Comments on: 10 Vilest Villains of Fictional Literature

By: julian

julian — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:46:54 +0000

why no cathy ames?

By: Buggycas

Buggycas — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:50:05 +0000

agreed! Grendel was more like a baby then a Villain, and I wouldn’t call Jarvert a Villain at ALL! He’s a good cop who wants to follow the law, and then killed himself when he realized that if he DID follow the law something horrible would happen.

By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:23:50 +0000

I thought Moriarty would be on it too.

By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:22:40 +0000

I disagree, I think Atticus Finch was the number one hero of that story and although told from the perspective of Scout, it was Atticus’s story.

By: anatai

anatai — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:53:36 +0000

I was gonna say … Javert didn’t kill himself because he couldn’t bear to be in a world without good. He killed himself because he was so utterly inflexible in his beliefs that he couldn’t bear the thought that he might, perhaps, have been wrong all these years about right and wrong. His views were so rigid and fixed that there was no room for the possibility that a man who stole a loaf of bread might not be the same as a murderer. I don’t think Javert was evil, just very inflexible.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:10:25 +0000

List maker clearly didnt really read or watch les miserables

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:53:06 +0000

How about Voldemort from Harry Potter?

By: syn1734

syn1734 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:53:34 +0000

Abdiel from To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust would make this list. A modern take on Paradise Lost, To Reign in Hell is basically a story of the rebellion in Heaven. Yet, it starts because Abdiel is selfish and afraid and performs acts to get what he wants only to start a rebellion. Satan is completely oblivious to the rebellion for most the novel, then is thrown in at the end.

By: joe crawley

joe crawley — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:04:22 +0000

wheres nurse ratchet from “….cuckoo’s nest” – ken kesey? i think daniel quilp from old curiosity shop is viler than bill sykes. sykes is nasty but in a quite straight-forward way wheras quilp is more actively sadistic. voldermort maybe worth a consideration.

By: JY

JY — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:57:05 +0000

These 3 would make my list. If I had a list of course.

From Dune:

The Baron Harkonnen and the Tleilaxu. The vilest of the vile.

And Saurons mentor, Melkor of course. He did not play well with others.