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Villian caricature

A villain is a bad person, especially in fiction. Villains are the fictional characters, or perhaps fictionalized characters, in drama and melodrama who work to thwart the plans of the hero. As such, villains are an almost inevitable plot device, and more than the heroes, the villains are the crucial elements upon which plots turn. In the era before sound in motion pictures villains had to appear very "visually" sinister, and thus many villain stereotypes were born. (more...)

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