Fiction has never been able to work with snakes as the villain. oNE OF THE Greatest Sherlock Holmes stories is The Speckled Band where a snake ends up being a murderer even though Doyle has described a snake that can't exist in nature based on all the attributes Holmes gives it. I get why they do it: snakes are scary and sinister and they have poison running through them. But the idea that all snakers are some kind of murder weapon just waiting to be deployed by your local Bond villain is one of those things that really shows that someone just looks at a snake and says: Let's make him the killer and no one questions it. To paraphrase Jackosn: "I have had it with these mother-ffing writers using motherfing snakes to cover up their laziness.