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Villainy

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Villainy
See also Evil, Wickedness.
Vindictiveness (See VENGEANCE.)
Violence (See BRUTALITY, CRUELTY.)
d’Acunha, Teresa
portrait of devilish Spanish servant and kidnapper. [Br. Lit.: The Antiquary]
Bligh, Captain
(1754–1817) sadistic, heavy-handed captain of the Bounty [Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty]
Bluto
(Brutus) Popeye’s archenemy. [Comics: “Thimble Theater” in Horn, 657–658]
Boris and Natasha
duo of dirty dealers. [TV: “Rocky and His Friends” in Terrace, II, 252–253]
Dalgarno, Lord
young profligate nobleman; betrays Lady Hermione, slanders Nigel. [Br. Lit.: Fortunes of Nigel]
Dastardly, Dick
popular personification of a villain. [TV: “Dastardly and Mutley” in Terrace, I, 185]
deVille, Cruella
witchlike rich lady dognaps 99 dalmatians for coat-making. [Am. Cinema: 101 Dalmatians in Disney Films, 181–184]
Fagin
iniquitous old man; employs youngsters as thieves. [Br. Lit.: Oliver Twist]
Foulfellow, J. Worthington
sly fox cajoles Pinocchio onto stage. [Am. Cinema: Pinocchio in Disney Films, 32–37]
Iago
slanders Desdemona; precipitates tragedy. [Br. Lit.: Othello]
Legree, Simon
cruel slavemaster of Uncle Tom. [Am. Lit.: Uncle Tom’s Cabin]
Lovelace, Robert
nefariously seduces the honorable, virtuous Clarissa. [Br. Lit.: Richardson Clarissa Harlowe in Magill I, 143]
Mime
tries to poison Siegfried and get Nibelung treasure. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Siegfried, Westerman, 241]
Montoni, Signor
imprisons and mistreats his wife, tries to force his niece into marriage, and terrorizes the area. [Br. Lit.: Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho in Magill I, 635]
Montserrat, Conrade de
attempts to assassinate king; detected by Kenneth’s hound. [Br. Lit.: The Talisman]
Moriarty, Professor
arch-criminal, foe of Sherlock Holmes. [Br. Lit.: Doyle Sherlock Holmes]
Mother St. Agatha
prioress abets lustful monk’s plot to punish runaway. [Br. Lit.: The Monk]
Murdour
reprehensible scoundrel; cuckolds and kills Bevis’s father. [Br. Lit.: Bevis of Hampton]
Oil Can Harry
a study in dastardliness. [Comics: “Mighty Mouse” in Horn, 492; TV: “The Mighty Mouse Playhouse” in Terrace, II, 96]
Pizarro, Don
illegally imprisons and starves Florestan; plans murder. [Ger. Opera: Beethoven, Fidelio, Westerman, 109–110]
Plantagenet, Richard
murders Somerset. [Br. Lit.: II Henry VI]
Queen, the
“a crafty devil”; “hourly coining plots.” [Br. Lit.: Cymbeline]
Scarpia
offers mock execution for Tosca’s affections. [Ital. Opera: Puccini, Tosca, Westerman, 352–354]
Sheriff of Nottingham
traditional badman; thwarted in at-tempts to capture Robin Hood. [Br. Lit.: Robin Hood]
Tello, Don
lustful nobleman; sates his passion on Elvira. [Span. Lit.: The King, the Greatest Alcalde]
Wild, Jonathan
ambitious knave, schemer, and robber, whose “greatness” is satirized. [Br. Lit.: Fielding Jonathan Wild the Great in Magill II, 516]


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Shady persons in the audience revolted from the pictured villainy of the drama.
For a whole week he was not able to sleep well, so much the villainy which he had played upon his trusting mother preyed upon his rag of conscience; but after that he began to get comfortable again, and was presently able to sleep like any other miscreant.
He has more manners of villainy, and no more conscience than an Italian prince of the seventeenth century.
 
 
 
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