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A villain (also known as a "black hat" or "bad guy"; the feminine form is villainess) is a stock character, whether based on a historical narrative or one of literary ...
The Villain, starring Oliver Hardy; Villain, a British gangster film; The Villain, a sendup of Westerns, starring Kirk Douglas; Khal Nayak or The Villain, a 1993 Indian film by Subhash Ghai starring Sanjay Dutt; Villain, an Indian Tamil film directed by K. S. Ravikumar starring Ajith Kumar
To other scholars, an antihero is inherently a hero from a specific point of view, and a villain from another. [4] Typically, an antihero is the focal point of conflict in a story, whether as the protagonist or as the antagonistic force. [5]
While narratives often portray the protagonist as a hero and the antagonist as a villain, like Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter, the antagonist does not always appear as the villain. In some narratives, like Light Yagami and L in Death Note, the protagonist is a villain and the antagonist is an opposing hero.
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Wuxia (武俠, literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of historical fantasy literature, its popularity has caused it to be adapted for such diverse art forms as Chinese opera, manhua, television dramas, films, and video games.
In historical Germanic society, níð (ᚾᛁᚦ, Old English: nīþ, nīð; Old Dutch: nīth) was a term for a social stigma implying the loss of honour and the status of a villain. A person affected with the stigma is considered a níðingr (ᚾᛁᚦᛁᚴᛦ, Old English: nīðing, nīðgæst, or Old High German: nidding).
Mephistopheles , a villain in the Xena: Warrior Princess TV series; Mephisto, a character on the Australian television series, Double the Fist; Mephisto, a character in the anime Suite PreCure; Mephisto Pheles, a son of Satan in the manga/anime Blue Exorcist; Mephisto, a character in the feature art film The Last Faust