And Anthony Laciura made the most of the work's comic villain, Monostatos.

The comic villains are never much of a threat to Beethoven's family.

During the first half of the eighteenth century, Shylock was played as a straight comic villain--a whining fool.

Still, most readers agree that Shakespeare has granted Shylock a dignity and depth of character beyond what we expect of a comic villain.

Shylock may be a comic villain, a stereotypical figure to some extent, but the play also insists that the audience accept him as a human being.

Also, Toomes himself was not the first comic villain to use the name.

The comic villain of the piece is a sadistic policeman - who is too realistically brutal to fit comfortably into a farce.

He's more of a comic villain.

Charles Nelson Reilly delightfully played the comic villain, an evil magician whose name escapes me (1971 wasn't yesterday).

On the other hand, the second half of the debate (lines 836-940) features absurd accusations that are aimed at an entirely comic villain.