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Fictional torturers

  • BatmanIn early 1939, Bob Kane drew a character with red tights and bat wings. Bill Finger suggested a cowl and cape instead. They watched a bat fly through the…
  • Joker (character)On the 25th of April 1940, the first issue of Batman hit newsstands with a character who would become one of fiction's most enduring villains.
  • Darth VaderGeorge Lucas hired concept artist Ralph McQuarrie during pre-production of the original Star Wars film in 1975. Lucas asked McQuarrie to depict a very tall…
  • PalpatineGeorge Lucas first sketched the character in 1974 under the name Cos Dashit, a young human leading a New Galactic Empire.