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GenieCat
09-25-2008, 06:21 AM
I'm not sure where to post this, so Kevin please feel free to move it to another board.

A new article in the Culture / Entertainment section of The Telegraph, lists several Disney baddies in the top fifty villains in literature: Captain Hook, Sher Khan, Cruella de Vil, and ;) Iago??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/20/bovillains120.xml&page=2
UrsulasShadow
09-25-2008, 06:34 AM
What?!?!? No Ursula?!?!?
lttlmc3
09-25-2008, 06:36 AM
What about the Evil Queen, Malificent, or the Stepmother? Wierd list.
WaltD4Me
09-25-2008, 07:48 AM
What?!?!? No Ursula?!?!?

Seriously! That list makes no sense... No Ursula?! No Malificent?!?!? I'm sorry, but these two should be # 1 and # 2 on the list and they aren't even on it at all. Definitely weird list.
deide71
09-25-2008, 08:02 AM
Seriously! That list makes no sense... No Ursula?! No Malificent?!?!? I'm sorry, but these two should be # 1 and # 2 on the list and they aren't even on it at all. Definitely weird list.


These villians were not in the originally literary versions of their stories. They were creations of Disney.
soupy11
09-25-2008, 09:31 AM
2 Samuel Whiskers from The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, by Beatrix Potter

To the stark terror of generations of toddlers, this chimney-dwelling monster rat ambushes Tom Kitten and does everything in his ratty power to bake him into a roly-poly pudding and eat him. Shudder-making terror from the doyenne of anthropomorphic animal evil. SL


LOL!

I don't think the list is to be taken too seriously, it's a bit of a laugh!
tinkbutt
09-25-2008, 09:46 AM
Voldermort made it and sitting at number 5!!! yay!!!
alebisi
09-25-2008, 05:41 PM
Iago from Othello, is REALLY EVIL.... why he didn't make number 1?? You know who was missed the Queen of Hearts of Alice in Wonderland... I mean she was evil maybe not to be top ten, but at least mention her.
checkwriter
09-25-2008, 09:01 PM
I think we may want to remember that it was Rudyard Kipling who created Shere Khan; J. M. Barrie who thought up Captain Hook; and some fellow named Shakespeare who claims to have given birth to Iago.

And what I did not know until now -- that one Dodie Smith wrote a novel in 1956 called "101 Dalmations." I'll have to check Alibris for that one.

Just giving some credit where credit is due . . . . :confused3
shaeJB
09-26-2008, 11:13 AM
I think we may want to remember that it was Rudyard Kipling who created Shere Khan; J. M. Barrie who thought up Captain Hook; and some fellow named Shakespeare who claims to have given birth to Iago.

And what I did not know until now -- that one Dodie Smith wrote a novel in 1956 called "101 Dalmations." I'll have to check Alibris for that one.

Just giving some credit where credit is due . . . . :confused3


Shakespeare's Iago, and the Disney's Iago are two completely different characters. Or am I missing something? :confused3

Oh, and just so you know - Dodie Smith wrote a sequel to 101 Dalmatians as well. It's completely different from both the original book and anything that Disney has done.
checkwriter
09-26-2008, 12:17 PM
Shakespeare's Iago, and the Disney's Iago are two completely different characters. Or am I missing something? :confused3


I don't think you're missing anything, but the "Iago" in the article referenced by the OP was Willie's, not Walt's.
GenieCat
09-26-2008, 02:26 PM
... the "Iago" in the article referenced by the OP was Willie's, not Walt's. Exactly, hence the ;)
shaeJB
09-26-2008, 02:51 PM
Oh, haha, my awareness doesn't kick in until noon :thumbsup2