Favorite Villains of All Time

Well, I searched and nothing came up so I assume this hasn't been discussed.

The title says it all. Who in your opinion are the best villains of all time and why?

My two favorites are:
1) Voldemort: How could you not choose Voldemort? He is the reason why Harry is where he is today. Had it not been for Voldemort, countless people would not have died and Harry would have his parents. Voldemort is the force behind the whole plot.
2) Annie Wilkes: Anyone who has seen the movie or read the book Misery knows how evil she is. She's insane but thinks she's right at the same time... bad combo.

The villain in Batman Begins is very suave. I kinda admire him. But let's face it, the greatest villain of all time is Darth Vader :D

John Ritter as the Robot Ted from 2nd season Buffy. I don't know why exactly, but I think it was because instead of just being really powerful in the hero's normal battle domain, he had all his power concentrated off the field in her personal life. It was like she couldn't really fight him because no matter what he did, she had no proof, and he had all her support structure on his side, and he was in some ways "not evil enough" which made him more evil. How can a Slayer defeat her mom's boyfriend?

Sort of like Snape is to Harry. He's not "larger than life" like Voldemort which made him so hard to fight -- he could hurt Harry so much more in some ways and Harry couldn't do anything about it because he was a teacher and trusted by all the other adults. He never did anything outright enough for Harry to fight back, and that kind of villain is very creepy.

Sephiroth is the ultimate bishounen love...

Besides him I like too many others to count. I generally tend to pick out the villian as my favourite character in movies and such. Sometimes I don't even mean to, I end up picking someone who turns out bad near the end >.>;

Hanibal Lecter. I loved that character. He was so smooth, educated, well spoken and well bred and just evil! You would never have known what lurked in his mind until it was far far too late.

Ooooh....this is a hard one. Prepare to be list-ified!

Voldemort – Come on, snake-face, supreme evil, reign of darkness, so terrifying that people won’t even say his name….what is there not to like about this guy??
Sauron – not the original Dark Lord of Middle Earth, no, but his apprentice. Now that’s evil is it not? Killing your own master so that you can thief his crown (in a manner of speaking) and have his whole “reign of evil” thing. Oh yes, go the usurpers!
Raistlin – (From the Dragonlance Chronicles/Legends) - come on, the guy actually manages to go back in time and be his own mentor, defeat the queen of darkness, become a god and destroy the world. All while coughing profusely.
Lestat – ok, so Lestat isn’t particularly evil, but he is technically a villain. We all love Lestat, right?
Vader - Come on, we all knew Darth Vader was gonna pop up sometime right? Says it all though. Vader.

1. Spike from Buffy (Before he fell in love with her and became a wuss)
2. Darth Vader
3. Zad from Beastmaster
4. Alan Rickman as The Sheriff of Nottingham
5. Colqhoun from Ravenous (played by Robert Carlyle)

Hannibal Lecter
Voldemort
Hades

I love the Batman villians, Penguin, Joker, Riddler, and Cat Woman.

Darth Vader is a must.

Lex Luther.

JR Ewing.

Mr. Wickham (Plenty of Austin fans in forum)

Iago from Othello

Richard III from Richard III

Oooo I forgot one - Edmund from King Lear. Definatly my favourite character in that play. And Lady Macbeth too.

Although I don't really think of him as a villain (though Disney does...), I love Chernabog from the Night on Bald Mountain portion of Fantasia. He's the coolest looking demon ever.

Then there are The Gentlemen from the Season 4 BtVS episode Hush.

The Joker is always a good villain, as is Darkseid, Galactus and the Sentinels.

There are probably more I need to add to my list, but my brain feels all mushy right now...

-Voldemort

-Sauron

-Captain Hook

-Captain Barbossa

-Zurg (but only because with Zurg comes Buzz Lightyear :) )

-Cancer Man from The X-Files. Everytime he's on screen, even before you find out he's evil, you know something bad is going to happen.

-The murderer in Loves Music Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark. I'm not gonna give anything away, but let me just say that guy is a freak.

I should be able to think of more, but right now I'm drawing a blank.

Hannibal Lector and Emperor Palpatine

Voldemort
Count Olaf from S.O.UF.E
The Stepmother from Cinderella
lol

OHHH! The Mother (Kathlyn Turner) from the Virgin Suicides!

EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH my number one though is
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet!!!!!

Heiniken..??? PABST BLUE RIBBON! lol

Magneto out of X Men, he's so cool! :cool: :lol:

Captian Barbossa
Davy Jones
Darth Vader
Scarecrow
Joker
Lex Luther
Lional Luther
+ Lord Voldemort

-Cancer Man from The X-Files. Everytime he's on screen, even before you find out he's evil, you know something bad is going to happen.
I can't believe I forgot about him! lol
I also forgot about the Batman villains.

I'd like to add Maleficent, Cinderellas stepmother and the evil queen.

Norman Bates from Psycho and Hal 9000 from 2001.

OH my number one though is
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet!!!!!

Heiniken..??? PABST BLUE RIBBON! lol

That's a good one...that Frank Booth is a sick freak on wheels.

Swiper the Fox from Dora the Explorer :p. He's so easy to defeat :lol:.

I can't believe I forgot:
Darth Vader
Norman Bates
Prince Humperdink
Mugatu

In no real order

*Luca Blight (Suikoden 2)
*General Zod (Superman)
*Darth Vader (Star Wars)
*Megatron (Transformers)
*Scar (Lion King)
*Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects)
*Jaws (Jaws)
*Herr Starr (Preacher)
*Kefka (Final Fantasy VI)
*Dr.Doom (Fantastic Four)

Voldemort
Lex Luthor (Smallville and Superman Returns)
Snape (is he? isn't he? GAHH.)
Captain Hook
Murtagh (Eldest...well, he is a "villain" for the time being)
Captain Barbossa

dick dastardly and his dog from wacky races. sauron (spelling?). hannibal lector. davey jones....darn, mind's gone blank...

there are many villians who i both revere and respect, but my personal favourite is fenrir (a.k.a. fenrisulfr) the son of loki, a massive wolf of norse mythology

The Joker, from Batman. He wins hands down. My other fav villians would be Vegeta from DBZ (although he's more of an anti-hero), Darth Traya from KotoR II (although, she's part victim as well), Alma from F.E.A.R (definitely a victim, but she does some nasty things), and Snape (Voldemort is a pansy).

voldemort(which i'm sure many have said)because he is obviously evil,but more than that.He is human,and had it not been for the death of his mother or abandonment of his father,he probably would've become a very respected wizard.I think it's interesting to guess what a person might become had situations been different.Instead though he became the most feared wizard of all time.

Orochimaru & Uchiha Itachi from Naruto
Gollum, Saruman & Sauron from LOTR
Voldemort
Lex Luthor
Hannibal
Davy Jones
Joker
Wicked Witch of the West

--Cigarette Smoking Man/Cancer Man. I think he is a great villian. Plus he never dies.
--Darth Vader
--Voldemort
--Dr. Evil, even though he isn't a very serious villian.

Darth Vader
Draco Malfoy hehehe ;)
Lex Luthor
and the best one
Shredder from TMNT

Darth Vader
Darth maul
Darth Sithious
Count Duku
General Grevas
Naraku from Inuyasha
Entie the demon horse from Inuyasha

Although I don't know if he's a favorite per se I also think Capricorn from Inkheart is a really great villain.

that yellow guy from sin city!!
Lex Luthor
er...the witches from My Little Pony
Lord Voldemort

Lord Voldemort
Joker from Batman
Manfred from Charlie bone
Aion from Chrono Chrusade
Draco Malfoy
Count Olaf
Dark from DNAngel (ok so he is not a villian but to me is!)
Hiwatari Satoshi from DNAngel!
Hannibal
Vigil from Devil may cry

Voldemort
Bellatrix (she's crazy, rich and powerful--what's not to like?)
Davy Jones from PotC
Emperor Palpatine (gotta admire the evilness)
Sauron
The Dark One (Wheel of Time ftw!)
Selene (Also Wheel of Time)
The Queen (Chronicles of Narnia)
Uchiha Itachi (Weee! Awesome!)
Sephiroth (Bow down, fools!)
Jenova
Edea (FF8)
The Sorceress (FF8)
Black Waltz #3 (FF9---Muahahahaha!!! Flames!!! :lol: )
Shadow the Hedgehog (I know, he doesn't technically count as a villain, but he's awesome nonetheless)
Rouge the Bat (see for Shadow, same thing, except she's a, well, she.)
Metal Sonic (Evil...Hate the stupid levels in that game!)
Bongo Bongo (LoZ OoT, anyone?)
Gohma (LoZ OoT, the *original* one, not that fake in Wind Waker...)
The Queen (Queen of the Damned)
Goblin King (fear him!)

As you can see, I'm a major fan of the bad guys.

Mugatu
Hahaha perfect. One of my favorites as well. Others are:

Dr. Evil (Austin Powers)
Darth Vador (Star Wars)
Agent Smith (The Matrix)
Dracula. Or any character played by Gary Oldman.
Magneto (X-Men)

I can't think of any others...if I do I'll post them.

Hyman Roth from The Godfather Part II.

I always had a soft spot for Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the early James Bond movies... and Hannibal Lector.

Voldemort

Here's a few villans for you, some deadly!

Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars
Darth Vader in Star Wars
Sauron in Lord of the Rings
Saruman in Lord of the Rings
Top Dollar in The Crow
Jareth the Goblin King in Labirynth
Alexis Colby in Dynasty
Masala in Ben Hur
Professor Fate in The Great Race
Voldemort in Harry Potter

Theere is no paticular order to them, and if you haven't seen Professor Fate in action you should definately do this asap!

Hannibal Lector from Silence of the Lambs, Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects, Angelus from Buffy, the Joker from Batman, and the T-1000 from T2:Judgement Day.

Davey Jones(Pirates)
Voldemort(You know where thats from:))

Oh! I forgot about the Mayor from season 3 of Buffy!

Norman Bates from Psycho and Hal 9000 from 2001.

Tee hee. I named my laptop "Hal." I suppose I'm just asking for trouble....

My favorites are,

1. Jigsaw. I'm suprised no one's put him on their list. Look at all the traps he put people in...

2. Lord Voldemort.

3. Caster Troy

4. Davy Jones

5. Captain Barbossa

6. The Headless Horseman

7. Annie Wilkes

8. The sidekick in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, you know, the guy in black? I can't remember his name.

9. Prince Humperdink

10. Count Rugen

My fav villians are;

Captain Hook (even though he made me laugh!:lol: ) Hook.
Captain Barbossa Pirates of the carribean
Davy Jones Pirates of the carribean 2
The villian out of Who framed Roger Rabbit? Can't remember his name.
The Headless Horseman Sleepy Hollow
Voldemort! Harry Potter
Snape?(Would we call him a villian?) Harry Potter
Lucius Malfoy!! Harry Potter
Sheriff of Nottingham Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves:)

Magneto from X-Men

I would have to say:

Chancellor Palpatine from Star Wars
Barbossa from Pirates of the Carribbean
Voldemort I suppose
Magneto
Saruman from the Lord of the Rings

8. The sidekick in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, you know, the guy in black? I can't remember his name.

The Sheriff of Rottingham!

The Sheriff of Rottingham!

Oh yeah, thanks NoDay!

Darth Vader is my number one!
T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Sid 6.7 from Virtuosity

Lord Voldemort-Harry Potter

Apocalypse-X-Men

Megneto-X-Men

Doomsday-Superman

Lex Luthor-Superman

Sauron-Lord of the Rings

Darth Vader-Star Wars

Count Olaf-S.O.U.E

Dr.Evil-Austin Powers

Agent Smith-The Matrix

Jigsaw-Saw

These are all my favourite villians of all times. Not in order just so ya know

Darth Vader
Agent Smith
Gul Dukat

Voldemort and darth vader

Voldermort, Darth Vader, The Emporor (from star wars),Venom (spiderman), and Lots of others I can't be bothered to name. SAURON I rememberd 1 of them.

Darth Vader
Sauron
The Bag man (don't really know if he was bad or what)
The Boogieman (I don't know how to spell it)
The Guy with Cancer From Saw 1, 2 &3 XD
Someone else than Voldie???
He rules, he's the most awful person I've heard of...
Adolph Hitler...
Gerard Way... (he gave me a headache, so that's rather bad)
Oh! and also George Bush
hahahhahah ^.^

Besides Tom, in no order:

Viscious (Cowboy Bebop)
Barbossa (PotC)
The Werewolf (Prince Caspian from Narnia)
Melkor (The Silmarillion)
The Witchking of Angmar (LotR)
Crocodile (One Piece)
Nosferatu

voldemort gives me the creeps but i can't seem to think of any other, does my mother in the morning with no coffee count, because trust me she will go evil with no coffee.

Pirates of the Caribbean:Captian Barbossa and Davy Jones(You gota love those beard's)
Harry Potter:Lord Voldemort,Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix lestrange(how could i not put them in here)
Star Wars:Darth Vader and the emperor(any one can master the Dark side, but it take's real villian to learn how to use a light saber with out cuting them selves in half)
Lord of the Rings:Saruman(What a loser!)
Spider-Man:Venom,Carnage and the Green Goblin(There by Spider-mans most Deadly villians)
Peanut's:The Red Baron(i laugh my head of every time snoopy gose after him)
The Simpson's:Mr.Burns and sideshow Bob(There villian's with a sense of humor)
Artemis Fowl:Opal Kodoi,Briar cudegon and leon abott(Smart villian's)
Mario:Bowser and the koopaling's(I love those guy's!)
The Legand of Zelda:Ganon/Ganondorf(The greatest video game villians of all-time)

Hannibal 'the cannibal'
The Joker

The bad guy I feared most of all (when I was little) was THE JOKER. I couldn't sleep for nights because of him!!!

But I have to say I've allways liked Disney's villains: the classic witches with their long fingers, cold expression and creepy laugh, they were really scary, specially "Maléfica" (don't want to find the translation, I watched it in spanish), from The Sleeping Beauty. She was GREAT, really baaaad. The same kind are the witches of Chronicles of Narnia (the books), I love them too.
And Scar, and "Gastón" (Beauty and the Beast), and Frollo, they're amazing!

Some other ones I really really loved were:
CASTOR TROY (Face Off)
CYRUS THE VIRUS (Con Air)
THE BUTCHER (I think that was the name, it was the bad guy in Gangs of New York)
They are of those kind of bad people that attract you, even though you know they're terrible people, they have this something that makes you love them as characters.

Begby the psycho from Trainspotting was cool. Don`t know if he counts as a villain though!
Also, Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham in ROPOT was class.

Begby the psycho from Trainspotting was cool. Don`t know if he counts as a villain though!
Also, Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham in ROPOT was class.

LOL. I thought Begbie was pretty funny. He didn't scare me one bit. But I don't know if that's the point of t his thread. A 'great' villain, in my book overshows the good guy in 'sympathy'. How ironic that may sound. I thought tim roth in Rob Roy was good too.

Colonel Maybourne. He's a crook. But you just can't help but like him. And, because I'm listening to the Poke'mon theme song for some reason unknown to god -- Team Rocket. ;)

THE BUTCHER (I think that was the name, it was the bad guy in Gangs of New York)

Totally. Daniel Day-Lewis kicked butt in that. I just wanted to give a shout out to Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element. He's so...yucky in that movie, heh. Agent Smith in The Matrix is a pretty good bad guy. Hmm, what else... Oh oh, I know! Kaiser Soze in The Usual Suspects. Heck yeah. Duuude, I love the ending to that movie! :cool:

The bad guy I feared most of all (when I was little) was THE JOKER. I couldn't sleep for nights because of him!!!

Same here. Mark Hamill just freaked me out.

Hard to say only a few:: I LOVE VILLAINS

I like Villains more than heroes, I more emphaty for villians than for heroes!!!!

The classic villains, sad they always die at the end of the movie XDD

My fav is Prince Zuko from Avatar, I think he's hot and I sorta feel for him, getting banished from the country he was born in and the only way to get back is to catch the Avatar, you'd go crazy too if that were you

I love Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. He's amazing. I also love Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Dracula the one that was in Buffy. It was funny though.

Davy Jones from Pirates Of The Caribbean. :rotfl:

My favourite villains have been:

1. Michael Caine's character in "Quills". I can't recall his name.
2. The little girl in "The Ring".

My favourite villains have been:


2. The little girl in "The Ring".

When she climbed out of the TV in the end i was so scared.

Darth Vader and Hannibal.

Colonel William Tavington from The Patriot
Lucius Malfoy
Captain Hook

The previous 3 all played by Jason Isaacs

Snape
Darth Maul
Gul Dukat from Deep Space Nine
Dick Dastardly from the Wacky Races

in addition to the ones already mentioned in this thread so far...in no particular order...

Pinhead (Hellraiser)
Kronos (Highlander the Series)
Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Jack Torrance (The Shining)
The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Rasputin
Dr Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr Caligari)
Man (Bambi)
Big Brother (1984)
Frank-N-Furter (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Chucky (Child's Play)
Jafar (Aladdin)
The Bug in the Edgar Suit (Men in Black)
Mr Potter (It's a Wonderful Life)...couldn't resist putting that one on the list :lol:
Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
The Terminator (The Terminator)
Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmations)
Satan (Paradise Lost)...best character in that book, if you've ever had to read it...
Jack the Ripper
Ed Gein (real-life serial killer in Wisconsin, was the basis for a number of fictional characters, including Norman Bates and Buffalo Bill)
Senator Joseph McCarthy (responsible for the anti-communist witch hunts of the Cold War era)
Tomás de Torquemada (first Grand Inquisitor in the Spanish Inquisition)
Dolores Umbridge (OotP, Hogwarts High Inquisitor)...surprised that no one's mentioned her yet :huh:
President Andrew Jackson (signed the Indian Removal Act into law, which subsequently led to the Trail of Tears)
Dr Josef Mengele (AKA "the Angel of Death", Nazi SS officer & physician at Auschwitz, known for his gruesome human experiments)

Lestat from Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicals not exactly the typical villain but Im counting him...

Professor Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes takes my cake. Other cool villians include Dracula (from Dracula), Estella (from Great Expectations), and Scar (from Lion King).

Galvatron (G1 Transformers), voiced by Leonard Nimoy in Transformers: the Movie and an absolute lunatic in Season 3. It sorta made me laugh and ponder his insanity and anger management issues!!

Cyclonus (G1 Transformers), loyal second-in-command and polar opposite of the mad Decepticon leader Galvatron, he had a smooth, deep...slightly British accent. He was a cunning and deadly warrior who would've usurped Galvy if he weren't so loyal to him. Cyc also proved to be quite honorable and dedicated to the Decepticon Cause as well as showing grudging respect to his arch rival/foe Ultra Magnus *by saving his life*. In fact, I think Cyc's kinda similar to Professor Snape in a few ways.

Scar (from Lion King).

I love Scar... Great, GREAT villain.

got to agree with Scar! ;) ahh i love Jeremy Irons!
& pretty much anything Gary Oldman does (grrwoof!)

To me the most endearing villians of all time were the ones I could sometimes relate to. Mob movies tend to have endearing villians - you end up rooting for the bad guys. HBP began to put a human face on Tom Riddle, and at times you began to feel sorry for him, but at least to me the bad guys i can root for (and I can't root for Voldy) are the ones that are my favorites.

The Joker! I love the Joker!

Jafar, definitely. He and the parrot, they were so funny.

But really, really evil villain: that British soldier from The Patriot (aka the actor who play Lucius Malfoy in the movies). He was SO EVIL, you were really looking forward for him to die at the end.

The Twins in Matrix2
The Ringwraiths in Lord of the rings
Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange (i don't like a lot Voldy)
Catwoman (by Michelle Pfeiffer, not Halle Berry... :grumble: )

Lestat from Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicals not exactly the typical villain but Im counting him... yeah! he's great! :love:

ahhh!! how could i forgot him?? Darth Vader!
and Darth Maul!

The Martians in Mars attacks! :lol:

#1 Darth Vader! #2 Morgoth from Silmarillian #3 Dr Hanibal Lector #4 Dr Loveless from WildWildWest show loved it when I was a kid. #5 He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Oh yes, Dr Lector (just from Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon / Manhunter). Anthony Hopkins IS Dr Lector. I still remember my mother "hanging around" to watch my reaction to a couple of the scenes in that movie. One of my all time favorites.
What does make a great villain? I put my two cents in above; but I bet others disagree with me :).

Any villian played by Alan Rickman - he's one of the many actors out there who just kicks *** when he plays bad guys!

Darth Vader hands down.

In Harry Potter, I would have to say Severus Snape. I wouldn't say he's my favorite character but one of the most interesting, intriguing, and complex characters out of any series I've read.

AGENT SMITH!!
http://z.about.com/f/wiki/e/en/thumb/7/7c/Agent_smith.jpg/150px-Agent_smith.jpg

Darth Vader is the best ever. After him, Jaws, Rosa Kleb and Scaramanga are my favourite Bond villains. Lord Voldemort, Scar, Hannibal Lecter are also worth mentioning.

I say Magneto(X-men) and Agent Smith(Matrix) are the best villains ever.
And of course Captain Barbosa(PotC 1)

Mine HAS to be Sidious/Palpatine, I could write an essay for why.
He made his way to the top of the republic and lead the Separatists from behind the scenes. He knew exactly what he was doing. And, let's face it, he beat Yoda, sad I know but still.

Darth Vader is the daddy of all villains.

But Ursula from the little mermaid is kind of a cool villain. Actually, come to think of it, she kind of reminds me of my aunt.

number 1 HAS to be Voldemort - i love the way he was played in GoF by Ralph Fiennes

Others:
Dr. Evil - Austin Powers
Count Olaf - A Series of Unfortunate Events

I seem to like the funny villains lol

VOLDEMORT,cruela de vil, hades from disney hercules

Voldemort
He's just pure evil and doesn't have an ounce of love in him. And he wants to take over the Wizarding world so you have to give him credit for trying that. He is also a very powerful villian as wizards go.

Itachi
Like Voldemort, he is pure evil. I like that he spared his brother, Sasuke, and challenged Sasuke to fight him when Sasuke's skills and want for revenge were high. Who doesn't love a good fight between good and evil? He is also a very powerful villian as far as ninjas go.

Dr. Evil
You just have to love a villian who is stuck being evil in the old ways and has a pet cat.

Abigail Williams from The Crucible and...every New York Yankee. :D

Q-Star Trek: The next generation- he's not intentionally evil, but he has annoying and sometimes sick ideas of fun.
Melkor- falls under category of "insanly smart" he waits until everyone else has finished creating beauty and then introduces entropy(similiarly-the lone power from young wizards series)
Suaruman&Vader- betrayers ...lowest circle of hell... you get the picture

My favourite villan would have to be Aunt Medousa from the Disney movie the Rescuers.

The Master, Dr. Who. Roger Del Gardo, not the later model!

Hanibal Lecter. I loved that character. He was so smooth, educated, well spoken and well bred and just evil! You would never have known what lurked in his mind until it was far far too late.

I love him! Voldemort and Darth Vader.

my fave villans are
Voldemort/ severus snape( how can you not name them!)
venom( there is no cooler villan anywhere!)
lucian/ crevan ,from underworld (their so cool!)
Darth Vader ( he's the king of the villans!)
Hades( he's just too funny!)

Has anyone mentioned the bad guy from that one disney movie, Home on the Range?? his "secret power" that hypnotizes all the cows? yodeling. yup, you heard me right, yodeling. :D i've only seen the first like 15 minutes of the movie, but if the bad guy can hypnotize cows by yodeling its a winner in my book.

i'd also have to say any bad guy from x-men: evolution is a favorite. :D i love watching old cartoons, so x-men and thundercats bad guys are pretty awesome to me!!

there's more that i can't think of now...

Ooh Milificent is just amazing for anyone who's played Kingdom Hearts or been to Disney World! =] Also, Magneto and Voldemort are awesome, but my fave has to be Emma Frost from X-Men, although she is eventually good lol.

Also, Magneto and Voldemort are awesome, but my fave has to be Emma Frost from X-Men, although she is eventually good lol.
I forgot about Magneto! I'd add him to my list for sure.

Not forgetting Ben from Lost, and maybe Juliette while we know she's a spy and Sylar from Heroes.

I'd say Venom but I'm not really a fan of movie Venom.

Ahhhhhhh. I love lists!

I always start with the classics;

Professor Moriarty, from the Sherlock Holmes stories;
Hans Gruber, from Die Hard;
Michael Myers, from Halloween;
Louis Cyphre, from Angelheart;
Montresor, in A Cask of Amontillado;
Dr. Anton Phibes, from the Dr. Phibes horror movies;
Charles Foster Kane, from Citizen Kane;
Pennywise the Clown, from It.

My favorite villain is of course Lord Voldemort and next to him is Dolores Jane Umbridge (Can't wait to c them both in the new film!!!)

Cruella Deville...that woman had class.

voldy ofcourse and magneto from the xmen series

Magneto is a wonderful villan :lol:

Catwoman is pretty fantastic too as well as Lex Luthor!

Scar from the Lion King.
Darth Vadar I just really love all Sith.
Voldemort
Bellatrix, I like all the Death Eaters, expect for Wormtail lol
Magneto
Hannibal Lector
What's his name from Red Dragon, Ralph Finnes plays him
Mickey and Mallory Knox from Natural Born Killers
Patrick Bateman from American Pyscho

I feel like I almost always root for the bad guys.:evil:

I've always had a things for anything and everything Disney so thats where my list is mostly inspired from.

Malificent-The Sleeping Beauty...easily the scariest and most evil.

Fantasia-The Chernabog....most mysterious and coolest design.

Aladdin-Jafar...funniest, plus this one holds a special place in my heart because Aladdin was the first major musical I directed.

Star Wars-Darth Vadar...come on, gotta give the nod to the most charismatic villan of all time.

-The murderer in Loves Music Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark. I'm not gonna give anything away, but let me just say that guy is a freak.


Oooooh! He is freaky isn't he? James Patterson does great villains as well.

I loved Liam Neeson as the villain in Batman Begins and, of course, Alan Rickman in..... hmmmm actually just about everything.:p. Ralph Fiennes is creepy as Voldemort too and I liked David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jnr.

has got to be darth vader (he does tragically redeem himself in the end)

Darth Vader
Emperor Palpy, he took down a whole galaxy
Voldymort
Magneto
the german guy from enemy at the gates
Saruman
You could say Don Corleone from Godafther is a villian/hero, i think both!!

Draco,he's not exactly a villain but he's really all that innocent.
Voldemort,creeps me out like hell
Snape,as mean as he is,you gotta love his insults towards harry and his friends.
Ben from LOST,he's manipulative,creepy,and cruel,all the makings of a good villain.
Sawyer from LOST,he's funny as hell and the survivors hated him but he's starting to redeem himself(at least in my eyes he is).

Francis Begbie. Scary as hell.

tricky...


O-Ren Ishii from Kill Bill

Darth Vader

The Hessian from Sleepy Hollow

Lucas Buck from American Gothic

John Doe from Se7en

Marquise de Merteuil from Dangerous Liasions

Dracula performed by Christopher Lee

Klaus Maria Brandauer in Never Say Never


off the cuff, that's it, but I'll think about it...

I'm absolutely sure I'm mentioning villians no one has heard about here.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Sepheac2.jpg

Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. He is arguably one of the best villians of all time. He is said by many, many people to be the best villian of all time, but no one knows who Sephiran is.. sadly. He is also responsible for the death of a major protagonist within the game, the topic becoming the subject of one of the most popular video game spoilers in history.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Sephiroth-killing-aerith.jpg

YTMND edited this scene and put Snape's face on Sephiroth and Dumbledore's face on Aerith, the girl. It's pretty funny. Some of you might know.

Second character.. totally unknown to you people.

I can't find his picture.

Manfloy. He is one of the antagonists of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, this guy is totally evil. He wants to bring back the Dark God Loptous by brainwashing Alvis, and his half-sister Diadora who is the main character's wife, get them together so they can have children and so he can use one as the reincarnation of the dark god.

However, the best villian of all, is Sephiran. Sounds like Sephiroth? He's the guy from FE9 and 10.

Can't find a picture.

He's totally innocent in FE9, first you find him as a monk and rescue him from prison and that is the first time you see him. He is revealed by the Empress of Begnion to be the Prime Minister of Begnion. Then, the next time you see him is in the end of the game when he talks to Ike, the main character, after he defeats the mad king Ashnard. When Ike leaves, he says that the seeds of war are about to grow all across the world.

He was right. Begnion fights Gallia to the death. The goddess wakes up when the dark god Yune was awoken. The main characters try to infiltrate the Guiding Tower where the Goddess lies. In the second last floor, we find out that Sephiran was behind everything. The death of Ike's father, war with Ashnard, war of Begnion and Gallia, and alot of more things, alot more. You don't even know 1/16 of this guy. Anyway, why did he do all this? He was a supporter of the goddess Ashera and she said if Laguz and Beorc don't get along in 1000 years she would destroy the world.. but Sephiran wanted to fulfill this promise early because he says that there is no hope.

That's it from me.

You're right. Never heard of either of them. But then the last computer game I played was Super Mario Brothers for gameboy generation I.

I'm guessing that you know about that turtle-dragon thing, Bowser?

didn't know his name, but sure I remember the big turtle! :lol: Back then I didn't give it a single thought, but in retrospection - whoever gets the idea to make a TURTLE, who are among the cutest, most harmless animals on the planet, the villain of a video game?

You reminded me of a turtle I saw with my friends while chatting and hanging out in the park we were in.. anyway..

http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/mariopedia/trophy/bowser.jpg

Rawr?

did that turtle viciously attack you and tried to abduct your girlfriend...?

No.. but a mighty black dog which looked really like the Sirius in the Azkaban movie in size, shape, volume, etc. tried to bite me.

In the game, though, I had to protect Princess Peach and beat the stuffing out of it.

:lol:

I don't believe Bowser qualifies for the Best Villains of all times though. I don't think he'd make the top 100 even. The sabre tiger from Ice Age - well, why not? But a turtle just doesn't have the certain je-ne-sais-quoi.

Perhaps, but it has one quality of being one of the best villians of all time: simply, being the absolute oldest and the greatest nemesis of Mario. He can't even talk and he isn't all that evil.. oh well.

Another very good villian, worthy enough to mention, is Bill Sikes from Oliver Twist. I'm glad I'm typing down a villian which you people actually know.

The sabre tiger from the Ice Age huh? Hmm.. I don't think that's.. a villian? I watched a tiny bit of Ice Age and from the part I see is that the sabre tiger helped the animals.

oh dear, now I have to admit that I never read Oliver Twist... :blush:


here's another one for my list - Mrs Coulter from His Dark Materials.

and on a slightly more nostalgic note - Top Dollar from The Crow. Loved the movie when I was sixteen. Seeing it again with twenty, I must admit that it was rather cheesy. It was re-run on tv a few weeks ago, and now it bore nothing but the patina of nostalgia.


oh, and Castor Troy from Face/Off, in both actors' performance, though I must say that I slightly preferred Nicolas Cage at the beginning. So arrogant. So megalomaniac. And these suits he's wearing! :cool:

Oliver Twist is truly worth reading. Bill Sikes is a great villian.

Man, Nicholas Cage is one WEIRD guy in real life.

The name of his second child, Kal-El, is also the birth name of Superman in the DC Comics universe. Nicolas said in a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest that he liked the name Kyle, but his wife wanted a more unique name. Cage is a long-time fan of comics and considers them to be the modern equivalent of mythology. He was once attached to play Superman in a film to be directed by Tim Burton.

Kal-El! The real name of Superman. My friend called Jeff told me this while we were talking about his weird selection of name which came up while we were talking about Superman..

"Imagine this scene, the teacher is marking the people who're absent. Jeff Andrews? Here. Bob Martian? Here. Kal-El Cage? Here."

He'd probably be the laughing stock of the school, no, the neighborhood. Poor guy, I'd scold my dad if I were him, when I got old enough to realise I had a stupid name..

I think if your daddy is Nicolas Cage, you're a bit safer than the rest of becoming the national laughing stock. Also, that kid might go to school with Romeo Beckham, and the kids of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore (I forgot their names, but they were odd)


Now here's a villain that might not be that well-known in the English-speaking world - Franz Moor from Schiller's The Robbers. Brilliant.

Willis and Moore had three daughters during their thirteen-year union: Rumer Glenn Willis (born 1988), Scout LaRue Willis (1991) and Tallulah Belle Willis (1994).

Rumer sounds like Rumor.. Scout.. hahahaha.. TALLULAH sounds like an arab name of a terrorist or something.

The favorite villian of all time to his kids, eh? Loves their daddy.. but a villian till the (his) end.

those were the names, yes! God knows what they were thinking to give their kids such weirdo names!

Voldemort,The Joker,Lex Luther,Xemnas,and that's it:tu:

I'm really partial to Darth Vader. I think he is the ultimate bad guy. Oh, and don't forget Sauron from LotR. He's the most evil of all villains ever!

yeah, he's the epitome of evil. He just hasn't that much to actually say, has he?

Darth Vader/ Jaws

come to the dark side...we've got cookies

i definetly have to agree with sephiroth, i couldnt really thikn of one, but when i was playing final fantasy VII what he did just wripped my heart out he was evil, i absolouty love that game the best playstation game ever, especially of the final fantasy's i like XI but i havent got as intimate with any of the games as i did with that one by far the worst villain of them all.

Bellatrix Lestrange - i find her worse that Voldemort, shes so evil!

Omg, i also think that popcornzyum! Just yesterday told my friend about that, she's so bad that she one of my fav villains.
More.. I really like Dark Willow on the 6th Season of BtVS and Glory on the 5Th Season of BtVS also!
Have to say that Sylar from Heroes was really cool too.

Steave Leonard as the Vampaneze Lord in the "Cirque Du Freak" series.

Omg, i also think that popcornzyum! Just yesterday told my friend about that, she's so bad that she one of my fav villains.
More.. I really like Dark Willow on the 6th Season of BtVS and Glory on the 5Th Season of BtVS also!
Have to say that Sylar from Heroes was really cool too.

Yay! someone agrees with me!

I think my all time number one favorite villain is Hannibal Lecter. I admit I find him more than a little attractive lol

Jason Isaacs plays a damn good villain

I loooove Doctor Octopus in the second Spiderman movie

Osama Bin Laden makes a pretty convincing villain (kidding)

oh I don't know. my mind changes every day, there's no use for favorites.

Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List is fine as hell, even though he's a complete ******* he's still very attractive

I think my all time number one favorite villain is Hannibal Lecter. I admit I find him more than a little attractive lol



Couldn't agree more, Hannibal Lecter is my all-time favorite villian (Hopkins one, not the new one by that French dude) (and he's just sexy as well, even for an old guy, I think we have Sir Anthony to thank for that :drool:).
DrHannibalLecterMD is my screen-name at YouTube.

I also love Palpatine/Sidious from Star wars.

Well my favs were the slickest, and most intelligent in fantasy fiction, but not many would have heard of them. So I will go with the most unique/surprising:

Darth Vader
Prof. Moriarty
Gods of Ragnarok
Dr. Doom
White/Dark Witch
Ganon the comeback king

Fenrir Greyback (Half-Blood Prince)
Rufus Scrimgeour (Half-Blood Prince)
Barty Crouch Jr (Goblet of Fire)
Piggsy (Manhunt)
Craddock (Heart-Shaped Box)
Taduz Lemke (Thinner)
Richard Ginelli (Thinner)
Phil Leotardo (The Sopranos)
Maynard and Zed (Pulp Fiction)

Couldn't agree more, Hannibal Lecter is my all-time favorite villian (Hopkins one, not the new one by that French dude) (and he's just sexy as well, even for an old guy, I think we have Sir Anthony to thank for that :drool:).
DrHannibalLecterMD is my screen-name at YouTube.



zomg i've saved a bunch of your videos then, i love them all! I might have talked to you as well, my sn is Dead_Doll. yeah, Anthony H. is absolutely sexy as Hannibal, but Gaspard Uliel....UNF! UNF! lol he's quite a cutie too imo. Hopkins is all suave and smart sexy like, Gaspard Uliel is physically perfect imo.

The Master. Definitely the Master.

Arthas Menethil from World of Warcraft. (Yup, I'm a bit of a nerd. :lol:)

I personally choose Voldemort of Harry Potter and King Galbatorix of the Inheritance Triology. Both are wonderful villians. They have so much personality and there own version of terror.

I also like Marx from Kirby Superstar. :p

Favorite villain?
Darth Nihilus from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 to be honest :O Can't possibly think of anything more sinister than him :3

I like Light Yagami (Kira) from Death Note. He may start off with good intensions, but his way of going about things is rather sadistic.

I like the cayote from the oradrunner show, :rotfl:

and selvestr from slevester and tweety

OH and jack sparrow when he was "evil"
and voldy!

I've already gave a list, but I'll Add Azula from avatar on it. :)

Ursula from the Little Mermaid.

Jacob Black from Twilight

Voldemort from Harry Potter

Queen Elizabeth I. She was a villian, really. She chopped of Mary's head. Villian.

Bishop Pierre Cauchon for ordering the killing Joan of Arc.

Oh - Mugabe. Villian is his middle name

thats all i can think of for now

hii

Orochimaru and Deidara (from Naruto)
Belletrix (Harry Potter)
Gollum (LotR)- yeah I count him as a villain
Kiriyama (Battle Royale- manga)

Perhaps, but it has one quality of being one of the best villians of all time: simply, being the absolute oldest and the greatest nemesis of Mario.

Not the oldest. Mario made his first appearance battling Donkey Kong.

I Would Have To Say
Cruella Devil (101 Dalmations)
Voldermort (Harry Potter)
Hook (Peter Pan)
Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Hook (Peter Pan)

I forgot about him! He's my fav as well!

Hans Gruber - Die Hard
Simon Gruber - Die Hard with a Vengeance
Auric Goldfinger - Goldfinger
Alec Trevelyan - Goldeneye
Walter Donavan - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Arjen Rudd - Lethal Weapon 2
Khan - Star Trek II
Kefka - Final Fantasy VI
Liquid Snake - Metal Gear Solid
Albert Wesker - Resident Evil

Nefarian Serpine from Skulduggery Pleasant
Torment from Skulduggery Pleasant 2 ( He wants Skul to kill Valkyrie, for hecky's sake!)
Springheeled Jack (also from Skulduggery Pleasant, he's funny!)
Abanazar from Aladdin pantomimes.
Princess Mars Bar from Buttons:The Musical (It's a work in progress, don't knock it till you try it!).

I would go for Mordred !!

Darth Vader

Voldemort(Harry Potter)
Bellatrix Lestrange(Harry Potter)
Darth Vader(Star Wars)
Hook(Peter Pan)
The White Witch(Narnia)
Joker(Batman)
Raj Al Gol(Batman Begins)

My favorite villain of all time is Bellatrix Lestrange.

The Sheriff of Nottingham from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Hans Gruber - Die Hard
Darth Vader
Imotep - The Mummy

Well I have to mention one very important villain that hasn't been put out there, Freddy Krueger! He is my all time favorite!

TV: Borg(STAR TREK), Vern Shillinger,(OZ) Governor James Devlin,(OZ) Alistair Crane(PASSIONS), and Greg Madden(ALL MY CHILDREN)

Film: Pinhead, Possessed Ash, Captain Howdy, John Doe, Keyser Soze, (well any villain Kevin Spacey ever played), Garland Green....

Lit: Voldykins, Bellatrix, RODOLPHUS and RABASTAN LeStrange (capital letters because those two deserved a bigger part) Akasha, Dracula....

Doctor Doom.

Appropriate Signature?

Mr. Zorg - The Fifth Element
Lex Luther - Superman
The Joker - Batman
Benjamin Linus - Lost ( I don't know if you can call him a Villain, but he's a sneeky mean guy.)
Darth Vader - Star Wars
The Borg - Star Trek

The Joker - Batman
Hades - Hercules
Darth Vader - Star Wars
King Inan or Einon (sp??) - Dragon Heart
Claude Frollo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Voldemort, of course (Harry Potter, duh...)
Darth Vader, because he is epic (Star Wars)
Michael Kenmore, a Wraith/Human hybrid (Stargate: Atlantis)
Ba'al, the Goa'uld (Stargate SG-1)
The Joker (The Dark Knight)
Revolver Ocelot and/or Liquid Snake (Metal Gear series)
Treize khushrenada (Gundam Wing)
Saitou Hajime... while not really a villian, per se, he is awesome (Rurouni Kenshin)

>=D

The Joker
Bellatrix Lestrange
Jigsaw - anyone seen the Saw movies? They're surprisingly good!

Bellatrix
Voldemort
Lucius Malfoy
Grima Wormtongue (Lord of the Rings)
The White Witch (Narnia)
The Joker
Darth Vader
The Sheriff of Nottingham
Lady Van Tassell (Sleepy Hollow)
Cruella DeVille
Evil Queen (Snow White)
Captain Hook

I can't believe I forgot these:

The Joker (Jack Nicholson)
Michael Myers (Halloween)
Dr. Evil ( Austin Powers)
Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder (don't know if it counts as a VILLAIN, but... t'was awesome)
Viktor (Underworld)
Voldemort (of course!)
Agent Smith ( The Matrix)

Bellatrix and Draco from HP, but right now I can't remember more from anything else..

The Nazgûl - LOtR
Darth Vader - Star Wars
The Queen of Hearts - Alice in Wonderland
Agent Smith - The Matrix

:whistle: That's a weird list

Of course Voldemort and Vader.
Joker in "Dark Knight"
Sauron
All of the evil queens and stepmothers
Hook, Hook, Hook, Hook!
The witch in Hansel and Gretel (gonna roast those poor little kiddies)
Wicked Witch of the West and her human counterpart
My Second Grade teacher (take it from me, she could give the rest of them lessons)

Lex Luthor

Scorpius (Farscape)
Hordak (She-Ra Princess of Power) Fan Fiction colors my perceptions
of him, not just the cartoon
Queen Bavmorda (Willow)

:rave:

- Sark from Alias :) He's just so handsome but at the same time so evil...
- Jack Sparrow from PotC. Does he even count as a villain? He certainly has a good and bad side.
- Bellatrix, she's so evil yet so great.

Voldemort
Jigsaw Killer aka John Kramer
Darth Vader
The Joker
C. Montgomery Burns.
Sauron
Bellatrix Lestrange

Well, obviously Bellatrix. But in terms of non-Harry Potter related things, I'm going to go with Ursula the Sea Witch from The Little Mermaid. Yes, The Little Mermaid has been my favourite movie my entire life. I've always loved Ursula. She's the kind of villain where she's your favourite character, but still want the good guys to win. I also love Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. He's hysterical, and hunky!

Here's my countdown.

5. I'm actually going with Snape for this one, due to his complexity and, in the end, ambiguous "was he ever really villainous?" status. Voldemort seems too non-threatening and impersonal to be a serious villain to me.

4. Kefka from Final Fantasy 6. A demented lunatic... clown? One of his "fun" activities consists of poisoning a river so that both his troops and the opposing army choke to death on it, then laughing manically about the whole affair. He also actually succeeds in taking over and demolishing most of the world.

3. Randall Flagg by Stephen King. A body of nearly infinite symbolism who stands for all of evil embodied in one being. Tom Cullen's quote about him in "The Stand" is possibly the greatest paragraph ever written about an evil being. In the end, though, like most villains in King's opinion, he turns out being a "bumhug."

2. Iago from Othello. The sheer lack of actual motive identifies him as pure malice. Moreover, he has the wittiest dialogue of any villain ever created, bar none.

1. Amon Goth in Schindler's List. The character was not at all exaggerated in the film - he really did things like abuse his servant-girl and snipe Jews from his villa. There's even a story that when one of the real Schindler Jews met Ralph Fiennes in his getup, her body instinctively began shaking because he reminded her so strongly of the real man.

Fictional

3- Hannibal Lecter (from "Silence of the Lambs" only)
2- John Doe from "Seven"
1- The shark from JAWS

Draco Malfoy
Voldemort
Bellatrix
Umbridge:)

the original joker with jack nickolson

Hannibal Lector from Silence of the Lambs (didn't care for the other books) is my number one. No matter how many times I read the book or see the movie he still gives me the creeps.

And for something different, Orochimaru from Naruto. Just because he's so incredibly ****ed up :lol:

Kuja from Final Fantasy IX.

Dmitri Yuriev from Xenosaga

Sensui from Yu Y Hakusho.

Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean

I tend to prefer villains with sad backgrounds. I honestly don't have a fixed favorite apart from Kuja. It's just whatever is on my mind at the moment.

GlaDos and Opal Koboi. GlaDos is so funny, I forget she's evil. and Opal Koboi, well, she just doesn't know when to give up? She put herself into a self-induced coma FOR A YEAR so she could kill Artemis Fowl's posse, not to mention CHANGED HER OWN SPECIES just so she could pretend to be a businessman's daughter.


She is one bold, brass, bladed mother f*@%er.

(a cookie to whoever gets those references.)

Bellatrix Lestrange
Judge Turpin from Sweeney Todd
Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gaston from Beauty and the Beast
Mrs. Potiphar from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Bill Sikes from Oliver Twist
Prof. Umbridge from Harry Potter

And lots more I can't think of XD

Toecutter -- Mad Max
Frank Begbie -- Trainspotting

Voldemort.
(though math is pretty terrifying too!)

First to mind, Count Fosco. A baaaaaad man.

Hannibal Lecter and Heath Ledger's Joker are great villains...creepy, creepy, CREEPY!

As for the HP characters, Dolores Umbridge is the best villain, hands down. Imelda Staunton did a brilliant job of portraying Umbridge in OotP. The kittenish smile, feigned manners and grandmotherly demeanor conceal an utterly ruthless, vicious and evil excuse for a human being. She's the villain in HP that I love to hate. I'd have loved to set her lines: "I must not torture children. I must not torture children. I must not torture children."

Bellatrix is a strong villain, too. She's barking mad. She has no conscience, no inner conflict and offers no apologies. Unfortunately for Harry and the Order, she is also a very, very powerful witch.

Voldemort strikes me as a sociopath. He has no concern for the welfare of his followers. He only cares about whether they have succeeded in carrying out his orders. Voldemort only cares about Voldemort: his glory, his immortality. No one can really get close to him because he doesn't feel the need for a personal connection to anyone.

Norman 'Stan' Stansfield (Leon: The Professional)
Verbal Kint/Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects)
Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
Grand Admiral 'Thrawn' Mitth'raw'nuruodo (Star Wars)
Agent Smith (The Matrix)
O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four/1984)
Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
Gil-Martin (The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner)
HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)