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Who is your favorite literary antagonist or villain?

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>> No.2372663

Judge Holden. Hands down.

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>> No.2372674

Snape.

>> No.2372676

Jules in A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch. I think he's modelled after the uber-villain of literature (aside from Satan) Iago.

>> No.2372689

>>2372663
There was a villain in Blood Meridian? Pretty much every character was a total bastard, to say the very least.

>> No.2372695

>>2372663
This. Also Moby Dick

>> No.2372696

>>2372674
For someone who hasn't read past the first book, what makes Snape a good villain. I'm just curious.

>> No.2372713

>>2372696
Alan Rickman,.

>> No.2372720

>>2372695

Moby Dick isn't a villain so much as a nemesis. I guess you could call it an antagonist though.

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Marc Motherfucking C DuQuesne

dude didn't fuck around. left Seaton to deal with the Chlorans, then ran off with Stephanie De Marigniy.

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Villain: The Shrike from the Hyperion books

This is only one of the many things that he does:
He abducts people and sticks them on a giant metal thorn tree where their suffering acts as an antenna to attract a hypothetical compassionate god/creator roaming elsewhere in the universe

>> No.2373390

Kerouac's drinking problem.