Ankh-Morpork Guard
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Yeah but...you can't have a Great Villain Showdown without the best, either.reveal said:
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The Great Villain Showdown [1st Round Closed]
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Queen_Dopplepopolis
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Dark Jezter
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31. Thulsa Doom
Well, looks like Ankh-Morpork Guard already nominated Darth Vader, who IMO is the greatest movie villain of all time so I'm gonna have to go with another favorite of mine.
This villian, like Darth Vader, was also brought to life by the talent of James Earl Jones
Name: Thulsa Doom
Movie: Conan the Barbarian
Memorable Quotes: "Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they will learn why they fear the night."
Memorable acts of Villainy: Decapitating Conan's mom while he stood in her protective embrace, ordering one of his followers to commit suicide simply to illustrate a point.
Bio: Thulsa Doom is the dark wizard who leads the Children of Doom, a cult that worships the evil Stygian serpent god known as Set. Using honeyed words, empty promises, and his own powers of mesmirization, he lures the impressionable and unsuspecting into his service. It is said that Thulsa Doom is over a thousand years old, and has the power to summon demons. His cult practices such monstrosities as human sacrifice and cannibalism within their underground temple, and his followers' only purpose is to die in his service.
Cold and calculating, Thulsa Doom appears to given up his last shred of humanity a long time ago. He rarely shows emotion, and slaughtered an entire clan of Cimmerians just to obtain the fine steel weapons that Conan's people were skilled at making.
Well, looks like Ankh-Morpork Guard already nominated Darth Vader, who IMO is the greatest movie villain of all time so I'm gonna have to go with another favorite of mine.
This villian, like Darth Vader, was also brought to life by the talent of James Earl Jones
Name: Thulsa Doom
Movie: Conan the Barbarian
Memorable Quotes: "Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they will learn why they fear the night."
Memorable acts of Villainy: Decapitating Conan's mom while he stood in her protective embrace, ordering one of his followers to commit suicide simply to illustrate a point.
Bio: Thulsa Doom is the dark wizard who leads the Children of Doom, a cult that worships the evil Stygian serpent god known as Set. Using honeyed words, empty promises, and his own powers of mesmirization, he lures the impressionable and unsuspecting into his service. It is said that Thulsa Doom is over a thousand years old, and has the power to summon demons. His cult practices such monstrosities as human sacrifice and cannibalism within their underground temple, and his followers' only purpose is to die in his service.
Cold and calculating, Thulsa Doom appears to given up his last shred of humanity a long time ago. He rarely shows emotion, and slaughtered an entire clan of Cimmerians just to obtain the fine steel weapons that Conan's people were skilled at making.
Gomez
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Here is someone who can give Darth Vader a run for his money.
33. Hannibal Lector
Doctor Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter is a fictional character appearing in four novels by author Thomas Harris and their film adaptations. He is arguably the most fearsome fictional serial killer ever depicted.
In Harris's novels and their film adaptations, Lecter is an extremely brilliant, cultured psychiatrist and serial killer, who practices cannibalism upon his victims. Lecter's cannibalism is thought to be a kind of revenge fantasy borne from watching his sister be cannibalized. He eats his victims because they represent to him the kind of low, bestial individuals who would kill and eat a small child; he's not only getting back at them, but showing them he's better than they are by consuming them with (no pun intended) exquisite taste, with gourmet recipes and fine wine. He feels his victims—a child molester, an incompetent musician, a census taker rude enough to try to "quantify" him—are as inferior as the deserters who took his sister away from him, and so deserve to die.
33. Hannibal Lector
Doctor Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter is a fictional character appearing in four novels by author Thomas Harris and their film adaptations. He is arguably the most fearsome fictional serial killer ever depicted.
In Harris's novels and their film adaptations, Lecter is an extremely brilliant, cultured psychiatrist and serial killer, who practices cannibalism upon his victims. Lecter's cannibalism is thought to be a kind of revenge fantasy borne from watching his sister be cannibalized. He eats his victims because they represent to him the kind of low, bestial individuals who would kill and eat a small child; he's not only getting back at them, but showing them he's better than they are by consuming them with (no pun intended) exquisite taste, with gourmet recipes and fine wine. He feels his victims—a child molester, an incompetent musician, a census taker rude enough to try to "quantify" him—are as inferior as the deserters who took his sister away from him, and so deserve to die.
Ankh-Morpork Guard said:Yeah but...you can't have a Great Villain Showdown without the best, either.
Eh. I nominated Palpatine up-thread, and the Emperor beats the Emperor's toady every time (well, except for the last one, but Vader was hardly acting as a villian then).
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John Crichton
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Palpatine *may* beat Vader in the end (which ain't the truth as it's much closer than master/toady) but it doesn't mean that Vader isn't among The Best Villains of All Time.drothgery said:
Undead Pete
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34. The Borg Queen
Am I the only one who had inappropriate thoughts about her? Just that fact made her truly wrong.....corrupting adolescent geek minds everywhere.
Am I the only one who had inappropriate thoughts about her? Just that fact made her truly wrong.....corrupting adolescent geek minds everywhere.
Undead Pete
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35. The Kurgan
The epitome of badass bloodthirsty barbarism, the Kurgan made Highlander the classic that it is now regarded.
The epitome of badass bloodthirsty barbarism, the Kurgan made Highlander the classic that it is now regarded.
![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
Particle_Man
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36. Alfred Bester from Babylon 5 (TV Show). A major figure in Psi-Corps, Bester considered any non-telepath to be automatically inferior. He was constantly scheming to aid Psi-Corps, which often resulted in the brainwashing and deaths of those who were non-telepaths. Bester was clearly a supporter of tyranny on Earth. An intelligent and ruthless opponent, he almost always had a back-up plan.
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