Ralph is a villain who lacks the villainous gene, a heavy who dreams of lightness.
The Dow Jones chief executive has a name like a Bond villain, looks like Montgomery Burns and dresses like Prince, and he could well be the new boss of a new media empire.
940bd0fe-be7f-426f-832a-ffe7a9dba6ee "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness," George Orwell's O'Brien, villain of Nineteen Eighty-Four, tells the novel's hero Winston, in a dream.
The traditional response to the announcement of a female adversary leads the forums to wildly speculate: "Could she really be the Rani?" as if bringing back a twice-used 80s panto villain played by Kate O'Mara would be high up Steven Moffat's to-do list.
The villain of Disney's Meet the Robinsons is shown in flashback as a sad-faced orphan in a children's home.
These days, she might well pine for a villain or two.
Russell, who starred in Tarantino's Death Proof, was due to play a villain named Ace Woody who trains slaves to fight each other for public amusement.
Starring Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Chris Evans as Captain America and Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, Age of Ultron sets the titular superhero ensemble against titular intelligent robot villain Ultron, voiced by James Spader.
And I feel a little bit like a Bond villain, saying 'victory is ours'.
The actor's personal history as a convicted murderer and Baltimore drug dealer (a career that continued well into her time working on the Wire, apparently) lends credence and disquiet to a character described by Stephen King as "the most terrifying female villain ever to appear in a television series".
Rolf, how long did it take you to shift from your vision of Kimberly-Clark as a villain to that of a partner?
