Superman is given a piece of manufactured Kryptonite, but instead of weakening or killing him it drives him crazy, depressed, angry, and casually destructive, committing crimes which range from petty acts of vandalism to environmental disasters, like causing an oil spillage in order to bed a lusty woman by the name of Loreli in league with the villains.

Often what drives the plot is the hero's need to find the object before the villain and use it for good rather than evil, or if the object has been broken by the villains, to retrieve each piece that must be gathered from each antagonist to restore it, or, if the object itself is evil, to destroy it.

In the plot of the play " Eastward Hoe ", presented on the London stage in 1605, the villains of the piece attempt to flee to Virginia after accumulating debts in England.

In this sense, each narrative thread is the narrative portion of a work that pertains to the world view of the participating characters cognizant of their piece of the whole, and they may be the villains, the protagonists, a supporting character, or a relatively disinterested official utilized by the author, each thread of which is woven together by the writer to create a work.

According to one account, Lill's businessman father suggested that in successful drama, even the villains have to be real, a piece of advice that she apparently took to heart.

There are no villains in the piece.

" However, he felt that the villains of the piece were neither particularly convincing (" not precisely representatives of the workaday financial world "), original (" cut from a fairly familiar stencil of Kaufmanesque farce "), or formidable enough (" The problems set up by the play-wrights are little barriers of cardboard farce ").

Ken Fox of the TV Guide praised Dragojević for " ultimately refusing to deal in heroes and villains and never shying away from self-condemnation " while concluding that Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is " a bloody, uncompromising and surprisingly enthralling piece of antiwar filmmaking that pulls no punches and demands to be seen ".

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

* The " Draug " are villains that walk ashore onto fictional " Solomon Island ", New England in " The Secret World ".

Miyazaki's works are characterised by the recurrence of progressive themes, such as environmentalism, pacifism, feminism, and the absence of villains.

Even where there can be no doubt as to whose side the author is on, the antagonists are usually not depicted as villains but as honourable on their own terms.

In Ivanhoe, as in the Waverley novels, religious and sectarian fanatics are the villains, while the eponymous hero is a bystander who must weigh the evidence and decide where to take a stand.

In early books most activities are illegal, although directed at villains.

* The first two pages of Ian Fleming's novel Diamonds Are Forever are told from the point of view of an African scorpion which kills and eats a beetle and is then casually crushed and killed itself, by one of the villains whom James Bond would later confront and eventually crush.

The heroes are called to dislodge a group of villains from a nuclear reactor.

Sentinels are designed to hunt mutants who often represent the protagonists of Marvel stories ; therefore, the sentinels are usually employed as supervillains or as the tools of other villains.

Mysterious men comprising a shadow element within the U. S. government, known as " The Syndicate ", are the major villains in the series ; late in the series it is revealed that The Syndicate acts as the only liaison between mankind and a group of extraterrestrials that intends to put an end to human life as we know it.

The trick to making him acceptable is never to show him in a normal world, just fighting villains who are odder than he is!

The strip's villains are arguably the strongest appeal of the story.

Many heroes and villains who do not have a permanent headquarters are said to have a mobile base of operations.

In Mongoose Publishing's Drow War trilogy, the drow are recast as lawful evil villains and likened to the Nazis.

The narrative itself revolves around the mobile suits and their pilots fighting in a war, in which destruction and dehumanization are inherent, through multiple sides ; each faction having their own heroes and villains, all of which have their own unique motives, failings, and virtues.

In the Season One episode " The Carriers ," one of the villains reads a book whose title is the ( incorrect ) Russian Na Voina ( About War ); police vehicles are often labelled as such with words such as " poliiçia ", and " poIiia ", and a gas line or tank would be labelled " Gaz " which is a Romanian translation.

Not all mad scientists are evil or villains such as Simon Bar Sinister.

Some may have benevolent or good spirited intentions, even if their actions are dangerous or questionable, which can make them accidental villains.

There are no real villains ; everybody's just doing their job, trying to maximize income in a capitalist system.

The Beagle Boys make cameos in the Darkwing Duck episode " In Like Blunt ", where they are among the villains bidding on a list of S. H. U. S. H.

While Nefarious is reasonably smart ( although his own megalomania sometimes hinders his plans ), his three accomplices are thoroughly inept comical villains.

Contraltos sometimes are assigned feminine roles like Angelina in La Cenerentola, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and Olga in Eugene Onegin, but more frequently they play female villains or assume trouser roles originally written for castrati.

There are no heroes connected with the film, only two villains ; their names are Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

While early Eurocentric Westerns frequently portray the " Injuns " as dishonorable villains, the later and more culturally neutral Westerns ( notably those directed by John Ford ) gave native Americans a more sympathetic treatment.

" It is not known whether Jane witnessed the execution of either her husband or her sister-in-law, but the posthumous sympathy Anne aroused in many ( particularly sentimentalists ) meant that many of those linked to her fall were cast in the roles of villains.

But those heroines, as played by actresses such as Linda Stirling and Kay Aldridge, were often strong, assertive women who ultimately played an active part in vanquishing the villains.

Academic Christoph Lindner identifies the character of Marc-Ange Draco as an example of those characters who have morals closer to those of the traditional villains, but who act on the side of good in support of Bond ; others of this type include Darko Kerim ( From Russia, with Love ), Tiger Tanaka ( You Only Live Twice ) and Enrico Colombo (" Risico ").

One-off villains, mostly those played by Valdés, like Wild West outlaw El Rascabuche, are also fondly remembered by fans.

In the " Risico " story, academic Christoph Lindner identifies the character of Enrico Colombo as an example of those characters who have morals closer to those of the traditional villains, but who act on the side of good in support of Bond ; others of this type include Darko Kerim ( From Russia, with Love ), Tiger Tanaka ( You Only Live Twice ) and Marc-Ange Draco ( On Her Majesty's Secret Service ).

A high account is given to learning: those who are " well-read " are often sympathetic characters, while those who shun knowledge are villains.

The story climaxes at the Magus ' base: a group of heroes free those who were replaced by doppelgängers ; cosmic adventurer Quasar arrives with the Ultimate Nullifier ( with Thanos goading Quasar to use it against the Magus knowing that Quasar would also be destroyed ) and villains Kang the Conqueror and Doctor Doom appear, hoping to harness the source of the powerful energies detected.

Truggs also makes the dial capable of changing individuals other than himself into villains if he desires ; those transformed would then be under Truggs ' control.

The Wizards of the Coast web series The Dark Forces Saga highlighted his background, as well as those of most of the other heroes and villains found in the games.

They tend, like George RR Martin, Robert Jordan, or Robin Hobb, to use several viewpoints, of " heroes " or " villains ", and to blur the distinction between those two categories.

Outside of Validus, the Dominion, and his Destructo-Bots, Imperiex works with and recruits villains such as Mekt Ranzz, Ron-Karr, and Grimbor the Chainsman to aid him, although he was perplexed by those villains who left him.

* Spike's in the basement of the newly refurbished Sunnydale High, The First appears before him as a host of former villains: Warren, Glory, Adam, the Mayor, Drusilla and Buffy's first big bad, the Master, and since it's able to appear as those who have died, its last manifestation is as Buffy herself.

( Others are " The Five Orange Pips " and The Hound of the Baskervilles, though in both those cases Providence exacts vengeance on the villains.

Although she was first allied with villains, she once seemed to see error in those ways and retire to a normal life.

The stories these puppets would portray are those of the ancient European poems and epics, such as Turoldus ' " La Chanson de Roland ", Ariosto's " Orlando Furioso ", Boiardo's " Orlando Innamorato ", and Tasso's " Gerusalemme Liberata ", bringing to life the glory and spirit of the Crusades, battles of knights and kings, and the struggle of heroes against villains and evil wizards.

Along with structure and organization, materialism is heavily derided ; the Borribles have fulfilling existences despite their lack of possessions, while those who crave material wealth are inevitably presented as villains.

The Muslim heroes are invariably those who accommodated Hinduism in their belief systems, while Orthodox Muslims are presented as villains.

She confuses the identities of the characters, including her own to show the similarities between heroes and villains and suggests that such distinctions as well as those between collaborators and resistors during the Second World War are pointless.

" He is one of the many villains who was mind-wiped by the JLA, but has since recovered those memories.