Roy Batty (Blade Runner)
Ah, yes. Good one!
Not sure if he's got a mention yet, but David from Prometheus/Alien Covenant. Dude wiped out an entire species with black goo.
Shooter mcgavin
Hans Landa and Anton from NCFOM all the way.
Judge Smails.
I know I’ll get grilled for this but Dolores Umbridge and Voldemort from the HP series. Their portrayals in the whole film series were spot on and reinforced my hatred.
Wicked witch of the West.
Henry, from, “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.”
He scared the crap out of me because he made it look so easy.
Rocky Balboa
Toecutter in the original Mad Max was an all timer. Just a nauseating despicable guy you wanted to hit with a tire iron.
Also In the same vein, the original Dirty Harry villain Scorpio was a guy you just had to see get what was coming to him. “Do I feel lucky?”
I'm cooler than any other Sith.
Darth Maul was pretty neat. I was angry when they killed him off right away. What a waste of a character.
Mama Fratelli
Forget it JDean, it's Noah Cross.
Marshall Krupcheck in Hostage has always stuck with me
The bad businessman in Train to Busan
The principal in Breakfast Club
Kathy Bates' character from Misery
Coach Kilmer, Varsity Blues. Reminds me of Urban Meyer
Had a group of lads on another message board attempt to convince me that Thanos eclipses Darth Vader in the "Greatest Villain" category.
Eh. Liked Brolin as Thanos and, as a self-professed comic book nerd, thought he did a really good job of portraying him. Better than Vader though...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL8bVJhXCM
Nope.
Thanos was not evil, just wanted to restore his idea of balance to the universe. Vader wanted evil to reign supreme in the universe.
Thanos was right
I wonder if kids who grew up with the prequels in addition to the original trilogy don't see Vader as a villain the same way we did as kids growing up.
does anyone else think this is don's high school yearbook picture?
Right movie, but wrong comparison:
wow. back when you had flesh, you were somethin'!
T-rex and Velociraptors from Jurassic Park.
Matt Wilson from Encino Man....Shooosh
Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood.
Anton Chigurgh in No Country for Old Men.
Alex in A Clockwork Orange
Omar and Stringer Bell in the Wire.
Boyd Crowder in Justified
Ma Bennett in Justified
Al Swearengen in Deadwood
Terminator I and Terminator II. Despite robotic performances, they were legit scary.
Yep, some fine villains in that list.
Brian Cox- Manhunter 1986 The original Hannibal Lecktor
It was the Dukes, it was the Dukes....
Cruella de Vil. I mean it's right in the name!
JK Simmons character "Fletcher" from the movie Whiplash.
That dude was a real piece of work and that last scene was pure genius.
Joffrey from Game of Thrones was epic as well.
That actor (Jack Gleeson) was so good. He retired from acting for a time to pursue an academic career, which he excelled at. He since has gone back into acting.
Lord Farquaad
Paul Newman's Hud was classic.
Urban Meyer?
For some female villains.
Mona Demarkov (played by Lena Olin) in Romeo is Bleeding. (Awesome movie with two awesome actors: Gary Oldman and Lena Olin.)
Sue Sylvester in Glee. She is so very awesome in that.
Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next.
Delores Umbridge in Harry Potter.
Not sure if he's been mentioned yet (and, yes, not evil in the end):
Severus Snape in Harry Potter.
It's cheating because it's an adaptation of a 400 year old play but Ian McKellen as Richard III in that adaptation he did in the 90s was f'ing amazing.
Monsters: John Carpenter's The Thing. Xenomorph from Alien. T-800, T-1000.
HM from a nightmare as a boy: I was watching a movie on TV (b&w), it got scary, so I turned it off. After the screen went dark, a webbed claw reached out from inside and turned the TV back on.
Villains: many already mentioned. I'll add Auric Goldfinger, Angel Eyes, Khan Noonien Singh, Little Bill Daggett and Dean Wormer.
malevolent unstoppable external villains
- first two terminators
- The shark
"internal villains"
- Tyler durden
- Mal (inception)