Favorite antagonist from a book...

Hattie2879
Hattie2879 Posts: 131
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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  • thegymbunny
    thegymbunny Posts: 602 Member
    ohh I do remember being very mad reading that book!
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
    Dorian Grey. hands down, every time.
  • Jemmuno
    Jemmuno Posts: 413 Member
    Severus Snape from the Harry Potter movies!! I always loved him!
  • Ajontheguitar
    Ajontheguitar Posts: 695
    PROFESSOR JAMES MORIARTY.
    /thread.
  • CatchThatKitten
    CatchThatKitten Posts: 47
    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).
  • sshap21712
    sshap21712 Posts: 139
    Alex De Large from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    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.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    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.
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
    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.
  • CatchThatKitten
    CatchThatKitten Posts: 47
    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.


    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.
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
    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.


    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.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    This is unconventional, but one of my favorites is Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose from To Kill a Mockingbird.
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member
    Vicomte de Valmont from Les Liaisons Dangereuses
  • skittybang
    skittybang Posts: 1,525 Member
    Alex De Large from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

    THIS, absolutely!
  • chocolateandvodka
    chocolateandvodka Posts: 1,850 Member
    Marsuvees Black - Ted Dekker's Circle series
  • rococo11
    rococo11 Posts: 49 Member
    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....
  • crisanderson27
    crisanderson27 Posts: 5,343 Member
    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.
  • beccau_20
    beccau_20 Posts: 191 Member
    August from Water for Elephants, because who abuses animials, really?!

    Bob Ewell from To Kill a Mockingbird. He's an angry man.
  • zorbaru
    zorbaru Posts: 1,077 Member
    Hannibal Lecter
  • SabrinaJL
    SabrinaJL Posts: 1,579 Member
    Randall Flagg
  • xraychick77
    xraychick77 Posts: 1,775 Member
    grand admiral thrawn
  • MelMoly
    MelMoly Posts: 1,303 Member
    Jericho Barrons :love:
  • zorbaru
    zorbaru Posts: 1,077 Member
    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)
  • Hattie2879
    Hattie2879 Posts: 131
    The Man in Black (aka Walter o'Dim, aka Randall Flagg, aka Marten Broadcloak, aka Legion, aka BUTTHEAD!)
  • CeejayGee
    CeejayGee Posts: 299 Member
    Holden Caulfield....while this protagonist thinks the phonies in life are the antagonists...we all know that Holden is his own antagonist.
  • jlzrdking
    jlzrdking Posts: 501 Member
    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
  • statia152
    statia152 Posts: 558
    Madame DeFarge from the Charles ****ens book A Tale of Two Cities!
  • CeejayGee
    CeejayGee Posts: 299 Member
    Madame DeFarge from the Charles ****ens book A Tale of Two Cities!



    Wait, ****ens is a dirty word???
  • statia152
    statia152 Posts: 558
    Madame DeFarge from the Charles ****ens book A Tale of Two Cities!



    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?
  • asunshinec
    asunshinec Posts: 74
    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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