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The villain is the one character who actually read the room and chose chaos.
means A villain is a character or person who deliberately does evil, scheming and harming as the chief antagonist of a story or situation.
from From Latin 'villanus,' meaning a farmhand tied to a 'villa,' a country estate. The villain was originally just a peasant — a rural worker, nothing sinister. But class snobbery did its dirty work: as the word passed through Old French 'vilain' into English, 'low-born' slid into 'low-minded,' and the humble farmhand became a scoundrel. By the time the theatre got hold of it, the villain wasn't tilling fields — he was twirling a moustache.
- origin
- From Latin villanus, meaning a lowly farmhand
- better dressed
- Audiences consistently rate villains as more stylish
- plot engine
- No villain, no story worth telling
- own logic
- Every villain is the hero of their own tale
lex luthor — dc comics antagonist obsessed with destroying superman across 80+ years of comics
joker — batman's arch-nemesis in dc comics, killed jason todd in 1988's 'a death in the family'
voldemort — lord voldemort in harry potter series, attempted to kill harry potter as an infant in 1981
darth vader — anakin skywalker turned villain in star wars, ruled the galaxy as palpatine's enforcer