/lit/ - Literature

>>4166331

>we

Never seen you here before cunt, fancy that.

>>4166331
Where's that Baba Yaga?

>>4166339
Hellboy

>>4166339

I'm guessing solely from the art that it's from Hellboy or one of the spinoff comics.

>>4166339
>not familiar with the best series of American fiction ever written

>Maldoror
>Cardinal Richelieu
>Dracula
>Frankenstein's monster
>Count Olaf
>Alex deLarge
>Pedro Paramo
>Professor Moriarty
>Captain Ahab
> God

>>4166402
Thenardiers
Mephistopheles
Wintermute
Grendel
Annie Wilkes
Herbert West
The Other Mother
Humbert Humbert

>Judge Holden - "Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
>Patrick Bateman - "There is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there"
>Anton Chigurh - "This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You’re asking that I second say the world. Do you see?"
>Woland - "What would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"

Richard III and Iago

Milton's Satan

>>4166519
>O'Brien - " If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
>Voldemort - "There is no good and evil. There is only power, and those too weak to seek it."

>>4166331
Probably because there are no pictures of most of those characters.

>>4166519
>"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

Jesus. Do you 'tards actually think this is deep? Hilarious.

>>4166561
wow, is that really a voldemort quote? what the fuck, modern world? why do all of the villains have to have half-assed pseudo-nietzschean rants? it just fuels the edgy teens, undermining nietzsche's credibility.
how come pop culture is so infatuated with the idea that not believing in good and evil is automatically evil.. i mean honestly, it has shit to do with voldemort anyway, he clearly believes in the concept of good and evil (good- pureblooded wizards or whatever, bad- mudbloods) and according to canon, his perspective is an old one, there's no re-evalution. fuck everything.

>>4166580
what better, powerful, short quotes does he have to show his evulness, nerdlord?

Ellsworth Toohey

wow a lot of new and completely useless tripfags here today, what gives? and what kind of fucking books are you reading with "villains" in them?

if you really must trip, try to not be completely worthless

>>4166402
>implying antagonists = villains

>>4166591
Well, realistically, any practical abandonment of good and evil - meaning one consisting of acts, not just of an ideological rejection of those concepts - will end up involving acts generally seen as "evil." And the laziest way to justify a character's acting in an evil fashion - maybe second laziest, after "get revenge on everyone" - is to have them categorically deny the dichotomy of good and evil.

>>4166591
It was actually Quirrel who said that in the book, not Voldemort.

Can't remember the context so he might have been paraphrasing voldy or something but whatever, just saying.

>>4166787
He is paraphrasing him, I believe. Something to the effect of "I met Voldemort, he became my master, he showed me that..."

>>4166787
ok found the excerpt that quote is from:

"'He is with me wherever I go,' said Quirrell quietly. 'I met him when I traveled around the world. A foolish young man I was then, full of ridiculous ideas about good and evil. Lord Voldemort showed me how wrong I was. There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it...Since then, I have served him faithfully, although I have let him down many times. He has had to be very hard on me.' Quirrell shivered suddenly. 'He does not forgive mistakes easily. When I failed to steal the stone from Gringotts, he was most displeased. He punished me ... decided he would have to keep a closer watch on me.'" Chapter 17, pg. 211

>>4166331
Somebody took Skeletor's face? I always thought he was born that way

>>4166331
Your list is a failure, as it has no Sephiroth.

>>4166665
this african-american right here

>>4166580
There's nothing "deep" about it, it's just a fascinating insight into a unique and really quite alien mindset. Similar to Anton Chigurh's twisted code of honour (which isn't quite as good but still an example of McCarthy's skill at this kind of thing), Judge Holden's worldview is a really interesting one to view from the outside - there's something very menacing about him and his attitude that's expressed really well by that quote.

>>4167549
Are you gay?

new rule: one villain per author

>reading books with a hero-villain dichotomy

>>4166331
>Ozymandias
>villain
He's situated in the structural role typically reserved for a villain, but it's an ironic criticism of the idea of a heroic vigilante.

>>4168264
>reading books without gyro veal lamb gastronomy

>>4168502
hahahaha

>>4168471
yeah yeah, we know, just shut up about it. No one cares.

>>4168549
hey now, watchmen is the only subject on which he is any authority. every neckbeard has his day.

>>4168502

>>4168554
Back the fuck off me, man. I can also speak at great length on the thematic depth of Breaking Bad.

>>4168590
Hahaha, never change, /lit/.

Someday this place will be simultaneously closed down and lovingly enshrined by Tao Lin's last novel before he kills himself.