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    “A villain is a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot.” Cinderella is a folktale in which there is a poor, young girl who is always being bossed around by her step-sisters and stepmother. Cinderella is a girl who had always wanted to go to the big ball in which she would get to dress up and attend. Cinderella was always being mocked and pushed around by her sisters. Her father had once asked what the girls wanted, one replied with a gown the other pearls, and Cinderella

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    Villains Can be Heroes Too Disney movies, superheroes, and Greek mythology. Some might argue that these are unconnected subjects, but one thing they have in common is the presence of an epic hero. A hero is someone strong, brave, and, well, heroic. You can find people like this in all these subjects, including Disney's Wreck-It Ralph. Ralph, the title character, may not seem like your average epic hero, or hero at all, for that matter, with his pixelized overalls and title of “villain,” but there's

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    at these and start to believe this is how things actually are. The power the media has is unbelievable and over they years you can see they have used there power to increase stereotypes of Arab Americans. Arabs are represented in Hollywood as the villain, before and after 9/11 and this has contributed to the to the outlook of Arabs and Muslims in the public sphere. From the beginning of film making Arabs and Muslims were grouped as one by Hollywood. This is one of first stereotypes they created

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    powerful helpers to the hero’s quest. Galadriel’s cry of “all shall love me and despair” showed just how powerful and strong these female characters were becoming, though their experiences were still largely dependent on their male counterparts. Villains were also changing. There was sympathy for the bad guys. While there was still the overlying idea of good vs. evil, even evil characters had motives. They thought they were doing good and were fighting for their own cause just like our heroes were

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    have a story of origin on how the main characters established themselves as villains, desire to fit into society and becoming a hero towards the end. Yet, the key differences in the films are the circumstances that the main characters decided to become heroes and how the studios decided to portray the overall tone in the film. Megamind came to earth as a baby in his mini ship. It seems that Megamind was headed towards a perfect home, but fate decided that his ship would land in a prison. As a child

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    A villain is defined as a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot. A villain is the perfect word to describe Sheldon Plankton, otherwise known as Plankton, in the popular television series “Spongebob Squarepants”. Plankton’s ultimate goal throughout all 10 seasons is to steal his arch enemy, Mr. Krabs’ famed Krabby Patty secret formula. Plankton produces devious plans to obtain the secret formula, although they do have hints of genius, all of them are quite corrupt. One

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    There are many vital roles superheroes play in people's lives all around the world. Superheroes are iconic, fictional characters that carry superhuman powers and abilities and typically saves the world from evil villains. Society highly values superheroes because they have extraordinary powers and traits, a strong moral code, sense of responsibilities, distinctive costumes, a lair, a large quantity of enemies, and many more interesting characteristics. People admire or idolize superheroes because

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    In Rebecca, Jack Favell, is a very low key villain, he is not very important there more of a villain in Mrs. Danvers trying to split them apart and destroy I than Jack, the biggest enemy to the main characters is guilt and feeling out of place and not in control. This lack of control and villain of themselves is clearly shown in the scene of the home film, you see they were happy and in love in the honeymoon, but because of fear, doubt and some help for Mrs. Danvers, they lost the love. This film

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    antagonist, and in some cases what people would consider a villain. Every villain has different motives for what they do and different character traits. The one thing in common with most villains is being an opposing force to a hero. In many cases, the best villains are the most complex. One example of a complex villain from both a series of films and novels is the character Hannibal Lecter. In the books you can see that Hannibal Lecter is a villain with many positive traits that are perceived negative

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    or a villain for killing a lot of people? It’s possible he’s a tiny bit of both. V has a villainous mindset, but one could deem his intentions as heroic. Seeing him as either or, depends on different points of views. There is a fine line between hero and villain. “Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.” The title character by V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd is more of a hero than a villain. Indeed

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