Greatest Ever Movie Villains
 

10. Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
9. Captain Vidal (Pan's Labyrinth)
8. Alex DeLarge (A Clockwork Orange)
7. Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men)
6. Gordon Gekko (Wall Street)
5. Begbie (Trainspotting)
4. Daniel Plainview (There Will Be Blood)
3. The Terminator (Terminator 1)
2. The Joker (The Dark Knight)
1. Darth Vader (Star Wars Eps 3-6)

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1. The Joker (Batman)
2. Captain Barbossa (Pirates of Carribean)
3. Darth Vader (Star Wars)
4. Alien (Aliens)
5. Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street)
6. Ghostface (Scream)
7. Michael Myers (Halloween)
8. Magneto (X-Men)
9. Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
10. Scarecrow (Batman)

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Good list but Scarecrow just wasn't fascinating enough for me. Names like Jason, Alien, Predator were just outside my top 10. Great horror/Scifi villains.

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Besides the Joker, Scarecrow is my favorite villain. Joker's humor really adds on to his personality though.

I'm just in love with the whole Alien series, and that's how it got on my top ten. Jason may be a bit obvious, but he is one of the few people that helped shape the slasher flicks.

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That's for sure, if it wasn't for Jason and his series of movies would we ever have had Scream?

These threads have been done before, but probably my top two are George C Scott in The Hustler and John Huston in Chinatown. Both money grabbing, impersonal and ammoral capitalistic at it's most cannbalistic extreme. Take all the Darth Vadars and silly Hannibal Lectors you want, they simply just don't compare.

Who knows man, who knows. I know that these old school villains helped shape today's villains.

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Some of my favorites:

Alec Baldwin from The Cooler and Miami Blues
Ben Kingsley from Sexy Beast
Kevin Spacey from The Usual Suspects and Se7en
Rutger Hauer from The Hitcher
Louise Fletcher from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

When it comes to villains, I always seem to think of Scorpio from the first Dirty Harry. He was truly ruthless and pathetic at the same time.

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Kneel before Zod

Seriously...Zod...Dude's a badass

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Joshua Foss in Sudden Death
Bill Strannix in Under Siege
Bernie Rose in Drive
Terminator in The Terminator
Max Cady in Cape Fear (1991)
Frank Booth in Blue Velvet
GR-13/Andrew Scott in Universal Soldier
Tony Montana in Scarface

Probably the only villain in the history of cinema that actually freaked me out.

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For me, hands down it's Javier Bardem as Anton, in No Country for Old Men.
https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/im...FM2XvlRjqO1mEV

I wouldn't count Gordon Gekko as a villain more as someone who is misunderstood.
And Joker needs to be at the top of your list!

Vader does give Joker a run for his money, but to me Joker is much more interesting.

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Joel Schumacher, that guy ruined the 90s for me lol. Seriously, The Joker, Vader, Zod, Magneto, Fernand Mondego, Prince Humperdinck.

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Nice avatar, Kinosis, that thing should be in it's own list. I watched the movie when I was younger and it was really disturbing watching that thing move.

My favorite, of course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUcMohewjvI
(not sure why the volume's so low on this clip, sorry.)

"I shall strike down those dearest to you. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood."

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Great clip, regardless.

Thanks! lol, yeah, he really is creepy, though he is barely in the movie.

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I wish he was the main antagonist in the movie instead of the father.

I like this video and mostly agree with it.It just lacks "Leon" villain (Gary Oldman) and some non human villains - Drath Vader and Hal especially.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQHC2X_udLQ

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Very interesting video.

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yep,it's well made.The music fits perfectly and the creator cut the best facial expressions of the villains most of the times. :)

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No one has said Voldemort yet?
Alex in A Clockwork Orange... both villain and hero= perfection
Joker & Bane & Scarecrow
Speaking of Scarecrow, Jackson played by Cillian Murphy in Scarecrow

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I don't think Voldemort is the greatest, honestly. It's hard to imagine he made it to anyone's top ten. I think Joker and Scarecrow are my two favorite Batman villains.

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Heath was probably my favorite Joker, next to Nicholson.

Darth Vader over the Joker? Really now.. I should watch Star Wars then. I haven't yet.

1 Joker (Batman)
2 Palpatine (Starwars)
3 Vader (DUH)
4 T 1000 (Terminater)

You haven't watched Star Wars?? Get to it brother. I'm not a massive fan of the whole saga but The Empire Strikes Back is one of the greatest movies ever!

That they did. Also, someone on this thread mentioned Kaizer Soze...if that's how it's spelt and I have to say, I thought long and hard about adding him to my top 10, Spacey was magnetic but I think I had no choice but to settle with him just outside my top 10 simply because Judge Doom so freaked me out as a kid.

Same here, Voldemort in the books is far more menacing than anything I saw on camera.

In no particular order
Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Ming the Merciless (Max Von Sydow Flash Gordon)
Angel eyes (Lee Van Cleef Good the Bad and the Ugly)
Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum Night of the hunter)
Lizzy Quinn (Eileen Dromey Waking Ned)
The Queen (Lucille La Verne Snow White)
The Child Catcher (Chitty Bang Bang)
Crassus (Laurence Olivier Spartacus)
Death (Bengt Ekerot The Seventh Seal)



And although this is tv, my favourite villain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BOzOxry6lA

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Edmund Blackadder's a villain?

Hmm. Can't say I've ever thought of him that way.

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1) Norman Bates - Psycho
2) Frank Booth - Blue Velvet
3) Dr. Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs
4) Emperor Palpatine - Return of the Jedi
5) Jack Torrance - The Shining
6) Bishop Edvard Vergerus - Fanny and Alexander
7) HAL 9000 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
8) Lady Kaede - Ran
9) The Joker - The Dark Knight
10) Harry Lime - The Third Man

Depends on what qualifies a villain. He's definitely not a good guy. Maybe an antihero?

Antihero seems more appropriate. He's not a good guy, no, but he doesn't have that menacing quality that I attribute to villains either.

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Cape Fear, Robert De Niro
The Shining, Jack Nickolson
Heat, Robert De Niro
American Psycho, Christian Bale

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Book Voldemort is without a doubt a fantastic villain. But he is very much dumbed down in the movies.

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For me, it's gotta be Roy Batty from Blade Runner.

Revised list

In no particular order

Darth Vader (Star Wars)
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Ming the Merciless (Max Von Sydow, Flash Gordon)
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Angel eyes (Lee Van Cleef, Good the Bad and the Ugly)
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Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum, Night of the hunter)
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Lizzy Quinn (Eileen Dromey, Waking Ned)
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The Queen (Lucille La Verne, Snow White)
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Crassus (Laurence Olivier, Spartacus)
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Death (Bengt Ekerot, The Seventh Seal)

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Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre, M)
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1 Dr Hannibal Lecter
2 Norman Bates
3 Frank Booth

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In no certain order:

Joker-TDK
http://urbanmogullife.com/wp-content...11/joker-1.jpg
David-The Lost Boys
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__.../Lost_boys.jpg
Roy Batty-Blade Runner
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B8KY02d2v9.../Roy_Batty.png
Ivan Drago-Rocky 4
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__.../Ivandrago.jpg
Jigsaw-Saw
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__.../4b/Jigsaw.jpg
Brick Top-Snatch
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltjz4ob2jz1qg25fb.jpg
Alex DeLarge-A Clockwork Orange
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqirm7viKE1qgg73z.jpg
Agent Smith-Matrix
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two big thumbs up with Rocky 4 and The Matrix

I thank you!

Only one villain ever had me so freaked out he was pretty much all I could think about for hours after I watched the movie.

http://cdn2.mamapop.com/wp-content/u...ey-seven-7.jpg

Hanibal Lecter (Silence Of The Lambs) and John Doe (Se7en). These two are more than just villains. They also take a great amount of pleasure by just hurting people using only them. Last but not least - Scar (Lion King). He ruined my childhood. I hate his guts!

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1) Vader
2) The rest

I think Ivan Drago is simply misunderstood, as a child I saw him as a villian but I don't anymore.

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/783/r...od-ivan-drago/

1. The Joker - Dark Knight
2. Verbal Kint/Keyser Sose - The Usual Suspects
3. Tyler Durden - Fight Club
4. Pazazu - The Exorcist
5. Gary Oldman - Leon (can't remember his name)
6. Reverand Kane - Poltergeist 2
7. Jaws - Moonraker/The Spy Who Loved Me
8. Mr.Blonde - Reservoir Dogs
9. Tommy Devito/Desimone - Goodfellas
10. Lil Ze - City Of God

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Just some of my favourites. I'm pretty sure there are many more who I've forgotten about / not seen yet

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http://zombietacgear.com/wp-content/.../01/hans-2.jpg

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Haven't been on the site for a while but it's good to see some new lists. I'm thinking of expanding my list to 20 and maybe even moving a few names around after having thought about my older list a bit more. Stay tuned for more.

Some of my favorites:

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Police Captain Hank Quinlan (Touch of Evil)
Such an AWESOME villain. He's corrupt, murderous, full of trauma, an alcoholist and he truely believes that's he's doing the right thing. The fact that he's right about the case in the end, makes him only more admirable.

http://whatremainsnow.com/wp-content...mmy-DeVito.jpg

Tommy DeVito (Goodfellas)
Just a funny guy.

Noah Cross (Chinatown)
Pure evil in the form of a very believable John Huston.

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Harry Lime (The Third Man)
Classy, charming and rotten from the inside. He's not that long in the film, but when he is, he steals the show! He also has one of the most memorable introduction scenes in the history of cinema.

http://media.theiapolis.com/d8/hMO/i...-in-django.jpg

Calvin Candie (Django Unchained)
I know he's still very recent, but for me he was just an instant classic. Awesome performance of a charming, but black-hearted (lol) character.