Word: villainized
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...looking for the villain behind Cho's sadistic spree, consider what it has in common with every multiple-murder tragedy in recent U.S. history: the young man had easy access to a few of the 200 million guns available in this country, and used them to slaughter people who never did him harm...
...self-mutilation, in a world where Original Sin blots out the sunlight of redemption. Oh essentially takes the major blame for all the awful things that have happened to him. And when he finally faces his captor, he goes medieval on himself: ripping out his tongue, begging for the villain's mercy and licking his shoes...
...villain of Children is the cowardly and spiteful Morgoth, who's your basic evil incarnate. Tolkien's baddies rarely have much in the way of personality, and Morgoth spends most of his time squatting in his dark fortress of Angband, casting a shadow over the land and generally making war on all that is just and beautiful. He leaves most of the actual scrapping to his lieutenants, most notably Glaurung, a wingless, wormy and rather sarcastic dragon...
...Choosing sides is difficult here, if you're not as entranced with the sassy talk of tough broads as Tarantino is (at least when he's supplying the talk). Or maybe he didn't care much about delineating heroes and villains. Perhaps he wanted to set up an old-fashioned competition: stunt driver vs. stunt girl. Nonetheless, Zoe is asking for it. If you strap yourself to the hood of a car going 120 mph, don't be surprised if you and your friends get in trouble, with or without the menace of a Stuntman Mike...
...Harding or Nancy Kerrigan, especially given that Kerrigan actually makes an appearance in the film. However, Poehler claims she didn’t use any figure skating greats as inspiration for her character, Fairchild van Waldenberg.“I based my character more on, like, a great Bond villain,” she says, explaining that Waldenberg is not your typical teen skating queen.“What I did think about was prima ballerinas and ice queens, like really rich mothers. And also, like, super villains, where from the outside they look very together and inside, they?...