villain
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“She was a sort of villain who you related to and rooted for,” said writer Rachel Lipman, who joined the show as the first season was coming together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
It is easy in retrospect to turn Edison into a rent-seeking villain protecting his investment in DC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Given all the suffering I’d seen, I had expected my medbed search to end with a villain.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Thanks to skirmishes with Bordeaux-Begles in the Champions Cup, Pollock has pantomime villain status in the country.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
If there were such a goddess in a book of olden tales, she would be the villain, tormenting the innocent from her high castle.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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He has played gangsters, soldiers, policemen, politicians, patriots, villains, comic characters and tragic figures, while moving between Hindi and Marathi cinema and sometimes also working behind the camera as a director and writer.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Mr. Barnett, who has written adaptations of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” and “Rumpelstiltskin,” is clearly steeped in the grand tradition of fairy-tale villains getting their comeuppance without apology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Wicked they may be, but these villains have artistic sensibilities and impeccable taste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Tech CEOs, mimicking the villains of sci-fi, are telling the public that resistance is futile.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Yeah, villains always think they're doing things for the greater good."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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