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<blockquote data-quote="Darth Shoju" data-source="post: 1791559" data-attributes="member: 11397">Since I'm such a comics nut, I'll get my top three comics villains out of the way up front. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 1. Dr. Doom&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Thanos or Darkseid&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Magneto or Rhas-al-gul&nbsp;&nbsp; (I tried to keep them in the realm of super villain, otherwise I'd have put the Joker on there)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; And here's my villains from other media (not necessarily super villains per se): &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 1) Bill from Kill Bill; I just love how civil he is, how Tarantino reminds us he is both a human being with real emotions and a cold-blooded killer. His final confrontation with The Bride/Beatrix was amazing despite featuring very little action. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2) Bayushi Shoju from the CCG/RPG Legend of the Five Rings; Half of my namesake. His clan (the Scorpion) was tasked with protecting the empire using the means the more &quot;honorable&quot; clans shunned. In the end, he felt the best way to protect the empire was to overthrow the emporer, starting a coup that was ultimately unsuccessful and took his clan from the brink of absolute power to the depths of near total destruction and exile. He's the paragon villain of combining a drive to do his duty mixed up with the philosophy of &quot;the ends justify the means&quot;. He also managed to be one of the best swordsment/duelists in the empire, despite being born with a palsied arm. And his wife was hot. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; &nbsp; 3) Darth Vader; the other half of my namesake. The ultimate redeemable villain, with intimate ties to the hero. Starts as a slave ruled by his emotions and transitions to a powerful Jedi, then to a cold, distant, iron-fisted tyrant with the resources of an empire, and finally dies as nothing more than a father. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Honorable mentions:&nbsp;&nbsp; M. Bison (from the Street Fighter games), Grand Admiral Thrawn, Lex Luthor, Kingpin, Mephisto, the Joker, Gemma (Ninja Scroll), Agent Smith, Loki, Professor Moriarty and Wal-Mart ( <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ).&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Considerations as &quot;are they heroes or villains?&quot;:&nbsp;&nbsp; William Munny from Unforgiven&nbsp;&nbsp; Terry Tsurugi (Sonny Chiba) from The Street Fighter.&nbsp; The Punisher&nbsp; The Pilgrim from Just A Pilgrim</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darth Shoju, post: 1791559, member: 11397"] Since I'm such a comics nut, I'll get my top three comics villains out of the way up front. ;) 1. Dr. Doom 2. Thanos or Darkseid 3. Magneto or Rhas-al-gul (I tried to keep them in the realm of [i]super[/i] villain, otherwise I'd have put the Joker on there) And here's my villains from other media (not necessarily super villains per se): 1) [b]Bill [/b]from [i]Kill Bill; [/i]I just love how civil he is, how Tarantino reminds us he is both a human being with real emotions and a cold-blooded killer. His final confrontation with The Bride/Beatrix was amazing despite featuring very little action. 2) [b]Bayushi Shoju[/b] from the CCG/RPG [i]Legend of the Five Rings[/i]; Half of my namesake. His clan (the Scorpion) was tasked with protecting the empire using the means the more "honorable" clans shunned. In the end, he felt the best way to protect the empire was to overthrow the emporer, starting a coup that was ultimately unsuccessful and took his clan from the brink of absolute power to the depths of near total destruction and exile. He's the paragon villain of combining a drive to do his duty mixed up with the philosophy of "the ends justify the means". He also managed to be one of the best swordsment/duelists in the empire, despite being born with a palsied arm. And his wife was hot. ;) 3) [b]Darth Vader[/b]; the other half of my namesake. The ultimate redeemable villain, with intimate ties to the hero. Starts as a slave ruled by his emotions and transitions to a powerful Jedi, then to a cold, distant, iron-fisted tyrant with the resources of an empire, and finally dies as nothing more than a father. Honorable mentions: M. Bison (from the [i]Street Fighter[/i] games), Grand Admiral Thrawn, Lex Luthor, Kingpin, Mephisto, the Joker, Gemma ([i]Ninja Scroll[/i]), Agent Smith, Loki, Professor Moriarty and Wal-Mart ( :p ). Considerations as "are they heroes or villains?": William Munny from [i]Unforgiven[/i] Terry Tsurugi (Sonny Chiba) from [i]The Street Fighter[/i]. The Punisher The Pilgrim from [i]Just A Pilgrim[/i] [/QUOTE]

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