Top 5 Bad Guys Ever

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-07-21 01:11pm

Well, I know we see these things every now and again, and we've seen the ultimate bad guy time etc etc, but this is really a survey of your favourite bad guys from film (maybe book as well, but film tends to be easiest to picture), resident psychlogists feel free to analyse everyone's suggestions and tell us how twisted we are.

If we have enough repetitions, I'll take the most popular through to a second heat and people can vote if they so desire, but really this is just a curiosity thing.

So:

1) Donald Pleasance's Blofeld - You Only Live Twice
2) Ming the Merciless - Flash Gordon
3) Lucius Malfoy - Harry Potter + Chamber of Secrets
4) The Emperor - Star Wars
5) Ian Mckellan - Magneto or Christopher Lee as Saruman

If we extend that to books, then I may include Moriaty from Sherlock Holmes.

What can be concluded from that list? The only thing I can think of is that I have a thing for classically trained evil english bad guys, and bald people.

Anyone else?

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-07-21 01:37pm

If books, I will add in the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions.

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2003-07-21 02:30pm

Megatron - Beast Wars/Beast Machines

Djinn - Wishmaster

Commodus -Gladiator

Edward the Longshanks - Braveheart

Kerrigan - BroodWar *yeah I know, not a book or movie. She's still an uber-villain though*

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-07-21 02:40pm

Movies.

1. The Emperor - Ian McDiarmid from Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
2. The Thing - SFX from John Carpenter's The Thing
3. The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger from The Terminator (T1)
4. Khan Noonien Singh - Ricardo Montalban from Star Wars II: The Wrath of Khan
5. John Milton/Lucifer - Al Pacino from Devil's Advocate

The only ones I could think of right now.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2003-07-21 03:10pm

SirNitram wrote:If books, I will add in the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions.

theywere not evil ... they just want to snuggle up to you in bed thats all in the light of reality,...

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-07-21 05:14pm

Mmmmmmm, Lucius Malfoy....

Oh. *ahem* Sorry.

Umm, Hannibal Lector must be included on this list, since he is my personal favourite bad guy ever. Hmm, who else is in there? The Phantom, from "The Phantom of the Opera" (not exactly in the right medium, but I love him to bits too) is also one of my favourites ever. I love it when murderers have so much charisma that I like them regardless of their scary past.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-07-21 05:25pm

1) Darth Vader
2) Hannibal Lecter (from Silence of the Lambs, and to a lesser extent Red Dragon...he wasn't as scary of a presence in Hannibal)
3) The Terminators - Arnold specifically
4) Goldfinger
5) Michael Corleone - both a protagonist and a villain at the same time.

BTW, Zaia, is it just me or have you not been posting as much as normal recently?

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-07-21 05:33pm

Do games count? If so,

1) Jon Irenicus. The guy was just awesome. "You will suffer! You will all suffer!"

2) Darth Vader. Der.

3) Lex Luther! (mostly the recent cartoon Lex, he was the coolest)

4) Dr. Evil

5) Um... STALIN!... meh, I couldn't think of anyone else.

God Emperor · Post by **God Emperor** » 2003-07-21 05:51pm

4. Khan Noonien Singh - Ricardo Montalban from Star Wars II: The Wrath of Khan

When they make that

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-07-21 06:23pm

Sir Sirius wrote:Movies.

1. The Emperor - Ian McDiarmid from Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
2. The Thing - SFX from John Carpenter's The Thing
3. The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger from The Terminator (T1)
4. Khan Noonien Singh - Ricardo Montalban from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
5. John Milton/Lucifer - Al Pacino from Devil's Advocate

The only ones I could think of right now.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-07-21 06:25pm

Ah, damn!

Hit Submit instead of preview. Stupid no edit button policy.

In any case it was supposed to be Star Trek II, not Star Wars.

SHODAN · Post by **SHODAN** » 2003-07-21 06:50pm

No one would ever have guessed that.

SHODAN · Post by **SHODAN** » 2003-07-21 06:55pm

Oh, and on topic: Magneto, Agent Smith and Kakihara.

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2003-07-21 09:06pm

Non Fiction:
1 - Hitler
2 - Himmler
3 - Stalin
4 - Pol Pot
5 - RobesPiere

Fiction:
1 - Oscar St Just - Honor Harrington
2 - Sauron - Lord of Ring
3 - Voldemort - Harry Potter
4 - Emporer Palpatine - Star Wars
5 - Lady Van Tassel - Sleepy Hollow?

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2003-07-21 09:09pm

Too many, must subdivide.

Anime and Manga in no particular order:
Cooler, from DBZ. incredible style, some sweet moves, not afraid to shoot his enemy in the back, or nuke him while he's down.
Raouh(sp?) Fist of the North Star
Tetsuo, Akira
Desty Nova, Battle Angel
A toss-up between Aptom and Alkanphel from Guyver

Movies:
Deacon Frost, Blade.
Agent Smith
The first Terminator
Chubby guy from Equilibrium
Aww, what the heck, Emperor Palpatine

Other mediums will follow as I think of them.

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2003-07-21 09:23pm

Why, Ridley, of course

Come on, he's a big freakin' dragon with lasers and shit! And he has the best boss music EVAR!

And of course, classic, fat Robotnik

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2003-07-21 09:32pm

Ooooh, video games, hadn't even considered those.

Eframepilot · Post by **Eframepilot** » 2003-07-21 09:36pm

5) The Borg Collective circa TNG "The Best of Both Worlds". The Borg were truly scary before they were overexposed and suckified.

4) Vorbis from Pratchett's Small Gods. IMHO, Pratchett's best villain. Completely ruthless, hypocritical, yet absolutely convinced that he is right.

3) Godzilla. Even when he's on the side of the angels, he still costs Japan billions in property damage.

2) Darth Vader. THE sci-fi villain. Amazingly grew from a stock Evil Dark Lord to the tragic antihero of the Star Wars saga (according to Lucas. R2-D2 is the real hero).

1) The Joker, Batman: TAS. Pure evil just for the fun of it.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-07-21 09:38pm

1.) The Emperor
2.) Dr. Doom (what can I say?)
3.) T-1000 (Robert Patrick is just so unstoppable; adds a real menacing air, much more so than T-X, IMHO)
4.) Lex Luther
5.) The Shredder (NINJA TURTLES FOREVER!!!)

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-07-21 09:56pm

Eframepilot wrote:1) The Joker, Batman: TAS. Pure evil just for the fun of it.

And voiced by Mark Hamill.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-07-21 11:24pm

1)Darth Vader.
2)Morgoth
3)Hannibal Lecter
4)Alfred Bester(

)
5)Unicron

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2003-07-21 11:41pm

Unicron

He's not evil, simply misunderstood.... and hungry.

Just personal preferance, but I enjoy Thanos style. I like him as a concept.

1. Vader (bum,bum bum, well you know the words)
2.Megatron (original)
3. Kefka (Hate, Hate, Hate,Hate!)
4. Sephiroth (the one winged angel)
5. Predator (movie and comics/books)

Axis Kast · Post by **Axis Kast** » 2003-07-22 02:09am

Some of my favorite "villans" often slip through the cracks at first glance, although I believe the story is fashioned in order that they can be considered representative of faults (and thus, villans in their own right).

1. John Hammond of Jurassic Park; representive of hubris.

2. Darth Vader of the Star Wars Trilogy; pure badass.

3. T-1000 of Terminator 2: Judgement Day; can you say, "Nice bike..."?

4. Sauron of the Lord of the Rings; evil incarnate.

5. The Good of the The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; so cool, so mean.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2003-07-22 02:29am

1. Darth Vader. Best villain ever put on screen. Period.

2. The Commandant in Schindler's List. He does a spectacular job, making his character seem believable and not intentionally evil, but horrifying, anyway.

3. Not really a villain, but Michael himself in The Godfather series. I include him as a villain because he's clearly an evil guy in a lot of ways, and he's great because at the same time he seems understandable.

4. The Alien, from the appropriately titled Alien.

5. Roy Batty, from Blade Runner. Another extremely well done villain, Batty combines a unique mixture of elements that add to the films message, and ultimately mystique.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-07-22 02:35am

The_Lumberjack wrote: 3) Lucius Malfoy - Harry Potter + Chamber of Secrets

*snicker*

Malfoy, up at the same level as Darth Vader and the like? Ha!

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