For me, it would be GLaDOS.
Portal 2 spoiler
She deleted the one remaining human part of herself because it was just too much to deal with. She releases you at the end of Portal 2 as a path of least resistance measure because “killing you is hard.”
What about you, what is your favorite media villain?
Ming the Merciless
as played by Max von Sydow in the 1980 film Flash Gordon
Ming is this potentially goofy over-the-top villain, but Sydow’s portrayal makes him dignified, threatening, majestic and malevolent, never laughable.
Same with Frank Langella’s performance as Skeletor in the terrible Masters of the Universe film
Hans Landa because Christoph Waltz is just such a good actor
Donald Trump?
/j
Is that the guy from The Apprentice?
he was in home alone.
Brother Justin in Carnivàle
Great character, great show!
I wish they would have gotten one more season. I loved that show so much.
I think the counter to that is that:
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they completely dropped the ball with her toward the end of the show. She went from, I think, a great allegory for a religious radical right wing capitalizing off her people’s suffering but in a way she could genuinely warp her beliefs into thinking was for the greater good…
… to, I mean, come on… Having her go totally crazed with power and disavowing the Prophets wasn’t the problem; it’s that it was stupid, egregiously paced, totally unearned MacGuffin power without grounded stakes that only served to make an already-rushed resolution to the show feel even more rushed.
Gul Dukat was the better villain in my eyes. At least he was way more interesting than Kai Winn.
i like weyoun he sorta trolls siskos but is a serious vorta.
It’s been ages I saw a ytp and I never was quite the fan, but this right there is a fucking masterpiece.
I was about to just check it and ended up watching the whole thing.
“Attention bajoran workers! My wife left me” had me wheezing.
Sexcellent
The Quark “Nice Cock” poster almost made me ruin my monitor with water.
My vote as well.
He constantly finds the piece of humanity within whoever hes talking to and then tries to manipulate it.
Its hard to top Gul Dukat.
The great thing about Dukat is that he frequently finds his own humanity. You keep thinking that this time he’ll do the right thing and start his path to redemption, but he never does. He always chooses to do the wrong thing even though there’s clearly good in him and you’re always disappointed and even surprised when it happens. He’s like the anti-Zuko.
They’re both excellent at being different kinds of evil.
Winn is prideful and ambitious above all else. She sides with good and evil both at different times in service to her own goals. She deludes herself into believing anything that pursuit of personal power is also what serves Bajor.
Winn commits evil in service to her ambitions.
Dukat has the same vices, but with added elements of narcissism and wrath. He briefly tries being good, and almost reaches it when he finds genuine love for and from his daughter, but when his actions lead to her death he lashes out at the universe and becomes entirely consumed by wrath and megalomania.
Dukat’s ambition in the end is to commit evil.
The Goat. Simply evil.
No, the guy she was boning was.
rip Nurse rachette.
Omar Little, The Wire
“I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game, though, right?”
I would not have thought of Omar as a villain. The man even takes a stand against criminals killing people not in the game.
I bet the dealers he steals from would consider him a villain.
Excellent!
Standartenführer Hans Landa.
“That’s a Bingo!”
Beat me to it :)
Here are the test results: You’re a horrible person. That’s what it says. A horrible person. We weren’t even testing for that.
If favorite is a villain whose motivation was pure and got perverted by his obsession and still awesome:
General Woundwort
If favorite = one i hate the most, it is a tie between:
Joffrey
Ramsey
If favorite is a villain who is cool as hell it is a tie between
Voldemort
Hans Gruber
Favorite Sci-Fi Villain: SHODAN from System Shock/System Shock 2
Favorite Fantasy Villain: The Nothing from Neverending Story
Favorite Bond Villain: Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies because the writers touched on something quite prescient here about media moguls wanting to control society a la Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg.
Favorite Disney-esque Villain: Raphael from Baldur’s Gate III for his “Raphael’s Final Act” song.
Favorite Actual Disney Villain: Lord Hater from Wander Over Yonder
Favorite Action Villain: Hans Gruber from Die Hard
Another vote for SHODAN from me! Founded my love for “Through the looking glass” and everything that followed, like my soul animal, the common Mimic lol
Me reading these comments:
Sorry I had to
His superiority complex is tangible
I love how The Boys sets you up to think that Homelander is the most irredeemably evil person in the whole show, then later on you find yourself feeling bad for him and even kinda cheering for him for a little while.
At what point do you cheer for him? I am about to start the final season and he’s been nothing but a psychopath
Yeah the writers didn’t like how part of the audience sided with homelander in the first couple of seasons, so they did what writers do and took a hammer to the character.
What? He’s always consistently been the heel of the show. The writers explaining his psychopathy to make you understand is not the same thing as signing off on it. They’ve made that more clear as the seasons have progressed.
the heel of the show
i’m not familiar with that idiom. if you don’t realize you’ve been getting an increasingly shallower version of the same character you’ve not been paying attention, it usually happens naturally in tv shows (flanderization) - like how homelander is suddenly asexual and breast milk obsessed. but yes the writers are pulling in every stop to make sure you hate the character because they understandably don’t want people to root for the main villain which for some reason is trump 2.0, as if we needed yet another portrayal of that. the amount of shows that don’t degrade after season 1 is incredibly low unfortunately.
That was a good read. I like hearing about an actor’s motivations when doing a scene, especially that scene, which was the one I was thinking of when I wrote my comment. See, I can acknowledge that Homelander is a psychopath, but as someone who has been hurt as a kid, I empathize with him in that moment. Yeah, you psycho motherfucker, get some. They deserve it. Doesn’t mean I suddenly like him.
trump 2.0, as if we needed yet another portrayal of that
Well the show has always been allegorical. It just got to the point where the writers decided they couldn’t be subtle about it anymore. I’m okay with that. Was entertaining to see all the trumpanzees on social media going “Wait…this show is making fun of us!??!?”
I’ve always liked Dr. Doom a lot. Never had a good adaptation in movies, but he’s great in the comics.
Doom is intriguing because he’s only evil in that he wants total control because he believes no one can run it better than him.
“I am burdened with glorious purpose.”
Tom Hiddleson has incredible charisma
Judge Holden from Blood Meridian is arguably the single most evil villain in any literature.
Also one of the best written.
