In my English AP course we are currently reading Othello, in which I read the part of Iago. And, as many of us know, Iago is frequently considered to be one of the worst, most irredeemable characters of all literature. That, of course got me to thinking... who are some of your favorite villains? Who makes your blood boil with their evil? Or who creeps you out with their sinister ways? Or, for the darkly inclined, who do you model yourself after? (Looks at Snugglebum...)

My personal favorites?

Magneto - The X-Men. Magneto is a great villain - he's just got so much depth to him. Obviously a mutant version of Malcolm X, he's a champion of the rights of the down trodden, the only problem is that he's got some rather... unorthodox ways of creating harmony between the two sides.

Bowser - Super Mario. I've been fighting and killing him for over ten years now, and he still comes back for more with bigger, better powers. Not exactly bright, and not exactly deep, but he's a good final boss, and he's fun to play as in Super Smash Brothers Melee!

Sadaam Hussein and Satan - South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Obvious reasons. Mostly because of the fake penis bit, though.

Scar - Fullmetal Alchemist. He's just a great villain! Deep and motivated, using a forbidden power for holy ends, he's great. If you can't tell, I've got a bit of an affinity for deep and sympathetic villains.

The Phantom - The Phantom of the Opera. Beacuse his pieces are very pretty and he looks damned good with that half mask on. Fun stuff.

Saruman from Lord of the Rings, as portrayed by Christopher Lee. Nobody plays a villain like Lee, he's fantastic.

Starr in Preacher, because he's smart, ruthless and angry. But then, you would be too.

Mister Quimper in The Invisibles, because he's so wrong. He's obscenity personified.

French Guy- Do I really need to say the title of the movie? How many movies feature a French guy as their villian? Anyways, this baddie doesn't stop flinging animals, despite the fact that he's not there for a large portion of the rising action!

The surname is Raine, I think the first name is Claude, but I could be wrong. He's the bad guy in Passenger 57, A.K.A. the only lead-man Wesley Snipes film that did anything at the box office before Blade. Raine is a proper bad guy in many ways, partially because he kills anyone in his way without blinking, he's utter slime, he's very educated (aren't the best baddies always ultra smart?), and his approach to escaping is believably determined.

Darth Vader is the first that springs to mind. That breathing has scared the hell out of small children for almost 30 years.

And no villains list is complete without mention of the ghost pirate LeChuck, one-time arch enemy of every nerd since Monkey Island was first released.

I must mention Villian the Villain, who took his name in order to remind people of the correct spelling of villain.

Also, the Daleks.

I like Iago, definatly my favourite 'Speares character.

As for other Villain's, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from Dune springs to mind. I was always a bit fearful of him. Always imagined him with a Goatee, leading me onto my next set of Villains.

Anyone with a Goatee. Anyone who would want to do that isn't going for the cute look, they're going for the 'I'm bad, really bad' look.

I think Jon Irenacus from Baldur's Gate 2 is a good Villain, too bad about him in actual combat but up till that point in the game he seems like this instopable force that is driven of egocentricism and the ruthlessness of doing anyone to anything guilt free. Plus he has hot smex with a vampire, probably had a Goatee but didn't have a good enough graphics card to check.

Seconded. He used to scare the crap out of *me* when I was small.
Lex Luthor of Smallville is coming along nicely as a villain. He was a bit lame in the first movie, but the show portrays as genuinely creepy.
Niska of Firefly. Freakishly but brilliantly sadistic all around. Jubal Early (from the same series) was a great villain for similar reasons.
I'm unsure if anyone's ever heard of this series, but the Lone One from Diane Duane's Young Wizards set. It's a masterfully deceptive and manipulative character. Basically it invented death and has been destroying things ever since.
La Croix from Forever Knight. He's just so amused by death and so casual about doing whatever he wants (which usually involves draining people of all their blood.)
I'll post more when I remember others.

Well, sucks to your "education"!

Marko Ramius from The Hunt for Red October, an eccentric submarine captain obsessed with every aspect of his vessel.

Ohhh, so many villains I absolutely love! Off the top of my head...

Hannibal Lecter - Pure sociopath. Charming with a disarming grace about him. Overwhelming intelligence and arrogance, which is far more evident in the books then the films. And he eats people.

Pinhead, Hellraiser films - Apart from the fact he looks AMASING, I adore the perversity and wit displayed by Pinhead. He has a fantastic sense of irony and again an otherworldy (is that a real word?) grace about him.

Kakihara, Ichi the Killer - Attitude, style and masochism. Nuff said. For those who haven't seen it, Ichi the Killer is a stupendous film. Well, assuming that you're not too sensitive and enjoy a bloodbath.

I know there are some villains who do creep me out or I absolute loath throughout a film/book and crave their demise - but it's the ones I admire most that sprang immediately to mind.

Boris Badenoff and Natasha Fatale along with their fearless leader Fearless Leader from Rocky and Bullwinkle - the classic stupid enemies.



No he doesn't, the vampire is his sister - he does however have a Dryad as a concubine, until you free her. He also creates a lot of clones of the elf woman he once loved, but they don't quite work out for him.

He might do, I didn't specify which vampire. A sweet talker like that and he didn't find some vampire lovin', there are plenty of them - I killed enough. Plus vampire chicks love goatees.

for pure quipping goodness i have to go with alan rickman for his sheriff of nottingham in robin hood prince of thieves.

Darth Vader is just hard!

Freddy Cruger from the first film is the first film to ever give me nightmares (ohhh the irony) and was truly scary, Wes craven before he sold out.

The Ice Queen from The lion the witch and the wardrobe, the kids bugged me and i thought Aslan was an overbearing presumptive git, so i wanted her to win.

for ultimate twist in the end coolness, the usual suspects' kaiser soze has to go down in history.

Tim curry's Darkness from Legend has to win ultimate evil laugh

For simulating cunni lingus to nuns, Clancy Browns' Kurgan from highlander is just great!

Max von Sydow has to get on the list for camping it up as Ming the Merciless.

oh and the wolf from the never ending story used to truly terrify me.

I could go on but I won't.

Mister Eff and PsychoDoughBoy - Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. Period. They are some of the most blatantly crazy things, they invoke suicide of an unkillable man, AND they're made of styrofoam. Word.

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My favourite villain? MF Doom. Metal Face, Viktor Vaughn, The Mad Supervillain. One of hip-hop's most inspired performers and producers. Gotta love 'im.



Used to ran a van from Peter Pan to red and tan, and keeped a human foot for his dead man's hand. This was when the mask was brand spankin' new before it got rusted from drinkin' all the brew. Pfff. Stankin' too, pew.

"It's my show. Mine. Space Ghost. It ain't Doom Coast To Coast. Sure, here are the keys to the show, why don't you drive? Yeah, America's cravin' some Doom, here ya go."

Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman - old school villians

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Josef from Mercenaries. He's more of an anti-hero, but he seems a whole lot like a villain.

Whoever the hell was capturing children from Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.

Let us not forget Garland from FF1. I mean, he was such an easy-to-beat little villain who barely put up a fight I thought, and then BAMB, all of a sudden he's the main villain. Who knew?
The Joker. You know, from various interpretations of Batman. You love the green-haired phyco, admit it.
Lord Vares from A song of Fire and Ice. He might not be a clear cut villain, per say, but he's so creepy and ingenius you've got to include him
Lord Voldamort, from Hairy Potter, just because he's realy a misunderstood teen orphen underneeth it all.
Cthulu. He's so evil, he doesn't even need to do anything to be a villain.
The Green Goblin, of Spiderman Fame. He just won't die!
The Oogey-Boogey, from the "Nightmare before Christmas".
Agent Smith from "the Matrix". He's so cold, with that dry sadistic serious-humor. He just wouldn't die, either!
Does anyone remember the name of that villain from Star Trek: Generations? He was quite the villain, too.

Sauron, the Lord of the Rings. Clever and evil bastard. They don't say in the movies, but he was the master of deception for a while. How can you argue with a quasi-immortal megalomaniac?
Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has the most hilarious attitude problem I've ever seen, and he becomes a very interesting character.

I've a few Lovecraft books, but I still can't figure out... what the hell does Cthulu do?!

"Why a spoon sir?"

"Because it'll hurt more, thats why!"

couldn't help myself!


My favourite must be El Guapo from The Three Amigos. He used to make me hide behind the sofa- him and his plethora of pinatas *shudder*

Thoes are the types of people I fall for, damn it all. The sociopath, intelligent, arrogant ones. Because I know there has to be a reason behind it. I love Lecter!

Sleep, mostly. His dreams turn people mad sometimes. Eventually he's going to wake up and eat the world.

He also devours web pages when he's peckish:

http://www.matazone.co.uk/notrealURL

Ah yes, my favourite type of characters for definite, men and women with nasty streaks so wide you could get a pair of eighteen wheelers down them at once

Numero uno bad mutha has got to be Iago, from Othello. He's the singularly most evilly smart character I've come across, and he's so charismatic it hurts. And he succeeds, even if he does get caught in the end. His revenge was complete, he was happy. The goodies couldn't do a damn thing to him after that

In addition to this master of scheming, I also have a lot of respect for the Joker, especially the animated series Mark Hamill-voiced version of him. He's the stereotypical evil psychopath down to a T, and he's the arch-villain to my favourite comicbook hero by far, and the character plays between him and Batman are some of the best and most classic examples of how to do a good hero/villain relationship in any sort of fiction. The joker kills those that Batman loves and guards, he brutally rapes the woman he loves and he destroys everything that Bruce Wayne is, and in doing so turns Wayne into Batman forever. For those of you who have read Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns", you should know just how far the joker pushes Batman, how much Wayne hates every single little bit of him, and to what lengths he goes eventually to make sure he can never again hurt anyone Wayne cares about. Brilliant.

Aside from these two sterling examples, I love the character of Magneto. Admittedly he's a classic "the end justifies the means" type of person, but you have to admire the way he gets things done. He's equally as charismatic as Iago is, roping many of the X-Men into trusting him and doing his bidding, but when it comes down to it he's there calling the shots on the front line, what with him being one of the most powerful mutants alive and all.

Last year for my birthday I was given a book entitled 500 comicbook villains, and to be honest I couldn't identify most of them, but it was truly a beautiful book for me to read. There were so many bad guys, bad gals, evildoer team-ups and plain sillyness that I still sometimes go back and read a new one now and then.

Javert, I havent finished the book, but that guy is a big jerk.
Anybody who told Rudy that he couldn't play football for Notre Dame
People who claim the sole cause of teenage violence is videogames.