I liked Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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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.
Hannibal!!! Since when was Hannibal a villain? Or do you mean Hannibal Lector?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorian Gray
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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Originally Posted by hellsapoppin
the daleks? seriously? I rather prefered the angels from the new series.
Yeah she was awesome (my mum is named after her)Quote:
Originally Posted by pegasus332
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.
:)
[QUOTE=Taliesin;444360]Hannibal Lector
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).