bad guy (plural bad guys)
- (informal) a villain, particularly an antagonist in a story
2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC[1]:Perversely, we love John Wick himself. That lethal, bereaved assassin is a good bad guy for our times, the natural extension of Tony Soprano, Walter White and all the other heroic antiheroes the culture has embraced.
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a villain
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 壞人/坏人 (zh) (huàirén), 壞蛋/坏蛋 (zh) (huàidàn), 惡人/恶人 (zh) (èrén)
- Finnish: pahis (fi), vastustaja (fi)
- French: mauvais garçon m, méchant (fr) m
- German: Bösewicht (de) m, Böser (de) m (informal), Missetäter (de) m (elevated), Schurke (de) m
- Indonesian: orang jahat (id)
- Italian: cattivista m
- Japanese: 悪者 (ja) (わるもの, warumono), 悪人 (ja) (あくにん, akunin, わろびと, warubito)
- Korean: 악인 (ko) (agin)
- Russian: плохо́й па́рень m (ploxój párenʹ) (calque from English), злоде́й (ru) m (zlodéj), плохо́й (ru) m (ploxój)
- Swedish: bov (sv) c, skurk (sv) c, ful typ c
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