{"id":1394365,"date":"2023-10-02T10:50:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1394365"},"modified":"2023-10-02T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:50:50","slug":"7-of-the-most-obvious-villain-names-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/7-of-the-most-obvious-villain-names-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"7 of the Most Obvious Villain Names in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/nov2worstficvillainnamess1_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1449025\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s in a name? Well, if you&#8217;re a fictional villain, probably lots of heavy-handed and scary-sounding imagery. Seriously, sometimes it feels like all villains are named things like Dr. Murder or Timmy McBadGuy. Has there ever been a villain named Steve, or Tim, or Bob? (I know all about Killer Bob, Bob Ewell, and Robert California, okay? I&#8217;m just trying to make a point. Don&#8217;t list evil Bobs at me, I don&#8217;t want to hear it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are, in no particular order, the worst (and by worst I mean most obvious) names in all of fictional villainy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in a name? Well, if you&#8217;re a fictional villain, probably lots of heavy-handed and scary-sounding imagery. Seriously, sometimes it feels like all villains are named things like Dr. Murder or Timmy McBadGuy. Has there   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[628,2335,32,25017,643],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394365"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394365"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449097,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394365\/revisions\/1449097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}