The Great Villain Showdown [1st Round Closed]

96. Evil Willow

Appearance: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

One of the best character developments in TV history, since the fourth season we had seen Willow slowly become more dependant on magic. In Season Six it all broke loose after her girlfriend was killed. Previously we had seen glimmers of the evil willow in previous episodes as a vampire. We knew that ultimate power ultimately corrupts.

In Season six, Evil Willow filleted the killer and was one fireball away from killing the slayer. She knew she was the true power behind Buffy. No other power could stop her only the most unlikely person was able to stop her from destroying the world.

97. Diana
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Single, sexy, overly-ambitious, lizard-alien chick into eating large rodents, mind control, and red jumpsuits seeks planet full of water and tasty humans to bring home for dinner.

98. Ultron



The baddest villian for the biggest superhero team. The Avengers always know that they've been in a battle after a meeting with Ultron.
Created by Avenger Henry Pym (aka Ant-Man1, Giant-Man1, Yellowjacket) based on his own brain patterns, Ultron developed an irrational hatred of his "father" and his "mother" the Wasp.
Ultron is also responsible for using Wonder Man's brain patterns to make the Vision, who has since gone on to become a mainstay on the Avengers. And for using the Wasp to create the android Jocasta, intended as a mate, but who also took on a heroic personality and became an Avenger.
With so many close connections to the Avengers, Ultron upgrades himself and returns often to get revenge on those he hates.
His genius intelligence and adamantium body make him a for worthy of the entire team of Earth's mightiest heroes.

99. Cigarette Smoking Man



The Cigarette Smoking Man (sometimes called CSM, Cancerman, or, by some fans, That Black-Lunged S.O.B.) is a fictional character played by William B. Davis on the 1990s television series The X-Files. The Cigarette Smoking Man oversaw Scully's debriefing and disposed of her evidence in the show's pilot episode, and eventually developed into the series' primary antagonist. The character is known initially only by this nickname because he is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes, and is usually surrounded by clouds of smoke.
On the surface, it may seem that CSM merely tries to antagonize Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, but there is much more to him. He is involved in the Syndicate, a shadow organization within the United States government that exists to hide from the public the fact that aliens are visiting Earth. The CSM is the one who knows the truth, and Mulder is the one trying to find it out. However, CSM's reasons are much more complex than simply the desire to hide the truth. Therefore, the character can not be described as purely 'good' or 'bad'.
According to his fictionalized memoirs, depicted in the episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", he assassinated both John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. He also fixed the Super Bowl to ensure that the Buffalo Bills would never win a championship.

100. Destro - GI Joe



The true mastermind behind all of Cobra's most evil plans. He let the buffoon Cobra Commander think he was in charge while he schemed of ways to take over the world and kill many Joes in the process.

101. Bullseye - Daredevil comics



One of the coolest comic villains, he can take anything, anything, and make it into a lethal weapon with one quick flick of the wrist because he never misses.

102. Iago.
Othello, Act 1, Scene 3.
Thus do I ever make my fool my purse:
For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane,
If I would time expend with such a snipe.
But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor:
And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets
He has done my office: I know not if't be true;
But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,
Will do as if for surety. He holds me well;
The better shall my purpose work on him.
Cassio's a proper man: let me see now:
To get his place and to plume up my will
In double knavery--How, how? Let's see:--
After some time, to abuse Othello's ear
That he is too familiar with his wife.
He hath a person and a smooth dispose
To be suspected, framed to make women false.
The Moor is of a free and open nature,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
And will as tenderly be led by the nose
As asses are.
I have't. It is engender'd. Hell and night
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.

103. Mr. Edward Hyde



Dr. Jekyll acting on the theory that it was possible to polarize and separate these two aspects created a potion that could change a man into an embodiment of his evil side, thereby also making pure his good side. After using the potion on himself, Jekyll became physically smaller as his evil nature became predominant; this persona was called Edward Hyde. After a few trial runs as Hyde, Jekyll soon began to undergo this change regularly in order to indulge in all the forbidden antisocial pleasures that he would never commit as Jekyll. However, the Hyde aspect himself began to grow stronger and beyond Jekyll's ability to control it with a counter-agent. After Hyde had committed murder, Jekyll decided to stop taking the potion, but eventually the addiction to the Hyde form proved too strong to resist, and he took the potion again.

Jekyll eventually began to change into Hyde without the potion, and the potion's counter-agent began to lose its effectiveness until Jekyll could only remain in his original form while the potion was in his system. Eventually Jekyll ran out of the unique components to the potion, and in particular a "salt" of which he had initially acquired quite a large quantity. New supplies of this salt did not produce an effective potion, which he initially attributed to an impurity in the new supplies, but finally concluded that it was the initial order that was impure, and that an "unknown impurity" in it was vital to its effectiveness. As he had no way of acquiring any more of this impure salt, he was doomed to remain as Hyde permanently.

104. Dorian Gray



"...I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June.... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that--for that--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"

"When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was."

105. Death - "Nothing in the Dark" - Twilight Zone, Season 3



Personally, "Nothing in the Dark" is my favorite Twilight Zone episode of all time. Death was played by a young Robert Redford.

A lonely and paranoid old woman refuses to leave the confines of the condemned building she occupies for fear that "Mr. Death" is waiting for her outside the door.

Gladys Cooper gives a compelling lead performance as Wanda Dunn, a woman who has shut herself off from the world almost completely. Yet there's still some memory of the life she lived before she spotted "Mr. Death", a being she believes to be a real living entity, still some compassion for the injured policeman Harold Belden (Robert Redford) whom she tries to nurse back to health inside her home after he's been shot right outside of her door, still some desire for company as she takes the chance to take him in even though she fears at first he might indeed be "Mr. Death" in disguise. She talks to him about her life and how her struggle for survival, to hide away from "Mr. Death", has lead her away from the world of light she once so greatly loved and enjoyed, lead her away from the outside world to one where she's constantly inside in darkness, ever alert in fear her enemy should spot a weakness in her defense, aware her life is not one many would want to have but yet she still clings on to life, refusing to give in to death.

In the end, Death admits to being who is and leads her away. Death is played as a sauve character who ends up tricking an old woman to get her to die.