Comments on: The Most Evil Fictional Characters in Literature

By: Ari

Ari — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:14:08 +0000

I disagree that Cthulhu is evil. He just is. His followers, however, are insane and evil, and think that their sacrifices will appease him. Cthulhu just doesn’t care…that’s the point to Lovecraftian horror. Humanity is not some cosmic big shot because we have intelligence and religion and so on…humanity is ultimately insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

Do the bacteria in our bathrooms see us as the Ultimate Evil because we smite them with the Dreaded Scourge of Lysol during that Time of Tribulations known as Spring Cleaning? Of course not, and if they did…well, too bad. Same with Cthulhu, to whom humans are as noteworthy as germs.

By: molecanthro

molecanthro — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:14:50 +0000

must be Woland and Behemoth from Bulgakov’s ‘The Master and Margarita.’
Though I guess it depends on your definition of evil…personally, I loved them

By: Mr. Vorhias

Mr. Vorhias — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:30:41 +0000

Wasn’t Satan supposed to be the protagonist in Paradise Lost?

As long as we’re going with likeable villains, why not include Ozymandias from The Watchmen? A book that’s better written than the Bible.

By: Javier

Javier — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:09:53 +0000

In My opinion from reading Paradise Lost I found God to be the evil villain and Satan to be the hero and the character you have sympathy for. I mean he is going up against the biggest totalitarian dictator there is. I mean does it get bigger than God.

By: SarahH

SarahH — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:26:13 +0000

@cautious:

Oh man, I need to read that. Cruella’s hair turns green! It sounds kind of morbid too. Maybe she’s more evil than I gave her credit for.

By: Greta Christina

Greta Christina — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:04:30 +0000

I’m going to have to go with other folks here:

Jehovah, in the Old Testament.

What a jerk.

By: Franklin

Franklin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:53:45 +0000

Actually, I have no clue why Mrs. Coulter made the list. Whoever made that list either read only the first book (Golden Compass) or didn’t do a good job reading the whole His Dark Materials trilogy. I’m going to refrain from spoilers (anyone who hasn’t read Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” series really should though; it’s not only extremely entertaining and creative but makes great points about secular humanism), but one of the great things about it is that all the characters aren’t “good” or “evil”; just human. Man, I could write forever about that trilogy.

Oh, and don’t bother with the movie.

By: cipher

cipher — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:18:28 +0000

I rather like the fact that a woman named “Coulter” made the list!

(I wish the other one were fictional as well.)

By: Elsa

Elsa — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:16:46 +0000

How is Iago more evil than Aaron from Tidus Andronicus? “Villain, I have done thy mother!”

By: Saint Gasoline

Saint Gasoline — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:54:06 +0000

Satan is actually often interpreted as the hero of Paradise Lost, because he is a lot easier to relate to and possesses many heroic qualities (“I’d rather suffer in hell than be a slave in heaven”). This led Blake to write that Milton is “a true Poet, and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.”