Eric Fomley

Eric Fomley asked Mark Lawrence:

Who is your all time favorite villain of the fantasy genre?

Mark Lawrence I'll have to go for Count Olaf. Having read all 13 books of the Series of Unfortunate events to my daughter recently, I have developed the perfect Count Olaf voice and that, I feel, helps me understand the man.

The great thing about Count Olaf is how unabashedly 'all about me' he is. From his outrage on discovering that the thing he'd kicked a hole in was a bag of flour not a baby - "I've been tricked!" - to his indefatigable sense of entitlement - shipwrecked on an inhabited island he names it Olafland and declares himself king.

Olaf is the triumph of wrong over right, cunning over intelligence. Olaf understands the power of the lowest common denominator and employs that base mathematics of stupidity to triumph (almost) time and again.

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