Greatest Villian of All Time (You Decide)

[Shiv]

Top villains, hey?

Literary:

Flagg (in all his various incarnations
Immacolata from Clive Barker's Weaveworld (I think that was her name)
Aaron the Moor
Moriarty

TV:
The Romulans

Film:
Keyser Soze
Bricktop (not so much a "villain", but a great bad guy)

In Roleplaying:
Azin, this bastard of a Blackguard who was the central recurring villain in a two-year campaign. He just...wouldn't...die.

In terms of GMs:
Probably the most evil is Jason. For those in the know, this is the same Jason that serves on the Living Greyhawk Circle of Six. He's in charge of all of the regions that are threatened by Iuz. So in a way, he IS Iuz. And I think that's gone to his head lately.

 

[the Jester]

Palpatine is the best villain ever. He doesn't just kill his foes; he tricks them into advancing his cause, subverts and corrupts them, uses them to kill each other off, and at the end the survivors swear themselves to him body and soul.

Everything that transpires does so according to his design.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

I think it comes down to a toss-up between Skeletor, Cobra Commander, and Venger (from the d&d cartoon.)


Gotta love the 80's.

 

[bozzutoman]

Greatest Villian of All Time:

Thulsa Doom (Conan The Barbarian)


Runners Up:

Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Hans Grüber (Die Hard)
Bridget Gregory/Wendy Kroy (The Last Seduction)
Dargent Peytraud (Serpent and the Rainbow)
Agent Smith (The Matrix)

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

I stand corrected...

BEHOLD THE FACE OF EVIL!! EEEEEEEEEVIL!!!!!

 

[Turlogh]

Real Life:
Hilter (and his goon squad)
Stalin
Nero

Comics:
Loki
Thanos
Dr. Doom
Joker

D&D:
Vecna
Soth
Strahd

Books:
the Ten who were taken

Movies:
Khan

 

[Hand of Evil]

Greatest Villian from fiction.

Alfred Bester from Babylon 5, if I could kill any fictional character it would be him, especially after what he did to Garibaldi

And none of it was his fualt. He was just following the beliefs instilled into him in his childhood.

Read the Psi Corp trilogy by J. Gregory Keyes to see just what a truely evil bastard he is.

Yes, forgot to put him down. The man was EVIL, and was sooo damn good at it.

 

[Michael Sorensen]

Frolo, from Disney's Hunchback (yes, I know it's Disney, but he is, without doubt, the most purely evil person Disney has ever put to film.)

Emporer Palpatine.

Khan (Star Trek II).

Mr. Glass from Unbreakable.

I want to add The Mountain that Rides, and a couple of other characters from A Song of Ice and Fire (Martin), but the really nasty ones don't get enough "screen tiime" to make my list.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

***SPOILERS***

A few spoilers.. you may want to skip if you have not seen Unbreakable.

Frolo, from Disney's Hunchback (yes, I know it's Disney, but he is, without doubt, the most purely evil person Disney has ever put to film.)

I have not seen Hunchback (I dislike Demi Moore), but I always thought Gaston was the best Disney villian.

Most disney villians are evil to the soul- and revel in doing evil. They also tend to be people hated and feared by the rest of the world.

Gaston was the opposite- he knew he was doing the right thing. (Ok, he revelled in a little evil doing, but more in a bully kind of way.) Plus, the town folk loved him as a hero.

Mr. Glass from Unbreakable.

You kind of blew a spoiler here.

But he is a very interesting villian- he knowingly did evil things to find completion.

I want to add The Mountain that Rides, and a couple of other characters from A Song of Ice and Fire (Martin), but the really nasty ones don't get enough "screen tiime" to make my list.

Oh, the Lannister twins are a much better example of SoIaF villians.

FD

 

[Al]

Fictional: The Emperor
Non-Fictional: Stalin

Why these two? Because unlike many listed here, they have no compunctions at all: the *only* thing they desired was power for themselves.

Some here, such as Hitler, have at least the excuse of being (to some degree) insane. These two are quite sane- and have a clerar idea of what they want, and how to achieve it. Others may have other reasons for why they perform their evil: Vader wanted the furtherment of the Empire, not *just* personal power. With these two, there's nothing else.