The best movie villian

darth vader, hands down, he's the man, er... more machine though

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There's no contest. The best movie villain of all time was Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in fight club. Brilliant for so many reasons, and funny as all hell in a weird nihilistic kinda way

hannibal lecter has to be my vote

Letherface (the letherface from original TCM) was a good villan.
Clowns from random movies are always creepy(IT, Killer Klowns From Outter Space etc)...ugh, i hate clowns!

My favourite villan was Deacon Frost from Blade..I just wanted him to win all the way through the movie.

Evil bastard in a movie was also Edward Longshanks from the Braveheart. He was mean!

i think that a lot of these people sucked as villians, if anyone deserves the title, then it would have to go to someone not from a movie, the ultimate badass villain, imho, is sephiroth from FFVII

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kevin spacey in both 'the usual suspects', and 'seven'.

ok, Peter Simon Greuber Die Hard With a Vengeance

Totally agree, all clowns are evil, especially IT-that film was horrible

And Deacon Frost was totally a good villain in Blade i thought Stephen Dorff was excellent as that role, my fave bit is when they're i chinatown and deacon has the little girl by the throat and throws her into traffic

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A true villian to society (at least through half the movie anyways) was Ed Norton in American History X. I know I'm cheating a little but I had to say it.

William Zabka from Karate Kid, I hated him so much when I was younger, but that was a respected hate I guess.

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you have all got to dig deeper and find a true villian. A mastermind who's heart i so black and shrivelled that joy can actually bring them pain. A person who is so isolated and darkened that being around others brings discomfort.

Shooter McGavin

Patrick Bateman - American Pyscho

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Deacon Frost

Disclaimer: My own opinion ahead.

Captain Howdy [aka: The Devil] from The Exorcist. By far the most evil of all villains. Also my pick as to who would kick the crap'o'la out of any other villains.

That would be Col. William Tavington, as played by Jason Isaacs

My villains list:

Max Cady (Robert de Niro) in Cape Fear
Sean Archer/Castor Troy (John Travolta AND Nicholas Cage) in Face/Off
Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) in The Gladiator - fantastic performance!

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I concur!!

im not sure whether or not people mean actor and their characters or just a villain from a movie. Whatever it is i choose the bad guy sniper from Dirty Harry, he is so CRAZY and DEMENTED its not funny

and any one who says darth vader...........please....

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I've read the whole thread so far and nobody's mentioned Keyser Soze - or, if you want, Verbal Kint from The Usual Suspects. It seemed great that there was this mysterious criminal that was a supposed myth and turned out to be the least likely person imaginable. He's got to be one of my favourites - among others.

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