>>10506187>I feel like a lot of kids at the time soured on Serpentor because of the movie where he first blames Cobra Commander on all the failures of Cobra and then fails even harder himself.You can add to that the movie tied him to a MOTU tier group of clownish monsters, submitted to them as an underling, and even had him cry one of the most cringe inducing battle cries for even back then.
As a kid I was like
>>10506111 until the movie scene where he cried that "lalalala" shit in the Night Raven and then moments later on the ground firing a surface-to-surface missile and I went from "this guy is a awesome!" to "he is just a tool"