{"id":1387259,"date":"2016-03-11T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1387259"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:51:26","slug":"quiz-which-literary-villain-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/quiz-which-literary-villain-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: Which Literary Villain Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\" http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/HP_Instagram14_opt_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We all have a dark side, and while we may spend 90% of our time as the heroes of our life story, there&#8217;s still that other 10% when we&#8217;re not so nice. So if you&#8217;re feeling a bit wicked today, take this quiz and learn just what flavor of infamy you are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Your bad side is primarily motivated by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Revenge<\/p>\n<p>B. Insecurity<\/p>\n<p>C. Greed<\/p>\n<p>D. A desire for everything to be correct.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Your secret lair is<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. An underground stronghold.<\/p>\n<p>B. A forbidding manor.<\/p>\n<p>C. The garret of an old house.<\/p>\n<p>D. A corner office in the halls of power.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. You are good when<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It comes to protecting your people.<\/p>\n<p>B. You chicken out from being truly evil.<\/p>\n<p>C. Once, by accident, and it was horrible.<\/p>\n<p>D. You are ordered to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Your evil theme song is<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. &#8220;Imperial March,&#8221; John Williams<\/p>\n<p>B. &#8220;Tear You Apart,&#8221; She Wants Revenge<\/p>\n<p>C. &#8220;In The Hall of the Mountain King,&#8221; Edvard Grieg<\/p>\n<p>D. &#8220;I Want It Now,&#8221; Veruca Salt (<em>Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Your preferred method of destroying your enemies is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. To destroy their friends.<\/p>\n<p>B. Public humiliation.<\/p>\n<p>C. Rube Goldberg-esque machinations.<\/p>\n<p>D. By the letter of the law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. In your defense, you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Are the lesser of two evils.<\/p>\n<p>B. Can&#8217;t help how you were raised.<\/p>\n<p>C. Are at least flamboyantly, joyfully evil.<\/p>\n<p>D. Are just following orders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. You&#8217;re most dangerous when<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. You think you&#8217;re doing good.<\/p>\n<p>B. You feel you have something to prove.<\/p>\n<p>C. You have your friends backing you up.<\/p>\n<p>D. People underestimate you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Your preferred costume is<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Military-style uniform.<\/p>\n<p>B. Eyeliner for DECADES.<\/p>\n<p>C. You&#8217;re a master of disguise; you like to change it up.<\/p>\n<p>D. You try to look as harmless as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. When you&#8217;re gone, you&#8217;d like people to say:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. They made the hard choices.<\/p>\n<p>B. They were full of a secret pain that no one even appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>C. They were devilishly attractive and talented.<\/p>\n<p>D. They were the literal worst. (You do not care one jot about what they say about you.)<\/p>\n<p><em>So which villain are you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mostly As: President Alma Coin.<\/strong> What makes for the truest and most terrifying villains is that they believe themselves to be good. So if you&#8217;re on the villainous side of the Coin (so to speak) just make sure you&#8217;re &#8220;ends versus means&#8221; scales stay relatively balanced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mostly Bs: Draco Malfoy.<\/strong> You fall into the &#8220;tortured villains&#8221; subset, and you&#8217;re determined to torture everybody else. Just make sure that all your victims know, before you send them to their doom, that you&#8217;re doing it because of your FEELINGS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mostly Cs: Count Olaf.<\/strong> &#8220;Villain&#8221; is the role of a lifetime, and you are going to play it with brio. You have your reasons for all the scheming and plotting, but mostly, you love to be bad. So sue you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mostly Ds: Dolores Umbridge.<\/strong> You fall into the &#8220;lawful evil&#8221; box, and that&#8217;s what makes you such an absolute nightmare to oppose. Your pen is mightier than your sword, and by &#8220;mighty&#8221; I mean &#8220;an instrument of torture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you bad to the bone? Were you born this way?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have a dark side, and while we may spend 90% of our time as the heroes of our life story, there&#8217;s still that other 10% when we&#8217;re not so nice. 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