Fictional Villains

Fictional Villains | Pointless

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Every story has a villain we love to hate. Which stories to they appear in?
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@twrampage 25 күн бұрын

Was quite happy to remember Iago from covering Othello in high school.

@smolboiproductions2984 5 күн бұрын

Sameeee!!!

@pockylovingranger 26 күн бұрын

The only two I didn’t know in the second half were Mr. Kurtz and Uriah Heip. As for Iago, did anyone else think they were talking about Iago from Aladdin???

@jfdrac 26 күн бұрын

I can see that and yeah I was sure Kurtz had to be Marlon Brando's character since that name is so distinctive

@mordicaiknode 25 күн бұрын

I literally went "could that mean Colonel?" without figuring it out.

@turgies9397 23 күн бұрын

Brooklyn 99 has a scene where Jack calls Amy Iago, and her response is I didn't know you read Othello, and he's like I was talking about the Parrot from Aladdin.

@loonytunescrazy 21 күн бұрын

@@turgies9397 They got the name iago from Othello

@jamessmithson-br7rm 15 күн бұрын

You’ve blown my mind… Love Iago from Othello, proper Machiavellian character… and great lines, “I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at, I am not what I am” and all that.. I did not know the parrot in Aladdin was (presumably) named after him… didn’t even know the parrot had a name

@jfdrac 26 күн бұрын

Only one she was confdent about is the one NOBODY KNEW LOL

@elisabethbauman6190 23 күн бұрын

I KNOW, RIGHT?! Crazy!

@52flyingbicycles 13 күн бұрын

She must have read Matilda 🤷‍♂️

@jfdrac 13 күн бұрын

@@52flyingbicycles Heh and most did too one of the worst answers especially due to teh movies

@pixelvapour1960 6 күн бұрын

Actually 3 people knew it

@jfdrac 6 күн бұрын

@@pixelvapour1960 Ok Mr technical lol

@22espec 26 күн бұрын

I'm amazed that they didn't know about Mlady of Winters, her name is so peculiar that It's the first character I remember from The Three Musketeers

@jfdrac 26 күн бұрын

My guess most people have never read it and movie adaptions they tend to use MALE villians since men traditionally dont fight women.

@louquine 26 күн бұрын

@@jfdracThe character was played by Faye Dunaway in the 1970s movie and sequel.

@jfdrac 26 күн бұрын

@@louquine True not saying she isnt in any movies just with sheer amount of 3 Musketter movies she is in compartively few

@billyhills9933 25 күн бұрын

She tends to be referred to just as Milady, which means her name sort of gets lost in the dialogue.

@ellbo2 24 күн бұрын

tbh i only know cos of the recent French movies.

@bluebear1985 2 күн бұрын

For Miss Trunchbull being in "Matilda", it's possible that one was a higher number due to some of them having seen the film version released in 1996. She was portrayed in that by Pam Ferris. There's your random fact of the day.🙂

@Little1Cave 12 күн бұрын

I knew Miss Trunchbull, Bill Sikes, Shere Khan, Iago, and Long John Silver. 👍

@reconbravo104 15 күн бұрын

I'm surprised more people didn't get Kurtz given how famous Apocalypse Now is

@marksieving7925 13 күн бұрын

But Apocalypse Now would have been the wrong answer. I don't know how many people realize that Apocalypse Now was an adaptation of Heart of Darkness.

@celinavivian1162 24 күн бұрын

I should have got Mr Kurtz. When I was in high school reading that book I had 2 teachers with the last name kurtz

@SarahB1863 7 күн бұрын

That one was a bit of a trick because they called him Mr. Kurtz instead of Colonel Kurtz. Sounds like they're referring to someone else.

@Illjwamh 24 күн бұрын

I would have scored 20. I knew Milady de Winter, and even though I knew Iago, I assumed fewer people would have known Mrs. Coulter so I picked that one

@cigmorfil4101 24 күн бұрын

The recent(ish) TV series of His Dark Materials would have meant I would expect it to be quite high

@Illjwamh 24 күн бұрын

@@cigmorfil4101 Oh yeah, I wasn't even thinking about that

@ChrisInTheNorth 17 күн бұрын

This must be a very old one. Alexander still has hair and they go to lengths to explain the rules

@prestonburnett5410 23 күн бұрын

I might be losing my mind, but couldn't you also refer to Rebecca (from the same novel "Rebecca" as Mrs. Danvers) as "Milady de Winter"? I'm not sure if there's something about English aristocracy that would make calling her "Milady" incorrect, but it seemed fitting to avoid naming the title.

@Fyreflier 23 күн бұрын

"Milady" (sometimes also written as "m'lady") would be how someone might address her directly (eg. "Welcome home, milady." "Thank you, Mrs. Danvers.") but her title would be "Lady"; it's the typically-lower classes' way of saying "my lady". They actually made a point about it in Game of Thrones when Arya gives away her noble breeding when she addresses Tywin as "my lord" instead of "m'lord"

@SiqueScarface 5 күн бұрын

I would not have taken Milady de Winter in the first round, because I expected so many more people to know the Three Musketeers (only 6%?). And I've never read any Charles Dickens, hence I recognized neither Bill Sikes nor Uriah Heep.

@KevinSmithGeo 8 күн бұрын

Never seen this before but it's a really clever game in how it encourages the players to push their luck to pick the more difficult options. It does require having a good idea of what the general public are familiar with though: I thought Milady de Winter was the second most obvious after Big Brother.

@NYChica23 2 күн бұрын

Nah...Miss Trunchbull was more obvious because of the 1996 movie adaptation of Matilda

@matthewdivoll3453 4 күн бұрын

The ones I knew: Big Brother, Miss Trenchbull, Bill Sikes, Long John Silver, Iago, Shere Khan

@pleakhouse 25 күн бұрын

Would I have got it right if I’d said Mrs Coulter “Northern Lights”?

@i-am-batman8538 25 күн бұрын

Did you even listen to the part where they explained the rules?

@billyhills9933 25 күн бұрын

As long as you didn't say The Golden Compass.

@pleakhouse 25 күн бұрын

@@billyhills9933 you wash your mouth out.

@michaellee7313 25 күн бұрын

Since people seem incapable of just giving a straight answer, yes you would have. They explained the rules as you have to give the first book or the name of the series. The Golden Compass would have been incorrect as that was the name of the movie based on the book The Northern Lights.

@rojavida 25 күн бұрын

@@michaellee7313they may well have got away with Golden Compass because that was the title of the book when published in the US market.

@52flyingbicycles 13 күн бұрын

I knew Mr Kurtz and Shere Khan!

@inuyasha1014 6 күн бұрын

The way I confidently said Aladdin for Iago

@jensraab2902 6 күн бұрын

I haven't read His Dark Materials yet so when I read Mrs. Coulter my first thought was, do they mean Ann Coulter? 😂😂

@SarahB1863 7 күн бұрын

I wonder if "Aladdin" would have been acceptable for Iago? Iago was the parrot in the Disney animated film, and he was a villain...

@Darapsa 7 күн бұрын

No, it was literature, not film.

@danielyeshe 10 күн бұрын

Well this is embarrassing. I know Milady de winter not from the book but from Albert the Fifth Musketeer.

@natenathan2654 26 күн бұрын

I got kurtz! Wasnt 100% because of the mr psrt but....

@jfdrac 26 күн бұрын

Yeah but that name is so distinctive that chances are it was not recycled

@mystikx2205 7 күн бұрын

Show of hands: Who knew Milady de Winter purely because of Persona 5?

@Afterthoughtbtw 22 күн бұрын

Anyone else remember Milady de Winter from the 'Dogtanian' cartoon series, rather than Musketeers? 😁

@B-MC 18 күн бұрын

I knew it from Albert The 5th Musketeer

@lisahenry20 11 күн бұрын

I know know Milady de Winter from Persona 5

@6022 4 күн бұрын

Yup! I would have been wondering if 'The Three Musketeers' would have been a really embarrassing answer if I had to admit I only knew it from the muskehounds!

@GCW1978 25 күн бұрын

Am I the only one who feels like framing Kurtz as a "Mr" turns him in to a trick question? I mean, the idea that he is so obscure that only ONE person in a hundred could confidently answer that tells me that mistitling him from "Col." or even just "Kurtz" to "Mr. Kurtz" ptobably threw a lot of people (I know I was second guessing whether there was another Kurtz I wasn't aware of in fiction...) Also, am I the only one who was a little rankled at the disrespect of retitling -even a fictional character- from their high military rank to just mister?

@peaceful7610 25 күн бұрын

I recognized it. Yes it downgraded his title but i wouldn't exactly say it's a book I've ever heard of before I read it

@digitig 25 күн бұрын

But Kurtz *isn't* a colonel in Heart of Darkness.

@MrJacobThrall 24 күн бұрын

Yeah, it's not a retitling or a downgrading or anything like that. The answers needed to be the *first* appearance of *literary* villains, so referencing the book (in which Kurtz was a civilian) that came out 80 years before the film it inspired is pretty emphatically on topic.

@rafk2976 24 күн бұрын

If they don't say Mr it doesn't distinguish from Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, and yes I'm sure the score was so low from people saying "Apocalypse Now". But that's not at all an unfair question.

@johnanderson9765 16 күн бұрын

I studied Joseph Conrad in high school, and even wore a fake beard to play him once, so I recognized the name Kurtz from Heart of Darkness.

@AlainnCorcaigh 20 күн бұрын

calling a game pointless and having categories with no pointless answers is absolutely ludicrous

@mkprocter882 18 күн бұрын

agreed there should be one every round.

@Gmackematix 7 күн бұрын

Not really. In every show, you have to find pointless answers in the final round in order to win so the title is relevant.

@seekerytomfain194 16 күн бұрын

for a show called pointless, it feels really really lame to have rounds where nothing is pointless.

@balok63a40 8 күн бұрын

Maybe I'm too much of an intellectual snob, but I couldn't help thinking, what kind of 100 illiterates did they interview that only 10 could identify Iago, only 3 (!!) could identify Uriah Heep, and only 1 (!!!!) could identify Mr. Kurtz. I have to admit that I was kind of surprised that only 14 got Mrs. Coulter, considering that "His Dark Materials" was adapted into a hit TV series in which Mrs. Coulter was superbly played by Ruth Wilson.

@Gmackematix 7 күн бұрын

This is clearly a very old episode of Pointless and would have been broadcast a few years before the BBC filmed His Dark Materials.

@leeshdee9269 6 сағат бұрын

My guess is a lot of people put "Aladdin" for Iago, which would be incorrect as the Disney version is a film based on a centuries old fairy tale where a talking parrot doesn't feature. As for Mr. Kurtz, I would also guess a lot put Apcolypse Now as the answer, which would still be incorrect as this round is based on literature, and the film Is an adaptation of a novel with a different title (which is the correct answer here, which only 1 person got).

@matthewpaul526 Күн бұрын

In America, we try to get the MOST points based on the OPINION of 100 people using "questions" like "Name a food you've used in your bedroom". It's what you get when a country prioritizes funding its military over education for multiple generations.