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Ink Tue Oct 02 2007
Favorite Bad Guy
Who is your favorite fictional villain?
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Who is your favorite fictional villain?
What a cool question.
Ganesh Gaitonde is my current answer having just read "Sacred Games" but I think the real answer has to come from a comic book.
You know, I've been thinking about this and I can't come up with one single villian in the stories I remember. Does that mean there were no villians or that I the villians that existed were sympathic and I don't think of them as villians? I continue to ponder...
I like the villains in novels that either start off as a normal character and turn into a villain, or the other way around. I think Madame Coulter in The Golden Compass is a little like that.
Ah, comic book villains...good one. Yes, I confess that even though I asked the question, I've been having a hard time picking a single villain, too. Maybe Uriah Heep from one of my all-time favorites, David Copperfield. Or Miss Havisham from Great Expectations. Dickens is always good for the great villains.
Hannibal Lecter from the Thomas Harris series. Silence of the Lambs et.al. Scary as hell even before the movie.
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