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• For an article about how big-business executives have again become the moustache-twirling villains of American culture, The Associated Press turns to DC Comics Executive Editor Dan DiDio: We can dress folks up in crazy costumes and give them crazy powers, but when you see someone who has the ability to work above the law, above the government, and create their own set of rules, that resonates.
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• For an article about how big-business executives have again become the moustache-twirling villains of American culture, The Associated Press turns to DC Comics Executive Editor Dan DiDio: We can dress folks up in crazy costumes and give them crazy powers, but when you see someone who has the ability to work above the law, above the government, and create their own set of rules, that resonates.
March | 2009 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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It's also nice to hear English accents from characters who are not moustache-twirling, pointy-nosed personifications of evil.
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Ethan is really dull, Sam Neil is a moustache-twirling villain, Willem D. is a walking cliche and the whole plot grinds along exactly as you anticipate.
Brandon's Word: Daybreakers Bites Hard in the Best of Ways « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Hope that's not one of those Agathe Cristie type trains where people die horrible deaths that would be remain unexplained but for the fact that there happened to be a moustache-twirling Belgian aboard.
Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court Peter Rozovsky 2010
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Rick - True, and it's considerably to the credit of the quartet that it doesn't just chalk Edward up as a black-hatted, moustache-twirling Villain.
The Hounds of Sunset, by Edith Pargeter. Book review Carla 2010
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The Magisterium is a one-dimensional conglomerate of moustache-twirling villains with no raison d'être.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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The Magisterium is a one-dimensional conglomerate of moustache-twirling villains with no raison d'être.
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So DH shot him and vanishes, as only a black-clad moustache-twirling villain can vanish, leaving Cutter slumped against a bit of wreckage non-burning, non-hot where Connor finds him, amid the flames and the destruction.
Primeval Season 3 Episode 3: Why It Sucked « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009
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Beyond the two stars, the film is filled with one-dimensional caricatures – the moustache-twirling villains (Brown and Wenham), the comedy drunk (Jack Thompson), the surly Russian (Jacek Koman), and the most suspect stereotype of all, a head-waggling Chinaman named Sing Song (Wah Yuen).
Phil says AUSTRALIA is epically boring! | Obsessed With Film 2008
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