A story is only as strong as it’s villain.
We’ve all heard it before, but there’s a reason for that.
It is unequivocally true.
Indeed, the hero and the villain are often inversions of each other.
Beyond those qualifiers, the realm of villains is wide open.
There are straight up psychopaths.
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There are crusaders and persecutors; pious and judgemental forces that shut down any opposition.
There are despots and demons and desperate career-climbers.
Some are content simply to ruin them.
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(Basically, the bad guy version of Ryan Gosling inLa La Land.)
Regina George is the girl who has it all but is never satisfied.
He’s a psychopath who loves killing because he is wired to.
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And then his reign of terror begins.
Because there was no innocence in him as a child, he has no value of it in others.
In fact, Hiddleston is so charming it’s almost too easy to forget that Loki issucha dick.
Remember when he killed Coulson?
And that’s where Woo-jin possesses a powerful quality many villains lack – patience.
This is a man playing the long game.
He wants nothing more than this vengeance.
That backbone of moral conflict is what makes him one of the most versatile players in the Marvel universe.
She uses her beliefs as a shield of morality while acting against every basic moral tenet of her faith.
On top of that, to be quite crude, she’s such abitch.
There is no poetry in this man, only regiment.
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Voldemort Schmoldemort.
Basically, she’s infuriating.
What follows is the most brutal game of cat-and-mouse you’ve ever seen.
Utterly ambivalent to suffering.
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