Word: villainizing
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...Midler), so they keep lowering the ransom price, until Mrs. Stone complains she's been "kidnapped by K-mart." In the end, however, their niceness triumphs; Sandy's sincerity and her ballgown designs win the heart of the bitchy Mrs. Stone, and they all band together against the real villain, Mr. Stone...
...nearby without due process of environmental law. In hot pursuit of the security leak, the Feds apply a very broad mop to the drips, insisting that the idealists are terrorists, thus gaining an informal license to kill. Yet even here Brickman cannot resist his best impulses; he makes his villain (the subtle John Mahoney) more a man befuddled under pressure than evil incarnate. And he permits Mathewson to evolve from absentminded professor into a hero who is morally all present and accounted...
Maybe the villain has no connection to Welles, and these dastardly deeds taken together make some sort of code, like in Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths," which can only be interpreted by someone holding a key bit of information...
Harry Flashman, a flamboyant but minor villain in Thomas Hughes' 19th century novel Tom Brown's School Days, moved to center stage in George MacDonald Fraser's comic-historical novels of imperial adventure. Previous volumes placed Flashman, now a mature, hard-drinking rogue, in and around the Crimean War, the African slave trade and the American gold rush. With great panache he became involved with figures ranging from Bismarck and Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria and Lola Montez...
...Israel; the second in 1979, after the overthrow of the Shah of Iran cut off that country's supply. The shortages, even though they were never greater than 10%, enabled the oil producers to crank prices ever higher. OPEC became a nasty acronym in the West, the favorite villain of cartoonists and columnists...