What are /lit/'s best villains?

Holden was the hero, dingbat.

Now, Holden Caufield.....

Satan in Paradise Lost /thread

>>7370897
>>>r/thread

Voldemort

>>7370897
>satan
>villian

choose one

Iago /thread

>>7370925
Villains aren't /lit/
If you're reading a book that has a character who's indisputably a villain then you're reading a shit book

>>7370925
Shylock

>>7370905
8/10 - Rustled my jimmies, what a shitty villain after his past was revealed in HBP.

Society as a whole in Hugo's novels.
O'Brien
Iago

>>7370884
The manifestation of communistic ideology in literary form

>>7370905
Never understood why he gets posted so much. Harry Potter has zero good characters.

>>7370943
muh 100+ million :')

>>7370956
Try 10,000 at best.
The propaganda pushed forth by the Zionist machine is no better than the soviet leftist Shlock.

Charles Walker in Stoner. Holy fuck that shitty little bastard.

>>7370952

I was just shit posting. He is an awful villain

>>7370959
whyte cis male alert! :') *clap* *thumbs up* :')

>>7370884
>implying any good literature has a "villain"
that said, Jack Gladney in Don DeLillo's White Noise

>>7370980
I like you for addressing the fact the mustache twiddling "baddies"/villains aren't in good literature and for reading DeLillo.
The Judge in Blood Meridian (although i hate the depiction OP posted) is impressive because you cannot argue his moral stance but he is inherently evil. the Devil incarnate.

I agree the judge is pretty good. I think generally a book is weakened by the existence of a clear "villian", unless the book is about what a villain is, i.e. Blood Meridian.

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Captain Blicero all day, bitch

Like Frank n' Furter on PoMo HGH

Fagin
Shylock
Elie Wiesel
Anne Frank

>>7370884
Iago. Iago a best.

>>7371144
Yes! Blicero was essentially the embodiment of what 1970's America would be horrified of and i really think Pynchon put that on the page in a way no one else could have

>>7370884
cordelia

Jason from The Sound and the Fury

biggest piece of shit in a book

Lhrereux in Madame Bovary is as bad a creature as Emma herself

>>7370884
the human condition :O

>>7370884
The reader.

seconding Voldemort

>>7371342
All Jason did wrong was get shafted by the POV. He's the only person in that goddamn madhouse that actually works for his family, instead of whoring around, being senile, retarded, lazy or a pedo. The only villianous thing about him was that he was too proud to just say "fuck it" and get the hell out of dodge.

>>7370884
The Judge in Blood Meridian

God
Religion
The church

Yokai
O'Brian
Ulillillia
Ambrosio
Ratched, Nurse
Edmund
Aaron the Moor
Satan
Atheists
Progressivism

>>7370884
Judge Holden, Nurse Ratchet, Grendel (John Gardner version), Sauron

>>7370884
Vaginas

>>7370884
Man, I hate that picture of the judge. He's supposed to be fat. Like a big ol' fat baby.

>>7371463
now i get it

Fifth for Iago. Edmund in King Lear is also a real prick.

McCarthy does em good -- Lester Ballard in Child of God, Chigurh in No Country.

Carl in The Devil All the Time.

Dickens has a ton of good ones -- Bill Sikes, Fagin, Quilp, Uriah Heep, that fucking fucker Harold Skimpole pissed me off (not really a villain though).

>>7370932
Kinda have to agree with this, characters who are completely absurdly evil are largely just uninteresing and unrelatable

>>7370909
stay drowned, shelley

>>7371463
whoa

>>7371392
Hahahahaha

Genuine mirth, not even being sarcastic

Thanks for that

The Shepherd from Orson Scott Card's short story Kingsmeat

Cao Cao

inb4
>villain

when reading the romance from the point of view of a China that holds Shu to be the winner, yeah he was the villain

>>7370905
Go to bed Rowling

Barold Hloom.

>>7370925
>>7371161
>>7371603

Jafar was the villain, Iago was at most a villainous sidekick..

>>7373515

>él piensa i es L
punto y risa

>>7371405
>makes his sister pay to see her baby
>just drives by while holding the kid and gives her the bird

no

>>7371405
lol that someone could actually believe this

>>7370943
This.

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>>7370959

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>>7373631
Lo siento.

Bota la basura.

>>7373533
Haha, I get it anon. Nice dubs by the way.

>>7373533
jafar did nothing wrong.

Heathcliff

>>7371463
It spells "YOU ARE ASAP"
what's ASAP mean?

>>7371417
*dips bedora*

>>7371144

I want to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love--so taken, that you and I and death and life would be gathered inseperable into the radiance of what we would become.

>>7376986
>>7376986
YOU ARE A SAP

>>7370884
Cathy