Villain fan club!

It depends on what you define as a villian. In most good fiction, there's not a clear distinction between a hero(or an anti-hero) and a villian. Anyway, I like Entreri from a few a Salvatore's novels; Aoshi from the Kenshin manga and anime; Dr.Doom from Marvel Comics; Riku from the Kingdom Hearts games; Odin from the Bard series; Apollo from Greek mythology(in some of the stories like with Eros or Orion); Kira from Deathnote; Sephiroth from FFVII; from batman, Hugo Strange, Ra's al Ghul, and Shiva; Blade from the Spiderman comics; Guts from Berserk; the main villian from Green Arrow comics; Selene from the Last of the Amazons; Sensui from Yu Yu Hakusho;Dr. Hannibal Lecter; the Saw villian; and quite a few others.

I have got to admit, I did find Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) in Bridget Jones rather dashing... even though he was a total arsehole and basically goes against everything I stand for. Damn that blasted wet shirt!

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The first time I read Dragonlance, Raistlin was my favorite character (I thought he was cool and powerful and in a crappy position)... Then I tried to re-read it a year or two ago, and realized he was a whiney jerk... It kind of ruined the book.

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Oh yes... Ive just started these and he is good , althou he did annoy me a bit.
But my all time favourite villlian of all is split between Iago, ( no not the bird :p although he was nifty too) or Memphestophilies in faustus...

Oh who can foirget captain hook?
or well Ive lost it now I had someone else I was going to say:shrug:

:D But the scariest of all was the child catcher in Chitty bang bang even if it wasnt a book

humbert humbert

the suave european having his way with naive miss america:flare:

addenda:
only a poet has the audacity to turn a taboo on its head and thereby expose our hypocrisy. that old men lust after young girls is as certain as night turns into day and vice versa. we like to think this isn't so going so far as to make draconian laws which can't possibly be applied to any purpose but to keep on the payroll people with an ax to grind or worse a religious fanatic bent on changing the world in his image. so i urge everyone in the strongest possible terms to avoid self righteous indignation for paranoia and hysteria does not become a gentleman, much less a lady.

Mefisto. :D

I liked Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Macbeth

I love villains. :D Sheriff of Nottingham, Hannibal, Dracula.

I love film villains even more I think. I'm always rooting for the bad guy when I watch a film. The good guys are always so boring. Yawn!

Sylar.

'nuff said.

who doesn't love Sylar? he's awesome.

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I love villains. :D Sheriff of Nottingham, Hannibal, Dracula.

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Hannibal!!! Since when was Hannibal a villain? Or do you mean Hannibal Lector?

Favorite villains: the Daleks from the Dr Who series ---


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Terry Nation was inspired to create these cyborgs (humanoid brains, robotoid bodies) from salt and pepper shakers. The are the only villains in literature who attempted to conquer the universe through evolution in addition to revolutionary means.

MILADY DE WINTER!

My favorite villain of all time! I find her skills amazing, she manipulates everyone and everything to get what she wants. Simply amazing, an enchantress, seducer, spy, assassin, diplomat, and agent!

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Terry Nation was inspired to create these cyborgs (humanoid brains, robotoid bodies) from salt and pepper shakers. The are the only villains in literature who attempted to conquer the universe through evolution in addition to revolutionary means.

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*hiss*

the daleks? seriously? I rather prefered the angels from the new series.

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MILADY DE WINTER!

My favorite villain of all time! I find her skills amazing, she manipulates everyone and everything to get what she wants. Simply amazing, an enchantress, seducer, spy, assassin, diplomat, and agent!

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Yeah she was awesome (my mum is named after her)
I was so outraged when she died! :flare:

I perfer Milady's son Mordaunt from Twenty Years After. He was truly a villain who was a hero in his point of view. I also always fall for the trickster.

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Yup. I love the bad guys.

When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn, NY my favorite pro wrestler was ''Killer'' Kowalski. Do a Google search and you will see why he was called the meanest grappler of all time.

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Lilith Weatherwax from "Witches Abroad" Sacrificing people to stories.
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I love that that is her outlook :blush:

I looked at my bookshelf, and realized that most of my favorite books don't really have a villian per se. Most of my favorites have heros who face oppositions of life. I guess I never thought about having a favorite villain before.

Long John Silver was a cold-blooded murderer but most readers are glad he got away. I was, even though such a reaction undermines any idea I might have of being on the side of the "good". When I was reading the Bible as a youngster I could never feel that Saul was not more sinned against than sinning. David was such a goody-goody twerp who showed his true nasty colours as time went on. Judas too. If he was predestined to be a betrayer how can one not feel sympathy for his role. Milton seems to have been fascinated by Satan to the extent that he imbued him with a nobleness. Now what about the transgressive Ripley. Isn't he a villain that Highsmith wants us to be ambiguous about? It is often the case that authors manipulate the readers sympathies. Stevenson does that. Sometimes we are sympathetic to the villain despite the writer's intentions. Someone once wrote to Koestler that after reading Darkness at Noon he had become a more ardent communist.

Saul seems more like the victim to me as well. The winner usually gets to decide whose side God was on.

I also recall in Halpern's "David's Secret Demons" that Solomon might not have been David's son.

I like characters to be a mixture of both bad and good. Thinking back on the TV series "Breaking Bad", it occurs to me that Walter White put away more drug dealers than his brother-in-law. And as far as wicked goes, it is hard to beat his good wife, Skylar.

I'll nominate Brian De Bois Gilbert, and, from the wonderful world of cinema, Darth Vader (mainly because of the breathing and the theme music).

Thanks for that nod in the direction of Mr Halpern, Yes/No. His work sounds fascinating.

I don't know much about the books of Samuel or Kings, ennison. Let me know if you see something wrong with his arguments.

If Halpern is right, Bathsheba is not who I imagined her to be from stories I heard as a child. Previously I thought she was a beauty who could turn David's head and make him do stupid things, but otherwise she was inconsequential. Now I see her as the primary director of the show. The risks she took at the time paid off. If I recall correctly, Halpern claimed many of the stories in Samuel and Kings could be read as politically motivated misinformation to justify David and then Solomon's right to rule.