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[Guy Profumo]

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We're supposed to be sympathetic to every character Ray Winstone's ever played aren't we?

(Apart from that despicable "Raymondo" bloke on the bet365 ads)

[Guy Profumo]

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Anyway.

Roger Delgado/Anthony Ainley

[Vulgarian Visigoth]

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Guy Profumo wrote: We're supposed to be sympathetic to every character Ray Winstone's ever played aren't we?

(Apart from that despicable "Raymondo" bloke on the bet365 ads)

Nil By Mouth stretched our sympathy quite a bit.

[gjw100]

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Ian McShane's Al Swearengen from 'Deadwood'. The first few episodes seemed to establish his character as irredeemably nasty and brutish, but over the three season story arc a far more nuanced and occasionally sympathetic person emerged.

[Ginger Yellow]

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Boyd Crowther

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Have I missed the post where everyone agreed to disregard Games of Thrones on this thread?

[Jah Womble]

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ad hoc wrote: I think Walter White is a cunt. Jesse Pinkman on the other hand...

I liked Walter from the moment he trashed those punks mocking his disabled son in the drugstore. Thus, I think of him as a prototype-'Trump-killer'.

On the other hand, Jesse is meant to be a c***.

[Patrick Thistle]

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The Daleks.

[Patrick Thistle]

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Boba Fett

[Beatle Simon]

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Gordon Cowans and Gary Shaw.

[dannywatty]

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I find myself drawn to like Gip Rossetti in Boardwalk Empire

[tracteurgarcon]

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Rogin the Armchair fan wrote: Have I missed the post where everyone agreed to disregard Games of Thrones on this thread?

Good point, although with GoT it's impossible to work out who is actually a hero and who's a villain.

Likeable GoT villains for me include Littlefinger, Jamie, Cersei, Tyrion (obviously), Dani, Arya, The Hound and probably a load more I've forgotten.

[MiserableOldGit]

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Cartoon Head in Ideal

[Sits]

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Ralph Feinnes in In Bruges.

Although considering the other two are hitmen, all three qualify on a technicality.

[Gerontophile]

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Renton.

[Haddock]

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Boyd Crowder

[Gerontophile]

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multipleman78 wrote: Hedley Lamar

I had a huge crush on Harvey Korman, so the thread title would work with a well-placed 'c'...

[ad hoc]

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Jah Womble wrote:

I think Walter White is a cunt. Jesse Pinkman on the other hand...

I liked Walter from the moment he trashed those punks mocking his disabled son in the drugstore. Thus, I think of him as a prototype-'Trump-killer'.

Ok in seasons 1-3 Walt may have had some redeeming characteristics, but for the last 3 series he's a fucking monster and after a while it's difficult to recall a time when he wasn't an utter cunt.

[Jah Womble]

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Well, Walt was in way too deep by then, wasn't he? He'd basically become 'one of them' - eventually 'the daddy of them'. His utter believable-ness in this development was what made the show such a beaut.

Despite some of the horrors he had to perpetrate as 'Heisenberg', I still found myself on his side pretty much all the way through. That's usually the acid test for me.

Jesse Pinkman was a little bitch-punk, though.

[Gangster Octopus]

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Tom

[Ginger Yellow]

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Good point, although with GoT it's impossible to work out who is actually a hero and who's a villain.

Likeable GoT villains for me include Littlefinger, Jamie, Cersei, Tyrion (obviously), Dani, Arya, The Hound and probably a load more I've forgotten.

For me, Littlefinger, Cersei and the Hound aren't likeable (nor is Danerys after the second book). Jamie is likeable only once he stops being a villain. Tyrion's never really a villain, other than in the sense he's an aristocrat. Arya isn't a villain, though she's not particularly heroic either.

[Snake Plissken]

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Hugo Drax in Moonraker. Mainly because he has the best lines.

"Take Mr Bond away. See that some harm comes to him."

Does Dr Evil count?

[tracteurgarcon]

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Ginger Yellow wrote:

Good point, although with GoT it's impossible to work out who is actually a hero and who's a villain.

Likeable GoT villains for me include Littlefinger, Jamie, Cersei, Tyrion (obviously), Dani, Arya, The Hound and probably a load more I've forgotten.

For me, Littlefinger, Cersei and the Hound aren't likeable (nor is Danerys after the second book). Jamie is likeable only once he stops being a villain. Tyrion's never really a villain, other than in the sense he's an aristocrat. Arya isn't a villain, though she's not particularly heroic either.

How can you not like The Hound, he's bloody brilliant!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKuCCvWAdG8

[tracteurgarcon]

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Jah Womble wrote: Well, Walt was in way too deep by then, wasn't he? He'd basically become 'one of them' - eventually 'the daddy of them'. His utter believable-ness in this development was what made the show such a beaut.

Despite some of the horrors he had to perpetrate as 'Heisenberg', I still found myself on his side pretty much all the way through. That's usually the acid test for me.

Jesse Pinkman was a little bitch-punk, though.

For me, the beauty of "Breaking Bad" was that I started off totally on Walt's side and not really caring for Jesse but as the show went on, gradually, bit by bit, my sympathies shifted in the opposite direction. By the end Walt is a monster and Jesse is the one I was rooting for.

The pivot point being when Walt doesn't save Jesse's girlfriend.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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No villain could carry off knitwear like Ken Masters.