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I'm convinced you guys don't know what the word casanova actually means and you're just putting it as a replacement word for someone who a lot of people crush on. Casanova implies INTENT. That they're going around seducing left and right.
Remus Lupin would NEVER. I like to think he gets a weird uncomfortable look on his face whenever someone he doesn't know tries to talk to him. Remus Lupin whenever he likes someone makes a total fool of himself. I'm taking not paying attention and walks into a wall getting a bloody nose. I'm talking stumbles over his words until he just sighs and gives up walking away. I'm talking that when he can get words out of his mouth their stupid as fuck. He's so cringe fail loser and YOU GUYS JUST DON'T REALIZE IT.
He's friends with the 'popular' people, sure, but there's always one loser in the group to balance it out (plus I'm a firm believer of many people found the marauders annoying and the fact that so many of y'all put Peter in the loser position... for shame).
If we want to talk about casanova let's talk casanova. The real Casanova of Gryffindor is the one and only Marlene McKinnon. She's stupid (/aff) but she also goes out of her way to bag as many girls as she can before she somehow finds herself settled down with Dorcas (Dorcas isn't really sure how it happened either).
That is my truth and I will not let the masses stop me. They hated Jesus at first too and look where he is now.
#i will die on this hill.#loser remus agenda#BUT ALSO#fuckboy marlene agenda#also tumblr reading comprehension is still going strong i see#.theadcanons#marauders era#marauders#harry potter#dead gay wizards#dead wizards from the 70s#hp marauders#dorlene#marlene mckinnon#remus lupin#wolfstar#moonwater
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Remus and Marlene: *literally just standing*
Sirius: Woah, you really put "L" in LGBT you absolute losers
Remus and Marlene: *standing in even more awkward, autistic way*
#sirius love language is bullying#marauders era#marauders#the marauders#dead gay wizards#dead gay wizards from the 70s#marauders incorrect quotes#loser remus lupin agenda#loser marlene mckinnon#sirius black#remus lupin#marlene mckinnon
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"Remus is slutty" "he's the Casanova of gryffindor tower"
WRONG! he is a little loser man with too many insecurities to count!
#little loser man remus lupin agenda#remus lupin#hp marauders#the marauders#marauders era#remus john lupin
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THIS CHAPTER WAS SO GOOD. THE TENSION THEY HAVE- I WAS LITERALLY KICKING MY FEET OR WHATEVER THE EXPRESSION IS ANYWAYS TY FOR THIS UPDATE
EEEEE IM GLAD U LIKED ITTT
the tension rly got out of hand there, didn’t it? there were moments when i was writing when i was literally holding my breath like “omfg they are out of control what is going on”
like?? remus being all smitten and touching sirius’ jacket at the ice rink?? wtf was that about??? like……why did he do that ohmygod what a lovesick little loser i love him sm <3333
#pushing the loser remus agenda#(non derogatory)#i love him so bad#hey sharpshooter#aka my excuse to write basketball#u ask tortoise answers#anon
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Guys I'm on a pretty boy, loser boyfriend Remus Lupin agenda
Who's in?
Coz yeah ik we say he was the Casanova of Gryffindor Tower, but as a joke did people forget that?? He was a conventionally unattractive tall lanky loser who was smart, and kind and somehow had almost all of his friends and multiple others have a crush on him
Don't ask him how he did it, he doesn't know either
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really do hate how characters are being stripped of characteristics that make them interesting in the first place.
Remus ran away from his problems, he was a coward, he never stood up for himself because he comes from a disadvantaged position. He can never be brave, my guy was grateful he was even allowed to go to hogwarts. That's also why he's so blindly loyal to Dumbldore, of course he feels indebted grateful towards him.
My Remus would never be this confident cocky Casanova guy people depict him as?? You guys know we can have conventionally unattractive characters right?? Not everyone has to be self assured, we have cocky Sirius and James already.
Literally where are the fics where he's so scarred he's ugly, has a bad leg, uses a cane, has chronic pains???
he wanted to break away from the past and yet he's simultaneously attached to it as well. He literally can't move on (not reporting Sirius' animagus form??) but makes no moves to get closer with Harry.
REMUS IS A LOSER AND WE LOVE HIM FOR THAT.
Like he's clearly a complicated character and literally everything that makes him interesting is taken away to put him in this macho daddy role.
How do y'all say you guys like this fanon version of Remus when canon Remus was so much more interesting?? Do you guys even like Remus??
You can have your headcanons where Sirius is dressed up in skirts, wearing make up, I don't mind gender something Sirius! (It fits his whole rebel thing for me) But when he's wearing anything that literally isn't punk or goth, like stockings, shirts that "swallow him up", no. Or worse, if he's so short, so skinny and twinkified in order to push this submissive bottom agenda that some wolfstar tend to do, oh my god then I have a problem.
Why can no one ship them with equal heights if you don't like their canon height difference?? Do y'all not want tall Sirius black AND tall Remus lupin?? I DO GIVE ME EQUAL HEIGHTS. It genuinely freaks me out when one of them is ridiculously short.
I don't even care for the whole masculine tall dark handsome character that he canonically was but...to twinkify him..??? When he's probably the literal blueprint for fanon Remus now??
Sirius that is emotional, irrational, whiny, overdramatic?? Who?? Yeah it's fine when it's on occasion because it certainly does add flavor to his character plus comedic relief but lets not make that his whole personality? Where's the Sirius black that gave 0 fucks about everything!! "I wish it was a full moon", his reason for The Prank, his general idgaf attitude after escaping Azkaban!! Like he was a proper apathetic menace and y'all need to write him that way more.
And together, femboy sub Sirius x masc dom "the rational one" is the worst thing that happened to wolfstar, literally everything dimensional about it is gone and it's just...a regular mlm ship.
James sunshine potter. I fear I am guilty of liking James that's only ever nice to people but please. Make him cruel. Where's the guy that threatened lily, the guy that treated severes the way he did?
I'm all for sunshine potter but we don't have to erase the shitty things he did. The guy that kept being shitty because he knew he was getting away with it. It makes him interesting, how he is capable of such viciousness while being the sunshine character??
He even sees the world in black and white and yet he's so awful?? Like I genuinely can't understand this guy and it makes him beautiful.
If anything I should be seeing more Slytherin James but I barely see any of that?? Bro was cunning
Lily, and I know how much the fandom is protective over her but please fucking admit she's a character with flaws. Jily should've never happened because of James' cruelty towards Snape. Yet it did because Lily is a flawed character that got with his ex best friends bully.
Yes lily doesn't owe Severus shit after the mudblood incident but she can do that by...not defending him?? NOT getting with his friend??
James threatened her, SAed Snape, and she was there to witness this among several other things he did. She was Sev's best friend, she'd know personally how being bullied made him feel.
But one slur word and those years of friendship, the loyalty is thrown away and she gets with James Potter. Yes, girl boss, but she's also cruel. Make her capable of cruelty, no need to make a complete empath!!
Low-key, y'all need to give Snape fans an apology cause y'all out here making up stories that glorify fanon Regulus when Snape has canonically done more things for harry while serving cunt.
Like please, let's not forget that Snape is the exact opposite of being masculine too, he is very capable of being an actual LGBTQ icon whereas the mauraders are the furthest thing from that.
If you want LGBTQ icon mauraders, who canonically made fun of Snape for being less masculine, why the hell aren't you doing the same for Snape?? Why in the world is he being written as some creepy homophobic incel??
Also please give him credit, he's fucking funny. He took over for Remus, assigned students to think of ways of killing werewolves and made Remus mark them. He's PETTY, he did not let that Prank slide.
He's such a beautifully grey character, where his FANS don't even want to call him a good character or an evil one because he's that grey. And all of you stripped off the good parts of him and just made him a boring evil characters. Like bro, c'mon.
And regulus. He's literally just a mix Sirius and Snape. There's nothing badass or cunty about him?? Literally anyone can tell he takes after sirius or Snape.
If you want an original character, please reference canon. He's so much more tragic that way.
I don't care if he grew up abusive, was fed blood supremacist bullshit and believed it, groomed to take part in a cult only to realize violently afterwards that he didn't like it there. If I wanted to read about that id read the books and focus on Snape.
I don't care that he was petty, was a boss bitch, did badass things and gave 0 fucks about the people around because that's literally just Sirius.
He's tragic because he tried to be a hero and failed. he was always going to fail, he was always too naive, he was never going to amount to anything and that makes him tragic and much more interesting. He was on the path for reform and didn't have enough time.
It's like you guys switched up canon Severus and canon regulus, it's actually annoying, give these characters justice.
Everyone, mauraders, lily and Snape, all of them are so grey it actually hurts, and yet they keep getting pushed into these labeled boxes like what.
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#confession#harry potter#marauders#remus lupin#james potter#sirius black#lily evans#severus snape#regulus black#anti fanon marauders#anti fanon severus snape#anti fanon regulus black#anti fanon remus lupin#anti fanon sirius black#anti fanon james potter#anti fanon lily evans#tw: mention of sa
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always gonna push the remus-is-a-loser-but-he's-hot-as-shit-so-he-gets-bitches-anyway agenda
#like#hes no casanova#but once he hits that werewolf puberty#you best believe the girls and gays are in LOVE with that man#and i would be too#just to set the record straight#hp marauders#marauders era#marauders#mwpp#remus lupin#wolfstar
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If you ever feel a passion to contribute to hot transgirl Sirius & loser bf Remus agenda with some gorgeous art.... I wouldnt be mad about it.....
I JUST LIKE ONE MINUTE AGO STARTED ON SOMEEEEE bc of your post bb we share one single brain i LOVE it <333333333
#just looking at references#but your smart words got the rusty cogs in my brain rollingggggg#thank you for it#also#i need to include the dog#the dog SPOKE to me#name ideas?#gigggglinggggg#marauders#marauders era#fanart#remus lupin#sirius black#wolfstar
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Let men be losers and wet and have twiggy legs we don't need more cool bad boys or jocks
LET MEN BE DAMP AGENDA 2023
here’s the thing you need to understand about pisces. the reason we’re obsessed with scorpios is that we (remus) look at them (sirius) and are like “woah you’re me but stronger (hiding the water sign shenanigans marginally better)”
they are all damp, sirius is just wearing a leather jacket about it
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Okay wait i NEED to hear ur regulily. Sapphic or not idc omg
good morning im so hungover and on the metro. lets do this…..
i have a tag /lesbian regulus agenda & another tag which is just /regulily <3
and! i don’t really have an au or storyline for them?? it’s all about vibes for me as of yet… and something i think about A Lot is lias @themuseoftheviolets tattoo parlor au. please ask him about it its SO good. lesbian regulily is one of my favorite ships.. something so yummy about menacing nonbinary he/him dyke reg who only dresses in hoodies and his giant of a mountain of a girlfriend lily.. salivating..
as a lot of you probably know if you’ve followed me for a while, i don’t like the remus/lily frienrship hc. i like them as friendly, but i am not a remus and lily bff truther. i think lily has earned the right to swear off male relationships entirely(friendship, romantically, sexually) after shes had to deal with both severus and james. which she always does to me !!
lily is 6ft or taller and reg is 5’6 or 5’7. reg takes one look at lily and he’s soooooo gone. the way he has to tilt his head up ???? and her being SO tall. he wants to climb her like a mountain. he can barely look away. like if you look closely there are literal hearts in his eyes. hes being absolutely pathetic with it. trying to be near her all the time but not really talking because he gets soooooo nervous. no one has ever wanted someone as badly as reg wants 6ft tall lily evans. reg is fighting the urge to like literally bend the knee and swear his undying love for the rest of time
lily is a little on the fence about reg at first, but mainly because hes sirius’ sibling and lily has worked hard to distance herself from the marauders. but she’s slowly growing intrigued with reg too and how hes nothing like his brother. regs pathetic loser aura has captivated her body and soul. she notices how he looks at her she’s blushing a little. so they’re taking small steps to becoming closer. mostly lily because she doesn’t beat around the bush and reg is flushing…. wide eyes and melting
whenever i think about regulily they’re almost always artists of some kind ? and that’s sort of what connects them. i love the idea or artist reg and his muse lily. i love sculpture artist lily and a whole ghost scene between her and reg. i love them going to museums and talking about the paintings. i love them fucking nasty in the musem bathroom
they’re both unbelievably pretentious to me. very much giving the vibe of only listening to Real music, refusing blockbusters, having deep and serious discussions, etc. and they’re soooooo annoying. hottest couple at university though :/ they’ve both earned the right to be absolutely insufferable.
they’re always touching once they’re together. mostly its tall lily and her arm around regulus. it makes reg absolutely fucking insane. he feels soooooo safe and protected and loved. and lily ALWAYS has a hand on her. reg plays with lilys hair a lot. they share clothes a lot despite not at all being the same size whatsoever.
they absolutely refer to their sex life as ’making love’. its a whole thing for them. they will plan ahead almost. like they’ll spend an entire night fucking and discovering and playing with kinks and what not.
they get high together a lot which only makes them more pretentious and insufferable. their friends almost dont want to get high with them because theyre soooooo annoying
they lowkey live together from their first date and then on. reg just sort of never leaves lilys place again after they go back to her place after their first date. uhaul lesbian realness who don’t know how to take things slow
some thoughts on regulily!!!
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okay I hear you guys 🙄😒 "losers are hot" mmm okay whatever you guys say. I'm sticking with the version of Remus who has no game at all, who fumbles the bag even harder when he likes someone, who's a bit socially awkward due to him being separated from others when he was a kid. MY Remus isn't conventionally attractive and doesn't talk to people outside of his friend group which may I remind all of you is a NAMED friend group. I'm sorry YOU GUYS don't see my vision.
love the whole "Remus is gryffindor's casanova" most of you have going on but that is not me AT ALL.
He's a weird, lanky, scar covered book nerd loser who seemingly gets sick at least once a month and is the dude who's weirdly close with the nurse of all faculty. he is absolutely NOT getting bitches. he is getting ZERO play. his game is NON EXISTENT.
#LOSER REMUS AGENDA#they hated jesus because he spoke the truth#also guys realize im a lesbian all dudes who are losers are just dudes who are losers to me#i have ZERO clue why all of you guys are like 'loser men have no idea the power they hold'#i zero clue of the power they hold#.theadcanons#marauders era#marauders#harry potter#dead gay wizards#dead wizards from the 70s#hp marauders#remus lupin#wolfstar#wolfseeker#moonseeker#moonwater
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Mrs. Zabini informs Remus he’ll be her sugar baby for a while, and Remus is all “I’m gay??” She responds “yeah, I’m bi but with a leaning toward girls. Can’t wait for you to meet my girlfriend” and refuses to tell him who said girlfriend is bc she thinks it’ll be funnier if Remus knows nothing ahead of time (tragically for everyone else, a very common trait among the darker purebloods is assholery of all kinds. Mrs. Zabini and Sirius may not be blood purists, but they are a unique breed of asshole that is only present among those purebloods). The family dinner is at the Belgian cottage, as Prongsfoot was on a job there and Lily tagged along to a) make sure they all spend time with Harry bc the job’s not dangerous so it’s fine and b) she’s really interested in this particular curse and is planning on doing research on it later so she’s also along to help them and for academic purposes, so Remus has never seen the place and has no idea who he’s about to see. He does know it’s her girlfriend and her two best friends, but he doesn’t know their identities. Mrs. Zabini hollers “the most fabulous member of our quartet as arrived and I come bearing a gift” as she enters (Remus is all “this is a cottage????” bc the damn thing is like 2 or 3 stories and has a marble entryway. Mrs. Zabini gives him a look and replies “I said I was rich, didn’t I? I wasn’t lying, but this is just for the Belgian work my friends do.”) and they all come trooping in to say hello and see what the gift is. Remus is shell shocked to see those two and even more surprised to see Lily.
I love all of this but mostly I am here to push the sugar baby Remus agenda. I don't understand why Sirius and/or James are never the sugar daddies in fics? It's always Remus? And he's also the one always getting called "Daddy" in fics when clearly that would again be Sirius and/or James????? WHO looks at that pathetic damp loser man and thinks "Daddy"??? Honestly 😂
Sorry, I digress. Yes to Remus being Mrs. Zabini's sugar baby and the only "husband" she never ends up killing.
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stopping just here to speak my truth. lets push the loser remus lupin agenda
#why do people think he’s cool#hes no casanova of gryffindor tower sorry hes a noodle#we love him for that#id elaborate on this for hours but ive no motivation right now#just know that im right#remus lupin
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im so glad ive pushed my loser sirius and remus agenda because i love to see everyone being like omg angry remus is so hot... but still a loser 😋 like yes!!!! they are still nerds!!! literal goofballs!!! i am so excited for the next chapter ahdhdhfrjjgk
YESSS loser remus is the only real remus!!!
he’s only ever pretending to be hot!!! none of it is real!!! he is not cool or easy going or fun and he is definitely not hot!!! not even a little!!! he’s the biggest fuckin loser in town!!! it’s why we love him!!!!
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@arggghhhsstuff that's actually so valid
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Fargo: Top 10 Characters
Television shows like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos and The Wire are definitely three of the greatest in the genre of non-fantasy dramas, thrillers, and crime fiction. If you love those three shows, but you are unfamiliar with Fargo, stop whatever you are doing, and watch it now. Right now. Thank me later.
One of the reasons why Fargo is a work of genius is the intensity and depth of its characters. These characters, in my opinion, have earned the right to be categorized alongside Walter White, Tony Soprano, Omar Little and Don Draper, as some of the legendary TV characters of all time. This blog takes a look at eleven of the most astonishing characters Fargo has provided to the world of television.
Beware of spoilers, obviously.
Consolation Prize: Lester Nygaard (Season 1)
“Old Lester, now, he would've just let it slide. But not this guy.”
Played by Martin Freeman, or better known as Dr. John Watson from the twenty-first-century version of Sherlock Holmes, Lester Nygaard is a loser. Like all losers, we tend to feel bad for him, until his personality develops in a way which makes us abandon our pity for him. Pity is replaced by disgust, and sadness is replaced by anger. Lester’s transformation from a good-for-nothing non-achiever to a devious and heartless criminal and fugitive is definitely one of the most subtle character developments I’ve seen on TV. His role is often overshadowed by two other characters from the same season. Very important character nonetheless, brilliantly portrayed by Freeman.
10. Wes Wrench/Mr. Wrench (Season 1, Season 3)
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Played by the deaf, yet brilliant actor - Russel Harvard - Mr. Wrench also can’t hear. What can do is kill. He is an assassin, and he is loyal and lethal. He appears in the first season as one-half of the committed team of Mr. Wrench and Mr. Numbers (Grady Numbers). Wrench’s childish attitude is quick to win the hearts of the audience, while his kill skills and will-power earn him a spot on this list. After losing his partner (Mr. Numbers) in a gunfight, he is spared by his partner’s killer because the killer was himself impressed by Wrench’s skills and character. He reappears in season three as an invaluable accomplice to another character on this list, a role which makes us love him even more.
9. Molly Solverson (Season 1)
“Got to love a man who keeps his word, right?“
Played by Allison Tolman, Molly is the walking-definition of a young and hungry-for-justice police officer. A daughter to a police officer and a granddaughter to a sheriff, Molly is the character that makes us nurture the hope that there is hope for goodness and justice. After losing her murdered chief early on in the show, who is replaced by an incompetent one, Molly takes up the challenge of solving her chief’s murder all by herself, and she quickly finds herself trapped in a world of assassins and conspiracies. But despite being shot and hospitalized, she just does not give in, acting as the top cop that she isn’t. The character even earned Tolman the Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
8. V.M. Varga (Season 3)
“The past is unpredictable.”
Played by David Thewlis, or as we know him - Professor Remus ‘Mooney’ Lupin - from the Harry Potter world, Varga is sick, and in all likelihood he will make you sick to the stomach. Sadistic and ruthless, with a portrait of Joseph Stalin on his desk, Varga uses a businessman hitherto leading a happy and normal life to further his money laundering scheme. Intimidation and disposal seem to be his key tactics to success, apparent when he makes the businessman’s subordinate drink his own urine as a punishment for acting suspiciously. With the worst teeth on the show, and probably suffering from bulimia, Thewlis’ villainous role does not allow us to take even a one minute break between episodes.
7. Floyd Gerhardt (Season 2)
“Three times, I sent men to do a job. Three times, they come back unfinished. I'll handle this myself.”
Played by Jean Smart, Floyd Gerhardt inherited one of the most difficult jobs in the world. After her husband Otto, the head of the Gerhardt crime syndicate, suffers a stroke and is unable to lead the mafia any longer, Floyd takes over all the guns and the money. Her eldest boy, Dodd, is unwilling to accept a woman, who is also old, as the new mafia don. However, throughout the season, Floyd shows us who’s boss as she uses an iron hand to deal with a rival gang from Kansas City and to investigate the homicide of her youngest son. One of the characteristics of Floyd which makes us like her so much is her love and concern for her granddaughter, who is mostly abused and humiliated by her father Dodd. The characters in season 2 are the strongest, but without Floyd, none of the other characters would be as appealing as they are.
6. Gloria Burgle (Season 3)
“There’s violence to knowing the world isn't what you thought.”
Played by Carrie Coon, Gloria is the older version of Molly Solverson. After finding her stepdad murdered via asphyxiation, Gloria’s investigation leads to bizarre outcomes that find her entwined in something very big and very dangerous. A recently divorced woman, whose position of Chief also got taken away, her new Chief is simply intolerable, who demands of her to let go of the investigation. But like Molly, she just doesn’t give up, and her relentless pursuit constitutes the heart of the third season. Gloria is an example of how some police officers simply cannot be intimidated or corrupted into submission. The final scene of Fargo is a conversation between Varga and Gloria, and arguably, that tense scene is one of the best dialogue exchanges in the series. A true superhero.
5. Lou Solverson (Season 2)
“Am I the only one here who’s clear on the concept of law enforcement?”
A loving father, a caring husband and the hotshot cop of town, Lou Solverson, played by Patrick Wilson, is your Marvel/DC superhero. Lou actually made his first appearance in the first season, as Molly’s father - former cop currently running a diner. In the second season, we are given a glimpse of Lou’s glory days as he single-handedly takes on both the Gerhardt Family and the Kansas City Mafia. Two things to note about Lou’s character - fearlessness and morality. Lou just does not submit to intimidation, as is seen in his confrontations with Mike Milligan on one occasion and with the Gerhardt Family on another. On the latter aspect, Lou is forced to take in his long-time friend Ed Blumquist on charges of murder, but the element of friendship does not deter Lou to do what he knows is his duty and is morally right.
4. Mike Milligan (Season 2)
“If the goal is to kill those who oppress you, what does it matter who goes first?”
Played by Bokeem Woodbine, Mike Milligan is the epitome of suave. A well-read man, who often uses poetic quotes out of nowhere to dramatize his point, Mike is an assassin working for the Kansas City Mafia, and is in charge of ripping the Gerhardt Family apart. Arguably the most cunning and nefarious character of the second season, what sets Mike apart from other villains is the unbelievable aura of calm he brings to a seemingly tense situation. Varga does that too, but Mike does it better. Intelligence is his most lethal weapon, as his loyal henchmen, known as The Kitchen Brothers, carry out most of the bloodshed for him. At the end, although Mike meets a fate worse than death, most of us would die to be him during a gang-war.
3. Lorne Malvo (Season 1)
“There are no saints in the animal kingdom. Only breakfast and dinner.”
Played by the former husband of Angelina Jolie, Billy Bob Thornton’s portrayal of Lorne Malvo goes down as the greatest villainous role in Fargo. Malvo, in simple words, is pure evil. He does not care. He is a predator, with an ideology best put as, “kill or be killed”. He begins an unusual friendship with the Lester Nygaard, whose character is antithetical to that of Malvo. He even saves Lester from arrest and gradually, through his venomous words, turns him from an innocent loser into a evil loser. Eventually, Lester tries to show him who’s boss, realizing he couldn’t have made a worse choice about who to fuck around with. The personification of evil that is Malvo, can be categorized with characters such an Anton Chigurh, the Joker and Hans Gruber (who has an unusual physical resemblance with Malvo) on the list of the greatest villains of all time.
2. Ohanzee “Hanzee” Dent (Season 2)
“ “Send the Indian,” they'd say. “Who cares about booby traps? Give Hanzee a flashlight and a knife and send him down into the black echo.” ”
Played by Zahn McClarnon, Hanzee Dent is not an evil guy. He is a bad man, sure. But he is not EVIL. He is not a villain. Society alienated him, treated him like a mongrel and made him a ticking time-bomb only seconds away from the boom. A native-american assassin recruited by Otto Gerhardt from a very young age, Hanzee appears to be a loyal hit-man for the Gerhardt Family, until he loses his shit. An unstoppable force and a ruthless killer with a history of military service (Vietnam), Hanzee has an agenda of his own. His killing spree is triggered by a sign outside a pub boasting about murders of 22 Sioux Indians who were hung there, with a puddle of dried vomit beneath it. Arguably the most complicated character of the show, with an intense development of personality, Hanzee Dent is the only character in the show who is a lethal assassin but makes us pity him and root for him.
One Last Consolation Prize: Peggy Blumquist (Season 2)
“I just wanted to be someone.”
Played by Kirsten Dunst, or Mary Jane from the Tobey Maguire Spiderman series, Peggy Blumquist is the source of all the drama. After she accidentally runs over the youngest Gerhardt son, Rye Gerhardt, her husband, Ed Blumquist (another brilliant character) becomes number one on the Gerhardt Family’s blacklist, and acquires the nickname - The Butcher of Luverne. Peggy should not be perceived as stupid or a trouble-maker. Throughout the show, she feels what many of us also feel, that we are not living up to our potential. Her interests conflict with her husband’s interests, but eventually she does everything in her capacity to clean up the mess that she (unintentionally) created, and to save her husband from the cops and the mafia. Her portrayal by Dunst was vastly appreciated by critics and fans alike, but in a show comprising of so many awesome characters, it was impossible for me to include Peggy in my top ten.
1. Nikki Swango (Season 3)
“You've made me the happiest woman ever. Now, let's make a sex tape.”
In Fargo, we have super-heroes, heroes, villains and super-villains, and we have Nikki Swango, portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Right from the moment we saw her eliminate a threat to her grand plan with the help an air-conditioner, Nikki provided Fargo with the most unique ‘unique character’. A genius who utilizes her intellect in a professional game of cards (Bridge), she may be, at first, perceived as selfish and shallow. But towards the end, it is evident that she actually did love her fiance Ray Stussy, and wasn’t just using him for her personal ambitions. It is hard to put a hero/villain label on her because she embodies the key characteristics of both roles - empathy, willpower, deviousness, ruthlessness and a thick skin. Her partnership with Mr. Wrench, her plan to execute the entire squad led by Varga AND extort two million dollars from him has to be one of the most memorable moments of the series. Not to forget how she, along with Wrench, hijacked the truck carrying all the documents needed by the IRS to prosecute Varga. Simply put, Nikki Swango is the badass of the show.
So that’s my list. I won’t ask you to like or comment on my blog (some feedback would be appreciated though). All I want from the world of Netflix, is that this TV show receives the viewership and appreciation that it deserves, which it hasn’t gotten yet.
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