Favorite Movie Villain

[Ghost_Host_9991]

OK folks, my friends at work and I had this discussion so I figured I'd start it here. Who is your favorite movie villain? Anything goes as far as villains go with this one small proviso...the one person we excluded from the discussion was Darth Vader, because it was too easy an answer. 😎

Oh, and please tell us why you picked your choice.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Hmm, its a close call, but I have to go with Emperor Palpatine (in all his roles, Darth Sidious, Senator Palpatine, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, Emperor Palpatine) from Star Wars (the complete series episodes I-VII). He's the cause of everything in the movies, and it is he who puts the "War" in "Star Wars".

As far as evil to the darkest degree possible, I say its Palpatine. Although Sauron from Lord of the Rings is a very close second. The only reason he wasn't a tie for first place is because he wasn't physically present in any of the movies save for a flashback. If he had been or had more of an active role in the series, it would have been a close call.

 

[MistressValerie1]

Sergeant Meserve in Casualties of War, chillingly played by Sean Penn, whom I consider the most talented actor of his generation.

http://www.fast-rewind.com/casofwar.htm

 

[CheshireCatNY]

Ever since I saw the movie Gangs Of New York I've been partial to Daniel Day Lewis's rendition of Will Cutting. Maxim magazine once did a "Top 101 Bad-asses" and he got #2 behind Scarface. I couldnt really name another "character" so to speak but there are a few actors I can point out. Gary Oldman and Christopher Walken are probably at the top of my list for villains....

I nearly plotzed when I saw them fight each other on Celebrity Deathmatch....that was awesome...

 

[His Divine Shadow]

His Divine Shadow. I picked him as my screen name, and I pick him for this as well. His Divine Shadow, the ruler of the Divine Order in the Sci-Fi series Lexx, wasn't a kind leader, to say the least. Criminals had their organs removed, or they were simply ground up and placed in the protein bank. When his human host had been destroyed did he fear? Not for a minute. He instead had the entire population of the capital world ground up into food for his true form, a giant insect sleeping deep within the planet.

Whereas someone like Palpatine destroyed a SINGLE planet, His Shadow destroyed 100 planets that defied his will.

I could go on and on.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Umm, actually, for the record, Palpatine destroyed more than one planet. He would later use the World Devestators (basically they are huge refineries that latch onto a planet and asborb all of it's natural resources while either completely destroying the planet or rendering it uninhabitable).

Of course, by comparing the two characters, Palpatine is a more realistic character thats actually possible. 😛

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Did the World Devastators actually destroy anything? I was under the impression they very NEARLY got Mon Calamari but were stopped by R2. He did manade to kill that moon the Alliance was using as a base with the Galaxy Gun though, Pinnacle Moon or something.......And Tarkin blew up whatever world the Death Star was constructed above....Eh, I was wrong.

And yes, Palpatine is infinitely more realistic than HDS. 😛 Even the force is easier to believe than a planet-sized insect who can take over human bodies. 😛

 

[nessonite1]

the ruler of the Divine Order in the Sci-Fi series Lexx

He said MOVIE villians 😛 pbbbttthhh!

hehe...looking over my DVDs I'm realizing that I don't own too many movies that even HAVE baddies. So I'll throw in Dark Helmet from Spaceballs. 😀

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

@ HDS-

Well, the World Devestators were also armed, so I imagine they destroyed other vessals as well. One example would be Silencer 7. I would imagine anything that can devoid a planet of life counts as having destroyed a planet, in addition to actually "blowing them up".

In addition to those things, you're also leaving out Alderaan (which we saw destroyed in New Hope) Theres also the Eclipse super star destroyer, it had a superlaser on it. See, with the Empire it wasn't about destroying planets, just terrorizing them by "setting an example" by "executing a planet" so they'd submit to imperial rule, those neutral or alliance systems which weren't already imperial. Its about conquest, not destruction. Afterall, you can't take over a system you've destroyed.

So I'm sure that in total the Empire destroyed far less than a 100 planets, but if given time could have destroyed 100, or even more, though it would have been unnecessary, and more systems would revolt because of it, and that just makes the New Republic stronger, and the Empire had lost it's grip on the galaxy by this point so it couldn't be everywhere at once to maintain law and order.


@ Ness- Yeah, I was about to tell him that. MOVIES. 😛

 

[coloman]

I don't remember the names of all the characters he played both in the movies and on TV but the actor Bruce Dern would be my pick as the favorite villian. He played his roles so well that he made you really hate him almost as soon as his characters made their first appearance on the screen.

 

[general zod1]

General Zod in Superman 2 Terence Stamp did a great job,IMO,of playing a maniacal villian with Superman's powers The only thing I didn't like about the movie version of Zod was the costume
In the comic books Zod was bald and clean shaven He wore a light gray uniform with brown jackboots

 

[His Divine Shadow]

He said MOVIE villians 😛 pbbbttthhh!

hehe...looking over my DVDs I'm realizing that I don't own too many movies that even HAVE baddies. So I'll throw in Dark Helmet from Spaceballs. 😀

In case you did not know, he first appeared in the Lexx MOVIES, so poo on you. 😛 *Does wee victory jig*

But, I suppose even that could be argued, so I shall choose a second....Pennywise of Stephen King's It fame. An evil clown was never protrayed so well. "You all taste so much better when you're afraid." Priceless.

And if you are talking about weapons and not just planets destroyed, there was the Foreshadow (Slow, but effective), the Lexx itself, possibly the most efficient planet killer ever built, and smaller than just about any of Palpatine's (The Sun Crusher beats it for sheer destructive power, but Tarkin had that built, not Palpatine, even though he likely knew about it). And if you count his continuation as Mantrid later on, he destroyed an entire universe, billions of planets and trillions of people. I don't think that record has been beaten yet.


And I apologize for all the errors in spelling in my previous posts. I can't even read them, and I wrote them. I'm degenerating.....

 

[Floyd1]

Joe Peschi's character in "Goodfellas" is one of the slimiest characters I've seen in a gangster film. The movie unsettles me because of his character. He kills for pleasure and even kills innocent people if they piss him off.

 

[cal_tickler]

Ludicrous speed!

lmao!
Nessonite, you rock! Any villian who is comfortable enough with himself to play with dolls has my vote!

He said MOVIE villians 😛 pbbbttthhh!

hehe...looking over my DVDs I'm realizing that I don't own too many movies that even HAVE baddies. So I'll throw in Dark Helmet from Spaceballs. 😀

 

[MayDay1]

Tyler Durden, allthought the villian line is largely blurred here. He was considered a threat to people in power or people who were too comfortable in their boring lives, but to the disillusioned he was a hero.

But if I have to go for a straight up villian I'll say The Crimson Executioner from an Italian horror movie from the 60's called "The Bloody Pit of Horror". He was egomaniacal, insane, murderous, and total cheeseball. If anyone has the chance to see this movie then I say go for it. It's a movie that somehow avoided the scathing satire of MST3K.

Also, the shark from "Jaws". That was a bad fish.

 

[NylonHound]

Arthur "Cody" Jarrett from White Heat. The man was just so consummately evil, and wasn't the least bit bothered by it. I love the scene where he walks by the car where he's got a guy stashed in the trunk, and he's eating a chicken leg, and he stops like he's forgotten something, shoots the guy six times through the trunk lid, then throws the gun away and walks off still eating the chicken leg. Priceless!!

 

[Hue]

I would say Darth Maul from Star Wars Episode 1 because he had the coolest light saber EVER. It is REALLY hard to top the DOUBLE BLADED LIGHT SABER.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

You would like Exar Kun as well then.

 

[GEORGIATKLER]

Great, Now I Gotta Sleep With The Lights On..

THE FLYING MONKEYS FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ AND THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES FROM.... DAMN, WHAT WAS THAT MOVIE'S NAME? LOL! ROBERT MITCHUM AND ROBERT DE NIRO IN CAPE FEAR. ALSO HANNIBAL, DID YOU SAY BITE ME? FROM SILENCE OF THE LAMBS et al. MONKEYS AND HOUND ARE THE SCARY MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD(REAL DOG BITE AT AGE 9) THE CAPE FEAR FIGURE WAS CUNNING AND CALCULATING AS WELL AS STRONG AND EVIL. HANNIBAL WAS ANOTHER IN THAT MOLD, BUT ALWAYS SYMPATHETIC TO CLARICE.

 

[Triple T1]

The Baron Frankenstein played by Peter Cushing in the old Hammer series is my all time favorite.He performed with an insane villiany to the character,but always kept his dignified British demure.He played Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars with a similar style,but they were never able to do as much with the character due to his murder by reble insurgent scum as they blew up his Death Star.He even outranked Vader.Hopefully they will bring back a younger version of him in for episode III

Actually Exar Kun was the first dude with a double lightsabre and the movie actually copied the comic book.Darth Maul was cool,but was murdered by Jedi insurgent scum before he could really kick some major ass.At least the Jedi will get a good introduction to the food chain in the next movie courtesy of Palpatine.

 

[cal_tickler]

Zorg from The Fifth Element

Not only is Gary Oldman a kickass actor, but he puts so much personality into his charactors. Although I'm a giant Beethoven fan, Zorg from the Fifth Element must be my favorate character he's portrayed. He not only represents the perfect villian, but manages to interject his own quips and personality traits that steals the movie, and makes it worth watching!

"...Zero stones...ZERO CRATES!!!"

 

[AphroditeRabbit]

Oh man! I could go on for awhile thinking of all kinds of villans that were sweet in movies that appealed to me for one reason or another (all reasons being different.) ...(aka Imhotep from the mummy just for blowing locusts out his mouth and making his face in a tower of sand, Kaneda from Akira...more towards the end, and his fucking cool arm, etc) However, one particular one came to mind in a laugh of sorts. Hades from the disney version of Hercules!

*Titans stomping everywhere saying how they will destroy Zeus while marching in the direction he's/ mount olympus is in*

Hades: Uh Guys?

Titans: *All stop talking/ screaming/ ranting to look at him*

Hades: *points in the opposite direction they are walking, over his shoulder* Mount Olympus is that way.

Titans: *all pause and look slightly confused and curious*
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Titans: *all march in the RIGHT direction* ZEEEUUUUSSSSSSS!

 

[nessonite1]

Ah you've reminded me, AR, or the Wicked Queen in Snow White. A classic bad girl if there ever was one. 😀

 

[SheDevil1]

What, nobody liked Agent Smith from The Matrix? 😛

 

[naveltkltr1350]

imma go with Paulie, Joe Pesci, in Goodfellas. damn it its early, but i think his name was paulie in the movie. Anyways..kickass Mafia member!!