Who's the most menacing, evil character in literature?
Judas Iscariot and the sanhedrin
most menacing is probably some weird horror like a lovecraft god
most evil is probably iago
The devil.
>>7454968
>Judas Iscariot
Jesus literally told judas to do what he did. How is obeying god evil?
>>7454989
>subtle prediction
>literally commanding him to do it
smarten up
>>7454972
Iago's lack of motivation really bugged be, desu
Most evil character would probably be Pechorin.
Most menacing character that I know of would beMelkor
>>7455009
>Iago's lack of motivation
what do you mean
Iago was skipped over for promotion, thats why he hates othello, read the play and forget what you heard on radiolab senpai
>>7454999
omniscience implies destiny,
if he's destined to do it he may as well have been commanded. if god is to be taken seriously, we're all just dominoes falling as designed.
i'm glad no one's mentionedthe judgeyet
such a plebeian answer
Lolita
Iago or Richard III
Yahweh
>>7454963
Man
posting an obv candidate.
But I think he is not just meme evil, he has a good sense of real Kantian evil about him.
>You speak truer than you know
That fucking shiver down the back
>>7454963
God
>>7455751
he was destined to have free-will and choose as he pleases, and his choices are known
there's no contradiction between omniscience and free-will
>>7455751
No, freewill is free and it becomes destined post act. This is theology 101. Please don't imply God can't will a contradiction.
>>7454963
Zeus
>>7454968
You need some master and margarita famiglia
>>7456063
Agreed.
>>7456107
God can't make the interior angles of a triangle equal more or less than 180 degrees. Sorry.
>>7456085
This is probably the clear answer.
>>7456174
>doesn't know about hyperbolic geometry
pleb
Judge Holden
>>7455767
this
>>7456170
This is neither here nor there (and not lit), but the final creature in The Thing prequel (2011), a generally unloved flop that I quite like, looks almost exactly like that.
But now this reminds me that I have the original Thing short story on my shelf and I really should get round to reading it.
>>7456666
holy wew even I have to check my own quads. Apocalypse movies indeed.
>>7455758
the kid is the real villian, a traitor to those who welcomed him into their brotherhood
Dr Benway rides again
Avril Incandenza
>>7456698
Benway is too diffuse to be menacing.
AM
>>7455751
>not knowing that dualism is the one true resolution to this
>>7455741
>Believing what Iago says
>After he literally says "that's not why I hate Othello, but it's good enough"
You don't know to read.
Iago is GOAT.
Is this a good thread?
>>7457988
Negatory, daddio.
Voland
>>7456174
walk one mile north, one mile west, one mile south and end up in the same spot.
>>7454963
Mrs. Stoner
i say that in every thread
Fatan
>>7454963
Nyarlathotep
>>7456174
checkmate atheists
>>7458568
a triangle is a 2d shape though.
>>7458603
take triangle on paper
roll up paper
triangle now three dimensional shape
>>7454963
The Waves.
>From The Waves.
No. But for real, I'd go with Iago as far as "villains" but as far as truly terrifying entities/writing I find the ending of The Waves to be extremely unsettling. The book works like a small microcosm of life itself and it just gets ruthlessly existential and despairing by the conclusion. Woolf is grown on me a lot.
"Nevertheless, life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday follows Monday; then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth. Opening and shutting, shutting and opening, with increasing hum and sturdiness, the haste and fever of youth are drawn into service until the whole being seems to expand in and out like the mainspring of a clock. How fast the stream flows from January to December! We are swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shadow. We float, we float . . ."
>>7458639
FYI that isn't the actual ending, just a part that I really like from about a 1/4 from the ending.
Cathy Ames / Kate Trask
The man in black. Stephen King
>>7454989
>How is obeying god evil?
because god is evil, obviously
>>7458667
Oh Ludwig, I like you, but you obviously never read my books
What would Bertrand think of his student, I wonder?
>>7456116
+10
Catherine from the Garden of Eden
>>7457900
That's not how you spell PGOAT.
>>7456107
>God can't will a contradiction
This is the equivalent of a child saying "I'm right + infinity! Haha I win!"
The actual sound -- as nearly as any human organs could imitate it or human letters record it -- may be taken as something like Khlûl'-hloo, with the first syllable pronounced gutturally and very thickly. The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, hence the h represents the guttural thickness.
>>7456670
yeah the thing has really heavy lovecraftian themes
Steerpike is pretty evil and menacing, but only by the end
Jason Compson
>>7454963
St. Paul
>>7458791
I never sufficiently apologized for my foul temper with the children.
>>7454999
Jesus died for your sins.
This is only possible because Judas turned him in.
You should be thanking him m8.
>>7460297
Why the hell would it be JVD?
>>7458650
ty anon. i am officially interested in reading that
>>7458639
>"Nevertheless, life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday follows Monday; then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth. Opening and shutting, shutting and opening, with increasing hum and sturdiness, the haste and fever of youth are drawn into service until the whole being seems to expand in and out like the mainspring of a clock. How fast the stream flows from January to December! We are swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shadow. We float, we float . . ."
I need to read this book.
