Ms. Benathan first became interested in Richard when she read a novel that contradicted accounts of Richard's villainous ways, taught in school history, and decided these were lies propagated by Henry Tudor, Richard's successor.

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Picard's "villainous portrayal of Mr. Picower is unsupported by facts, " says a court document filed by Picower's lawyers.

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With his tall, chiseled Aryan looks, Eric Emil Oleson provides villainous derangement as Ma'am's increasingly insane partner in crime, a psuedo-doctor called Rat.

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While it's impossible to attribute all of Cobb's flaws to Stump's fabrications, Stump's portrayal of him as the most villainous figure in baseball history was accepted as fact for so long that it remains the dominant representation of him, said author Charles Leerhsen, who is researching and writing a biography of Cobb.

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So when Reubens was offered the chance to play the villainous Pavel in "Tron: Uprising, " Disney XD's animated series (which returns with new episodes Friday), he was glad to be on board.

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The role of a villainous spider-woman named Arachne was scaled back and the Green Goblin's role was enhanced.

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