Villains that you like

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

MCU Loki and Comics Malekith are great villains.

Strahd von Zarovich from Ravenloft, a old D&D module which been revamped for each new edition and got his own books and the module spun into it's own D&D setting (which I'm not a fan of). He's basically all Vampire lords in one glorious package.

Vecna is also a fun D&D villain, his first mention was that he was a long dead lich and his hand and eye was the only remnants left as powerful magical artifacts. Then he came back as a demigod and through the editions ascended to a full god.

Ahh Strahd. I loved the novel I, Strahd. Though personally I've always been more partial to Lord Soth. Dragonlance's biggest villain by way of uber-fail at the ONE THING that could have prevented the Cataclysm!! Well that and he was a craptastic excuse for a human being from the get-go.

Now there are a couple of villains from Forgotten Realms I love, too- Artemis Entreri and Alton De'Vir. Both were great villains for different reasons- though Entreri eventually "reformed" in a way. I loved the Sellswords books with him and Jarlaxle Beanre.

Regarding Vecna, how do you think he would stack up against Larloch, or Halaster Blackcloak? Granted they never became gods but as liches go, Larloch was considered the most powerful of all, and Halaster is arguably the most insane mage who ever lived.

[Splinter the boss]

General Zod from MoS and his acolytes.

[Wesley]

More recently, Lt. Gerard from the 1960s tv series The Fugitive, though he’s not really a villain. He’s just obsessed with hunting down and recapturing Kimble.

[Leofan26]

My favorite villains

Danny Phantom - Vlad / Dark Danny

Kim Possible - Monkey Fist

Invader Zim - Zim???

Star Vs the Forces of evil - Eclipsa

Milo Murphey's Law - Pistacshio group ( See the specials before you judge LOL )

The Simpsons - Sideshow Bob

Ben 10 / UA - Vilgax

Code name kids next door - Father

I'm sure there's more, I like the genius type over brawn. The ones that picture the world as a game of chess and plays the hero often.

[shuriken]

Ok trying to put down ones that people haven't really mentioned.
Lucifer from Supernatural, as well as Azazel
Cell from DBZ (they're all so damn charismatic)
Freddy Kreuger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series
Rico from Judge Dredd (LAAAAAW)

[Utrommaniac]

Originally Posted by Leofan26

Star Vs the Forces of evil - Eclipsa

Eclipsa's barely a thing yet . Sure, she's shown up and cast some misgivings.

Toffee, however...(with his...incredibly gruesome death. On Disney.)

[blindturtle02]

So many to choose from. I think Darkseid is at the top of my list. Of course, there's also Krang/Kraang, and the various incarnations of Shredder I've seen over the years. I've recently gotten hooked on all things Dragon Ball and am enjoying that cast of villains very much. I've only seen Frieza in the Bardock movie since I'm trying to watch everything in order, but can't wait to see more of him later in Z. That guy's brutal. I'd be remiss if I failed to mention Stephen King's Randall Flagg, the Crimson King who commands him, and Pennywise. More later if Spectrum cooperates.

[nickzark]

Darth Vader

[Splinter the boss]

Gotou
He is deadly, brutal, crazy strong, fast, smart, and just doesn't care.

You tell me this face isn't intimidating.

[Cure]

It's not intimidating. He looks like he smelt a fart.

[Allio]

Alot of recent Super Sentai villains were great.

Enter from Go-busters
Zetto from Toqger

In recent power rangers series the only interesting villain was Heckle and even then he was quickly pushed away.

[Krutch]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Keyser Soze. Anyone who doesn't know who that is is missing out on the greatest criminal masterminds of all time.

Was that supposed to be a double entendre in regards to Spacey's Lex Luthor? If so, nicely done.

I like my villains wonderfully evil for the sake of being evil, so Emperor Palpatine and Carnage are my go-tos.

Oh, and Lord Zedd before he was neutered.

[Cure]

Originally Posted by Krutch

I like my villains wonderfully evil for the sake of being evil

Same here. Kind of tired of sympathetic villains.

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by Krutch

Oh, and Lord Zedd before he was neutered.

This made be laugh! So true and yet even went camped up by Rita he managed to do damage. Of all the villains on my own list he is the only one I don't revisit.

[Krutch]

Originally Posted by Cure

Same here. Kind of tired of sympathetic villains.

Yup! After 10 years of Smallville's Lex Luthor, who was also wonderful, I just had my fill. Let them get wicked!

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

This made be laugh! So true and yet even went camped up by Rita he managed to do damage. Of all the villains on my own list he is the only one I don't revisit.

As a kid, watching Zedd show up and just lay waste to the Rangers and their Zords was incredible. He's up there in best villain entrances ever as far as I'm concerned.

Then the stupid love potion happened...

[PApagreg]

Originally Posted by Splinter the boss

Gotou
He is deadly, brutal, crazy strong, fast, smart, and just doesn't care.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20160321120354
You tell me this face isn't intimidating.

As someone who watched the series and knows everything about that character even I think that picture is super derpy

My favorite type of villains are the ones who can do the most irredeemable things but still care/respect their comrades and families example includes Chrollo from Hunter X Hunter, Doflamingo from One Piece and Doctor Doom depending on the writer.

I also like villains who have sort of a "Blue and Orange" morality to them, they have their own moral code and lines they won't cross but are pretty much alien to both the characters and the viewer, examples include Yoshikage Kira, Kimblee and a lesser extent Beerus.



I also like the ones who I can see having a decent conversation with or having a nice lunch with.

[Utrommaniac]

I'm actually a little amazed that I know the "We were talking about One Piece" scene...not the show itself, but I've seen the clip.

[PApagreg]

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

I'm actually a little amazed that I know the "We were talking about One Piece" scene...not the show itself, but I've seen the clip.

Because its a weird ass scene in soooo many ways, you don't see a lot of anime referencing other anime and the dude killed the girls whole family and only paused for a moment just to talk about One Piece

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by Krutch

Yup! After 10 years of Smallville's Lex Luthor, who was also wonderful, I just had my fill. Let them get wicked!
As a kid, watching Zedd show up and just lay waste to the Rangers and their Zords was incredible. He's up there in best villain entrances ever as far as I'm concerned.

Then the stupid love potion happened...

Batman's Rogues Gallery is loaded wirh sympathetic villains and Spider-Man's main three adversaries all have the sympathetic qualities as well, Osborn controlled by the goblin formula against his will, Octavius had brain damage, and Eddie is contrilled byba parasite. Not to mention Darth Vader himself. However, we do need more generic evil who want to rule just because. Palpatine and Lord Zedd are both examples of this you are right. Brainiac is another evil for the sake of evil, but a different type unlike them or Darkseid he wants to destroy everything. Why? Thst is what hecwas,programmed to do. This makes his pairring with Lord Zedd all the more interesting in the crossover comic. Something I have been curious about.

Lord Zedd erased the green powers, destroyed two sets of powers, killed off his successor villain, nearly killed Kimberly, and like Shredder could have done even more had censors not got in the way. In Zedd's case it was children's mothers, his greatest enemy. I was intimated by him at age 7, but I liked the fact he did. This captures Lord Zedd in all his evil glory.

[Krutch]

I also like villains that aren't evil by any means. Y'know, like the East Compton Clovers. They're practically the hero of the story. Go Clovers.