After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

The most famous Gothic villain ever, Count Dracula was created by Bram Stoker in his novel Dracula ( 1897 ).

The character was conceived in late 1972 when Marvel Comics acquired the comic book rights to Sax Rohmer's pulp novel villain Dr. Fu Manchu while they also held the rights to the Kung Fu television program.

Mark Twain made Merlin the villain in his 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Spalatro has a typically Gothic Italian setting, featuring a bandit as hero, à la Ann Radcliffe ( whose 1797 novel The Italian includes a repentant minor villain of the same name ).

However, some did question the propriety of having Lovelace, the villain of the novel, act in such an immoral fashion.

The couple was asked to make Morris less of a villain than he was in their play and the original novel in deference to the studio's desire to capitalize on Montgomery Clift's reputation as a romantic leading man.

* The Other Mother – The creature that created much of the Other World and the main villain of the novel.

* In the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore, Richard Roxburgh portrays the main villain named the Fantom, whose true identity was eventually revealed to be Professor James Moriarty, who also posed as the League's recruiter M ; with a blackmailed Dorian Gray as his agent, Moriarty acquired samples from the League with the intention of duplicating their powers for his own goals.

It was immortalised by Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, in which the principal villain Bill Sikes meets a nasty end in the mud of ' Folly Ditch ' an area which was known as Hickmans Folly — the scene of an attack by Spring Heeled Jack in 1845 — surrounding Jacob's Island.

The plot of Dickens ' original novel is considerably simplified for the purposes of the musical, with Fagin being represented more as a comic character than as a villain, and large portions of the latter part of the story being completely left out.

In contrast, Ken Follett's historical novel The Pillars of the Earth and that TV mini-series depict Stephen as a conniving villain.

* Peter David ( born 1956 ), science fiction / fantasy author who spent his adolescence in Verona and has used it as a location in his fiction work, such as being the home location of villain Morgan le Fay in his first novel, Knight Life.

* In Tad Williams ' 1995 novel Caliban's Hour, the story of The Tempest is told through the point of view of Caliban with Prospero portrayed as the villain of the story, being shown as manipulative, prejudiced with colonialistic attitudes ( especially towards Caliban ) and capable of murderous violence.

James Whale's film The Man in the Iron Mask is very loosely adapted from Dumas ' novel and, by contrast, depicts Fouquet as the story's main villain, who tries to keep the existence of the King's twin brother a secret.

Dominant themes of the novel include: the rise and fall of the ideal liege ( Liu Bei ) finding the ideal minister ( Zhuge Liang ); the conflict between the ideal liege ( Liu Bei ) and the consummate villain ( Cao Cao ); and the cruelties and injustice of feudal or dynastic government.

* In The Power ( novel ), a 1956 book by Frank M. Robinson, the villain consciously models himself upon Nietzsche's Übermensch, and a quotation from Nietzsche serves as the book's motto.

Auric Goldfinger was described by Raymond Benson as " Fleming's most successful villain to date " and Fleming gives him a number of character flaws that are brought out across the novel.

He has starred as Count Fosco, the villain of Wilkie Collins's novel The Woman in White, in film ( 1997 ) and on stage ( 2005, in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in the West End ).

* Mark Gatiss's second Lucifer Box novel The Devil in Ambers main villain is a thinly-veiled version of Mosley named Olympus Mons.

In the preface of the novel he notes that the story originally came from a desire on his part to write a detective story where the principal character, the villain, is ignorant of who the detective is.

* Cardinal Richelieu-The main villain of the novel.

He has a mysterious past connecting him with the villain of the novel, Milady de Winter.

* Mercedes Lackey's novel of Stravinsky's Firebird features Katschei as the main villain, retelling the classic tale for a modern audience.

Parsons also was the main villain of the Atomic Robo short story " Rocket Science is a Two-Edged Sword ," wherein Robo prevents Parsons from attaining godhood through a system of magick infused with science.

The villain of the Demon Sword video game is also literally called ' Dark Lord '.

However, killing the God-Beasts plays right into the hands of the villain as killing them sends their power to the Sword of Mana.

The characters travel into the Sanctuary and the Main Character claims the Mana Sword ; however, it is soon discovered that the Main Character's adversaries ( Koren and the Darkshine Knight for Angela and Duran ; Jagan and Bigieu for Riesz / Lise and Hawkeye ; or the Deathjester and Heath for Kevin and Carlie / Charlotte ) ( the villains that aren't the main character's primary enemies are killed by whoever the main villain is ) has captured the Faerie and will only release her in exchange for the Mana Sword.

However, after doing this they realize killing the Benevodons gives more power to their main enemy ( the Dragon Emperor for Duran and Angela, the Dark Prince for Hawkeye and Riesz, or Masked Mage for Kevin and Charlotte ), and the already powerful villain absorbs the power of the Sword of Mana and the Benevodons to become a god, but is halted by the Mana Goddess blocking some of his power.

Thulsa Doom returned as a Conan villain in the pages of Conan and some issues of Conan's black-and-white magazine, Savage Sword of Conan ( issues # 190-193 ).

In Criss Cross, Siodmak achieves all these effects with purpose, wrapping them around Yvonne De Carlo, playing the most understandable of femme fatales, Dan Duryea, in one of his many charismatic villain roles, and Lancaster — already an established star — as an ordinary laborer turned armed robber, doomed by a romantic obsession.

Pedro was introduced as a villain in the first show and was teamed up with Fernando by the second show, so someone to talk to, to plan with, to blame when things went wrong as they always did.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Then there is the villain, who is the epitome of evil, either by his ( usually a man ) own fall from grace, or by some implicit malevolence.

In trying to bond with her, Jean senses its memories of death and destruction as Dark Phoenix and rejects it, causing it to bond with and animate a lifeless clone of Jean Grey created by the villain Mister Sinister.

Following Cyclops ' possession by the mutant villain Apocalypse and apparent death, Jean continues with the X-Men, but is distraught by the loss of her husband.

When the Justice Society's forced attempt to stop them by sending Hawkman and Captain Marvel against them met with failure and resulted in Superman and Batman briefly infiltrating the White House, Luthor, in an enraged and desperate gambit after Superman's rapid defeats of his plans, used a variant combination of the " super-steroid " Venom ( a chemical associated with the Batman villain Bane ), liquid synthetic Kryptonite, and an Apokoliptian battlesuit to fight Superman directly.

Ned Grossberg is a recurring villain on the series, played by former SNL cast member Charles Rocket.

After his death, Richard's image was blackened by his Tudor successors, culminating in the famous portrayal of him in Shakespeare's play Richard III as a physically deformed machiavellian villain who cheerfully commits numerous murders in order to claw his way to power.

Frakes cast Krige after finding that she had all of the mentioned qualities, and being impressed by her performance in Ghost Story ; the director considers her the sexiest Star Trek villain of all time.

For instance, in " The Adventure of the Three Garridebs ", Watson is wounded in a confrontation with a villain ; although the bullet wound proves to be " quite superficial ", Watson is moved by Holmes's reaction:

Indeed, Gregory of Nazianzus, who, along with Pope Gregory VII, features as the villain in many of these stories, may have been taken by Sappho's poetry but were interested in ending her influence and increasing their own.

In Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly you still find the scheme of a pair of heroes vs. a villain but it is somewhat relaxed, as here all three parties were driven by a money motive.

* " Return of the Elokians " includes a call for help, an earthquake, a confrontation with the villain King Snake, whose henchmen include members of HAVOC, and a lost world cavern occupied by a race facing extinction.

In an episode that spoofed the contest between the Champion and Earth's strongest superheroes from the Champion's first appearance in Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 7, the villain Rasslor ( voiced by professional wrestler " Macho Man " Randy Savage ) challenges and easily defeats Earth's superheroes ( consisting of Valhallen, Major Glory, Sam-R-I, Phan Tone, Krunk, White Tiger, Capital G, and Living Bullet ) in single combat until Monkey was the sole remaining challenger, having been dismissed as being unworthy of Rasslor repeatedly throughout the event.

During the adventure, the player-heroes have to stop a crime wave being carried out by the Crusaders ' opposite numbers, a villain team called the Crushers.

* In the TV-series Black Scorpion, the villain Aftershock used gauntlets that were said to be powered by " vibranium ".

They are attacked by the Isolationist, a villain with a plan to kill all mutants, but defeat him with the unintended help of Pietro Maximoff.

Die Hard with a Vengeance ( 1995 ) featured a scene where villain Simon Peter Gruber ( Jeremy Irons ) required NYPD Lt. John McClane ( Bruce Willis ) to wear a sandwich board reading " I hate niggers " while standing on a street corner in predominantly-black Harlem, resulting in McClane meeting Zeus Carver ( Samuel L. Jackson ) as Carver rescued McClane from being attacked by neighborhood toughs.

* Andrew Wells — Another former villain, Andrew is an immature nerd who was captured by the Scoobies.