Which villain would you have a drink with?

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I spotted this question making rounds across a popular social media platform, and it intrigued me. This, regrettably, is sufficient evidence to mark me as someone who is (too) easily intrigued. Be that as it may, there is still the matter of the question…

After careful consideration, my answer is: Captain James Hook, archenemy of Peter Pan. My reasoning? He’s a legendary pirate. He’s intelligent, well travelled, a leader of men, with a cutting (pun intended) style of humor. And he’s undoubtedly chock-full of fantastic tales of high seas adventure.

Okay, your turn. Which villain, real or imagined, would you choose to have a drink with? Your safety, of course, would be guaranteed.
 
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Hopefully more intrguing to OP than irritating, but my first thought was the villain I most certainly wouldn't have a dtrink with and that's Anton Chigurh because
Bone2pick said:
Your safety, of course, would be guaranteed.
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doesn't apply in his case.

Kurtz from Heart of Darkness-does he count as villain?- sit and tell me of the horror, and would you like some snacks with that beer?
 
I can't think of anyone I'd rather not have a drink with more than Marvin the Paranoid Android. "I don't drink, I'm a robot. Don't ask me why you thought I could drink, my brain is 50,000 times bigger than yours and even I can't think of the answer."

He's not a villain, but he would probably inspire me to become one, just to drown out his prognostications. ;)

So, who would I drink with? How about Ching Shih (also known as 石陽 or Zheng Yi Sao), history's most successful pirate queen and one of history's most successful pirates, who commanded a massive fleet in the early 19th century. How massive? Let me put it this way: she took on the entire navy of the Great Qing (Manchu-led Imperial-dynasty China) and won. Repeatedly. Chinese captains joined her, and brought their ships over to her, rather than fight her.

She also took on the navies of the East India Company and the Portuguese Empire ... and won. Repeatedly. ;)

Ultimately, she negotiated a surrender with the Chinese government, but only after demonstrating her immense power and securing an amnesty for herself and her followers. She was 35 at the time, and lived to be 68 or 69, in relative comfort and prosperity.

I'm not sure if I can call her a villain, but she and her forces did engage widespread terror campaigns, including attacking and killing civilians in coastal towns to instill fear. (Then again, so did many other armies and navies at the time). Her code of behaviour for other pirates was harsh, but so were codes in other navies/armies, and she included also a code against harming and harassing women captives. (Any pirate caught raping or molesting a woman captive was immediately executed).

So yes, I would have a drink with her ... but only after her retirement. A career like that takes courage and brains, and she had both in spades. ;)
 
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Villiany is often in the eye of the beholder. Queen Mebd, the mythological Irish warrior queen of ancient story, is the primary antagonist of the Cattle Raid of Cooley, but that’s viewed through a patriarchal lens.

She was fierce and independent and I’d love to have a cup of mead with her. She went raiding for no other reason than her husband should not own a penny worth more than her!
 
One villain I would definitely NOT drink with is Andrei Chikatilo, a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper". Between 1978 and 1990, he sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children in the Russian Soviet Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, and the Uzbek Soviet Republic.

His case is noteworthy for the fact that this was the first time the Soviet authorities used the expertise of both a forensic specialist (Viktor Burakov) and a psychiatrist (Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky). Dr. Bukhanovsky's psychological profile of the killer was remarkably accurate, and was read by Chikatilo himself. After Chikatilo was arrested for the second time, it was Dr. Bukhanovksy's gentler, more persuasive questions -- and his reading of his own profile of the murderer -- that eventually coaxed Chikatilo to confess his guilt.

The case received worldwide attention thanks to Robert Cullen's book The Killer Department, which inspired the film Citizen X -- both harrowing and sometimes infuriating, but worth reading and watching.
 
I'm pretty sure Robin Hood never existed, at least not by that name. (But there were plenty of outlaws using similar names like Hobbe Hood or Robbe Hod. Spelling was optional in those days). ;)
 
Rath Darkblade said:
I'm pretty sure Robin Hood never existed, at least not by that name. (But there were plenty of outlaws using similar names like Hobbe Hood or Robbe Hod. Spelling was optional in those days). ;)
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Sweetie, we're postulating imaginary meetings with real and literary villains. Don't go harshing our mellow with reality. ;)
 
Sorry, I was taking life seriously again. ;)

I would like to have a drink with Adam, Victor Frankenstein's monster. Perhaps offering it the friendship and acceptance it craved would steer it away from the path of vengeance and destruction, which it only pursued because Victor abandoned it and society rejected it.
 
Hammer said:
I am definitely drinking with Hobbit Hood!
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But wait a minute; the hobbits are not villains (unless you mean Lotho Sackville-Baggins, who is certainly one). ;)

Aside from him, I can't recall any hobbit villains - not unless we're talking about Gollum, who certainly does villainous deeds and who was certainly once a hobbit.

Still, I wouldn't call Gollum a pure and simple villain -- at least not as evil as Sauron. He's a more complicated and interesting character.
 
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