bad guy

English

Noun

bad guy (plural bad guys)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:villain

Antonyms

• good guy

Related terms

• bad boy
• bad girl
• baddie

Translations

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 (fr) 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