Who's your favorite Villain?

[Aramax]

Imm going w/ a slightly obscure DC comics Villian-Per Degaton
Time travelling Nazi,he was great on Batman Brave and the Bold,I have a huge plot line w/him in my V&V JLA game,boy are they going to hate thse fights!

 

[jaerdaph]

Professor Moriarty
Dr. Fu Manchu
Ming the Merciless
The Riddler
Khaaaaaaan!!!!

Oh, and Nazis. I hate those guys!

 

[invokethehojo]

Hello all. The title is pretty self explanatory. For some reason, I thought that it might be interesting to find out who was your favorite Villain from any form of media and why. Videogames, books, manga, the news, Rpgchat, whatever you want, just give a reason. I know I'm gonna hear the usuals, (Sephiroth, Hitler, Satan) but I'm hoping that I'll hear some out of the ordinary ones too.

I'll go first:

My current favorite villain is the badguy from the movie Kung Fu Panda. I really enjoyed watching the ruthless snow leopard Tai Lung for several reasons, the first being I sypathised with him. Here is this guy, been training in martial arts his entire life in preperation to be named the local hero, the Dragon Warrior. His unrelenting master, Shifu, trained him from dawn to dusk, every damn day, from childhood, to be the strongest, the most skilled, to be the best. So upon reaching adulthood, fully expecting to be named the Dragon Warrior, Tai lung is outraged to learn that his teacher's master Oogway(SP?) says that there is darkness in him and he isn't worthy of the Secrets of the Dragon Scroll, the inheritence of the Dragon warrior.

ISN"T WORTHY?!

He trained HIS WHOLE LIFE, only to be denied at his moment of triumph.

Wouldn't YOU be pissed?

Then after attempting to take the Scroll by force and being defeated by Oogway, he is imprisoned for LIFE in Chorgum Prison. I mean come on, LIFE?! The guy did a bad thing, going crazy on the villagers like that, but to imprison him for the rest of his life for it seems more than a little harsh. And in that mean ass rack thing they had him in? He was in that torture device for twenty years for goodness sake!

The second reason I liked Tai lung, was that he was unrepentant of his crimes and was determined to have his vengeance, even after Shifu admitted his mistakes and asked for his forgiveness. I mean, if you're gonna be bad, go all out, no excuses, no apologies.

"I don't want your apologies. I want my Scroll!"

I've never seen this movie, but just reading your description I have to say that this seems like a retelling of Lucifers story from the bible, obviously from a more sympathetic point of view.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Duh.

Bargle!

 

[Cyronax]

A more 'advanced' villain: Lareth the Beautiful.

 

[kitsune9]

Dolores Umbridge (sp?), from Harry Potter. Damn, that woman is evil.

She's someone who'd I'd love to put my hands around her throat. She was the only character in the books who made me a n g r y.

 

[kitsune9]

The most detestable villain that I hate is Joffrey Lannister from Game of Thrones. I haven't read the other books, but can't stand the little bastard.

The villain that I admired the most was Lord Sloth. It was great to read about him in the Amber series.

 

[David Howery]

the lady who ran the orphanage in "Santa Paws". She burned a little girl's doll. Now that's evil!

 

[Umbran]

Dolores Umbridge (sp?), from Harry Potter. Damn, that woman is evil.

Oh, goodness yes!

David Xanatos from Gargoyles.

Darn straight. I mean, any villain that's got four TV Tropes named after him has to be good, right?

 

[Deset Gled]

Ezekiel Rage from The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest.

Pure hatred, almost Lovecraftian cult status, and completely unexplained immortality, despite the fact that he is a completely normal human being in both the physical and emotional sense.

Also, Emperor Palpatine deserves a mention, as I believe he may be the most politically smeared good guy in (fictional) history.