Dammit! I had my answers all written up when the damned computer at work threw a fit! Oh, well, I can wait for round 2 to weigh in personally, I guess. Have to make a couple comments, though.
Melkor said:
We need more votes or epic evil Morgoth will lose to this annoying coyote!
I remember watching this cartoon as a child, I hated it. It was so boring, at last Tom and Jerry had some plot.
Wile E. is more memorable. Morgoth is overshadowed in presence by his own apprentice (who is himself less memorable than most of his lieutenants).
Oh, and I am the only one to vote Dominator and Dark One against Dr Doom and Joker. Nobody else prefer epic fantasy sagas to comics? I can't believe it. At last Voldemort is ahead of Raistlin, both interesting characters but only one is true villain.
Doom and the Joker are, again, memorable. They also have a physical presence. They are BOTH physically and psychologically dangerous. They can and do act through proxies, but are actually more dangerous when they take the fight to you themselves. The Dark One is a plot device. The Forsaken are the actual villains of the piece (and fairly unintelligent ones at that). Besides which, the Dark One is a poor cousin to Sauron. Doom and the Joker are also SMART. Doom especially. Smart villains usually win over dumb ones. They control the situation. They exploit your physical and psychological weaknesses. They sometimes even make you defeat yourself. If it wasn't for their one weakness (monologue), they would be unstoppable. And the Joker is additionally willing to do
anything.
What with my own bias for the memorability factor, I'm not surprised Arthas took a beating from the Witch of the West, just disappointed. As Draken said, Arthas made you
root against yourself. I actually had to stop playing the game at two points, because I couldn't stomach what I had just done. Besides, the deepest pit in Hell is reserved for Betrayers, not the psychological constructs of young women who just had severe tornado-induced head trauma.
