Curated category
Fictional mass murderers
- Joker (character)On the 25th of April 1940, a grinning figure stepped out of the pages of Batman #1 and into comics history. The Joker arrived not as a sidekick or a…
- Darth VaderDarth Vader first appeared in 1977, and the question George Lucas put before his production team was deceptively simple: how do you make a villain feel like…
- Kylo RenKylo Ren is, in the words of Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw, "gorgeously cruel, spiteful and capricious." He is, Bradshaw added, a Star Wars villain given to…
- Revolver OcelotHideo Kojima wanted to add Western tones to a character resulting in Ocelot's appearance, which is based on that of veteran Western film actor Lee Van Cleef.
- PalpatineSheev Palpatine is the main antagonist of the Star Wars franchise, a character so carefully constructed that his first name did not appear on screen until…
- Jacen SoloJacen Solo begins his fictional life as one of a pair of unnamed twins Leia Organa Solo is carrying in the 1991 novel Heir to the Empire.
- Darth MaulDarth Maul arrived on screen in 1999 with a face that concept artist Iain McCaig described as what you would see if you stripped the flesh off your own face…
- SithThe Sith are the ancient enemies of the Jedi and the primary antagonists across the entire Star Wars franchise. They began not as outsiders but as rebellious…
- Juri (Street Fighter)Juri Han arrived in Street Fighter in 2010, and she did not arrive quietly. The development team at Capcom cycled through 400 to 500 ideas before settling on…
- Pyramid HeadPyramid Head first appeared in Silent Hill 2, released in 2001, and the gaming world had never encountered anything quite like him. He does not speak.
- Supreme Leader SnokeSupreme Leader Snoke stepped onto a movie set before anyone, including the actor playing him, knew what he would look like.
- Guts (Berserk)Guts is the protagonist of the manga series Berserk, created by Kentaro Miura, and he arrived in the world under the most violent circumstances imaginable.
- Griffith (Berserk)Griffith, the main antagonist of the manga series Berserk, is a character who began as a leader of men and ended as something far more terrible.
- Psycho MantisIn 1998, a young boy named Benjamin stood atop the Hill of Destiny. This is not the scene from Metal Gear Solid. The actual scene involves a character named…
- HAL 9000HAL 9000 has a face: a single camera lens, red and yellow at its center, watching from nearly every room aboard the spacecraft Discovery One.
- Daenerys TargaryenA great storm raged over the Red Keep when Daenerys Targaryen drew her first breath, earning her the nickname Stormborn.