Non-monogamous on both sides, according to Harry’s suspicions and all but proof. She cried attempted rape when caught in flagrante with Lord Cardigan, but Flashman wasn’t convinced of her innocence. On the other hand, he was quite convinced that Cardigan was guilty whichever way - either of attempted rape or attempted cuckoldry - which turned out to have something to do with bringing about the Charge of the Light Brigage.
Since the OP is after only one other person as the objet d’amour, I’ll have to disqualify certain of the Draka, on the grounds that they love a number of their nearest and dearest - they merely share the all-too-common failing of forming an isomorpishm between *Us vs. Them *and Human vs. Non-human.
Dammit! you beat me to Scorpius and Braka. Scorpius also had a thing going on with that chick that walked on walls and stuff…but he did end up killing her didn’t he, in the PK wars?
Silent Hill 4’s Walter Sullivan loves his mother enough to warp reality and murder 21 people (including himself!) in order to be with her. Too bad he thinks that Room 302 is his mother.
Yeah. Sputnik was a fun toy and useful in some capacity (hey, hot redhead who doesn’t mind the gimp suit), but she was ultimately expendable. By contrast, Scorpy, who usually has no problem offing people who make themselves inconvenient (re: Crais, Sputnik, Medusa, Commandant Cleavage), carries a wounded Braka off of the battlefield in PK Wars. The theme from The Bodyguard really should have been playing at that point.
I always thought his giving up his seat was more about wanting to “win” over Jack and get Rose back in his clutches. He was a selfish, possessive ass who wanted to control her. Fun character but not nuanced at all.
Missed the edit window but wanted to add: Atia from the HBO series Rome was a vindictive scheming beeyotch, but she seemed to love Mark Antony. I was surprised by the depth of her pain when he took up with Cleopatra and refused to see her. I don’t think it was simply a bruised ego.
a. Debauches, swindles, and possibly kills Hindley , Cathy’s brother in order to get the title to Wuthering Heights.
b. Seduces and abuses Isabella Linton (hanging her dog on the way out).
c. Threatens Edward Linton.
d. Kidnaps Catherine and forces her to marry his son so that he can get the rights to Thrushcross Grange.
e. Deliberately deprives Hareton of any access to education, condemning him to the kind of brutish upbringing that Heathcliff himself so resented.
Not sure what your definition of “villain” is, but Heathcliff fits mine. He’s not even an anti-hero. He’s a vengeful, brutal waste of air.
Hey - if the Joker counts because of Harley Quin, then shouldn’t Hannibal fall under the same “sick and twisted, but sincere, love” category? Harley’s also been brainwashed.
Honestly, I wouldn’t count the Joker either, as I meant true love. Of course that is an amorphous term, but to me it necessarily requires that the love be to the betterment of the object, not the exploitation of the object.
How about Best-Trek-Villan ever Gul Dukat? He certainly loved his daughter Ziyal, even if he wasn’t the best of fathers. His feelings for her–an illegitimate child–personally & professionally cost him a great deal.
My favorite comes from a one-season show called Brimstone.
The premise is that a large number of damned souls escape from Hell. Satan appoints a late police detective, Ezekiel Stone (Peter Horton), to pursue them throughout America, to where, apparently, they all fled.
At one point, the hero manages to track down the ringleader of the breakout, a queen from ancient Sumaria or some such. After a multi-episode arc, she manages to elude her pursuer and vanishes. At the end of the episode, Stone is talking things over with Satan (wonderfully played by John Glover) and noting how Satan describes the escaped queen, asserts that Satan was in love with her.
Satan replies, “I never loved anyone but God! And that was a LONG time ago!”
In George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire Cersei should be near the top of anyone’s list of despicable characters (a very long long list). She loves Jaime, and her children as well.
Dukat was the best Trek villain, wasn’t he? He was interesting because he did love his daughter, and he really did think what he was doing was right. At least until the final seasons where he turned into an evil for evil’s sake guy.
Arguable. It’s easy to interpret that she sticks with him because of the freedom from society she gets out of it. In any case, it’s a complicated not necessarily healthy mess for the both of them (or all three if you count in Ivy.)
