Foil and Villain

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Foil noun - A piece of thin and flexible sheet metal.

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Villain and foil are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Villain" instead a noun "Foil".

Nearby Words: foiled, foiling

Villain noun - A mean, evil, or unprincipled person.

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Foil and villain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Foil" instead a noun "Villain".

Nearby Words: villainous, villainy

good	good foil	good villain
female	female foil	female villain
better	better foil	better villain
complete	complete foil	complete villain
Other adjectives: original, straight, obvious, effective, responsible, big, great, serious, evil, main, new, pragmatic, greater, primary, different, recurring, comic, younger, one-shot.

Instead of actually spying as their occupations imply, it is always the sequence: get tiny bit of info, get captured, villain explains evil plot, leaves before making sure they die, escape, foil.

Source: Bond Villain Stupidity
In the classic good-guy versus bad guy scenario, both the hero and villain can each be considered the other's foil, in that each acts to show how the other behaves in certain situations.

Source: Foil
However, the Creeper was played as a deformed, dim-witted character that acted as a foil to some other villain's ambitions.

Source: The Grotesque

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