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


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Joshua Dyal said:
I assume that when people refer to the Joker as the vilest villain, they're not meaning the Joker as played by Cesar Romero on the old 1969 Batman TV show...
No, I mean The Joker from the animated series (particularly from Batman Beyond: Return of The Joker and World's Finest) and from the comics (particularly The Killing Joke, A Death in the Family, and The Dark Knight Returns). The Joker from the campy show doesn't count (although he did have a great laugh). While The Joker from Batman: The Movie was pretty interesting, he wasn't especially vile (although littering the city with cash just so he can get thousands of citizens all in one place to murder them is pretty sinister).
 

Coolest Villian Hmm. I want to say that Vin Diesel's character from Pitch Black (and only Pitch Black) was a cool villian, but then he goes and redeems himself by trying to be a good guy. I'm a comic book fan so maybe Mystique from X-Men for coolest.

Vilest I would have to vote for Gary Oldman in any number of performances he's given, but for example we'll lead with his character from The Professional who's a drug running/ using government agent who has Mathilda's faminly (including almost all the kids) whacked because the guy shorted him on his drugs)

Stupedist I would say there's way too many from any number of failed movies for me to really pick out one from any other. Of course, you could mean stupid haha in which cause there's still quite a few but Dr. Evil kinda tops my list in this area. Maybe Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China though. Does Monarch from Venture Brothers count? If so him for stupid/funniest.
 

Coolest: Vader, He gets my vote

Vilest: Niska, the old guy from Firefly. He seemed like and unpleasant person.

Stupidest: Everybody from WoT. They are all stupid. And thanks for dredging up the Sword of Truth. I hadn't thought of that garbage in years :P
 

Cool: I'm going with Vader, for the reasons listed above. I've got a tickle at the back of my brain that says I'm forgetting someone, though.

Vile: Guess I've got to go with John Doe (Se7en), too.

Wormwood said:
Stupid: The Architect, The Matrix Retarded. Actually, I' like to renominate him as the vilest, because he sucked so hard that he not only made me hate Reloaded---but he was able to reach through time and space and make me retroactively hate the original Matrix. Nice work, jackass.

Amen! I'm also in awe of how a sequel can suck so bad as to actually denigrate the original.
 

I'll throw in one more movie villian, though I don't necessarily rank it above previously mentioned ones like Darth Vader or Hannibal Lector.

Mola Ram, played by the Indian actor Amrish Puri, considered one of the best 'villain' actors ever.
 

Side note: Every time I see John Doe in this thread I think to the guy on the TV show of the same name. I'm like how can a guy who knows everything and helps people be a bad guy?
 

I think all the posts since I've last posted bring up good ones. Ones that especially caught my eye:

Best: KHAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vilest: John Doe from Se7en. I hadn't heard anything about the movie before I saw it; I just knew Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman were playing cops, and that *seemed* to be enough info. And I saw it on the first date with the lady who is now my wife. BEFORE we went out to eat. Big mistake! We went out and had hamburgers, but only after about 5 hours, when hunger finally won out. :)

Stupidest: Ahnold as "Mr. Freeze". Gah. And by stupid, I don't mean stupid funny. I mean stupid stupid. :)
 


Best: Darth Vader

Vilest: Gul Dukat from DS9. Every time you thought he might not be the vilest creature in the galaxy, he'd do something even worse...

Stupidest: "God" from ST V. Man that didn't work.
 

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