Name the most evil character you've ever read/watched! [possible spoilers]

[Chimera]

I mean he arranged for a main character's 11 year old brother to kill their entire family (on screen), then killed the brother(on screen), then reanimated him with just enough personality that you can't write him off as a zombie.

Just to mess with the heros.
Not defeat them, not to "win", just to mess with them.

And all this was just to kill time while he worked on his other plots.

How do you hurt a man who has lost everything?

You give him something back.

Broken

 

[Captain Howdy]

I agree with John Doe from "Seven" as being a good choice for an evil villain.

I would also add Frank Booth from the movie "Blue Velvet" (Dennis Hopper's character). He is really twisted and creepy. And that is coming from a person who finds almost nothing creepy. Between the fact that he kidnapped a woman's husband and son so that he could coerce her into letting him rape her; and the fact that he takes big hits of nitrous oxide before doing anything nasty/evil/creepy... He just really got under my skin.
(SPOILER) The scene where he discovers Jeffrey Beaumont in Dorothy's apartment and takes him for a "joy ride" made me really nervous... Probably the most nervous any movie ever made me.

Frank Booth = Grade A 100% Pure Villain

 

[Darthjaye]

The guys that run Fox network tv for all those times they've ruined perfectly good series for reality tv and bad comedies.

But really, how about the Vorlons from B5? They spend all this time acting like the hand of good and when the going gets rough they decide to incinerate every world that had anything to do with the Shadows? Cause they disagreed on how to have the younger races evolve? Wow talk about evil and misguided. At least with the Shadows you knew it was about the strongest survives.

Maybe anybody who had anything to do with the Batman And Robin movie?

 

[FCWesel]

MASTER BETTY (Kung Pow: Enter the Fist) is the most diabolical evil of any time or place.

He is just badong.

He plays that song about big butts while he kills you.

Your clothes are black!

 

[FCWesel]

Actually SCORPIOUS is a great villain, probably one of my fav's of all time.

I love Iago, so good call whoever mentioned him.

Hans Gruber from Die Hard is a fun villain.

And of course there is always the Joker and Harliquin.

 

[Pants]

Gregor Clegane, The Mountain that Rides, from A Song of Ice and Fire. Simply a ruthless, uncaring killing machine.

John Doe from Seven.

Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar from Neverwhere.

Hairlock from Gardens of the Moon. Probably the only character with more black than grey in the series (so far...).

 

[Pielorinho]

Okay, a couple of oldschool villains:

Danglars, from The Count of Monte Cristo, heads up a team of total bad guys in an utterly fiendish scheme.

Captain Quinlan from Touch of Evil leaves me feeling literally sick to my stomach, he's so awful.

Daniel

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

How about Mr. Burns?

Or Dr. Ziaus?

Or Lady McBeth?

Lex Luther every where besides Smallville

Or my sixth grade math teacher?

Or Azreal and Bartleby from "Dogma"?

Don’t forget in “Lord of the Flies,” those horrific villains…

Simon and Piggy!

After all, at the end of the story they have been punished and died while Jack Merridew and Roger have prospered, grown and survived.

And Bad Guys are punished and die while Good Guys prosper, grow and survive at the end of the story. Right?

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Angelus from Buffy is a good one if you ignore all the episodes with him in them, except for one story arc.

Spoiler:

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The arc which ends with him killing Ms. Calendar is truly horrifying. I actually held my breath as Giles walked up the stairs, rose petals strewn on the steps.

The villain from Rob Roy is also a really good one. That whole movie is just incredible.

Another one that nobody has mentioned so far, The Terrible Child, from Tad Williams' The Flower War. I don't think I've ever felt revulsion engendered by reading as powerful as when I read a particular one of his scenes.

 

[shilsen]

Angelus from Buffy is a good one if you ignore all the episodes with him in them, except for one story arc.

Spoiler:

Spoiler

The arc which ends with him killing Ms. Calendar is truly horrifying. I actually held my breath as Giles walked up the stairs, rose petals strewn on the steps.

I agree. That was a great scene.

The villain from Rob Roy is also a really good one. That whole movie is just incredible.

Archibald Cunningham, the who crowed atop the dunghill that is life