The Book Blog Hop is hosted by Jen from Crazy For Books.
Jen's question this week is: Who's your all-time favorite book villain? Sheesh! That is a really tough question. I'm wracking my brain and can't come up with anything. To be honest most of the book villains don't seem all that scary to me. By the time we get to them and their motivation they seem to be spouting all sorts of evil things they can't really back up and are defeated easily. So help me out here - there must be someone and I'm just not remembering them!
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Her question is: What embarrassing thing have you done on cold medicine? I don't take cold medicine because I get weird.....for days. I slur and drool and become incredibly embarrassing to take anywhere. Just ask my husband!
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ReplyDeleteHmm villains all the villains I like don't really seem to be villains once you get to know them. But I guess by villains we mean antagonists then Bananach from the Wicked Lovely series is a good one though I haven't read the last book yet so who knows how she turns out.I'm reading the Vampire Academy series at the moment and Viktor Dashkov is a good one so far. He's a pretty evil guy considering what he's done. Um Itachi from Naruto though he could be considered a sort of anti-hero maybe.
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ReplyDeleteI couldn't name a particular villain, but I like the ones that make you think: "Hold-on one cotton-picking second" because they're talking sense. I like to read a villain who, perhaps, is misguided or misjudged, but irrevocably so. In my mind, there's no such thing as inherent evil, and if there is, it's the same in everyone. Actions and experiences affect it, either taming or frenzying it. When a Villain has an acceptable agenda (not just revenge) and you can empathise with them a little, you can appreciate their villainy so much more.
ReplyDeleteThis is more an antagonist than a Villain, I know, but maybe that's not a bad thing.
Being villainous.... I would say ones without mercy, completely corrupted and remarkably manipulative. The sort that care for no other living thing, regardless of alignment.
@Alex - Good points. I think my problem is that no matter how evil the villain starts out, when it comes to the big showdown he/she usually spouts the traditional evil speach and then is defeated in about a millisecond - so all the fear I may have had was for nothing.
ReplyDeleteEspecially in YA - they may "talk" evil but the actual evil acts are few and far between.
I was thinking of choosing President Snow from Hunger Games - definitely evil - but the final showdown was a big letdown for me.
The biggest book Villain I can think of is Bones (Night Huntress). He stole my heart and never gave it back. :(
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday, Karen!
Our was Voldemort, haha. New follower--btw! :)
ReplyDeletejust following, Snape & Lord Voldemort is mine.
ReplyDeleteMy villain was Calvin Malone from the Shifter series (Rachel Vincent)I had a really hard time choosing this person as well since so many of the villains as you say are defeated before you get a chance to really despise them. New follower :)
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Lol! Cold medicine tends to put me in a coma. It's like heavy narcotics for me! I'm just completely out of it!
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Stopping in for FF. Hope you have a great weekend. Following :).
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Best Villians I can think of are :
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President Snow ( Hunger Games)
Freaks
Any Goverment agency in a dystopian enviroment
My choices were Hannibal Lechter (Silence of the Lambs) and Kyle Craig from Alex Cross Series by James Patterson.
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Mine was a trick-answer. Turns out the book's villain was actually the protagonist, an anti-hero. He was so bad he was good--Sir Frances Crawford Lymond from The Game of Kings. The series hooked me.
ReplyDeleteHow cute is that photo?? i hope you have a great weekend, karen!
ReplyDeleteHopping through. It was hard for me to think of villains too...because the heroes are more important to me than the bad guys.
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Happy Hopping!
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Hopping by on the hop! Old follower:) Drop by if you get a chance and have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteKristin@ My Bookish Ways
I always look forward to your bunny pictures!
ReplyDeletepossibly the best hop picture ever...so cute!!! Picking a villian was hard, what a good question. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
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