User:Rosewll

The topic of Master villains should be limited to arch type of the master villain- not all fictional bad guys. Fantômas, Moriarty, Dracula, Mabuse, Fu-manchu, Keysher Soze even, Dr.Phibes are example of not just villains- but master villains. The discussion should not detail the exploits of each villain. As the discussion of Hero of a thousand faces recounts the path -the quest of the hero. The discussion there does not describe each adventure that every hero has gone through; rather it looks at the common theme that links all the heroes. The discussion of the master villain follows the path of magnificent obsession of the superior man. The man (or woman) that will defy order because such obedience is unbearable to such an intellect. The arch type of the first master villain was drawn by Milton in Paradise lost. It is interesting that before Sigel and Schuster created Superman they created a villain whose mental powers made him the superman. The master villain unlike the typical bad guy has a vision a plan. He seeks to disrupt the order of the world. We the audience are frightened by his power and yet we are strangely drawn to him.