Have you ever found yourself cheering on the villain?

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In a book, tv show or movie?

I usually find the villains to be more interesting than the heroes but generally I'm happy for the heroes when they achieve their goal but I find it incredibly hard to root for The Three Musketeers because they're so unlikeable and because of their blatant misogny. I appreciate that it was written a long time ago and set even earlier but I found myself wanting Milady to win.

Have you found yourself liking a villain more than the hero(es)?

Spike in Buffy.
Till they spoiled it and turned him good

Villanelle in Killing Eve!

Waves @sashh , you beat me to it

Spike , nuf said !

Skynet

I'm an animal/nature lover.

Adar/Sauron in the Rings of Power series. The 'good' characters were mostly irritating so I switched to the dark side.

Loved Cersi Lannister.

So many here that I agree with, but my stand out list is:

Mrs Proudie and Obadiah Slope
Quark and Garak for me in DS9
Joaquim Phoenix's Joker

Once I realised she’d probably had sex with her fiancé on that fucking camomile lawn, and that explained both the multi-week hysteria after being jilted (blind panic about a potential pregnancy), followed by the complete, unshakeable conviction that she was spoiled goods, I found it a bit easier to be sympathetic.

I still think she should have pulled herself together and married somebody else, but fair enough if she didn’t feel she could go through all that again, or risk a future spouse discovering she wasn’t a virgin.

I’m now going to lower the tone with Servalan form Blake’s 7. Her clothes, her hats, her obvious intellectual superiority to Blake the dimmest rebel leader in history.

But she did win in the end, so that’s ok.

Apart from when he bashed Abraham and Glenn’s head in, I loved negan in walking dead.. guy had spunk and I just couldn’t hate him 🤪

Yes but he was still evil, even when he was good.

A number of posters have mentioned Iago, and Shakespeare must have thought the same as he gave him more lines than Othello.

Michael Corleone - how many deaths is he responsible for and yet you still want him to succeed.

‘Just when I thought I was put, they pull me back in’

Sometimes I wonder if Michael hadn’t been at the hospital, or Salazzo hadn’t ordered the second attempt would Michael have stayed out of the family business.

Jadis the White Witch (from the Narnia series) absolutely kicks ass. I have some sympathy for the hapless Uncle Andrew when he says at the end of The Magician’s Nephew, ‘She was a dem fine woman’.

Oh I always liked her too… however she did go a little too far when she blew up the Sept of Baelor!
There were quite often times when the person opposing her was a lot worse than she was, so you couldn’t help but to root for her.

he was certainly not perfect, but better than angel at times

@Delphinium20 the character lacked the political strategy knowledge and understanding that her farther had, she was too impulsive at times

Yes obvs anything involving Alan Rickman… sigh.

I rather liked Tywin Lannister in GOT, he was intelligent and had something about him.