The book's arch-villain, billionaire Nicolas Creel, explains: "I didn't bring you here for a lecture. I brought you here to die."
Arthur Conan Doyle described his arch-villain Moriarty as 'the Napoleon of crime'.
Kate Millett castigated him as the arch-villain chauvinist in her 1970 feminist polemic, Sexual Politics.
The politician can be seen as the arch-villain of the piece.
Now it is turned round to signify compulsion by this arch-villain !
For many years, no trace of the arch-villain could be found.
He served as the season's arch-villain for most of its episodes.