Sin City The 5 Best & 5 Worst Characters In The Comics
Sin City: The 5 Best & 5 Worst Characters In The Comics
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The Sin City comics series has been home to some anti-heroes you can love and some heinous characters you can’t help but loathe.
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Starting in 1991 in the pages of Dark Horse Presents, Sin City crafted a serialized film-noir in comic book form. Since then, writer and artist Frank Miller has released several volumes of the series that take readers deep into the gritty underbelly of one of the seediest places in all of comics.
There are bad people in Sin City – like a lot – and it’s hard sometimes to find a good person. Some exist, even on the margins. But who is the worst of the worst? The best of the best? Here are the five best and worst characters from Sin City.
10 Best: Dwight
Dwight McCarthy is a classic example of the heavy film noir influence in the series (similar to the aesthetic on Batman: The Animated Series). A private detective who gets roped into murdering the husband of a femme fatale (that would be the next person on this list), Dwight echoes lots of classic noir characters, especially Philip Marlowe, created by Raymond Chandler.
Dwight goes through a lot – like having his face surgically altered – but he keeps to his principles as best he can. He’s a good guy just trying to make right in a bad town.
9 Worst: Ava Lord
The woman responsible for Dwight’s fall is Ava Lord, the titular A Dame To Kill For (memorably played by Eva Green in the film adaptation, directed by Robert Rodriguez). Ava is something of a black widow, and no, not the former Russian assassin kind.
She orchestrates the murder of her husband, betrays Dwight, seduces a cop, and then drives him to suicide and it’s not advisable to be around her too long. A true sociopath, she’s one of the worst of the worst.
8 Best: Hartigan
Detective John Hartigan is one of the good guys in Sin City, and like most good guys in town (see Dwight) he gets punished for his good deeds. His misfortune starts when he saves a young Nancy Callahan from That Yellow Bastard but ends up being framed for the assault.
He goes to the pen and gets an X shaped scar in his forehead for his trouble. He carries a bit of a torch for Nancy later on, and a grudge against the Roarks. Unfortunately for them, what goes around comes around.
7 Worst: The Colonel
As if there weren’t enough bad folks in Sin City, they had to bring more in. The Colonel (also known sometimes as The Salesman, or The Man) is a contract killer who often works both sides of the fence. Both police and the mob regularly employ him in Basin City.
As an assassin, he’s pretty much the best there is at what he does (kind of like Deathstroke) but eventually, he wears out his welcome with the police at least. They capture him in a sting and shoot him.
6 Best: Nancy
Nancy Callahan reeled out of her violent encounter with That Yellow Bastard into a rough and tumble life. She appears in every single volume of the series – the only character to do so – as an exotic dancer in Kadie’s Bar.
Nancy is a good, caring, and supportive person just trying to make her way, and besides Hartigan, also lends a helping hand to Marv. Jessica Alba played her in the feature film in 2005, around the same time she played Sue Storm in the first Fox Fantastic Four movie.
5 Worst: Kevin
Few characters have been as mindlessly evil in comic books as Kevin. The Roark family generates lots of evil in Basin City, but one of the worst things the wealthy and powerful clan have ever done was shelter this serial killer on their vaunted family farm.
Kevin, to put it plainly, murders prostitutes. He does horrific things beyond that, and never says a word doing it. His mute horror goes on for years. But he gets his, eventually being eaten alive by his own pet wolf thanks to Marv.
4 Best: Miho
Another silent character in Sin City is Miho. She’s on the entirely opposite end of the spectrum from Kevin, though. A vaguely Elektra-like defender and assassin in Old Town, she fights to protect the fragile hold the Girls of Old Town have over this small part of the city.
Miho gets along with Dwight, owing him a debt of gratitude, but is a little prickly around other people. She’s a good person, even though she might kill people sometimes. A lot of people. They probably deserved it.
3 Worst: Cardinal Roark
It’s sometimes said the only thing worse than doing something wrong is doing nothing about it when someone else does. That’s Cardinal Roark in a nutshell. He shelters Kevin on the Roark farm and allows him to continue murdering women at will, content with Kevin’s apparent remorse.
But Cardinal Roark’s inaction isn’t his worst crime. He actually used Kevin as his own personal assassin, and like the rest of his family, was waist-deep in the corruption infecting the city.
2 Best: Marv
Marv straddles the line between good and bad like a lot of people in Sin City (and comics, where anti-heroes like Harley Quinn are common). But at the end of the day, he’s a good man.
Like a lot of men in the series, he gets framed for a crime he didn’t commit (in this case the murder of a prostitute named Goldie) and he has to try and make it right. That ultimately leads him to the real killer and serving up Kevin for justice, while still alive, to a hungry wolf.
1 Worst: That Yellow Bastard
In a city of evil, evil people, a person really has to work overtime to distinguish themselves and That Yellow Bastard does that. Roark Jr., as he’s properly known, committed crimes involving children that are too awful to repeat.
Dwight Hartigan caught him in the act with Nancy, leading to severe injuries and surgery that ultimately left the killer a bright yellow goblin, but it’s another twelve years before Hartigan finally finishes the job with a switchblade. It’s awful, but it’s somehow also awesome.
Link Source : https://www.cbr.com/sin-city-good-evil-characters/
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