" Commenting on the villain, Champlin writes, " Its leader, who intends to dispose of practically everyone, is as colorless a supervillain as ever Bond has faced.

It follows Ratchet and Clank's adventure through a fictional universe to defeat a robotic villain, Dr. Nefarious, who intends to destroy all organic life.

The villain, Robert Lovelace, Kidnapping | abducting Clarissa HarloweLovelace intends to marry Clarissa to avenge her family's treatment of him and wants to possess both her body as well as her mind.

If a dragon acted as the villain, but was killed by the hero, another character ( such as the dragon's sisters ) might take on the role of the villain and pursue the hero.

Monroe left the series to pursue her film career after her character was murdered by a recurring villain, the Boston Reaper, in its 100th episode.

Unable to pursue the villain due to being cut off from the Celestial World with no MAGI and fearing the destruction of the world is at hand, the protagonist's father reappears and reveals the Guardians spread misinformation about the MAGI and that there are actually 78.

Basically the player needed to pursue a villain across time through the ages overcoming various obstacles along the way while undoing all the damage done by Vulcor.

The same title depicts Magneto's escape and return to Earth using a spaceship he repairs when the Stranger leaves the planet and leaving the Toad behind, although the Stranger recaptures the villain after Professor X telepathically alerts the Stranger.

His goal was world domination in the vein of a James Bond villain.

While it has been cited as a " complex and compelling villain " by some critics, its goal of world domination was received as a trait shared by "… every anime villain …", and likened to a James Bond villain by Daily Record.

Here, he played the villain Dr. Kesslee, the evil director of the global Water and Power Company, whose main goal in the story was to control the planet's entire water supply on a future desert-like, post-apocalyptic Earth.

Often, the general thrust of the Arabian Knights adventures deals with the Knights trying to effect some action against Bakaar ’ s soldiers, finding a means to further complete their goal of turning the tables on the evil dictator, or dealing with another villain set within the Knights ' universe.

Wilson was almost an immediate villain when the game started as he deflected a vicious volley from Wednesday's Jim McCalliog into the net after just four minutes, though McCalliog rightly claimed the goal as his own.

The series ' chief villain ( at least in the first season ) was Princess Ardala ( played by Pamela Hensley ) whose goal was to conquer the Earth whilst making Buck her consort.

The Game Boy version ( entitled Dragon's Lair: The Legend ) in particular has almost nothing to do with the source game aside from Dirk as the protagonist, Mordroc as the villain, and saving Princess Daphne as the objective.

Convincing him to join the group to keep him close and safe, she later assists him in saving the Planet from the game's villain, Sephiroth.

This destiny often involves saving a city, kingdom, or other large group from harm by a powerful villain or a dangerous monster.

After proving heroism in saving Thor from the villain and an expert usage of Mjolnir, the hammer then forged Bill's own hammer out of a toilet brush, after which Bill chooses from names such as " Windbreaker " before finally settling on " Stormbreaker.

Indeed, Sabbath was not the main villain of the book, and was in fact instrumental in saving the Doctor's life.

Fortunately, Anita double-crossed the villain and aided in saving Kara and her parents.

Bruce blames himself for letting Harvey go beyond saving and become a villain himself, serving time in Arkham, like many of the people Dent put there.

As a result of this, Atom Smasher's mother was saved ( as she was on the plane when it crashed ), but Atom Smasher replaced his mother with a weakened Extant, saving her life but try to murder the super villain to stop his threat and ensure that the same number of people died on that plane who had died originally.

There are several significant developments in the series: villainesses Titania and Volcana are created ; the second Spider-Woman, Julia Carpenter, is introduced ; Spider-Man finds and wears the black costume for the first time, initially unaware that it is actually an alien symbiote ( the symbiote would subsequently bond with journalist Eddie Brock, giving birth to the villain known as Venom ); Doctor Doom temporarily steals the Beyonder's power ; having fallen in love with the alien healer Zsaji ( who sacrifices her life on Battleworld to save the heroes ), mutant Colossus ends his romantic relationship with a heartbroken Kitty Pryde ; and the Thing chooses to remain behind on Battleworld and explores the galaxy for a year, with She-Hulk temporarily joining the Fantastic Four as his replacement.

" Rushworth Kidder of the Christian Science Monitor praised the film for giving audiences a view of their modern life from a different perspective, while simultaneously proving that a film does not need to have murder, violence, innuendo or even a main villain for dramatic storytelling.

Cunning and sly, he is a villain to be feared, thus giving him the name.

Harris spent most of the remainder of his career as a voice actor, heard in television commercials as well as cartoons such as Channel Umptee-3, The Banana Splits, My Favorite Martians, Rainbow Brite, Darkwing Duck, Happily Ever After, Problem Child, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light ( giving a master class in sycophancy as lackey to the main villain ), Freakazoid!

However, Triple H turned on Shawn Michaels that same night ; he had teased the reunion as a ploy to appease Michaels and lure him to the ring before giving him a Pedigree, making Triple H a villain once again.

After the Baudelaires confront Lulu about this, she breaks down and reveals that she used to be a noble person, but had been giving information to anyone that asked for it, be they " volunteer or villain ".

Dr. Oh No No No: A villain who takes over the secret military organization base and plans to power the Sheep-Powered Ray Gun with an elephant, giving it " enough power to destroy the world ".

He was equally confident in playing the swashbuckling horse-riding villain in Sinha's Jhinder Bandi giving the legendary Uttam Kumar a tough challenge.

Robert M. Price has suggested that Kuttner, by giving the name " Abigail Prinn " to the villain of his short story " The Salem Horror ", may have been suggesting that the Salem witch Abigail was a descendant of the Brussels sorcerer.

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.

In some works the villain may have had a predecessor / s who might have been superior or inferior to them.

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.

The character of Sweeney Todd is presented as a villain in Marc Andreyko's Manhunter series, where he appears as a ghost which possesses men ( causing them to resemble him ) and murders women.

Several authors excelled, after misleading their readers successfully, in revealing to them convincingly an unlikely suspect as the real villain of the story.

Kaufman decides to become a professional wrestler — but to emphasize the “ villain ” angle, he would wrestle only women ( hired actresses ) and then berate them after winning, declaring himself " Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion ".

When Donald received super powers he became a super villain known as the Duck of Doom, resulting in a battle between him and Huey, Dewey and Louie ( known as the T-Squad when they got their super powers ) to get them to clean their bedroom.

In May 2008, both Shueisha and Studio APPP halted manga / OVA shipments of JoJo after a complaint had been launched against them from Egyptian Islamic fundamentalists, after noticing a scene in the OVAs that has the villain, Dio Brando, reading a book depicting pages from the Qur ' an.

A. Milne said he had " a passion " for detective stories, having " all sorts of curious preferences " about them: though in real life the best detectives and criminals are professionals, Milne demanded that the detective be an unscientific amateur, accompanied by a likeable Watson, rubbing shoulders with an amateur villain against whom dossiers and fingerprints are of no avail.

He has a number of similarities with later characters created by Lovecraft, in particular Joseph Curwen, the villain of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Both were improbably old, such that no one remembered when they were young ; possessed vaguely defined but powerful abilities oriented around storing the dead in peculiar objects and calling them forth to serve them ; and had access to ancient coinage of precious metals ( as do the Whateleys in The Dunwich Horror ).

The Zone is shown splitting into three separate shards, one containing each villain, before it finally shatters, freeing them.

None of these acts necessarily occurs in a fairy tale, but when any of them do, the character that performs the act is the villain.

* Matt Fraction's spy-fi comic book series Casanova features a genius villain going by the name of Sabine Seychelle, who works with a large Indian bodyguard named Samir ; Fraction recounts his inspiration for them in the text column at the end of Casanova # 4 that " I liked the idea of Jonny Quest, all adult and crooked.

GameSpot named SHODAN one of the ten best computer game villains and one of the best female characters in gaming, compared her to HAL 9000, though noting that unlike Hal, SHODAN was unquestionably aware of her actions and the consequences of them, describing her as an unforgettable villain due to her personality and adding " is more believable than most game characters are, and in many ways, she actually seems more human.

" And although the earlier scream queens might be women that " just had to look pretty and shriek a lot until the hero of the film got around to save ( them )", the later scream queens " showcase women worrying about something other than a guy ... unless said guy is the one trying to kill them ", with some of them " wreaking vengeance " by defeating the villain.

Other stories have had villains use deathtraps as a means of testing the heroes or to distract them while the villain attends to other matters.

The majority of novels of that era were whodunnits, and several authors excelled, after successfully leading their readers on the wrong track, in convincingly revealing to them the least likely suspect as the real villain of the story.

The villain had also previously tortured Selina's sister Maggie by drilling out her husband's eyeballs and feeding them to Maggie, which drove her insane.

With the Operation Overdrive Power Rangers powers disabled by the villain Thrax, the Sentinel Knight summons four former Rangers and one from the future so they can defend the Corona Aurora jewels ( restoring Ranger powers to those who previously lost or damaged them ), with Adam as their leader because he is the most senior of the team, and he has more encounters or connections with Thrax's parents.

In the video game Tales of Symphonia, there is a long-running theme of discrimination against half-elves to the point at which the main villain, Mithos Yggdrasill, feels it necessary to build a new planet for them.

In the book No Country for Old Men ( and the film made of it ), Anton Chigurh, the story's villain, occasionally flips coins for potential victims to decide whether or not to kill them.