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>story centers around a single overwhelmingly strong, intelligent, capable antagonist who hardly seems human

>> No.21495912

my dair

>> No.21495915

>>21495910
Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, what else?

>> No.21495921

Paradise Lost

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>>21495910
Easy to think of lighter fiction that does this:

Every Wilbur Smith novel
Almost every Robert A. Heinlein novel
Lee Childs' Jack Reacher novels
etc

Harder with more serious stuff. Some characters criticized for being "too capable" or "too noble" were based very closely on reality, though. e.g. Judge Holden in Blood Meridian, or the title character in Count Belisarius by Robert Graves. You might include Joan of Arc in Mark Twain's book except that most people seem to agree she really was like that.