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Unlisted - Enid Blyton in general – The Greatest Villain

March 30, 2008 – Natalie says: Who do you think is the craftiest among all the villains in the FF books? In my opinion, its Block in Five Go to Smuggler's Top. The Stick family in Five Run Away Together also make good baddies.
March 31, 2008 – George says: Maybe it should be Red Tower? Or Pottersham is no less.
April 1, 2008 – Natalie says: I liked Block because of the newness EB put into him. The Sticks were rather foolish, but their foolishness added a humor to the book. But George, would you please tell me why you prefer Red Tower and Pottersham?
April 2, 2008 – George says: I just thought, they might be. Red Tower was clever to buy a castle-like house, with secrets. Pottersham was also clever.
April 3, 2008 – Tubah says: I always thought that the sticks were foolish. But they were also very wicked.
April 5, 2008 – Natalie says: How I wish Enid Blyton to be alive till this day! If she had known that in this world existed a fanatical fan like Abhilasha, she would have been overjoyed. Thanx a lot, Abhilasha, you have have taught me what it is to be a real fan. But I think you are very unreasonable, detesting every character who goes against George. Edgar makes a very unpleasant guy and also a nice rogue. Dear Eddy! He's scowling at you now, Abhilasha!
April 20, 2008 – Preethi Priya says: Who is Edgar anyway?
	Fatty says: Try reading Five Run Away Together! :-)
January 10, 2009 – hope189 says: What is a book without a villain? In most of Enid Blyton's books we find a baddie or at least an annoying character to be made fun of. Who do you think is the best (or worst) baddie? Who is the nicest baddie? Do any of the baddies you know in real life resemble one of Blyton's baddies? Do YOU resemble any of them? My favorite villain/annoying character would be the one and only. (drumroll please). Clear orf/Mr Goon. The mystery series would certainly be less interesting if Mr. Goon didn't come along to "stop those kids from interfering" and make them "clear orf". (No offense, Fatty).
January 12, 2009 – Tuba says: Block is the greatest villain. He was so clever. Mr Goon a villain? But yes FFOAD would not have been so great without him. The Sticks were the most enjoyable villains.
	Fatty says: I wouldn't call Goon a villain, he was just a rather nasty piece of work at times!
January 12, 2009 – Philip Mannering says: Goon a villain? No, of course not! He was just a poor (okay, not exactly "poor". ) bobby who tried hard to solve all the cases in his district, but disappointingly, failed each time, sometimes due to his own antics, and sometimes because of the interruption of Fatty and Co. To give all kinds of false clues to him, hence disrupting and contaminating the crime scene. He did come quite dangerously close to solve some of the mysteries, and most of the times he was right there with the Find-Outers, just failing to spot the final clue, and hence making the wrong decision. He was rather poor at detecting, but gosh, as they sometimes say in the books surprised, he *does* have some brains! Fatty's opinion of him was extremely low, and rather unharsh. Goon was one of the most interesting characters in the Find-Outers series, a great character. To come back at the Greatest Villain, I've always thought Jo-Jo in The Island of Adventure and Block from Sumggler's Top had to be the ones. However, I do have some other choices. Scar-Neck in Castle of Adventure, Meier and Erlick in the Mountain of Adventure, Mr. Eppy a little, and the cool and calm enemies in Circus; these were quite clever. I also really liked Mr. Marvel in The Rubadub Mystery, for example - so clever he was. I did also like (rarely) some of the Five villains. Perton was so smooth! Rooky was dangerous. The Sticks were stupid and unlikeable. In the Mystery series, Twit has to be my favourite culprit, although Alec Grant is close. So many villains to choose - Enid Blyton sure had a pot-full of them, didn't she? : -).
	Fatty says: Yes, I suppose we were a bit cruel to the old bobby, weren't we?
January 13, 2009 – hope189 says: PhilipandTuba: I didn't mean to classify the old bobby as a villian. You would have noticed that I have written "villain/ANNOYING CHARACTER". I just meant that Mr. Goon was one of the most (and best) annoying characters. You have to admit that when there were no mysteries around, Mr. Goon was portrayed as the black sheep of the series. Of course, he did have his good points and a reasonable amount of brains. He would probably have solved at least some of the mysteries if the FFOAD hadn't interfered.
	Fatty says: I wouldn't bet on it!
March 1, 2011 – N1BF says: I think Alec Grant (The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat) was the worst, craftiest and cowardly villain. Letting Boysie and Zoe take the blame indeed! Sorry if I'm spoiling the book for others, though.
June 6, 2012 – Farwa says: I think the nastiest baddies were Lou and Dan, from "Five Go Off In a Caravan". Coming and threatening the Famous Five and hitting poor Nobby all the time. I'm glad they ended up in prison. Serves them right!
July 11, 2014 – DeanM says: I don't think Enid was terribly good at writing villains. It would have been nice to have some that weren't obviously villainous. The closest she got - at least, the one that springs to my mind - was Mr Roland in Five Go Adventuring Again. He managed to fool three of the Famous Five - but not George or Timmy. It would have been good if she could have got across to her young readership that 'baddies' come in all shapes and sizes and are not all obviously nasty.
July 13, 2014 – Paul says: Roger Price had the adult characters in his 1980s show "You Can't Do That on Television" depicted as bumbling morons at their best, precisely because he hated the fact that kid's shows and books invariably showed adults as kind, caring and reasonable, and he wanted to show children that not all adults were like this. Whereas in the forties, when Enid was writing, villains were expected to be obviously villains, and parents and police were expected to be exactly what the stereotype expected them to be.
July 15, 2014 – DeanM says: You're right Paul. Enid was writing about the pre-Hilsborough, pre-Stephen Lawrence, pre-Plebgate, 'thin blue line'.
April 23, 2017 – Michael says: Apologies if this thread had already been started. I didn't see it anywhere. So, who are your favourite villains? Or perhaps the ones who prove to be the best adversaries? For me: Mr. Perton and Hunchy (Five Get Into Trouble), the hateful Mr. Roland (Five Go Adventuring Again), and Mr. Barton (The Boy Next Door).
	Fatty says: I have moved this to The Greatest Villain thread, This can include your favourites.

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