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For, as we shall see, the crucial power of the villain is to be in charge of the plot.  \nThis is from an episode of Season 7, in 1983. A vintage year.  \nFrom April 1978 to Hay 1991, the scriptwriters – and the actor Larry Hagman-had to maintain our interest for 13 years over 357 episodes. (Hagman was the only actor who appeared in all 357.) Villainy was really the best way of doing it.  \nHave we outlived villains? Not in popular culture, evidently. Over and over again, at least in the British press, the President of Russia has been likened to a particular literary character.  \nIn the ghastliness of the present war, the only bearable jokes have been at President Putin’s expense (we know that tyrants hate to be laughed at) and have mostly been about his performance as a certain kind of villain  \n“There’s Zelenskiy,” says Patrikarakos, “and then there’s this Botoxed Bond villain who won’t sit at atable with other people. All that’s missing is a trapdoor and a pool of sharks.”  \nGuardian , 25 March 2022  \nA body language expert has revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin oozes “understated menace” you would see from watching a villain in a James Bond movie  \nDaily Star, 25 February 2022  \nOne might wonder why Vladimir Putin has not yet appropriated an extinct volcano for himself as his lair. After all, Monday’s meeting of his Security Council, after all, saw him in full Blofeld mode, lacking only a white cat and a pool of piranhas to channel his inner Bond villain.  \nDaily Telegraph , 23 February 2022  \nPopular fiction has, indirectly, given us that frequently used compound noun that the Oxford English Dictionary, inexplicabvly, has not yet got round to recording: ‘Bond villain’. I think that this derives from the films rather than the Ian Fleming novels, not least because the performance of the villain role is usually the high-camp highlight of each new James Bond film.  \nThe pools of sharks and piranhas come from films: the shark tank from the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me , in which the villain, Karl Stromberg (Curt Jürgens) presses the switch that sends his glamorous assistant down into the shark tank; the piranhas from the 1967 film You Only Live Twice , in which Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) admonishes SPECTRE agent Helga Brandt for failing to assassinate Bond, before activating the mechanism that drops her into a pool of piranhas.  \nPour encourager les autres  \nBut it does have its origin in prose fiction.  \nIt is in Ian Fleming’s Thunderball that we first meet Ernst Blofeld. We are introduced to him presiding at the SPECTRE high table like the Master of a Satanic Oxbridge College.  \nErnst Blofeld   gazed slowly round the faces of his twenty men, and looked for eyes that didn’t squarely meet his. Blofeld’s own eyes were deep blackpools surrounded – totally surrounded, as Mussolini’s were  \n– by very clear whites   they stripped the guilty or the false and made him feel transparent – as transparent as a fishbowl through whose sides Blofeld examined, with only the most casual curiosity, the few solid fish, the grains of truth, suspended in the void of deceit or attempted obscurity.  \nIan Fleming, Thunderball (1961) Ch. 5  \nHe controls through the gaze only.  \nFleming’s villains are frequently ‘foreign’. 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