![]() The character first appeared in the novel The Stand as a demonic figure who wreaks havoc after a plague kills most of the population. His goals typically center on bringing down civilizations, usually through spreading destruction and sowing conflict. Flagg is described as "an accomplished sorcerer and a devoted servant of the Outer Dark" with general supernatural abilities involving necromancy, prophecy, and unnatural influence over predatory animals and human behavior. There are exceptions to this rule in The Dark Tower series, the name most often associated with Flagg is Walter o'Dim, yet he is also known as The Man in Black, Marten Broadcloak, but his real name is Walter Padick. He often appears under different names most are abbreviated by the initials R.F. He is also a servant of the ultimate evil of the multiverse, the Crimson King. Flagg has appeared in multiple works, always as a powerful and charismatic embodiment of evil. He is the most recurring and without a doubt, the most important villain of the entire multiverse 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 suspected by some fans to be the unseen overarching antagonist of The Mist, one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Ralph White) of Carrie, the final antagonist of The Long Walk, a supporting antagonist of From a Buick 8. He is also the main antagonist of the The Stand 1994 Miniseries, The Stand 2020 Miniseries, and the The Dark Tower film. ![]() He also appears as a minor antagonist of the short story " Blind Willie" published in his collection, Hearts in Atlantis. He serves as the main antagonist of the novels The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, the first volume of the The Dark Tower (series), The Gunslinger, a unseen antagonist of the second and sixth volumes The Drawing of the Three, and Song of Susannah, a minor antagonist of the third volume The Waste Lands, one of the three overarching antagonists (alongside The Crimson King and John Farson) of the fourth volume Wizard and Glass, a major antagonist of the fifth and seventh volumes Wolves of the Calla and The Dark Tower, and one of the two main antagonists (alongside Bern Kells) of the eighth volume The Wind Through the Keyhole. Randall Flagg (real name Walter Padick) is the main antagonist of the Stephen King multiverse. Randall Flagg in the 2017 film The Dark Tower played by Matthew McConaughey.
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