Category:Villain

A  villain  (also known in film and literature as the " antagonist ," "baddie", "bad guy", or "black hat") is an " evil " character in a story, whether a  historical narrative or, especially, a work of  fiction. The villain usually is the  antagonist  (though can be the protagonist), the character who tends to have a negative effect on other characters. A female villain is sometimes called a  villainess  (often to differentiate her from a male villain). Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines villain as "a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel; or a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot".