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

[Particle_Man]

Coolest: Vader is up there, so is the Joker, and I will also add Bester from B-5.

I can't think of others for the others.

 

[Tauric]

Coolest: Lionel Luther, Gul Dukat, Scorpius, Keyzer Soze. All suave and subtle. You never know where you truly stand with these guys.

Vilest: Pretty much the same guys.

Stupidest (as in I want to slap the actor): The Batman villians post-Keaton, especially Two-face.

 

[fett527]

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

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

I was wondering if anyone actually clicked on the link.

 

[Darthjaye]

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.

Yeah, what was it with the odd numbered Star Trek movies? Why did they all suck worse than the even numbered ones? I realized that trend a few years ago and it keeps seeming to be so.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Coolest: Vader, though General Grievous is defeintely up there(and that's only from reading the pre-Episode III novel)

Vilest: Joker. But then again, he's cool, too.

Stupidest: Another vote for God in Star Trek V.

 

[Testament]

Coolest: Hannibal Lecter. Such a likeable, sophisticated and intelligent monster. Anthiny Hopkins was on camera for a mere 20 minutes in Silence. Feels like a lot more, doesn't it?

Honourable mention to Griffith from the anime series Beserk. If you haven't seen it, then do so; the White Hawk has such incredible charisma, such noble dreams and ideas. Watching these dreams turn to a cold lust for power and his nobility turn to callousness is soooo hypnotic.

Vilest: The Joker. No matter how many times I read "Dark Knight Returns", "The Killing Joke", "Hush", "A Death In The Family" or "No Man's Land", he always makes my skin crawl, something almost no other villain can do. A sociopath taken to sickening extremes, mass murder and torture are just jokes to him. Honestly, can anyone ever forget what he's done to the Gordons?

Honourable mentions to John Doe from Se7en and Dino Velvet from 8MM (that film left me physically ill). Velvet is even more horrific, since he has no delusions to hide behind, he does it because he gets rich, and gets his rocks off at the same time.

Stupidest: Any Joel Schumacer Bat-Villain. I hate him like poison for what he did to my favourite comic franchise.

 

[Endur]

Coolest: I agree with the list up above. I might toss up someone from Game of Thrones, but I can't figure out who's a villain and who's not in that series ... ok Petyr is a villain.

Vilest: ditto.

Stupidest: What the Batman movies did to Bane was sad. errr, how about the Stormtroopers? I mean these guys have to know the rebels are going to blast them to smithereens. And if they don't get blasted, they'll likely be killed by Vader & co.

 

[Wormwood]

Stupidest: Any Joel Schumacer Bat-Villain. I hate him like poison for what he did to my favourite comic franchise.

Joel [size=-1]Schumacher hurt Batman more than any villain could. Proving that incompetence trumps evil.
[/size]

 

[Klaus]

New Stupidest Villain: Joel Schumacher!

 

[Aesmael]

Coolest: Vader, He gets my vote

I loved Niska! He reminds me of my course coordinator.

And who is this Keysor Soze I hear so much about? (I.e. from what, don't want any further description of what he does/did)

Coolest: Roose Bolton is just about my favourite villain ever. Honourable mention to the usual suspects; Darth Vader, Khan, Magneto.

Vilest: The only one springing to mind is actually a character in a sketch show, Andy of Little Britain. Ask later if you want reasons in spoiler tags, my first attempt just got et.

Stupidest: Any who fail to kill or otherwise neutralise their enemies without a very good reason. Any who act in a way counterproductive to their own interests or otherwise rely on authority when it would be ludicrous to expect obedience - Randyll Tarly & Cersei Lannister, for example.

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.

Just realised that many of my nominations are from books (the same books, even). Oh well, it was hard enough to come up with some of those. I won't change it unless inspiration strikes.