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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2434510" data-attributes="member: 4779">The anyone was more referring to the creators rather than any person/actor/shmo off the street.  Just about any decent director can put together a good action sequence where the bad guy looks cool and does lots of bad-ass manuvers(especially with CGI the way it is these days) but it's much, much harder to have a villain REALLY make you love to hate him.  I didn't love to hate Darth Maul, I thought he was cool but he was more like a pit-bull than a character to me.  He was created to be destroyed by a hero.  The same can be said (except the pitt-bull part) about all the characters save Jabba in the poll.Jabba is the only one on the list to really come close to being a villain as opposed to being a bad-guy or simply an antagonist.  Tarkin was Pure Villain and one of the best in sci-fi cinema history.  No special effects needed to make Tarkin a villain.  Take away Maul's fighting and he's nothing.  At least Jabba and Jango had some story to em.Now don't get me wrong, I like all 5.  I just like Tarkin far above the rest if we are talking about real villainy.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>