Great Movie Villians

Last night Adam and Ryan and I looked at this list of the 50 greatest movie villians in a Maxim movie magazine. The list was a travesty and just plain wrong. Heck Darth Vader was only 45. I thought it would be fun to list our favorites here.

These are in no particular order:
Darth Vader
Darth Sidious
Hannibal Lector (Hannibal Trilogy)
Norman Bates (Psycho)
Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)
Clarence Boddicker (Robocop)
Agent Smith (The Matrix Trilogy)
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
Roy Batty (Blade Runner)
Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
Deacon Frost (Blade)
Rotwang (Metropolis)
Master Control Program (Tron)
Emperor Commodus (Gladiaor)
Mrs. Robinson (The Graduate)
Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest)
Death (The Seventh Seal)
The Predator
The Alien Queen
Lo Pan (Big Trouble in Little China
General Zod (Superman II)
HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Jack (The Shining)
Loki and Bartleby (Dogma)
Alonzo Harris (Training Day)
The Joker (Batman)
Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper (Dr. Strangelove)
Zorg (Fifth Element)
Jackie Treehorn (Big Lebowski)
Bullseye (Daredevil)

and I know this isn't a movie but what they hey

The Top 10 Aqua Teen Hunger Force villians in order of greatness:
The Mooninites
Dr. Weird
MC Pee Pants
Ghost of Christmas Past Robot
Happy Time Harry
Mothmonsterman
The Leprechauns
The Yzzerdd
The Mummy
Emory and Oglethorpe

Here's a few of my favorites (other than some that erik already mentioned)

Beloque (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Mola Ram (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Walter Donovan (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
Mr. Glass - Unbreakable
Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman) - Air Force One
The Terminator - The Terminator
The Emperor (Same as Darth Sidious???) - Return of the Jedi

Oh and for TV:

Murdoc (MacGyver)

Oh, the ultimate villain would be the mom from Ordinary People, you don't mess with Mary Tyler Moore.

Ok, here's Ryan A's Top 50 all-time worst villains (although I'm sure I forgot somebody - It's at least the first 50 baddies I remembered)

50. Mama (Anne Ramsey) - Throw Mama from the Train
49. Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin) - The Life of Brian
48. Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) - Mystery Men
47. Hedley Lamar (Harvey Korman) - Blazing Saddles
46. Nicky Holliday (Charles Grodin) - The Great Muppet Caper
45. Mr. Svenning (Michael Rooker) - Mallrats
44. Jumbo Shneider (Sheldon Leonard) - Money From Home
43. Azrael (Jason Lee) - Dogma
42. The Black Knight (John Cleese) - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
41. Trentino (Louis Calhern) - Duck Soup
40. Evil (David Warner) - Time Bandits
39. Scut Farcus (Zack Ward) - A Christmas Story
38. Doc Hopper (Charles Durning) - The Muppet Movie
37. C***knocker (Mark Hamill) - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
36. Neville Sinclair (Timothy Dalton) - The Rocketeer
35. Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) - Hook
34. Evil Ash - Army of Darkness
33. Walter Donovan (Julian Glover) - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
32. Jabba the Hutt - Return of the Jedi
31. Green Goblin (Willam Defoe) - Spider-Man
30. Toht (Ronald Lacey) - Raiders of the Lost Ark
29. Judge Doom - (Christopher Lloyd) - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
28. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody) - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
27. Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) - It's a wonderful Life
26. Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) - Superman
25. General Chang (Christopher Plummer) - Star Trek 6
24. Shiwan Kahn (Jone Lone) - The Shadow
23. Bullseye (Colin Farrel) - Daredevil
22. Bartleby (Ben Affleck) - Dogma
21. William Stryker (Brian Cox) - X2: X-Men United
20. Emperor Commudus (Joaquin Phoenix) - Gladiator
19. Count Dooku/Darth Tyranous (Christopher Lee) - Star Wars: Episode 2
18. HAL - 2001
17. Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) - Back to the Future
16. The Predator - Predator
15. The Thing - John Carpenter's the Thing
14. Gunnery Sgt. Hartman (Lee Ermey) - Full Metal Jacket
13. Darth Maul (Ray Park) - Star Wars: Episode 1
12. Rene Belloq (Paul Freeman) - Raiders of the Lost Ark
11. Magneto (Ian McKellen) - X-Men
10. Ghidra/Monster 0 - Godzilla movies
9. The Kurgan (Clancy Brown) - Highlander
8. T - 1000 (Robert Patrick) - Terminator 2
7. Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
6. Boba Fett (Jeremy Bullock) - Star Wars Saga
5. The Joker (Jack Nicholson) - Batman
4. Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) - Flash Gordon
3. Darth Vader (David Prowse, James Earl Jones and Sebastian Shaw) Star Wars Saga
2. Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) - Die Hard
1. Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) - Star Wars Saga

And 15 TV Villains too

15. Mimi (Kathy Kinney)- Drew Carrey Show
14. Mandark - Dexter's Laboratory
13. Sigfried (Bernie Kopell)- Get Smart
12. Vicious - Cowboy Bebop
11. Mojo Jojo - Powerpuff Girls
10. Dr. Claw - Inspector Gadget
9. Leonardo Leonardo (Alec Baldwin) - Clerks: The Animated Series
8. Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) - The Dick Van Dyke Show
7. Mr. Burns (Harry Shearer) - Simpsons
6. The Riddler (Frank Gorshin) - Batman
5. The Borg - Star Trek: The Next Generation
4. The Joker (Mark Hamill)- Batman the Animated Series
3. Baltar (John Colicos) - Battlestar Galactica
2. Murdock - MacGyver
1. Aku (Mako) - Samurai Jack

Thanks all, let's hear from more folks

OK, you guys said alot of mine, so here's just a couple:

Dean Wormer- Animal House
Bill Lumberg- Office Space
Major Strausser- Casablanca
Dr. Caligari- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Good Old Boys- The Blues Brothers

That's all for now.

here is some good villians
Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music
Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman
and the most egregious of villians
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms.

It gives me the shivers just thinking about it

Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Denehy) - First Blood

Here's a couple more:

Dante's boss in "Clerks". We never see him, yet he makes Dante's life a nightmare.

Keyser Soze in "The Usual Suspects", even though the literal translation of his name is something like "King Talks Too Much."

Capt. Dudley Smith in "L.A. Confidential"

And any cheerleader from "Bring It On." A whole movie about cheerleaders is just flat-out evil

It's so hard to argue with such a list, so all I'll venture to try is add to it.

Val's worst TV villain additions:

C.G.B. Spender, a.k.a. Cigarette Smoking Man - The X Files

Alex Krejcek - The X-Files

and everyone responsible for ruining the X Files' final season!

Val's worst movie villain additions:

The entire cast of Election Day, and pretty much everyone in Being John Malkovich, with the exception perhaps of John Malkovich and the little girl.

Val, how can you say that the most beautiful John Cusack is a villian? Yes, he was in Being John Malcovich, but still...


Here are a few from me:
Hannibal Lecter
The Sherrif of Nottingham - Robin Hood
The Smoking man - X-files
Darth Vader
Jack Nicholson in a bunch of his movies
Marlin Brando- Apocalypse Now Redux

Before I mess anyone else's name up, that is it for now.

Here's a few more:

The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man - Ghostbusters
All the "cool" people in "Ghost World"
Brick Top - "Snatch"
Rory Breaker - "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels"
The raunchy chorus-girl owner in "Major League"

That's all for now.

Snuggle, the fabric softener bear

OK - I know it's from a commercial, but trust me, he's evil-incarnate!!