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

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Damn, you should have put a spoiler warning on that! You've now given away the entire plot for Episode III!

Shhh!! Don't let the world find out that spoiler's here or so many people will come to ENWorld it'll be down for years!!

 

[Pierce]

Pretty much anything that Jason Isaacs' British colonel did in The Patriot. The movie as a whole wasn't bad and Isaacs is usually enjoyable (see: Lucius Malfoy), but that character just got on my nerves with the whole "see how evil I am?!!??" thing. Ugh.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Pretty much anything that Jason Isaacs' British colonel did in The Patriot. The movie as a whole wasn't bad and Isaacs is usually enjoyable (see: Lucius Malfoy), but that character just got on my nerves with the whole "see how evil I am?!!??" thing. Ugh.

I can't believe I forgot to mention that one in my first post. Yeah, Jason Isaac's British Colonel in The Patriot had more "I am evil!!!" scenes than I could count. All he was missing was a long moustache he could twirl sinisterly.

 

[Kai Lord]

Its been a few years since I've seen it, but I seem to remember Gary Oldman having a number of such scenes in Leon ("The Professional"). Didn't he shoot Natalie Pormtan's four year old brother?

 

[mmu1]

I thought that was obvious... she'd obviously been constructed from 'human plans' found on the Internet (or wherever) and didn't know the first thing about real life. She was just curious, and, when poking around looking at its neck (which she actually mentions seems too weak to hold up its head) must've exceeded boundaries she didn't know about.

That's not a gratuitous evil scene, that's a gratuitous alien-nature scene of a grotesque stripe. I'm still half-convinced her agenda is different to that of the planet-nuking cylons, too (but only half-convinced), partially because she doesn't look too happy after that scene...

I don't think that was it at all - I think she did it because she felt the baby would suffer less if she killed it instantly than if it died as a result of the nuclear strike she knew was coming. It was her idea of mercy.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Right, it has been a while sense I posted anything here, but how about Judge Doom killing the Shoe in Roger Rabbit.

Granted, killing R.K. Maroon, Teddy Valient, Marvin Acme and trying to kill Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valient and Jessica Rabbit all made sense in terms of the plot he was hatching.

But dipping the Shoe was just mean.

Above and beyond that, Doom was trying to wipe out other 'Toons. He was a 'Toon. He was trying to wipe-out his own kind. That should make him more evil than even Magneto - which is saying something...

"I'm so EVIL that I'm genocidal - against my own people! Mwa ha ha!"

 

[John Crichton]

To add a few of my faves:

- General Chang from Star Trek VI and the scenes from the bridge of his bird of prey and the courtroom.

- Khan (Trek II) putting the brain munchers in Checkov and that other dude's helmet.

- When we first meet Barbosa in Pirates of the Caribbean.

- Gozer. You know what I'm talking 'bout.

- The Mayor from Buffy. Any scene.

 

[Dirigible]

From Gaiman's Neverwhere, the scene where Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar eat a puppy after burning down a nunnery. And I thought that was jsut the induciton test to the Villain's Guild in The Tick...

 

[Frostmarrow]

The fat leacherous Baron Harkonnen has skin diseases implanted on himself. Then he pulls the heart plug from one of his servants. The servant bleeds to death in the Baron's arms. Why would you have heart plugs installed in your henchmen?

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Prince Einon from Dragonheart. Ordering the peasents to be blinded and killing the girls father for no particular reason.