We want our villains and antagonists to have distinct…

I like flawed characters, and I like seeing people who are supposed to be not villains but antagonists. There are elements to them, which…

— Taika Waititi

Joss Whedon said to me, 'If you think you are taking over the show, you have got another think coming.' He said, 'You are…

— James Marsters

“I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was…

— L.M. Montgomery

What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment,…

— Thomas Pynchon

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would…

— James Nicoll

Antagonists are always creatives efforts. They get extra attention be it in their costumes to their screen time. I actually enjoy it.

— Amrapali Gupta

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those--in the…

— Joseph Brodsky

“The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of awareness to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Pardon me for budging into concoction of the aristocrats blowing their trumpets, the demagogues' doctrines, the antagonists' squeals, the hypocrites' assertions, the sycophants fawning…

— Mukesh Kwatra

“In general, the best antagonists in fiction represent the protagonist’s Shadow. By confronting and ultimately defeating the antagonist, the hero reintegrates these disparate aspects…

— Will Raywood

What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.

— Paul Keating

All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

— Jean de La Fontaine

We are the 1000 children of death. We're in-between, on the fence. Non-descript antagonists. I'm in-between, on the fence. Non-descript antagonist!

— Otep

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

— Paul Simon