Who is your favorite villain in any work of fiction?

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   cbunch11posted 9 years ago

   Who is your favorite villain in any work of fiction?
   
   I would have to give votes to the Joker from Batman, Pennywise from Stephen King's novel IT, and Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars saga.

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   twalker74posted 9 years ago

   You give wonderful examples, but I do believe that nothing reaches the depths of Iago from Othello. People can write characters with ambition, lack of morality or just coming from the depths of Hell.
   
   Yet, even when you just read the play, one can taste the seething hatred Iago has for Othello. He is brilliant, conniving and driven. I seem to hate myself for understanding him every time I see the character acted on stage.

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   CroftRoanposted 9 years ago

   That's a tough one. I've read so many books that I can't just pick one. I think my favorites would have to be Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter, the Star Snuffer from So You Want to be a Wizard, Dr John Dee from the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, and General Argelin from Oracle Betrayed.

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   jennakottmanposted 9 years ago

   My personal favorite is Hannibal Lecter. He is such an intricate and carefully developed character and he fascinates me. He is viewed as a villain because of his cannibalistic practices, but at the very end of the series he is almost transformed into a hero when he rescues the hero, Clarice Starling, from her death and the two fall in love.
   
   It's a non-traditional story and really makes you question the difference between hero and villain.

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      cbunch11posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Very nice. I did not even think of Mr. Lecter when posing the question, despite the fact he has always been one of my favorites.

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   M. T. Dremerposted 9 years ago

   Darth Revan from the Old Republic time period of Star Wars. Not only is the reveal of his identity legendary in video games, he walks the line between hero and villain so much better than a lot of characters. I think most players would follow him regardless of which side of the force he fell on.

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   LoisRyan13903posted 9 years ago

   Darth Vadar
   The Master from Doctor Who
   Jack Torrence from The Shining
   Long John Silver from Treasure Island
   Nicolae Carpatheia (from the Left Behind Series)

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      cbunch11posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I always feel like answering this question with Vader, but then I remember that he was manipulated the whole time. If you only follow the original trilogy however, he definitely takes the cake.

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      LoisRyan13903posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      the three originals were my favorites (books and movies) I saw the three newer ones but did not really like them as much.  Plus Add Mr gaunt from Needful Things (Stephen King)

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   melmikaposted 9 years ago

   Death in "The Mask of the Red Death"  a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

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      cbunch11posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Nice.

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   LastRoseofSummer2posted 9 years ago

   Oh, probably Dracula. "Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!...Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!" - yeah, well you forgot to mention that part about not letting him go! Dracula was so, so evil!

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   Esmeowl12posted 9 years ago

   My favorite villain is Randall Flagg from Stephen King. Pure evil.

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      LoisRyan13903posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Yes I forgot about him

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      cbunch11posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Excellent answer. But Palpatine still trumps in body-count.

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      LoisRyan13903posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      And we can't forget President Snow from the Hunger Games

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    Borsiaposted 9 years ago

    I'm going with Professor Moriarty in the Sherlock  Holms series

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    semorrow11posted 9 years ago

    Francisco Javier Fumero in Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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