henchman
A henchman is originally an unskilled assistant ( laborer, shop assistant, etc.).
As a henchman in a figurative sense, a is called the intentions or orders of another person executing and fulfilling pejorative. Here, the henchman takes the role of a performing tool of the parent one person ( as it were the hand in relation to the thinking, planning and decision Spirit), whose will and command she obeys.
The term henchmen called people who child, often unpleasant or "dirty", run tend to sometimes criminal or semi-criminal, tasks for their superiors nowadays. In this context, the word is often polemical use in relation to subordinates political or economic leaders, such as the Watergate burglar Gordon Liddy as a stooge of the U.S. president Richard Nixon or Heinrich Himmler as a henchman of Adolf Hitler.
In addition, the term denotes a literary henchman role in books, comics and movies, so here is a certain and ruthless underling is meant. Such henchmen stage offenses and servants do tasks to the detriment of the respective heroes. As a counter- figure of the henchmen as the assistant of a rogue can be viewed on the side of the figure of the hero sidekicks.
In addition, the laborers are called henchmen, at least in the Upper German area, still called.
Examples of henchmen in the field of fictional narrative
Examples of famously henchmen are about:
- Odd Job, Jaws and frills as a henchman of the James Bond Goldfinger opponent, Karl Stromberg (or Hugo Drax ) and Scaramanga,
- Luca Brasi as a henchman of Don Vito Corleone in the Godfather,
- Mister Smee as a henchman of Captain Hook in Peter Pan,
- Bob the Goon as henchmen of the Joker in Batman or
- Emil Antonowsky as a henchman of Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop.
More stereotypes of villains of the second row can be in German:
- Bailiff
- Claqueur
- Accomplice
- Courtier
- Accomplice
- Sidekick
- Lackey
- Accomplice
- Opportunist
- Thug
- Toady
- Crony
- Backers
- Subject
Proverbs
- Hunger is the henchman of genius. Mark Twain
- Swearword
- Persons name