Jennifer McKenzie
Romance--Boy meets girl. Romantic Suspense--Boy meets girl with dead bodies.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
My Favorite Villian
I have a really cool picture that won't upload for me. *Sigh*. My favorite villian is Grianne Omsford. Also known as The Isle Witch. In "The Isle Witch" by Terry Brooks, she is a powerful and amoral soul seeking more power to defeat the last remaining Druid. Walker Boh, the reluctant Druid and last of his kind, must stop her. She is a fabulous villianess. Vicious, deceitful and beautiful, she despatches barriers with ease. An Omsford, heir to the Wishsong legacy, she has no idea that the real deception is within herself.
Grianne is turned evil and redeemed. Perhaps that's why I love her as a villian. She's evil, wicked, a killer, a liar and yet, in the end, she is saved. If you've never read Terry Brooks's Shannara series, I highly recommend it.
Another villian I love is The Master Criminal in Elizabeth Peters's "The Curse Of The Mummy" and several other Amelia Peabody mysteries. He has a name, but if you read the books, you won't want me to tell you. The Master Criminal is a wonderful invention and has designs on Amelia Peabody. Her hubby Professor Emerson is not amused. Adding the villian's lust for the heroine was a lot of fun, actually. Elizabeth Peters is a genius.
See the pattern here?
I like my villians to be human with human feelings. One of the reasons I HATED ( and I don't use that word lightly) the movie "Seven" (Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman) is because the bad guy essentially wins in the end. The villian minipulates everyone and gets what he wants. I like the bad guy to get what's coming to him. Making villians human, yet giving them what they've got coming to them is a tough proposition.
Without giving spoilers, I will say that Brooks doesn't give Grianne a free pass. She pays. And Peters manages to make The Master Criminal likeable without giving approval to his criminal activities. He pays too.
Like a HEA, I must have justice.
OK, who is your favorite villian? Movies, books, TV, doesn't matter.
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