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    Favorite antagonist from a book...

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    edited October 2024 in Chit-Chat
    Well, after seeing several book threads, I decided to start a thread for your favorite (or most hated) antagonist in any books you've read (fiction).

    I think mine is James "Big Jim" Rennie from Stephen King's Under the Dome. He's a small town politician who manipulates everyone he knows and used his religion to get people to do what he says/suggests. Ugh!! Just thinking about him makes me upset. :laugh:

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      ohh I do remember being very mad reading that book!
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      Dorian Grey. hands down, every time.
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      Severus Snape from the Harry Potter movies!! I always loved him!
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      PROFESSOR JAMES MORIARTY.
      /thread.
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      I HATE Ramsay Bolton from A Game of Thrones. They call him the *kitten* of the Dreadfort for good reason! As far as villains I loved, Snape is up there as is Silas from The DaVinci Code. But my favorite "villain" from a book is Hannibal Lecter! He was great in all the books he was in (Red Dragon, Hannibal Rising, Silence of the Lambs AND Hannibal).
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      Alex De Large from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
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      Not the worst but Wackford Squeers and his wife from Nicholas Nickleby, they have a boys home and they are horrible to the boys while draining money out of their parents acting like good honest people.
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      Hurusu from "Amok" by George Fox.

      Hurusu is a Japanese soldier left behind in the Philippines when the Japanese pulled out just before the end of WWII.

      The Japanese left him behind to delay the Allied troops so they could escape. His last order was to kill as many as possible. The story takes place over many decades as he hides in the jungles of Philippines to survive and carries out his last order. With no human contact, he has no idea the war has ended.
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      I HATE Ramsay Bolton from A Game of Thrones. They call him the *kitten* of the Dreadfort for good reason! As far as villains I loved, Snape is up there as is Silas from The DaVinci Code. But my favorite "villain" from a book is Hannibal Lecter! He was great in all the books he was in (Red Dragon, Hannibal Rising, Silence of the Lambs AND Hannibal).

      I would say Tyrion Lannister, myself but Bolton is a good off the beaten road choice.
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      I would say Tyrion Lannister, myself but Bolton is a good off the beaten road choice.


      I never thought of Tyrion as a villain! He's a victim just as much as anyone else. His sister Cersei for sure, and his father Tywin are both exponentially more monstrous. Not to mention Gregor Clegane, and the Bloody Mummers. There are a bunch of truly terrible people in those books.
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      I never thought of Tyrion as a villain! He's a victim just as much as anyone else. His sister Cersei for sure, and his father Tywin are both exponentially more monstrous. Not to mention Gregor Clegane, and the Bloody Mummers. There are a bunch of truly terrible people in those books.

      That's the great thing about the series. Many of the characters are villans, victoms and heroes depending which part of the story you are in. I would definity put Tyrion under the Villan tag, he seems to have a good side at times but does a lot of terrible things. Gregor is probably my favorite pure villan.
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      This is unconventional, but one of my favorites is Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose from To Kill a Mockingbird.
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      Vicomte de Valmont from Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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      Alex De Large from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

      THIS, absolutely!
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      Marsuvees Black - Ted Dekker's Circle series
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      Padan Fain from Wheel of Time. His brand of crazy and unpredictability keeps everything interesting. The sheer unadulterated evil makes him so easy to hate but it is so fascinating....
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      Padan Fain from Wheel of Time. His brand of crazy and unpredictability keeps everything interesting. The sheer unadulterated evil makes him so easy to hate but it is so fascinating....

      That's a very good choice, and one I wouldn't have thought of.

      For myelf, Elric de Melniboné has got to be one of my favorites. More of an 'anti-hero' than an actual villain though.
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      August from Water for Elephants, because who abuses animials, really?!

      Bob Ewell from To Kill a Mockingbird. He's an angry man.
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      Hannibal Lecter
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      Randall Flagg
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      grand admiral thrawn
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      Jericho Barrons :love:
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      grand admiral thrawn

      ooh, a star wars nerd.

      admiral thrawn is from the dark jedi trilogy?? (going off memory, the one by kevin j wright or am i confused)
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      The Man in Black (aka Walter o'Dim, aka Randall Flagg, aka Marten Broadcloak, aka Legion, aka BUTTHEAD!)
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      Holden Caulfield....while this protagonist thinks the phonies in life are the antagonists...we all know that Holden is his own antagonist.
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      The Man in Black (aka Walter o'Dim, aka Randall Flagg, aka Marten Broadcloak, aka Legion, aka BUTTHEAD!)

      Beat me to it so I will say any of the Low Men from Stephen King's books
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      Madame DeFarge from the Charles ****ens book A Tale of Two Cities!
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      Madame DeFarge from the Charles ****ens book A Tale of Two Cities!



      Wait, ****ens is a dirty word???
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      Wait, ****ens is a dirty word???
      LOL I tried to edit it, but apparently "****" is a bad word!!! I suppose I could've done D*ckens?
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      August from Water for Elephants, because who abuses animials, really?!

      My thoughts exactly! My stomach started to hurt anytime I read that he was heading to the menagerie tent... ugh.
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