There are many kinds of villains in stories with many different motivations. Handsome Jack from the Borderlands franchise is one example of a villain done right. Not only does he contrast well against the heros in the story, but he appeals well to the audience. The audience also sees how changes from being considered a hero by many to being undoubtedly a villain.
When we initially meet Handsome Jack he is the CEO of the Hyperion corporation and claims to be trying to civilize the crazy bandit-filled lawless planet called Pandora. In the first installment of the Borderlands franchise Handsome Jack did not directly make an appearance but was responsible for the events that took place. Four adventurers or, "Vault Hunters"; Roland, Brick, Mordecai, and Lilith, were searching for an ancient alien vault which they believed contained vast treasures. Jack made his daughter, Angel, pose as an AI to help them on their way and make sure that they opened The Vault so that Jack may weaponize what it released when it was opened. Jack was successful and the vault was opened. The second installment of the borderlands franchise begins with Handsome Jack trying, but intentionally failing, to murder to the main characters to again manipulate them with the help of Angel to take down the Pandoran resistance, formed by the Vault Hunters that he tricked, that is standing in his way and to open the Vault of The Warrior, which would allow him to control an intelligent super weapon called "The
Typically, villains commit multiple murders. This is true because at Pottawatomie he killed multiple people in many brutal ways and what he did alienated even his anti-slavery supporters. John Brown is a villain because he committed treason. According to Document C, in 1857, he hid 1,000 pikes in a farm in Maryland and had intended to use the pikes to start a revolution, but was caught and hanged. Also, “he attempted one of the greatest crimes against society, the stirring up of a servile and civil war”.
Jack Merridew is the antagonist of the Lord of The Flies novel. He is a dynamic character, he starts the story as a proper schoolboy then progresses into a brutal, barbaric boy who taught his choir to hunt and become a tribe. He is in constant fights with Ralph and Piggy because they stop him from having authority over the rest of the boys. Jack learns to love hunting and begins to become more like an animal when he paints his face and hunts lox to the ground sniffing the pig tracks. He overtakes Ralph ability to be chief by promising the rest of the boys that he will protect them and bring them meat.
1. Jack is a dynamic character who undergoes many changes throughout the book. At first he seems to be calm, but by the end he turns to violence.
How does American society define one’s self-worth? By how they look, what they drive or simply what they buy? In today’s consumer centric American culture, our goods represent us as Americans as well as the American cultural identity that revolves around materialistic goods. In which a typical American works from 9am-5pm to earn a sufficient amounts of money to buy and display his self-worth through a variety of cleverly advertised goods. In which the advertisement depicts a perfect world that is free of pain, suffering, where the typical American can escape his routine life and experience ephemeral “freedom”. To this very purpose of freedom that our founding fathers wrote the constitution to which today’s conformities ideals and societal norms
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, Your Honor, a terrible crime has been committed. Around five months ago, an aeroplane crashed into an abandoned island. This plane was carrying children and the only adults were the pilot and copilot who died on the scene. The children that survived created a society that kept them alive for two months, give or take a few weeks. They established a society where everyone had a place; a society that was ruled by a single chief, which was one of the elder boys. This boy tried to the best of his ability to keep everyone safe and keep peace among all the children. Ladies and Gentlemen, not all of the boys survived, some were killed by their fellow island mates. One of these boys was named Simon. Simon was killed
Jack Kilby had a typical childhood with two parents, Hubert Kilby, an electrical engineer, and Vina Freitag. Jack Kilby was born on November 8, 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri. He was hooked to the radio as a young boy. He even called it amateur radio buff. Kilby went on to serve in the military during World War II. He was stationed in India as a technician, even before attending school in the United States on the G.I. Bill.
Although Conan Doyle brilliantly articulates the differences among various villains in the canon, there is a common thread with quite a few of the antagonists: they are foreign. Foreign races, foreign cultures, foreign religions. This may just be a coincidence, but it is very possible that Conan Doyle subconsciously chose these characters in order to dehumanize them and make it easier for the readers to hate the villains that he created. Three notable examples of this foreign phenomenon are Tonga from The Sign of the Four, Beppo from The Six Napoleons, and Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson from A Study in Scarlet. Tonga and Beppo are described as physically abnormal and mentally inferior.
A lot of animated villains are portrayed as comical. They aren't usually created with much depth, especially in a children's movie. This is not true for Monseigneur Claude Frollo in Disney's adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. What makes a good villain isn't just being bad. It's about being truly,unapologetically evil.
The Whitechapel Murders and those of Jack the Ripper are not generally one and the same. Over a period of three years towards the end of the nineteenth century a number of prostitutes were murdered under different circumstances the murder of prostitutes was not an especially unique occurrence during those times but several of the murders drew particular attention on account of the savagery with which the victim's bodies were mutilated. Within the Whitechapel Murders was a cluster of murders that demonstrated sufficient similarities as to suggest that they were committed by the same person. One of the first instances of serial murder was thus identified and sensationalised in the media as the work of Jack the Ripper', nicknamed on the
Jack,is one of the main characters in the novel. He is a very self centered person. He cares for himself, and he wants to become the leader. He thinks that he'll be a better leader. He leaves and creates his own tribe.
A villain is a character in a book that uses their evil motives to help move the story. In The Leper of St Giles, Simon Aguilon is the villain. He has an evil motive to get ahead for his own selfish reasons. Simon is the nephew, heir, and squire to Baron Huon de Domville. As a squire, Simon must do everything Huon de Domville says without a fight or question. Being a squire, Simon always knew Domville’s whereabouts. When Domville went out the night before his wedding to Iveta, Domville told Simon that he was going riding. Simon was the only one who knew and where he was going. Domville rode to his mistress in a cottage in the woods. Simon was her escort for years now, so he knew his way to the cottage well enough. Domville spent the whole night
Jack's violence that had once been simply part of his disguise, seems to have become a part of him. And it seems to be something that Jack enjoys too much, somewhat like a psychopath. “Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy. Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife.” “Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands.” Jack's original plan of creating a new personality for himself seems to have gone to his head. And the psychopath within him has come alive.
Throughout history, there have been many different types of leaders. During World War II Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were dictators over Germany and Italy. The pair had a bellicose attitude who dominated over their nation, and the land they conquered. Jack parallels the two leaders with his leadership style. He rules with complete, and unquestioned power over the boys in his tribe. Even while he beats one of his followers for no known reason, not a single boy asked any questions about if it is right; or if they should still be in his tribe. Jack continuously manipulates the boys in his tribe to stay in control. After the murder of Simon, he tells them it wasn’t Simon, but instead it was the beast in disguise. He also tells them they
In the book, The Name of the Star, a teenage girl named Aurora, but goes by Rory, is moving to London to go to a boarding school. Rory’s parents are both a philosopher in college. London has the most cameras around, called CCTV cameras. Jack the Ripper is one of the most famous murderers. He used to go around London and kill people in creative ways. Well that was all in the 19th century. Now, there’s someone now going around and pretending to be the present Jack the Ripper. He killed them mostly in the same ways and in the same places. The only problem was that, only few people could see him. People under the age of eighteen who have had near-death experiences develop the ability to have the sight. The sight is when you can see people after they died. So they can basically see ghosts. The Ripper was a ghost. A ghost who can frantically go around and kill people. He can’t be seen on the CCTV cameras, so the only people who can see him is the people who have the sight. He soon realized that Rory can see him and he goes after her, making her his next target.
There are many things that evil villains are categorized as to doing, but there has always been an underlying reason for this. Often, the villain will have a hardship of their own, before they change their ways to be evil. The Disney villain stereotypes