Is Lord Asriel a villain?

Modeled after Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, Lord Asriel is the gentlemanly devil who plans to overthrow God and establish a Republic of Heaven. In other stories, Asriel would almost certainly be the villain.
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Is Asriel evil or good?

Dark, dashing, and thirsty for power, Lord Asriel is The Golden Compass's anti-hero in chief.
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Is Asriel evil His Dark Materials?

Musing on whether her fictional dad is good or evil, Keen told Looper: "I think Asriel truly does think he is the hero of the story and that he's the center of the situation — when in reality, he's really not. "He's part of the plot, but he's not the hero.
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Who is the villain in Dark Materials?

Metatron serves as the Regent of Heaven and is the ultimate antagonist of His Dark Materials. Metatron seeks to supplant the Authority, to destroy Lord Asriel and his army, and to kill the heroine Lyra Belacqua.
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Why does Lord Asriel want to destroy dust?

Asriel tells Lyra that though no one actually knows what Dust is, the Magisterium concluded that "Dust was the physical evidence for original sin" (21.98). Dust, then, is proof of humankind's inherent sinfulness. Lord Asriel wants to destroy Dust because he claims "sin and shame and death.
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Does Asriel care about Lyra?

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Asriel would rarely visit and see Lyra at Jordan, but the fact that he moved Lyra to Jordan College, was horrified when he thought he would have to murder Lyra instead of Roger and then threw himself down the Abyss to save Lyra shows that he cared for her.
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Is Lord Asriel heroic?

In Pullman's trilogy, Asriel is complicated, arrogant, and unlikable, but in many ways he is also a heroic figure. The name Asriel is derived from Asrael, the name of a biblical angel. In the Bible, Asrael's appearance heralds the apocalypse. He is also an angel of death who severs human souls from human bodies.
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Is Mrs Coulter good or evil?

Coulter, Lyra's mother, is an almost purely evil character. Despite her charming and persuasive demeanor, Mrs. Coulter is the greediest, most power-hungry character in the trilogy. Her daemon, a vicious little golden monkey, reflects its owner's personality.
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Who is God in His Dark Materials?

If you know nothing else about the His Dark Materials series, you may know that Lyra kills God (or allows him to die) and the book celebrates her for it. But the God of the books is in fact revealed to be no God at all but merely a very old angel, who pretended he was the Creator of all things in order gain power.
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Why is Asriel evil?

After Alphys resurrects him without a SOUL as Flowey, Asriel becomes incapable of feeling love or empathy, which in turn causes him to become resentful, twisted, and evil.
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Why does Asriel want Roger?

He needed Roger's energy to open this portal and travel to another dimension. Asriel planned to end the rule of the Magisterium and its dogmatic belief in the dangers of Dust – which they perceived to be Original Sin – and purge it from the world.
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How does Lyra betray Roger?

Lyra and the gyptians successfully rescue Roger from Bolvangar at the end of Part 2, but ultimately Roger will become a character of sacrifice and a symbol of Lyra's (accidental) betrayal. Though Lyra's goal is to save Roger, she ends up getting him killed when she brings him along to see Lord Asriel.
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Who is the main villain of Undertale?

Flowey is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the role-playing video game Undertale, created by Toby Fox. He appears for most of the game in the form of an innocuous sentient flower with a sadistic and psychopathic personality.
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Is frisk or Chara evil?

Frisk is the one doing all the killing on Genocide and No Mercy routes, not Chara. Chara is only awakened at the end of the Genocide where she comes face to face with Frisk. So there you have it. Here is absolute proof that Chara is not the villain and Frisk is the true evil one.
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Is frisk a good guy?

Frisk only qualifies as a villain if the player decides to take a Genocide Route, and to a lesser extent, some of the more negative Neutral Routes. Their villainous acts, as well as their type and status, are completely dependent on the player's choice, meaning that if the player chooses to do evil acts, so will Frisk.
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Does Mrs Coulter abuse her daemon?

Her daemon is a beautiful, unnamed golden monkey who knows how to appear flattering and friendly when it's necessary but behaves cruelly, especially when provoked. Mrs. Coulter often berates and abuses her daemon; she sometimes goes far enough from him to cause them both pain.
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Why is her daemon a monkey?

Ruth Wilson plays Mrs Coulter in the 2019 BBC television adaptation. Her dæmon was changed from a Golden Monkey to a Golden snub-nosed monkey in order to better reflect the two sides of Coulter's character.
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Who is the villain in The Golden Compass?

Marisa Coulter is the main antagonist of the 2007 film The Golden Compass. She is portrayed by Nicole Kidman who also played Suzanne Stone.
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Why is Asriel's daemon a snow leopard?

Coulter's tricky, conniving character. Lord Asriel's daemon is a snow leopard, which makes sense because he's all about power and has a really commanding personality. Lee Scoresby's is a thin, rugged hare, hinting to us that he's a scrappy survivor. What would your daemon be?
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What is Lord Asriel's first name?

Asriel is called Asriel by name, notably by Marisa, a number of times in the series, and film, in moments in which a first name is appropriate - it would be too strange for her to call him a surname. Ergo, Asriel is definitely his first name.
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What does asriel mean?

Asriel (Hebrew origin: Helped by God), in the Bible is the son of Manasseh by his concubine, and founder of the clan of Asrielites.
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What is Will's daemon?

Will's daemon, Kirjava, settles into the form of an extraordinarily beautiful cat, which shows that Will is wise, proud, and independent. Lyra's daemon takes the form of a pine marten. Like Lyra, pine martens are rare and seem wild to outsiders, but are also sleek, graceful, and self-contained.
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Is there Golden Compass 2 movie?

Was there a sequel to The Golden Compass film? No sequels were made to The Golden Compass, directed by Chris Weitz. The film was not considered a success, so the planned follow-up films were never made.
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What is Lyra spirit animal?

Lyra's daemon, Pantalaimon, cycles through a few shapes on any given day — a mouse when he's afraid, a wildcat when bold. In The Golden Compass, the first book of Pullman's trilogy, we first meet Pan as a moth. Eventually, Pan settles as a pine marten (I know, random).
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