Coolest, most vile, and stupidest villians of all time.

[Storm Raven]

Lando is a great villian. My gaming group is forcing me to watch Babylon 5 all the way through (I say forcing because Season 1, while important to the story, is utter garbage for the most part).

Season 1 becomes even more vital (and better) in retrospect as you move further on in the series.

 

[Terath Ninir]

Season 1 becomes even more vital (and better) in retrospect as you move further on in the series.

No. I can believe it becomes more vital, but NEVER will I believe it becomes better. I would dearly love to track down the guy who played the original commander and beat on him for a while.

 

[Rackhir]

No. I can believe it becomes more vital, but NEVER will I believe it becomes better. I would dearly love to track down the guy who played the original commander and beat on him for a while.

I used to refer to him as "Captain Whitebread", because he was so dull.

 

[Villano]

Coolest:

Villano, I'm going to have to disagree with you about Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan-Maria Ramirez.

LOL. I think Tuco's cool. He's just not the brightest guy.

EDIT: I forgot to include Connor from Angel as one of the stupidest. God, I hate him. I've never wanted to see a supporting character be killed so badly. And slowly and horribly, too.

 

[mojo1701]

Stupidest: Those trade federation guys from the Phantom Menace. Ugg, they were lame.

True, but they weren't supposed to be villains; they were weak-willed pawns that were pressured, and folded easily.

 

[Testament]

Would like to try adding a new category, before I visit the linked villain thread (Looking for that was on tonight's agenda, thanks!): Most sympathetic villain. The villain you just felt sorry for or wished it could have turned out differently.

My nomination would be Griffith from Berserk, I guess.

Ohhh yeah. Easily the most sympathetic villain I've ever seen.

 

[Felix]

Most Sympathetic Villan:

Creon from Sophicles' Antigone. That guy was so sympathetic, there's a fairly good argument that he's actually the hero of the play. Heh.

He's just not the brightest guy.

Oh, I thought you were saying "that character was terrible" when you said stupidest. Yeah, nobody ever accused Tuco of being too clever for his own good.

 

[Jhamin]

Stupidest: Lord Zedd from Early Seasons of Power Rangers. Ok, Ok, it was a kids show....but this guy spent many seasons trying to defeat the power rangers. Then he finally got a bunch of Giant Robots that were more powerful than the Ranger Robots. So what does he do? He kidnapps the Ranger's friends & blackmails the Power Rangers into piloting the more powerful Robots!

So what did they do? They used the uber-robots to rescue the hostages.

 

[Testament]

Most Sympathetic Villan:

Creon from Sophicles' Antigone. That guy was so sympathetic, there's a fairly good argument that he's actually the hero of the play. Heh.

And it became even more true when Jean Anouilh rewrote the play.

 

[Tangent Loki]

I'm not going to bother with the 'colest' villain because I have nothing to add there yet;

the vilest? The Count of Monte-Christo, should be added, he is the main charcter but he does not behave in a heroic fashion, it's all about vengeance. he does the worst things he can imagine, now, if he were a 'hero' and held heroic ideals then there are lines that he would not cross, but he does.

stupid; since we have mention Magic; the gathering books, everyone after yawgmoth qualifies as a 'stupid villain'. I also agree with the nominations for the brain dead villains who cannot follow the evil overlord list.