Zach McGowan

As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.

American Actor

Wayne Dyer

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

American Psychologist

Jordan Peterson

The most propagandistic element of 'Frozen' was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

Canadian Psychologist

Sidney Sheldon

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

American Novelist

Tabu

Every character, before they are heroes or villains, they are human beings.

Indian Actress

John Hodgman

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

American Comedian

Fiona Barton

I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.

English Journalist

Brock Pierce

I only help the superheroes, I don't help the villains.

American Businessman

Udo Kier

The villain is the character that the people remember.

German Actor

Colby Covington

Super villains and bad guys win in real life.

American Athlete

Used for characters in stories, signifies opposition to the hero.

Fictional Role

Associated with negative qualities like cruelty or evilness.

Negative Traits

Often the driver of conflict in the plot, creating challenges for the hero.

Plot Importance

Implies strong disapproval and is not used lightly in real-life scenarios.

Negative Connotation

Describes real persons who are considered harmful or immoral in society.

Real-life Evil

Can involve unethical, but not always illegal, actions.

Not Just Crime

Refers to a person of low status, mainly in feudal systems.

Historical Context

Identifies a social class, not a behavior; important in history studies.

Status Term

In its historical sense, 'villain' was a neutral term describing one's duties and rights.

Not an Insult

 The audience is in on a secret that the characters have missed. This is a great story-telling device that creates tremendous emotion within that text. Think about it for a moment. How does it feel when, in a horror film, you know that the scary villain is hiding behind that door in the darkened room. The music becomes eerie,

In on a secret? That's...

 so we were there to film a sequence on gentoo penguin fledglings being predated upon or at least attacked by leopard seals the ultimate villain so i got there about a couple of weeks before the main action was due to start and during this time i was filming the gentoo penguin chicks up in the colony

Leopard Seals Play With...

 really is a celebration of the human mind's infinite capacity to make any of us kind or cruel, caring or indifferent, creative or destructive, and it makes some of us villains. And the good news that I'm going to hopefully come to at the end is that it makes some of us heroes.

The psychology of evil PIPE...

 Traditions and holidays are important to all cultures, but a hero in one era may become a villain in the next as our historical knowledge expands and our values evolve. And deciding what these traditions should mean today is a major part of putting history on trial.

History vs. Christopher...

 these can often be understood the first time you hear them. And sometimes a new word isn't new at all. Obsolete words gain new life by adopting new meanings. Villain originally meant a peasant farmer, but in a twist of aristocratic snobbery

Where do new words come...

 audience who will now be the next villain on the next indiana jones' oh the Indian Elmo sky so terrible I don't know his name okay I'm Indian text a friend of mine said he thought his speech should have been more substantive and more truly

What I learned at...

 He was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, forever changing the course of one of the world's largest countries. But was he a hero who toppled an oppressive tyranny or a villain who replaced it with another?

History vs. Vladimir...

 our work we knew our team had to be out of china before the article hit the newsstands why well Brian's got some pretty potent things to say by every measure china is the world's villain when it comes to the illegal ivory trade

Episode 1: The Plight of...

 So for me, it wasn't only about these attacks I had to face. It was about living two totally different perceptions of my personality, of my person -- the villain back in my home country, and the hero outside.

A Saudi woman who dared...

 because the villain, entropy, is preordained to have the final victory, when the inexorable laws of thermodynamics shut down all novelty with the so-called heat death of the universe.

Villain

A character in a story, movie, or drama who does bad things.

Often appears as...

A person who does evil or harmful things.

Often appears as...

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In historical contexts, a peasant or farm servant.

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