Anakin Skywalker in Episode 2, anyone?
Actually, he was only a mass murderer there. He had yet to graduate to child murder and genocide.
He did murder the children, or whatever it is that Sandpeople have. You know how they say a lot of future serial killers torture animals? Same thing here.
Y’know, the Sandchildren might just have died of exposure in the desert if he’d just left them alone. One might argue that he simply spared them from needless pain and suffering…
::We really need a “devil smiley”::
Oh! That reminds me—how about Prince Prospero from Corman’s Masque of the Red Death for an honorable mention? (He almost gets the heroine to warm up to his position…kinda. Unsuccessfully. And she was kind of a dim bulb, anyway…)
Exactly why I said “Mass Murderer”, paticulary because it was done in a fit of rage.
I’m assuming there is a difference between just killing everyone in a fit of rage, and calmy walking into a room full of kids to begin coldly murdering them.
OOOOOH! That’s good!
Good thing she was saved by the Red Death!
I haven’t read it, but apparently all the uproar about the book Hannibal was because he convinced Clarice Starling to go off with him at the end (something that didn’t happen in the film).
It’s pretty clear to me that several end up going along with the “villain’s” scheme in the Graphic Novel Watchmen. Of course, a big part of the ambiguity in that work is what consitutes “good” and “evil”, and who’s doing what.
Heck, way back about issue #35 or so of Fantastic Four Diablo convinced Ben Grimm to join him for an issue or so, without hypnotism or anything.
How about “The Third Man?” Every time Orson Welles talks to his old friend, he totally convinces him. It’s only when he isn’t there that the protagonist thinks he’s wrong.
(No, I don’t remember their names. But it’s a great movie!)
The Shining: The ghosts of the Overlook convince the damaged, hardluck but basically-loving-family-man Jack Torrence to kill his family. (True, he isn’t successful, but he does try real hard.)
Wasn’t there some Norse tale where Loki one time convinced Thor he was pregnant?
Would that be “Loki convinces Thor that Loki is pregnant”, or “Loki convinces Thor that Thor is pregnant”? The former is more plausible, the latter more amusing.
As I recall it was the latter. But you have to realize Thor is where the expression “Dumb as a box of hammers” comes from.
:eek: Wow. That’s… hilarious.