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Not helping in this respect is the villain's moll, played by an actress who had been an over-eager engineer on "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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He has told us nothing of Alinsky, whether he is alive or dead and, if of this century, American or not, a political leader or a rock star and, above all, why we should go all out to defeat President Obama in order to thwart this unknown villain's influence over America.
Frank Mankiewicz: America, Meet Saul Alinsky, the Great Man Newt Gingrich Wants You to Hate Frank Mankiewicz 2012
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Weakness Anything you'd expect to find in a Bond villain's lair, so a massive laser with table-mounted restraints or an underfloor piranha tank would totes ding his cash register, OK?
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Quit blaming us for you laziness and poor ability to search for true villain's.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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The 30-year-old actor — whose credits include playing the villain on Alias, the villain's son on 24 and the heroine's father, also a villain, on The Vampire Diaries — will play a doctor who goes on a date with Mary Margaret Ginnifer Goodwin, aka Snow White.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame had an onscreen neck-breaking murder of a young mother, the attempted drowning of her baby, and an entire subplot involving the villain's desire to screw and/or murder the heroine because of his guilt-ridden lustings for her that felt like a cross between Schindler's List and Sweeney Todd (great movie and great song though ... why don't they make kids toys that sing "Hellfire"?).
Scott Mendelson: What Does a Cartoon Have to Do to Get a 'G' These Days? Scott Mendelson 2010
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame had an onscreen neck-breaking murder of a young mother, the attempted drowning of her baby, and an entire subplot involving the villain's desire to screw and/or murder the heroine because of his guilt-ridden lustings for her that felt like a cross between Schindler's List and Sweeney Todd (great movie and great song though ... why don't they make kids toys that sing "Hellfire"?).
Scott Mendelson: What Does a Cartoon Have to Do to Get a 'G' These Days? Scott Mendelson 2010
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Quit blaming us for you laziness and poor ability to search for true villain's.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame had an onscreen neck-breaking murder of a young mother, the attempted drowning of her baby, and an entire subplot involving the villain's desire to screw and/or murder the heroine because of his guilt-ridden lustings for her that felt like a cross between Schindler's List and Sweeney Todd (great movie and great song though ... why don't they make kids toys that sing "Hellfire"?).
Scott Mendelson: What Does a Cartoon Have to Do to Get a 'G' These Days? Scott Mendelson 2010
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What is problematic is shifting of POVs within a single scene or even a sentence, or shifting POV simply to obscure rather than illuminate information (e.g, we hear the hero's thoughts until he or she comes up with a Secret Awesome Plan, then we move to the villain's POV so the plan can be a surprise).
intertribal: sorry if this is a really stupid issue. intertribal 2010
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