Later, Roland found both his mother and Marten together in a room, with his mother having had love-bite marks on her neck. During a formal gathering that Roland watched from a balcony, Flagg danced with Roland's mother Gabrielle. In the days of the lead character Roland Deschain's youth, Flagg went under the guise of Marten Broadcloak, a sorcerer who teaches Roland some magic, like a special bullet trick that could hypnotize people. She committed suicide by taking a jump off the balcony of Flagg's penthouse in Las Vegas, killing not only herself but also Randall Flagg's unborn child she was pregnant with, not long she replied her final words to the monster, "your seed is cold". She soon turned on Randall while having remaining feelings for the man named Larry she met in New York. He later chose and raped his new "bride", Nadine Cross, whom he has been visiting in her nightmares. The two fought for control over the survivors of a world plagued by disease, and he was present when the Captain Trips flu, a deadly virus, began and swept across the United States and soon the entire Earth in a matter of weeks, eliminating 99.4% of the planet's human populace. Randall Flagg, who also can take the form of a raven, represented the concept of evilness and stood in opposition to Mother Abagail, who represented goodness. He begins such plans by murdering Queen Sasha and frames Prince Peter for poisoning his own father, King Roland, a crime which Flagg himself committed. He makes his first chronological appearance where he plans to put the medieval city of Delain into chaos. Eventually, Flagg became something of a "quasi-immortal" demon upon having learned the ways of dark magic from his father once he found him. He was raped by a stranger the next year. However, at the age of 13, he grew bored, burned down his house, and sought to find his real father, Maerlyn. Within the novels, Randall Flagg was given to a mill owner and his wife to learn the ways of man. In the 2020 miniseries, he was portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård, who also played Charlie Venner in the 2011 remake of Straw Dogs, Perry Wright in HBO's Big Little Lies, and Lukas Matsson in HBO's Succession. In the 1994 series, he was portrayed by James Sheridan. He is also a servant of the ultimate evil of the mythos, the Crimson King. Flagg has appeared in multiple works, always as a powerful and charismatic embodiment of evil. The most recurring and without a doubt, the most important villain of the entire mythos with countless various acts of atrocities in his name, Randall Flagg is, following King's own words, the best villain he created, whom he had in mind since he began writing. ![]() ![]() He is also the main antagonist of the 1994 supernatural TV miniseries The Stand based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, and in the 2020 TV miniseries based on the same book. He also serves as the overarching antagonist in the Button Box trilogy, serving as the main antagonist in the first novella, Gwendy's Button Box. He is also the central antagonist of The Dark Tower series, specifically as the main antagonist of The Gunslinger, a minor antagonist in The Waste Lands, the titular overarching antagonist in Wizard and Glass, a supporting antagonist in Wolves of the Calla, a major antagonist in The Dark Tower and one of the two main antagonists (alongside Bern Kells) of The Wind Through the Keyhole. He serves as the main antagonist of the novels The Eyes of the Dragon and The Stand, as well as a background antagonist in the short story "Blind Willie" in the collection Hearts in Atlantis. Walter Padick, better known as Randall Flagg or the Man in Black, is the main antagonist of the Stephen King mythos. ~ Randall Flagg in The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower - his most famous quote. ![]() What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare? ![]() As for the end of the universe… I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness.
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