Favorite Villain?
 

Hmm. I've got a few actually. Like Scar from the Lion King, Thrax from Osmosis Jones, (if he counts) Professor Snape from Harry Potter (even if Harry Potter wasn't my favorite series to watch), Valek from John Carpenter's Vampires... and that's all I can think of so far.

My favorite villain is Meta Knight. But that's from video games...

Favorite movie villain is... Predator.

Except for the part where adults are arguing with children, I'm finding this pretty amusing.

And to answer MM's question, I absolutely love all of the villains from the Dark Knight Trilogy: R'as al Ghul, Scarecrow, Joker, Harvey Dent, Bane, Talia, Selina Kyle... General Zod was pretty awesome, too.

Oh, and Doctor Harrison Wells and Slade Wilson. And Malcolm Merlyn.

Does anybody else notice a pattern? :trazz:

I actually had this conversation with someone yesterday.

1. The Joker
2. Lex Luthor
3. Deathstroke
4. Bane
5. Darkseid

favorite Villain (or at least the one that comes to mind)

Enter from Go-busters

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also that sexy suit

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TV: All TV Shredders, BTAS Joker, Spec. Spiderman Venom

Film: TDK Joker, Loki, Winter Soldier, Magneto, 1990 Shredder, Doc Ock

I'd say Darkseid from the DCAU is one of my top favorite villains.

One of my favorite moments was this scene from Superman TAS:

Well, that's been an interesting couple of pages.....

My favorite TV villains- Spider-Man TAS Carnage, Kingpin, and Hobgoblin, X-Men Hellfire Club (all of em!), Batman TAS Joker and Two-Face, and Spike and Angelus from Buffy TVS. Also the Borg Queen from ST TNG and Voyager, and Lore (Data's "evil twin") in ST TNG.

Movies- Loki from Avengers/Thor, General Zod from Superman 2(um, the Chris Reeve movies, not the new version), Emperor Palpatine (seriously- the guy is so manipulative and cruel it's unreal), Green Goblin and Doc Ock from the first Spidey trilogy, and Freddy from the Nightmare on Elm Street series.

I can't really think of a favorite, but I do have a preference. I like villains who are straight up evil and messed up. I'm not too fond of the trend of making villains sympathetic lately.

^^ Agreed. I like it when they're portrayed as being irreversibly insane and corrupt, to the point that it's impossible to feel pity/sympathy for them.

My favorite villains are The Joker (Heath Ledger's), and Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) in Gladiator.

Dolores Umbridge, she is straight up scary and a very real villain.

I dunno, Krang, I guess?

Do Gremlins count as villains? Love those motherf*ckers.

Of course, man! They terrorize people! They're terrorists. Especially Stripe.

Word! Then they get my vote, no question. Stripe & Spike are real bastards.

LOL, forget those two- the Brain Gremlin was the worst one of the bunch. And the Fem-gremlin was straight up scary.....

Freddy Krueger, Joker, T-1000, Darth Maul, and Agent Smith.

Catherine Tramell from Basic Instinct
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Bane from TDKR
Khan
T-1000
Judge Doom
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Norman Bates
Ra's al Ghul (DCAU)
Lex Luthor (Donnerverse)
Seth Brundle
Ch'rell
The Trickster (Mark Hamill)
The Xenomorph
Jerry Dandridge
Commander Kruge
Cruella de Vil
Inque from Batman Beyond

So, uh, a lot.

Cruella! Good one. I prefer Ursula, though. And Scar from Lion King. And Clayton, Gaston, Maleficent, and The Evil Queen from Snow White. Disney villains are so awesome!

Dr. Evil (from Austin Powers)

I don't like just a single type of villains. I like the funny ones such as Shredder, Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady from the original TMNT cartoon; but I also like cunning and intelligent ones like Bishop from the 2k3 series and Crocodile from One Piece.

...and I honestly can't think of many more. I mean I do like The Joker and Ganondorf but I'm not exactly crazy about them. The Terminator was cool too, I guess.

Usually, when it comes to fiction, I prefer the good guys. I also like anti-heroes , but used to be more into them as a teenager when I went through a phase where I was tired of "good vs. evil" stories. Nowadays I'm past that and can enjoy such stories again. Anyone else went through a similar phase?

Reading this made me happy, as I am the biggest DC geek there is.

As this DC geek, almost all of my favorite villains come from there, actually batman, as im even more of a geek from that, and this has been a well thought out constructed list that I back up for my personal preference

1. The joker
2. Scarecrow
3. The riddler
4. Selim Bradley/Pride (only non DC one)
5. Harley Quinn

Yes--for instance, I always liked Batman more than Superman, as I thought Superman's "boy scout" attitude made him boring. Characters like Batman, Punisher, or Spawn are willing to do whatever it takes to meet their goals. As I get older, I have gained a greater appreciation for the moral fortitude Superman has to use that kind of power in the service of others rather than taking over the world.

I don't like Superman. I find him generic and boring. Has nothing to do with his alignment, otherwise I'd dislike Batman as well. After all he doesn't kill his enemies even though they always end up escaping and killing people. And I find Spider-Man a worse offender of the "boy scout" attitude than Superman. Now that's a superhero whose attitude screams "goody two-shoes".

To answer the thread question... I generally find villains more interesting if they're somewhat sympathetic or I can at least understand where they're coming from. Visual impact and personality go a long way too, but a lot of the time the "cooler" villains can be pretty shallow as characters. There's definitely a place for villains who are "just evil", but I don't often find them as interesting.

Magneto's probably the "best" villain as far as that goes - he's an extremist, he's guilty of many unforgivable crimes... but you can very easily understand why he thinks the way he does, and at times it's hard to argue with his philosophy.

But my #1 choice is probably Lex Luthor. And there've been many versions, but I prefer the Luthor who really is a self-made man who worked his way up from nothing. He's a psychopathic narcissist and a total hypocrite, but you can also respect him to a certain degree... and can even understand his obsession with the idea of Superman, with all his god-like powers, holding people back from living up to their full potential. He's wrong, but there's a shred of a point there. At the same time, Lex himself could help humanity in so many ways, but he never will, out of sheer spite.



I think this only really works when Lex is a self-made man who came from poverty, though. Their whole rivalry has a very different feel when he's a rich kid who inherited his station in life. That's not a bad angle for a villain necessarily, and considering how the middle class is evaporating in today's economy I definitely see the appeal, but a Lex who clawed his way up from the gutter seeing Superman as someone born into privilege (as he didn't earn his powers) gives his anger and spite toward him a lot more weight.

Oh, definitely this. She might have been the most hate-worthy Harry Potter villain, because people just like her absolutely exist and make the world a worse place every day. (And she was somewhat based on Margaret Thatcher, right?)

Thanks, Bry.
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For Magneto, his costume is RED. That's true villainy right there.
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I completely forgot about Magneto! Probably because he's not DC. :tlol:

For me, it's a tie between Ganondorf and Amon, since both are menacing and just all-around great and interesting villains.

Amon is good too.

But to me, the greatest villain will always be Zaheer: the Airbending anarchist/terrorist. Such a multi-faceted character and this scene cemented his place as my favourite: