Fantastic Beasts' Grindelwald Is A Better Villain Than Voldemort
The two biggest villains in the Harry Potter franchise are Lord Voldemort and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore'sGellert Grindelwald, and here's why Grindelwald is a better villain than Voldemort. When it comes to Grindelwald vs. Voldemort, Tom Riddle/Lord Voldemort was a pretty one-dimensional villain. He was primarily concerned with selfish pursuits of power and immortality and controlled his followers through fear. By contrast, Grindelwald has a grander vision for the world and knows that it can't be achieved through sheer brute force alone. Instead, he engages in a chess game with the magical authorities. Leading up to The Secrets of Dumbledore's events and revelations, it's a game that he's winning.
The strength of Grindelwald as a character will be key to the success of the Fantastic Beasts franchise, which still has two more movies in the pipeline. Although Newt Scamander is the protagonist of the story, Fantastic Beasts is really the chronicle of Grindelwald's rise to power and his eventual defeat by Albus Dumbledore. Given that the story will come to a close in 1945, the movies will also inevitably end up incorporating the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, which have already come into play via Grindelwald's vision of the future. Grindelwald is a better villain than Voldemort because his scheme is ultimately grander.
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If Grindelwald is to serve as the wizarding world's version of Adolf Hitler in this story, then he can't simply be an evil man with great power searching for magical relics with the help of a small handful of followers. The Fantastic Beasts movies also need to explore how Grindelwald managed to bring a
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