In Life of Pi, the important evil character is the hyena (or the cook because at the end of the book Pi tells the investigators another story with actual people playing the animals). The hyena was in the ship when it sank and it was one of the survivors on that lifeboat with Pi. He was an important villainous character because of what he did to the other survivors except for Pi. His nature of villainy and how the author showed it enhanced the meaning of the work. A villain does and thinks bad things that most people would morally contradict. The reason why the cook was the villain in this book is because he killed all of the survivors on the lifeboat and ate them except Pi. He was greedy because he ate all the food that was in the lifeboat