L.J. Criddle asked Tracy Townsend:

What is your favorite fictional villain or nasty creature and what do you like about (it/him/her)?

Tracy Townsend Ooh, tough one! Okay, I'm going to cheat a bit and choose a couple.
From theater: Iago from Shakespeare's _Othello_. He's devastatingly intelligent, perceptive, and capable of convincing everyone he should be trusted, to their own ultimate ruin. He has no real motive, and that SHOULD be a problem from the narrative standpoint, but it's one of the most fascinating parts about him. He subsists on malice.

From modern fiction, Mrs. Coulter, of the His Dark Materials trilogy. She's cold, vicious, and just barely redeemable. Her motives make sense. Her wounds are real. That's what I like best about her.

I don't really have a favorite movie or television villain. These figures just come and go for me. They never quite stick the way they do in fiction.

Thanks for the question!

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