Mobster vs Villain - What's the difference?
mobster | villain |
(rfc-sense) (en) A vile, wicked person.
# An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
# A deliberate scoundrel.
The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
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As nouns the difference between mobster and villain
is that mobster is a member of a mob or mafia while villain is (en) a vile, wicked person.As a verb villain is
(obsolete|transitive) to debase; to degrade.villain
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(wikipedia villain)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain , and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain —not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.