Stephen King Has So Many Great Villains, But These 5 Randall Flagg Moments Prove He’s The Best One

Although Stephen King has some really incredible villains, there is none like Randall Flagg. Stephen King’s books have defined the genre of horror literature. Many love their adequate title of the king of horror, and Randall Flagg is a great example of why the author is an expert in creating horrible characters. Despite the silly death of Randall Flagg in King’s fictional universe, the villain’s arch in several titles is one of the most disturbing.

Randall Flagg’s appearances in King’s books are abundant, since his initial debut in 1978 The stand to its strange disappearance in The dark tower series. I think that several of these moments consolidate Flagg as the best villain of the king, although I do not doubt that the king of horror will bring him back at some point to surpass in terms of Flagg’s crazy actions.

5 Kill the majority of the population

The Stand (1978)

The cover of the Stand book by Stephen King.

While Flagg kills most of the population in The stand It is an obvious example of why he is such a solid villain, it is also impossible to analyze his antagonism without discussing it. Flagg’s story in The stand It was a truly innovative way for King to enter such a villain. The image of the dark and twisted man who forms life through the power of his visions is undoubtedly chilling, but one of the reasons why Randall Flagg is Stephen King’s greatest villain is that he will do everything possible for destruction.

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Flagg will do anything to make sure there are no other remains of civilization, apart from yours. It is quite bad that mate influenza 99.4% of the original population anyway, but the determination of Flagg of manipulating and eliminating the few survivors who are not under their dictatorship is shocking. The battle against Mother Abigail demonstrates that Flagg is erratic, but also consolidates it as a violent figure.

4 flag has no life lines

The Stand (1978)

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It is not a massive moment, but when it is recognized that Randall Flagg does not have lines of life in his hands when he shows them, I cannot avoid shaking. There is a narrative throughout the arc of flagg that goes and goes on whether the villain is human, demon or a little of the two that can never be made a definitive decision, and this moment highlights it incredibly.

A small detail like this makes Flagg even more disturbing, and the vagueness of everything makes it more scary.

All humans have life lines in their hands, and although this brief scene does not confirm or denies anything, it does not make it less creepy. However, Flagg is not Stephen King’s only villain who has no life lines. This feature also is missing in Leland Gauunt in Necessary thingsAnother antagonist that seems human, but in reality is far from that. A small detail like this makes Flagg even more disturbing, and the vagueness of everything makes it more scary.

3 forcing the maid to kill Queen Sasha

The Dragon Eyes (1984)

The cover of The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King.

Flagg is an evil wizard in Stephen King’s fantasy book, Dragon’s eyeswhich causes a ridiculous amount of chaos. He is manipulative and cunning in his first chronological appearance in the King universe, and after his failed attempt to kill Queen Sasha while she is pregnant, forces the monarch’s maid to kill her after the birth of Thomas. This version of Flagg paints it as more calculator than violent, which adds layers to the character.

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I always appreciate that King does not make Flagg strictly aggressive. There is something in its in -depth plots that makes it even more spooky, and the complexities of their thought processes are even better. Flagg causing Sasha’s maid to demonstrate that no one is safe from her manipulation and that others should not only fear it directly, but they should be paranoids from anyone in case you have twisted them.

2 Infiltrating Roland’s life so much that takes its gunman test

The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)

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Flagg actions in the first chapters of Assistant and glassThe fourth installment of The dark tower Stephen King’s books are some of his most cunning. Using the name Marten Broadcloak, Flagg is inserted into the Gilead court as a magician and infiltrates the Deschain family. The magician not only manipulates Patriarch Steven Deschain as his main advisor, but Flagg also has an adventure with Steven’s wife, Gabrielle.

He exposes this fact to his son Roland, resulting in the fact that the protagonist of the story takes her judgment with early gunmen.

While I am never one to reject Flagg’s violent moment, this is another example of why his intelligence is such an important quality of his character. Flagg has Roland’s parents under his thumb, and although the last stage of his plan is not successful, his attempts to get the mind of the protagonist enough to be sent far away are incredibly strategic.

1 Brutally killing a guard for an error with a smile

The Stand (1978)

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When we think of Randall Flagg, we always think of his spooky smile in The stand. This is one of the most horrible moments in any of King’s works, and although it is in the written world, one can see Flagg’s smile vivid while killing Bobby Terry. The guard cannot kill Judge Farris without inflicting any head injuries, and the villain sees everything through his spy of Cuervo, one of the many powers of Randall Flagg.

What makes this even more disturbing is that Terry immediately realizes his guilt and tries to screw. Flagg arrives so abruptly and runs after the guard, but then he takes his sweet time killing Terry, and the speed change is something that always stands for me. The stand It is a great dystopian book, but the representation of Stephen King of this moment stands out how disorderly this world is really, especially with Randall Flagg on it.

Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg in the stand (2020) looking at a man behind bars

Randall Flagg

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