The most gratuitous "I am evil" scenes...

[d10]

Any scene in "The Dark Elf Trilogy" involving any one other than Drizzt or the deep gnomes. I'm reading right now and am begining to skip the bits in the Drow city just because all they do is show you how evil the Drow are.It get real monotonous real fast!!!

 

[VirgilCaine]

In the book The Stone and The Maiden (which everyone should avoid) the evil princess who stole the throne from her nice sister would regularly have kinky sex while bathing in animal blood. Just because that's what evil sister's do.

Ah, but who [what?] does she have sex with in the animal blood? THis has a further impact on the evilness of the demonstration.

Does Grand Moff Tarkin's decision to wipe out Alderaan count? It's a well-reasoned decision, of course ("Dantooine is too remote to serve as an effective demonstration"), but it's also frightfully cruel.

Not to mention that fact that Alderaan is officially a weapons-free planet. But then, it's really nothing worse than what governments have been doing all through the 20th century.

(ie, Vader didn't take a lightsaber to a puppy in order to use the puppy's blood to distill an illegal street drug that he would then sell to orphans in exchange for kitten carcasses, which I had a villain in one of my Action Movie d20 Modern games do in order to tell the players that he was evil).

Did the D20 Modern character really use a lightsaber...?

 

[NiTessine]

In He-Man: Masters of the Universe, Skeletor disintegrating a subordinate who failed. I think it was Saurod. I had that guy as an action figure. When you rolled this wheel on his back, sparks shot out of his mouth. I remember being real miffed about him dying. Man, it's been a long time since I saw that film. Even longer since I saw any of my action figures...

 

[Caliban]

In the recent DareDevil movie, pretty much every scene with Bullseye.
-- Killing the bar patron with paperclips after he insulted him.
-- Killing the old lady on the plane with a peanut because she wouldn't stop talking.
--Killing the Kingpin's guard just because he could.

I'm sure there's more that I'm forgetting.

 

[PoppaGunch]

Recently I was watching the show Firefly on DVD (found out it existed after the thing was canceled, damn you FOX). Anywho. One episode in particular shocked me with some brutality. The captain and the pilot were captured by a guy they didn't finish a job for. And the guy tortured the snot out of the both of them. The pilots wife took a collection of money and went to buy them back. The bad guy would only let her take one and she had to pick. THe messed up part was after she chose her husband, the bad guy says,
"Wait we aren't even" he then Cuts off the Captains ear and hands it to the pilots wife.
He then goes on to say "Here's your change"
All I gots to say to that is: "Dayamn!"

 

[Hand of Evil]

The Simpons, Mister Burns: "Release the dogs!"

 

[TracerBullet42]

The Simpons, Mister Burns: "Release the dogs!"

Worse yet...release the bees...or the dogs with bees in there mouth that shoot bees at you when they bark...

Or what we all should fear most...THE ROBOTIC RICHARD SIMMONS!

 

[Pants]

His ass is going to explode!

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

It's been awhile since I seen the movie but Jack Palance in "Shane". IIRC, he tosses a gun at the feet of some dirt farmer, who won't pick it up even after being taunted. When he finally goes for it, Jack easily outdraws him, killing him. His response: "You all saw it. He had a gun."

Sticking with Westerns, I've also a fondness for the evilness of Gene Hackman in "The Quick and the Dead".

However, one of my all time fave scenes of villainy was an Imperial officer dropping dead and Vader saying "Apology accepted Captain Needa."

But an honorable mention goes out to Mel Gibson in "Payback". Killing a man's alligator bags and shooting holes in his suits? That's just MEAN!

 

[Kobold Avenger]

How about some comic book characters...
Such as the part in Preacher where the Saint of Killers killed everyone in a bar just to show he was the Patron Saint of Killers. However many of the villians were just outright crazy or messed up to begin with. Herr Starr didn't have too much gratuitously evil scenes, mainly because they were all overshadowed by him being unluckily victimized by just about everybody and everything.