Randall Flagg

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## Evil-doer

* Novels
* 1994
* 2020
* 2017 film

### Alias

Randall Flagg (his most recurring alias)
Walter O'Dim
The Ageless Stranger
The Walkin' Dude
The Dark Man
Beelzebub
Legion
Anubis
The Hardcase
The Man in Black
The Tall Man
The Midnight Rambler
The Antagonist
The Grinning Man
Old Creeping Judas
Richard Fry
Robert Franq
Ramsey Forrest
Robert Freemont
Richard Freemantle
The Monster
The Man with No Face
Raymond Fiegler
Russell Faraday
Martin Broadcloak (sometimes called "Marten Broadcloak")
The Covenant Man
Walter Hodji
Nyarlathotep
He Who Walks Behind the Rows (implied)
Flagg
Richard Farris
Raymond Fiegler

### Occupation

Sorcerer
High-ranking place in any hierarchy he is found
Wandering plotter

### Resources

Nigh-immortality
Immense demonic powers
Dark magic
Telepathy
Mind lecture
Mind control
Illusion casting
Limited shapeshifting
Foresight
Necromancy
Teleportation
Telekinesis
Pyrokinesis
Electrokinesis
Transmutation
Very high intelligence
Manipulation
Charisma

### Hobby

Scheming.
Devising intricate plots and psychological traps.
Doing tarot card fortune-telling.

### Goals

Take over the world he is found in as either as a God or (at least) as a supreme ruler and throw it into chaos.
Become God of all the multiverse by betraying his master and climbing to the top of the Dark Tower.
Achieve a higher level of destruction.
Destroy the Gunslingers including Roland Deschain so he can freely destroy the Dark Tower and unleash Hell upon the multiverse (all failed).

### Moral Event Horizon

Attempting to unleash Hell upon the multiverse by destroying the Dark Tower.

### Kill Count

Incalculable
Trillions (attempted)

### Crimes

Genocide
Mass murder (including child murder)
Malefic
Familicide
Regicide
Usurpation
Torture
Rape
Cannibalism (implied)
Terrorism
Destruction of property
Mutilation
Mass corruption
Vandalism
Numerous other offenses

### Type of Villain

Nihilistic Sorcerer

**Walter Padick**, better known as **Randall Flagg** or the **Man in Black**, is the main antagonist of the Stephen King mythos.

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. Flagg has appeared in multiple works, always as a powerful and charismatic embodiment of evil. He is also a servant of the ultimate evil of the mythos, the Crimson King.

In the 1994 series, he was portrayed by James Sheridan. In the 2020 miniseries, he was portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård. In the 2017 film adaptation of *The Dark Tower*, he was portrayed by Matthew McConaughey.

## Roles

He serves as the main antagonist of the novels *The Eyes of the Dragon* and *The Stand*, as well as a minor antagonist in the short story "Blind Willie" in the collection *Hearts in Atlantis*. 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 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 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 is also the main antagonist of the 2017 film adaptation of *The Dark Tower.*

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* Flagg plotted to take over the world as God and destroy the Dark Tower.
* A mill owner and his wife were handed Randall Flagg so they could teach him how to be a man. But when he was 13 years old, he became bored, set fire to his home, and went in search of his biological father, Maerlyn. Once he discovered his father and learned the arts of evil magic, Flagg transformed into a kind of "quasi-immortal" demon.
* In *The Eyes of the Dragon*, Flagg plotted to put the medieval city of Delain into chaos. He begins by murdering Queen Sasha and frames Prince Peter for poisoning his own father, King Roland, a crime which Flagg himself committed.
* Flagg and Mother Abagail 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.
* Flagg chose and raped Nadline Cross, whom he has been visiting in her nightmares. This resulted in Cross committing suicide by jumping off the balcony of Flagg's penthouse in Las Vegas. Flagg was indirectly responsible for the deaths of her and her unborn child.
* Flagg disguised himself as Marten Broadcloak, a sorcerer who taught Roland Deschain magic tricks including the ability to captivate people with a particular bullet trick. He danced with his mother Gabrielle but gave her love-bite marks on his neck. This led Roland to earn the gun of a true gunslinger. In order for Roland to fail his exam and be "sent West," or actually, banished, Flagg lured him into taking it.
* Flagg took part in the crucial fight that resulted in the downfall of Gilead in a minor but crucial way. Flagg, assuming the appearance of a blue-faced warrior, shot Cuthbert in the eye and killed him.