Hollywood s Favorite Villains

All coppers are villains.

You see? Sly villains.

These villains burst into me room!

As far as villains go. In anime.

Shall We treat the Muslims like the villains?

Shall We treat the Muslims like the villains?

Those who look like gentlemen are in fact villains

Jones has proved himself one of the greatest villains on earth.

Our hero, alas, was always being exploited by villains like Black George.

leading to a rushed climax that will leave you wondering who are these random, last minute villains?

I want those villains brought to justice for the sake of all the helpless people who don't even know they've been had.

Season three and four have already been confirmed by the streaming service, the former receiving its first trailer, teasing the show's upcoming villains.

To be sure, sociopathic corporations have populated books and films for more than a century. But corporate villains, typically multinational companies, have never been so ubiquitous as today.

There are drug traffickers, politicians, businesspeople, journalists suspected of being on the payroll of the government or the cartels, a catalog of villains who make the job of covering Mexico's chaos perilous.

So Dr. Z's Lucifer Effect, although it focuses on evil, really is a celebration of the human mind's infinite capacity to make any of us kind or cruel, caring or indifferent, creative or destructive, and it makes some of us villains.

Today, it is multinational corporations that are increasingly being cast as the über villains of our globalized world. For all their subliminal paid promotions and subtle product placements, corporations are getting drubbed in the main story lines of our popular culture.

Policies targeting energy efficiency and security largely lapsed. Two generations came to think of declining oil prices as normal, which accounts for the current sense of entitlement, the outrage at rising prices, and the search for villains politicians, oil producing countries, and oil companies are all targets of scorn in public opinion surveys.

Has an overly forgiving nature prevented Filipinos from achieving closure in so many painful chapters of their history, or are the ravages of impunity to blame? With so few examples of justice clearly dispensed, and overwhelmed by examples of villains so easily forgiven or forgotten, perhaps Filipinos could not bring themselves to demand what they could not imagine.