Greatest Villian of All Time (You Decide)

[ajanders]

Ambiguous villain suggestion

Try GK Chesterton's Sunday, from The Man who was Thursday.
Best villain quote ever:

"Now listen to me. I like you. The consequence is that it would annoy me for just about two and a half minutes if I heard that you had died in torments. Well, if you ever tell the police or any human soul about us, I shall have that two and a half minutes of discomfort. On your discomfort I will not dwell.
Good day. Mind the step."

 

[ninthcouncil]

Re: Vance's villains

Do you ever get the feeling that people in general don't read enough Vance?

Regards,

Agback

Absolutely! And, as you say, KH is the superior Demon Prince, though I enjoyed "The Face" most of the five books (Go on, Gerson, PRESS THE BUTTON!). Often, JV seemed to lose interest in later books in a series (e.g. the Durdane books), but waiting 16 years between the third and fourth Demon Princes obviously refreshed him a bit

Lyonesse is full of excellently bad people; there's also Brother Umphred (yeuch), Aillas's usurper (whose name escapes me), and the wierd Melancthe, who pulls some pretty nasty tricks while remaining emotionally totally disengaged. Brilliant series - why hasn't everyone read it?

 

[Gez]

Yeah, Sunday is quite nice also... But that book is just weird ! The mechanism of a nightmare...

While we're about nightmare, I hope Serge Brussolo's books have been translated to English... His books are really brillants, and really nightmarish...

Notably, to everyone who like the Carnival of Shadows in the Scarred Lands, I could tell that it's nothing -- *NOTHING* compared to the horror that is the Iron Carnival in the book of the same name. A permanent war disguised as a permanent revel, because since war has been outlawed, people revel in it. No particular villain here -- the universe itself is the villain, insanely evil villain...

 

[Furn_Darkside]

While we're about nightmare, I hope Serge Brussolo's books have been translated to English... His books are really brillants, and really nightmarish...

I just did a quick search online for them, but I had no luck in finding them.

That is a shame- Iron Carnival sounds cool.

This isn't splatterpunk, though, is it?

FD

 

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Col. Decker (A-Team)

 

[kenjib]

Re: Re: Vance's villains

Another just came to mind. The Old Man of the Mountain, leader of the hashishim, would make an absolutely GREAT villain. Man, the intrigue you could build with this guy! IMO he makes Osama Bin Laden look like a pure amateur.

 

[greymarch]

Greatest D&D villain of all time: Orcus (Vecna and Raistlin come in a close second.)

Greatest Fictional Villain of all time: Darth Vader

Greatest Real-life Villain of all time: Adolf Hitler