Sentences with phrase «arch villain»

The phrase "arch villain" refers to a person who is the most important and powerful enemy or adversary of a hero or protagonist. This person is often portrayed as being exceptionally evil or dangerous. Full definition
In a piece entitled «Luke's Gospel», Lindsay Tuffin wrote that Ben Kenobi «can be paralleled to the Lord Jesus» and wrote with much excitement that «already George Lucas is plotting the re-emergence of arch villain Darth Vader in a Star Wars sequel».
movie has been around for almost three years now and had The Rock cast as arch villain Black Adam, but another claimed there may not be any Black Adam in the first Shazam!
This was the game that turned Costa into arch villain No. 1 in the eyes of many Arsenal fans.
While some speakers talked about confrontation with Cuomo, expressed frustration with his strongarm tactics, and, in the case of The Black Institute's Bertha Lewis, compared the governor's defunding threats to progressive arch villain Rudy Giuliani's efforts, City Council Member Brad Lander laid out the fight as one between competing philosophies of where policy change really comes from.
AUSTIN — Fire ants make for formidable arch villains.
Many thought that having this German actor he might play one of Captain America's top arch villains Baron Zemo but it was never confirmed.
The core cast and crew from the first two movies will be returning for this third offering and F. Murray Abraham has been cast as new arch villain, Grimmel.
Donald Sutherland remains a preening, gleefully and theatrically arch villain (though the less said about his rebellion counterpart Julianne Moore's performance the better), and Hutcherson puts in a strong, conflicted performance (Jennifer Lawrence, however, never seems entirely at home once she embraces the role of inspiring leader).
Those tasked with tackling the event are portrayed as hubris, more arch villains than happened upon workers.
You control the titular character: a red, squarish boy made of meat, whose sunshiney disposition has earned him the hatred of arch villain Dr. Fetus, a cruel, tuxedo - clad fetus in a jar that abducts Super Meat Boy's adorable girlfriend, Bandage Girl.
Film fans continue to marvel at Errol Flynn's Robin Hood as he battles arch villains Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains while vying for the hand of Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland) in what historians generally consider the definitive classic Hollywood swashbuckler.
I instantly mistrusted Malgrave because of his oily voice and penchant for referring to me as «detective,» just what arch villain Ra's al Ghul always calls Batman.
Evil arch villain Butch Cavendish has been a burr on your saddle ever since he did in your dad.
(There's something ineffably right about the Queen's English tumbling out of the snarling mouths of arch villains, but that probably has to do with my membership in the Star Wars generation.)
Which is why I found myself in the very strange position of wanting Chelsea to score yesterday and then the even stranger sensation of cheering when the arch villain Diego Costa grabbed a late equaliser.
Chelsea and their arch villain Diego Costa, meanwhile, appear to have made it off with all the points and a big cheesy grin and there is nothing we can do about it but wipe our mouths, pick ourselves up and focus on playing football.
Don't misread that cortisol is the arch villain.
From its deadly flying silver spheres through to its hooded dwarf minions, and of course, the towering figure of arch villain The Tall Man himself, the imagery conjured up by the Phantasm films remains etched in the psyche of genre fans everywhere.
Where early on all signposts lead to Langella and modernism as the arch villains, director Ross finds morsels of complications in Ben.
Given that superhero satires pre-date even these screwball spoofs, Superhero Movie resembles its arch villain: near death and pathetic, having to suck the life juice out of anything and everything it can to maintain just enough heartbeat before ultimately expiring to many sighs of relief.
Ignoring the potential evil of what was once wielded by their arch villain and wisdom of Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), Tony sees an untapped form for an A.I. greater than J.A.R.V.I.S. (voiced by Paul Bettany) that could run his planned «Ultron» project, a vast peacekeeping drone program of armored robot soldiers that Tony thinks can be an ever - present protective force for the planet to safeguard against the next time a huge alien threat comes to Earth.
as Valentine (the arch villain), and even Mark Hamill (yes, that Mark Hamill) as a hapless professor — are all compulsively charming and watchable, as they, and not the pyrotechnics, are what make the movie work, when it works.
Here, the personal relationships are handled with skill however the arch villain plot is barely realised.
Consider this clip from the movie «Unbreakable,» where the «normal» arch villain and hero confront each other, not in a fantasy, but in real life.
Should you get your ass handed to you by one of Arkham Asylum's many unwilling guests, the Chiroptera stunt show will be replaced by «a context - sensitive game over screen where the arch villain who took you down will mock you into oblivion.»
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