Best movie villains.

[Spud17]

Some movie heroes are so cheesy and lifeless that you find yourself rooting for the film's bad guy, and hope they survive until the end instead of the good guy. Who are some of your favourite movie villains (male or female) and why? List your favourite or as many as you like.

General Zod from the Superman films outclassed Superman and should have easily beaten his arse and ruled the world, but no, mr cheesemeister had to win because it's his film.


kneel before my awesomeness

The movie baddie doesn't have to be human in order for you to start wishing the good guy would pops his clogs. I always wanted the truck in the movie Duel, to kill Dennis Weaver, partly because the film wasn't very entertaining to begin with, and also due to the intrigue surrounding the anger and facelessness of the mysterious truck driver.

Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), in the film Misery, should have just offed Paul Sheldon (James Caan) early on and had herself some fun, and although I really liked the film, Wilkes oozed a repressed kind of viciousness and it would have been interesting to see what else she was capable of.



The Joker, played by Heath Ledger, (in The Dark Knight. I don't mean the Jokers in the other Batman films because they were all bobbins) is another worthy villain to beat the movie good-guy, thanks to Ledger's career-defining performance, which was genuinely creepy and unsettling to watch.

American Psycho's Patrick Bateman is chiseled and well-groomed on the outside, twisted and utterly insane on the inside, and is coming apart at the seams as he brutally kills lots and lots of people. Despite being a socially inept dork, his musical murder ritual had me laughing to the point where I didn't care about his victims at all. Bateman wasn't a likeable character, but definitely a fascinating one.

[connor17]

The Governor from The walking dead is one of the best villains that has appeared in the last years. He's a tough motherfucker.
The lack of empathy towards other human beings is paradigmatic. When he's with Herschel and Michonne in the van and he's threatening them Herschel says:
Herschel-If you understand what it's like to have a daughter, then how you threaten to kill someone else's?
Governor-Because they aren't mine.
He's clear and concise. When he's at the prisons gate:
Governor-I have a tank. What else is there to talk about?
Only brute force matters. And when Rick says that everyone can change and that they can all live together in the prison, well...
"The things you own end up owning you". If you are too afraid of losing the things you love, your family, your home, you maybe end up doing things that kill your freedom, you're a slave of your own needs. Too human and too awesome this "Governor".

[ShadyJay]

Gary Oldman. The Professional

[tedmenzel]

Anton Chigurh As Played By: Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men (2007)...
I like him...

[SectorVector]

Daniel Day-Lewis' character from Gangs of New York. Been many years since I watched, but remember it was an unnerving experience.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217505/

[stormium]

it's khan noonien singh... a product of genetic experimentation, the result was obsessive evil in the form of ricardo montalbán.

he is dramatic. he has style. he has passion. he has a steady obsession with moby dick. he is KHAN!!!!!

[connor17]

Hannibal is cool, ultra-smart, and loves classical music and good meat (who doesn't?).
He's also a cannibal, humm...
He sees morality as an alienation, a treason to our true selves. In doing so he shows us our hypocrisy, our weakness. He's strong and free, and dangerous, all the things we love (and fantasize about). Hannibal, our nietzschean friend.
The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

The silence of the lambs