Citations:villainsplain

English citations of villainsplain

• 2019 March 4, Valerie Anne, ““Supergirl” Episode 413 Recap: Among the Elite”, in Autostraddle‎^[1]:

  Somewhere in this fight, Manchester villainsplains that he pointed the satellite back toward the White House to teach the government a lesson. Alex channels her badassiest voice and locks eyes with Supergirl and says, “Fly,” tossing her the super spacesuit.

• 2019 April 5, Steven Katz, “In the Woods”, in Kate Dennis, director, The Tick, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Overkill (Scott Speiser):

  Are you done villainsplaining?

• 2019, Paul Cornell, The Lights Go Out in Lychford (Witches of Lychford; 4), New York, NY: Tor Books, →ISBN, page unknown:

  Autumn saw Shaun react in anger to the idea that Picton had his mother, but she didn't have time to tell him all she knew. Hopefully Picton herself might do that. “So you're not going to villainsplain some more to us?”

• 2020 November 28, Graeme Virtue, “Tilda Swinton with an army of ninja cyborgs! Try our random movie villain generator”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

  1. Endless monologuing about the specifics of an evil scheme (otherwise known as “villainsplaining”)

• 2022 November 1, Molly Young, “In a New Novel, Percival Everett Riffs Gleefully on 007”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

  There’s a moment when John Sill gazes at the “Mona Lisa,” which he has stolen from the Louvre. The painting, he villainsplains to Kitu, is artistically unimpressive but nevertheless “a work of genius. Marketing genius.”