50 greatest villains in literature

[GenieCat]

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]

What?!?!? No Ursula?!?!?

 

[lttlmc3]

What about the Evil Queen, Malificent, or the Stepmother? Wierd list.

 

[WaltD4Me]

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]

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]

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]

Voldermort made it and sitting at number 5!!! yay!!!

 

[alebisi]

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]

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 . . . .

 

[shaeJB]

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 . . . .

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

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]

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

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]

... the "Iago" in the article referenced by the OP was Willie's, not Walt's.

Exactly, hence the

 

[shaeJB]

Oh, haha, my awareness doesn't kick in until noon