has a tv trope named after him.

[@emanuelrojas2]

Ok I did the math and if I did it right, he would of received the coin at the age of 19 years old and was 39 years old when he received the letter. No one wonder he's got quite an ego.

[@Yugiboy1996]

Jayla is right. He even has his armor and company like tony stark.

[@Eszra]

David is literally Iron Man.

[@chrisleitzel2659]

Please...Tony Stark WISHES he was David Xanatos.

[@TheEtesian]

I only just realized the eye patch on Fox was in the dog shape of the pack... my bad.

[@cutecats532]

Looks like a fox to me but didn't notice it either

[@edwardgaines6561]

...Really? I thought she was just really vain and pretentious.

[@chrisleitzel2659]

That's not an eye patch. That's a tattoo.

[@edwardgaines6561]

1:24 This is a time loop that makes absolutely *NO SENSE.* How did it start?

[@carlossegovia77]

This is called the time paradox.

[@Aaron_Heininger]

It's a dumb thing they added later to the story.

[@Igarappappa]

​@@Aaron_HeiningerNo it's how time travel works in this universe.

[@michaelexantus8313]

Yo this is my s***