Let's Talk Villains / Happenings In The Outhouse 29-Oct-2021

A few weeks ago, I watched the latest installment of the Halloween franchise on the big screen.  It was bloody fun and full of lovely gore, which you'd expected from a slasher flick.

It did not disappoint.

And the box office numbers showed too.

On the drive home, I pondered other fictional villains, such as Hannibal Lector, Darth Vader, Freddie Krueger, Pinhead, and Jason Voorhees, just to name a few.  I did a deep dive into the top villains from TV and the big screen, and the list was quite massive.

Do they have elements in common?

If anything, they're downright evil.  Their characteristics host a wide range from the clever and sinister to a single-mindedness of brute force.  On a side note, the same could be said about the side of good too.  Heroes and Heroines come in many flavors.

Another common element is that, by and large, they are not easy to destroy--the exception is the ending of Dracula.  The fabled vampire's death was so minimal, covering only a few sentences, that I almost threw the book in the trash.

The last element (okay, I'm sure there are others, but that's all I'm covering right now) is that they are unique.  No one can mistaken Hannibal Lector with other run-of-the-mill serial killers.  Or Freddie Krueger with other rules of our darkest nightmares.

So, many of the great and infamous fictional villains are pure evil, difficult to destroy/kill, and unique.