Randall Flagg as a good guy?

[dubisaxel]

Like when he is tring to get Roland to renounce the Tower.
I don't know just a theory

[LadyHitchhiker]

A concept I've never heard of. I will have to do much think of this. Truth is, we really don't know much about Randall Flagg's past... just from my interpretation that he is a trickster of the highest caliber and very self-serving. If nothing else he still remains one of my favorite characters of ALL TIME.

[Lone Eagle]

Nobody wants to be the bad guy. But, you couldn't have a good guy without a bad guy. Historically, some of the best actors were guys so good that playing bad didn't bother them. It wouldn't stick to them. You know typecast them. Therefore, Randall Flagg has to be the better of the two.

[michal]

Interesting perspective. Personally I believe he's the essence of spiteful. If Roland would have cared about the tower he'd try to get his to obsess about it. Not like pure evil, more like a mean child. But I do think that no character in Stephen King's books is pure evil or pure goodness, at least that's what I like to think. It makes them more interesting this way.

[Furious]

A concept I've never heard of. I will have to do much think of this. Truth is, we really don't know much about Randall Flagg's past... just from my interpretation that he is a trickster of the highest caliber and very self-serving. If nothing else he still remains one of my favorite characters of ALL TIME.

Flagg was a major character in the book Eyes of the Dragon and The Stand. To quote the Dark Half "He's not a very nice guy".

[costanza]

I posted a thread in The Gunslinger section about this very topic. My theory is very different than yours though. lol