Today on Boing Boing tv, an excerpt from Mauvais Rôle, ("Bad Role"), a short animated film about a computer game character who gets fed up with playing the same lame villain roles all the time — and takes matters into his own (clawed) hands.

His quest leads him to new and increasingly more ridiculous casting calls, each one weirder than the last. And they lead him somewhere he never thought he'd end up…

Link to Boing Boing tv post with video, discussion, and more about the creators of this homage to gaming's bad guys.