Villain

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This is a stereotypical villain. Many people think about something like this when they hear or see the word "villain".

A villain is a bad person in fiction. The word comes from a Latin word meaning a feudal farm worker or peasant. Villains, or antagonists, are usually found in fiction, such as movies, television shows, cartoons, comics, anime, novels and video games. The audience do not usually like the villain and they support the hero or heroine. However, in some cases the villain is more praised by the public than the hero, as the example of Joker in the Batman franchise. In some movies and books (such as the movie Ocean's Eleven), the antagonist is a good person and the main character is bad (such as a robber). When used in comic books, they are depicted as supervillains. Supervillains usually hold some kind of unnatural force.

Villain Media

• Theme from Mysterioso Pizzicato, a cliché silent movie cue for villainy  Play (info • help)

• Villains before going to Work receiving their Lord's Orders Miniature in the Proprietaire des Choses Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century Library of the Arsenal in Paris.png

  French villains in the 15th century before going to work, receiving their lord's orders.

• Wicked Witch of the West W.W. Denslow.jpg

  The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an example of a literary villain.

• Joseph Alanen - Kalevala rya.jpg

  Louhi, the wicked queen and mistress of Pohjola, is a villain of the Finnish epic poetry Kalevala. Rya of Louhi stealing the sun and the moon, Joseph Alanen, c. 1909.

• Frankenstein's monster (Boris Karloff).jpg

  Frankenstein's monster, an example of a sympathetic villain