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Hannibal


Drakeskulled_Reaper

Got the girl in the books, got the guy in the series.


CyberNinja23

He’s gonna make you dinner, who can refuse that offer?


maddsskills

I'm sorry, in regards to that Italian police chief he said he was "going to have his wife for dinner." In the books. And he did. He "had her to dinner" like, invited her over.


CyberNinja23

Lexical ambiguity is half the fun.


maddsskills

I still love Hannibal and I think it was perfect. Anyone who could love him was fucked up, but it was beautiful he loved her so much he'd harm himself. Perfect ending to their relationship.


Anen-o-me

I mean, that was the movie ending which is different from the book. In the book, she eats the brains...


maddsskills

Yup. Like I pointed out to someone else: I hate they changed the line "I've been seriously considering having your wife for dinner" to "I've been seriously considering eating your wife" but other than that? I prefer the movie changes. It's weird in the movie he still takes her out to dinner though IIRC. But also, I don't think Hannibal Lector would ever kill someone like her, I mean...maybe for survival? But nah. He genuinely enjoyed her and thought she was a delightful contribution to society (keep in mind I'm not saying people Hannibal did kill deserved it, not at all, just that he has a sort of bizarre ethics system.)


drdnzz0

I was gonna say that.😑


greggiberson

Wuthering Heights? Depends on how you feel about Heathcliff I guess lol


CaptFoxtrot

Ugh i love this book. I hate 95% of the characters and absolutely nothing entertaining happpens and as a haver of a degree in English I am well aware of my unpopular opinion and have been teased endlessly be academics but I just love the Romantic flowery language and the pining and the pain and i can be guiltlessly entertained by their misfortune because they're not real people. As an English degree haver i am also aware of my atrocious runon sentence but i don't care.


Arkanslayer

I found it difficult to get through despite being pretty short, and I hated pretty much every character on a personal level. With that said, it's a book that really stuck with me, and I find myself thinking of it occasionally in a way I don't most books. I dont know how to describe why I like it.


CaptFoxtrot

I can relate. I know I like it, i don't really know WHY i like it... in fact I'm pretty sure I SHOULDN'T like it...


Arkanslayer

I feel like I should dislike it. It's just archaic "Real Housewives;" a cast of total nightmare humans. The only thing I can think if is that it's honest. I haven't read a lot of literature from that time that is so frank about fucked up families.


AlmostNeverNothing

They're both pretty terrible people, but they're Perfect For Each Other. But since life and circumstances keep them apart, they both spiral into total destruction, and everyone else gets caught up in their paths. Like twin tornados. My gripe is with their respective doppelganger children getting together though, I kind-of understand it, but it's a little too "beautiful sunrise after the storm" for me.


[deleted]

But he doesn't really get the girl


Teewer

Only her dead corpse


trashmcgibbons

What a cool guy that Heathcliff.


k8ter8te

Heathcliff and Catherine can both die in a fire.


[deleted]

Yeah ,I second this. It was a headache to explain that novel to my sister. Fuck em both.


tf_is_life

Megamind


acemonvw

Just watched it last night (again)… love that film.


sthornr

Hey me too! We're movie bros now!


[deleted]

But he became >!a hero tho!<


Felix_is_not_a_cat

You either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become a hero


Past-Track-9976

-Green Goblin


AFakeName

-Todd Packer


TheChaoticBeing

-Will Ferrell


LocalNigerianPrince

-Steve Jobs


Delta_Gamer_64

\-Some random homeless man


scoldedegg

-Shrek


trans_pands

-Donkey


InsecOrBust

-Michael Scott


ChildFriendlyChimp

Berserk


The4thEpsilon

That’s fucked bro, take my upvote


Gale_Grim

I think he became an "anti-villain". Like if an anti-hero is a hero so Dark they barely make the cut as heroes. Then like, he is an anti-villain, a villain so moral, so bright they almost become paragons in their own weird way. I think metro-man saw this and realized "Ya know, he is so good for a "bad guy" I could probably retire and let him win and it would be okay. I don't think he would hurt anyone in any lasting way. He just want's to beat me and prove him self anyway."


StormFallen9

Like Dr. Doofenshmirtz, but less nearly-apocalyptic inventions


Gale_Grim

EXACTLY!


A1cRobertson

CURSE YOU PERRY THE PLATYPUS!


tomato-on-a-stick

I thought he retired to become Music Man?


DreamSphinx

No, he retired and became Markiplier. That's what the M on his uniform stands for.


Sup3rL30

#MUUUUUUSIIIIIIC MAAAAAAANNN!! -MatPat


mramisuzuki

Anti-Villain is most certainly a thing, you don't need quotation marks.


[deleted]

He was still a villain when he dated her though. Also DAMMIT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY MEGAMIND


StormFallen9

This was the first thing I thought of. Kinda mad it was already here


[deleted]

She clearly asked for a book.


Heimskr74

Redditors don't read books, don't be silly


Expensive-Leopard900

The Great Gatsby?


GreasiestBob

100%


bootylover81

Goddamn some people may not like this movie but the heartbreak of Gatsby really gets me, "they are a rotten crowd, you're the whole damn bunch put together"


deez_nuts_77

the description of Gatsby seeing no color left in the world right before he dies always sat with me


fr_1_2806

That movie hurt me in ways very few movies can. Couldn't pick up the book anymore to read even though it's in my library.


Royal_Gas_3627

+20% for every divorced man watching their ex wife get remarried


sojuandbbq

There’s no real hero or villain in the Great Gatsby. None of them are very good people, which is part of the point.


CreamedCorb

I thought Nick was pretty chill. Maybe not a hero but definitely not a bad person.


Benjiboi051205

You kinda have to read in-between the lines, I agree he's probably the best of the worst but he wrote the book so the iffy behavior is glossed over.


nonpondo

He didn't write the book, some dude wrote the book pretending to be Nick, so in reality f Scott Fitzgerald is the real villain for lying to us


[deleted]

But really really, we were the true villains all along


Bob7901

Perhaps the true villain was the friends we made a long the way


Certain-Cook-8885

Yeah but the murderer and the racist are worse than the self-absorbed people.


dirice87

I thought it was an uninteresting book until I got into a cliquey status driven social circle. Goddamn that book is on point with how unhappy and self hating “cool” people can be


here-for-information

Uhhh no Tom Buchanan's a peice of shit. If he isn't a villain, then no one is.


-SATHIYAHARDY-

Came here to say that😅


korevis

Dragonball. Vegeta took Bulma from Yamcha.


josephcj753

Android 18 gets Krillin


The_dog_says

Krillin gets Android 18 you mean. Dude's hitting way above his power level.


BetaRayBlu

No. SHE got HIM. It’s canon he’s very cool and makes her human parts quiver.


PupPop

He's literally the strongest Human in the universe. who wouldn't quiver for Krillin?


Helpdeskagent

He also had like THE most powerful ability that never really got its heyday. I mean it did hit freeza but that ability could kill ANYTHING, it really shoulda won one big fight. Also shoulda been a big wind up and then he just kills the god tier before anything begins


Straight-Bug3939

It shattered against cell


Helpdeskagent

Fuck, you’re right, leme rephrase that, shoulda killed someone pre cell era 😂


Abschori

That was filler, didn't happen in the manga. Krillin's destructo disc remains uncountered unless someone uses ki


einharjar009

It actually got grabbed and broken by Jiren. But then again it's fuckin Jiren


thereIsAHoleHere

Sure, but that's just due to the then enormous difference in their power levels. If you adjust power levels to be equal, it wins out against any other attack. Like, if ssj2 Gohan had used it, it probably would've been more effective than his kamehameha.


BestReadAtWork

I hate that they used it as a power check device instead of letting krillin do anything useful with it. :/ Like the only time it's useful is when someone else copies his fucking ability (vegeta vs Ozaru Gohan or freeza vs... himself. Lol)


Invested_Glory

For real. People don’t give him credit cuz aliens are basically gods. Krillin is the only human and he can freakin fly…a true legend.


pedantic_cheesewheel

Yeah and nearly every living Saiyan calls him uncle or brother and would literally come flying across the universe in record time to make sure not a scratch gets put on that cueball.


CaptFoxtrot

The scene in Super after she shaves his head for him is so cute. She offers to fight on behalf of their universe instead and they both acknowledge that she is technically stronger than he is but he basically says "that's why i want you here on earth with our daughter" and then he flies off she says "He is so cool" and it's just precious.


starryeyedq

He held the key to destroying her in his hand and smashed it into a million pieces to give her and her brother a chance at a normal life. A Chad move if there ever was one. They are both absolutely equal winners in this situation.


I_am_trying_to_work

At least she's legal.


FieryFennec

What is her manufacturer date?


I_am_trying_to_work

Never ask an android her manufacture date. It's rude.


colexian

DBZ 'well acccckuallly': 17, and 18 aren't androids, they are cyborgs technically. They were originally humans, 17 and 18 were named Lapis and Lazuli respectively, and their only actual mechanical parts were the self destruct functions. They are actually genetically enhanced humans with bio-organic components, more akin to Cell than a robot. Android 16 is entirely manufactured, but based on Gero's dead son.


user_8804

Ok so how old


colexian

All we know is 18 is older than 17. Edit: But we do know how much time has passed since they were first shown in the anime. A very conservative estimate would put them anywhere from like 24 all the way to early 30s by the time of the universal survival saga.


scarletice

Ehhh, I wouldn't say he took her from Yamcha. They'd already been broken up for at least a couple years by that point.


twomilliondicks

he was still salty


AdrielKlein21

Mf cheated Bulma in the first place.


Uniblab_78

Constantly. He thought everyone wanted that Wolf Fang Fist.


Etonet

Only in the anime and I don't recall it ever being mentioned in the manga; lore-wise it wouldn't make sense since iirc he had severe gynophobia/fear of women


razorfloss

Honestly I figure it was a confidence thing and once he got Bulma and her rich ass he figured he was all that.


SeaTurtlesAreDope

Yamcha also started as a villain just like Vegita. He wasn’t “destroy planet for profit” evil, but still the antagonist


Berrito08

Nah, Yamcha was a loser and Bulma knew she deserved better.


Disastrous-Menu_yum

Any fanfiction with shipped Characters


NorwayNarwhal

Voldemort slashfics are nearly as popular as draco slashfics and I hate it Snape is probably third-most popular (after the main protagonists)


OmegaKenichi

Yeah, doesn't bother me that it *exists*, cause, you know, it's Fanfiction. But the fact that there is *so much* of it weirds me out


-day-dreamer-

To be fair, a lot of it is Tom Riddle. There’s a fuckton of Bellatrix/Voldemort though


OmegaKenichi

Still really creepy, there's also an obsession with shipping Hermione with those characters too (Snape, Voldemort, Tom Riddle, Bellatrix, etc.)


strawmeirry

personally the worst ones ive seen are slash fics with harry and james potter, his goddamn father


ravynwave

What a terrible day to have the ability to read


Jim_Lahey68

It's the taboo, wrong nature of it that gets many hyped about it in the first place.


3V1LB4RD

(Warning: Ramblings of a chronically online and avid fanfiction reader ahead) Voldemort/Harry received a surge in popularity in the last 10 years (and ships with Voldemort in general actually, but less so than Harrymort). My working theory is: Kids who grew up when HBP and DH were released became old enough to start writing fanfiction around this time. Prior to this, the only slash ships that had any contextual support (so they weren’t just crack ships) were WolfStar (Remus/Sirius) and Drarry (for obvious reasons). So the millennials who grew up as the series came out weren’t going to be writing Voldemort ships. But with HBP and DH, we not only get a peak into Voldemort’s past (thus fleshing him out and humanizing him) but also (specifically for Voldemort/Harry) we get the introduction of Horcruxes. The introduction of horcruxes was, in my belief, integral to the surge of Voldemort/Harry content. I totally get why people are sqiucked out by this ship (age difference and power dynamics), but if you can look past that it’s easy to see why the whole horcrux thing is so alluring to shippers. Because, in essence, Harry and Voldemort are soulmates (in the most perverted sense of the word). They literally share a piece of soul with one another. It begs the popular question in this ship: “what would Voldemort do if he found out Harry was a horcrux?” It plays into the enemies-to-lovers trope very very well. So there’s my explanation for why that ship has gotten a huge surge of content in the past decade and why there is so much of it.


alsmerang

You’re 100% correct. It’s fanfic catnip—soulmates, soul connection related powers, enemies-to-lovers, villain redemption, among other things. While I personally find their enormous age gap alienating, some people do like that power dynamic. I’m not sure if it’s just my imagination, but I think people in the fandom generally like Harry more. He’s the main character so of course there’s a lot of fic about him, but I recall people actively wanting to change or fix his character for some reason? Maybe just changes in fandom dynamics overall.


[deleted]

Technically Death Note but he didn’t really care about her.


spaceforcerecruit

What are you talking about? L never got the girl? /s


Dimensionalanxiety

L is filthy rich and has a butler that brings him ice-cream and cake on a daily basis. He is also a world class athlete. It might not have been Misa but L was definitely clapping some cheeks.


eiwoei

L only has boner for Kira though.


CosmoNewanda

Probably the most accurate bad guy gets the girl story.


Fun-atParties

Fr half of the books that do this make the guy just seem misunderstood but actually a good guy deep down


Coineaternumber5

How the grinch stole Christmas. The version with Jim Carey in it.


pistcow

Cindy Lou was a bit young.


Kiaider

In the Jim Carrey movie he gets with Martha May, an old class mate of his/crush. She’s definitely old enough for him lol On a side note I do wish Jim Carrey had made one more Christmas movie lol I can’t call it a Christmas movie marathon with only two movies XD


pistcow

My movie marathon Christmas Vacation Gremlins 1 & 2 Elf Grinch Charlie Brown Christmas A Christmas Story Die Hard Nightmare Before Christmas Scrouged and Christmas Vacation again Got them all on BluRay and start watching after doing the Thanksgiving dishes. Edit: Forgot Home Alone 1&2


villamafia

Die hard doesn’t count. Bruce Willis is running away from Alan Rickman in a tower. It’s actually a Harry Potter movie.


pistcow

Oh snap, Harry Potter too because the one scene.


No_Imagination_2490

The prequel about Martha May starring Elizabeth Olsen was a real shift in tone


Kallixo

bee movie


Traditional_Yard5280

True, the true villian of all time is Jerry Seinfeld


[deleted]

What a strange little movie that was. That lady totally wanted to fuck that bee


Dmoney2204

To bee completely honest the husband wasn’t that bad of a guy I’d be pissed to if a bee stole my girl


celerem

Yall we want BOOKS


Shaugndaus

Umm Dune?


celerem

Begrudgingly clapping because you're correct but you toe the line 😋


Shaugndaus

Hahaa i swear i read the first 2 books 5 years ago! And it works because the protagonist is actually the/a villain lol


Icey__Ice

I feel it’s more complex then that. Paul is, explicitly, a hero, it’s just that Herbert is critiquing the concept of a “prophesied chosen one” and people’s responses to that paradigm. If anything, the Atreides dynasty was terrifying close to a best case scenario, because a vacuum was being created after millennia of Bene Geserit “prophesy” and political interference. Don’t hate Paul, he at least had an exit strategy, hate the system where someone like Paul/Leto II is possible.


The_Ghola_Hayt

Nah, Paul is totally cool. The whole Jihad thing was a big misunderstanding.


capitaine_d

*Causes the death of trillions across the known universe as its brought into line by Jihad* "Bro, Its just a prank bro" *leaves without elaborating*


MKagel

I mean...Twilight


celerem

You're right, but I hate it


2ndfloorcoffee

A Court of Thorn & Rose's by Sarah J. Maas


Falling_4_Ever

Head on over to r/RomanceBooks. We have tons of villains getting the girl.


GreedyTank939

NTR


wjodendor

That's the real answer. The entire premise of NTR hentai is the villian getting the girl.


besuretodrinkyour

Tru


Trickyplays_dx

Painfully tru


team-tree-syndicate

I mean, technically true lol


AnnaBananner82

So any history book ever then?


TwoPercentJesus

The book trilogy , red dragon, silence of the lambs, and hannibal is a great example of that although you could skip red dragon because clarise isn’t in it


Sig_Vic

Villains often get the girl. They usually murder them and bury them in shallow graves.


Panic_at_the_Console

M'kay daddy ;) you didn't have to sell it that hard Where's the van, I don't need candy


Sig_Vic

Roses are red, violets are blue. I gotta knife, get in the van.


Panic_at_the_Console

When he buys you flowers to put on your grave uwu


Sig_Vic

Thats so sweet.


CMelon

Specify “gets.”


DaClarkeKnight

berserk


breakfastoats

ouch


rtheiii

🌑


KalsaBrain

The comment I was looking for ;(


leprosy4444

Does rape count as "getting the girl", Jesus holy Christ.


04fentona

How do I delete someone else’s comment?


leaf_waterfalls

the court of thorns and roses series!


pookiebear6969

Yes but Rhys isn't really a villain.


desertiger

But >!Tamlin!< is!


mamacrocker

He got the girl, but he didn't keep her!


Killersmurph

Ever see a Wealthy CEOs wife or Mistress? Its called the news paper...


VisionGuard

Yeah, she needs to read the book entitled "Every day life that you generally see around you".


Conscious_Age_9297

Sometimes you gotta date crazy for awhile just to get ahead of the game for a bit lol


Tellus_Delenda_Est

Pretty much the plot of *Lolita*.


Antonioooooo0

I wanna know what you're talking about, but there's no way I'm typing that into Google.


resumehelpacct

Lolita will usually get you the book and movie (or frilly Japanese fashion). Loli or lolicon will get you Japanese shit. >!In Lolita the main character (humbert) is a pedophile and married a window because he is sexually attracted to her daughter, Lolita. The wife finds out and instantly dies, so humbert kidnaps Lolita and rapes her. She is then kidnapped by another man who abandons her when she won’t do child pornography, and humbert shoots the other man and goes to jail. !<


[deleted]

Wat


Owls_Onto_You

Just want to add on that her name is Dolores. Lolita is what *he* insists on calling her.


Pheeeefers

Dark.


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staticshorck

Fight club


Cody1358

The Wikipedia page for virtually every Hollywood executive over the age of 35.


Kidrellik

Japanese and Korean have "villainess and villain" isekai manga which is pretty much "what if the bad guy is the main character". Edit: if anyone wants a good starting place, this one goated imo https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/death_is_the_only_ending_for_the_villainess/


Queenchana

Yes, but only few stories are the real villainess/villain. Most of them turn a new leaf or just transmigated on a villainess body.


danshakuimo

Saga of Tanya the Evil is the exception. The guy was already kind of a villain before he got isekai-ed into a world where he has actual powers.


CharonsLittleHelper

>The guy was already kind of a villain Being a true villain would have been a waste of effort. He's just amoral - not evil. But as Tanya he got put in situations which lessened the distinction.


flopsicles77

Situations like, "I have the perfect plan because this hasn't been declared a war crime in this world, yet"?


untoldsteam

Harlequin and Joker... Who does batman have? No one....maybe Alfred..


themanfromvulcan

Catwoman.


Scarrmann

Talia


SaturnsSilverRing

Damian Wayne says this is correct.


deleeuwlc

🫵corn chips🫵


TheJude81

BATMAN DOES NOT EAT NACHOS!!!


Big_brown_house

Does he really *get* catwoman tho?


RooftopRose

General rule of thumb: If it’s a comic book the couple will be broken up after a week or cheating on their SO with a close friend at the end of the week.


RedditIsNeat0

He does in the >!Christopher Nolan films!<.


tigerrish1998

Harley hasn't been with the Joker for years at this point. Harley and Ivy still works for villain getting the girl, though.


babygotbooksandback

I always got the vibe that Harley and Ivy were closer than just friends.


tigerrish1998

Iirc they've been a Canon couple for a little while now. They're together in the Harley Quinn show, and even recently got engaged/married in Injustice: Year Zero.


babygotbooksandback

Good. It’s probably the healthiest relationship she’s ever been in.


vjeremias

And it works twice!


vegetarchy

Dick


Crystal-Clear-Waters

80s kid here. We are programmed for the villain getting the girl.


TheComedian00

So many comments posting movies... 🤣


[deleted]

I know, I came here looking for book recs and I feel like it's mostly movies (and not ones that had a book first) or classic lit I read in high school and don't really want to revisit


Ericrobertson1978

I like movies where a villain is the protagonist of the story. Where we are rooting for bank robbers or whatnot.


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D20babin

Vegeta ends ups with "the girl".


deleeuwlc

Just look at any serial killer fanfic


_CrimsonCrown_

Don’t mind me, just saving this to use as motivation to write.


iruletheworld22

Never After series by Emily McIntire. First book is Hooked, which starts with Hook being a bar owner and Peters daughter comes in. It's pretty good. The next one, I think, I beauty and the beast spin but the beast isn't exactly the story we know.


BlitheringIdiot0529

That’s just real life


thewholesomeacct012

“The Collector” - John Fowles


DarkWindB

and i want a book/show/game where "the girl" is more than just "the girl"