How Feathers McGraw Became Cinema’s Most Terrifying Villain

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The character: Feathers McGraw, a lodger first introduced in 1993’s The Wrong Trousers who pays £20 a week to stay with Wallace and Gromit while he plots to steal the Blue Diamond at a local museum. Three feet, 12 pounds of pure evil. Becomes a jailbird at a high-security zoo after he’s caught, with the newest Wallace & Gromit film, Vengeance Most Fowl, finding Feathers, all these years later, hell-bent on getting even with the duo who locked him up.