What of Butters, then? Though I think he qualifies as both. Then again, maybe I am just including him because I think he SHOULD be a psycho whack job based on his upbringing…
Pinky (Harpo Marx) in Duck Soup. I re-watched it recently. After the bit with him and the married woman in the bathroom, two questions occurred to me: How did he get into that house? Was that a rape scene?
I hope people have seen these movies because just listing the characters in these movies is spoiler-y…
David in Tangled.
Lucinda in Derailed.
Liz in The Hole.
People keep mentioning Willow, but what about her alter ego, Lilly on “How I Met Your Mother”?
She is a scary and manipulative person - she just “does it for your own good” without any remorse at all.
-Joe
She is clearly willing, so no rape.
As for how he got in that house – this is Harpo. If he can keep the candle burning at both ends (literally), normal rules do not apply.
How about Gilligan, from Gilligan’s Island. He seems to be just a buffoon, but he always finds ways to sabotage any attempt to get off the island. What is his agenda?
I always just knew that Shari Lewis’s Lamb Chop was some sort of sociopath in sheep’s clothing. That little sucker gave me the heebie-jeebies, despite her baby-talking.
Maybe not a sweet lil bunny, but Phyllis on the Office seems to be a sweet motherly type, but then turns into a total bitch when dealing one on one with other women, usually Pam.
Then, of course, there’s the sweet 'lil bunny that turns out to be a very efficient knight-killing machine in Monty Python and the Holy Grail…
What, behind the rabbit?
Skald, I’m in awe of your insight into the dynamic between Willow and Tara. It’s been ages since I saw Tabula Rasa, and I hadn’t put together that it showed not an aberrant move from Willow but a pattern. Now that you’ve laid out the evidence so clearly, it makes perfect sense. I’m going to have to get out my Buffy DVDs and refresh my obsession with the show.
This webcomic understands the principle involved.
This link explains a lot The Gilligan’s Island conspiracy – Revealed
I don’t think she (he?) was sociopathic so much as passive-aggressive.
You know, I think it actually was. Primarily because Willow botched the job. It’s been a while since I watched this episode, but doesn’t the entire Scooby Gang lose their memory because Willow cast the spell improperly? That seems to suggest that she’s unfamiliar with it - because she hasn’t done it before.
Doesn’t mean she’s not evil, of course. Just not quite as evil.
No, they all lose their memory because her whole stash falls into the fire and makes a big ole cloud of memory eraser, instead of just enough to do Tara.
Yeah, Willow mindwashed Tara in the Halloween episode (with Dawn and the vamp boy, I forget the name), and then Tara finds out about it in the musical episode, and then the next episode is Tabula Rasa, where everyone loses their memory (Willow was aiming for Buffy and Tara that time, I believe).
Yes but Nina is a demon. Also she is trying to do good so that has to count for something.
If you have the DVDs watch the last scene again. It’s very clear that she’s done it several times before.
Steve Douglas from My Three Sons: the genial t.v. father archetype whose wife and children mysteriously disappear as the show goes on. Compulsive serial killer, or just in it for the ‘double indemnity’ insurance claims?
‘Professor’ Roy Hinkley of Gilligan’s Island: although he came up with the various schemes to escape the island, he always managed to concoct a way to put Gilligan in some kind of linchpin role where his native bumbling would cause the plan to fail. Perpetual oversight or deliberate plan to keep the crew and passengers of the S.S. Minnow on the island? You be the judge.
Ilsa Lund from Casablanca: “Oh, Rick! I can’t fight it anymore. I ran away from you once. I can’t do it again. Oh, I don’t know what’s right any longer. You have to think for both of us. For all of us.” Are we seriously expected to believe that she is this much of a gormless bimbo, or is she actually a femme fatale beguiling Richard Blaine into throwing away his cafe and fortune so that she and her meal ticket husband can make it to America while Rick runs for his life to Brazzaville? What a serious cockup. David Mamet needs to remake this film in the same vein as The Spanish Prisoner and Heist. Campbell Scott as Rick, Ricky Jay as Ugarte, Danny DeVito as Capt. Renault, and Ed O’Neill as Major Strasser. Joe Mantegna plays Sam in a cameo. Rebecca Pidgeon can play Ilsa; even she can’t be more wooden than Ingrid Bergman in the role. Go ahead, hate on me for not digging Casablanca, but you know it’s true.
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For someone who’s explicitly written as a character who seems like a sweet lil bunny but is actually a psycho whackjob, there’s YoSafBridge from Firefly.
anyone else seen this dark piece from the seventies? a little psychobiddie for ya