Saga Most Evil Star Wars Character

Frankie P!

 

8D8 - The droid that was torturing the gonk droid in ROTJ, what's that all about?

Obi-Wan - stop cutting people's limbs off. Anakin, Ponda-Baba.

Hux / Tarkin - what is it about blowing up planets? If you want to rule through fear, there needs to be people alive to fear you! D'uh!

 

Most Evil Star Wars character is clearly the Emperor.

Darth Vader follows in second place.

Third place goes to Snoke in my opinion, because I don't think that Kylo Ren is a great villain. Sorry Kylo

 

It has to be Palpatine. He took over the galaxy more than once and didn't care if a single soul lived or died. He stopped at nothing to achieve his goal, including every crime possible on the largest scale imaginable. He never showed any sign of humanity, and was absolutely pure evil. There's only two other villains I can think of that were pure evil - Snoke who was a clone of Palpatine, so pretty much fall under the same character. And Grievous who was just an absolute monster.

Whereas every other villain shows at least some form of humanity, even if it is minor:

Maul teams up with Ahsoka to help stop a greater evil. And reveals to Obi-Wan that he is rooting for the good guys to stop the Emperor during his final moments.
Vader realizes that there is still good inside himself and switches sides because of his son.
Kylo was always conflicted, fighting off the good inside himself. Then switched sides because of Rey and his parents.
Tarkin is a tricky one because he blows up a lot of ****, but a lot of the time he doesn't do something without a purpose.
Thrawn only uses violence only when necessary, and is more calm and respectful than anyone else in the Empire.
Dooku was once a Jedi and still kept some of their ways. He was more respectful than the other Separatists, and didn't want to kill if it wasn't necessary.
Savage was made into a monster without having a choice.
Ventress realized that the dark side wasn't the way to go and turned neutral. She even helped the Jedi from time to time.
Talzin was mutual in the war and did everything to protect her own people.
Hux is also a tricky one, because just look at his face when ordering the Republic to be destroyed. But he is just a tool of Snoke, and eventually betrayed the First Order.
Jabba is just a crime lord, and never did anything on a large scale.

 

Palpatine I don’t think I need to add anything else

 

The greatest puppet master from Naboo.
The Apprentice to Plagieus
Rose to power in the Republic as a Phantom Menace.
Seduced, groomed and twisted the Chosen One.
Cheated death multiple times.

Simply put Sheev Palpatine is pure evil.

 

Going by what I've seen, Sheev Palpatine takes the cake.

 

I voted Tarkin. It's hard to tell with force sensitives doing evil because of how much the dark side is influencing their actions.

Tarkin on the other hand knew exactly what he was doing when he blew up Alderaan. He also knew the rebels weren't there he just did it out of spite. Those poor oysters.

 

Tarkin is a bad villain. But worse than the Emperor?

 

is this even a question!?

 

I would say so. Alot of what Palpatine does could be attributed to the dark side rather than the man himself. Tarkin consciously and unnessarily blows up a peaceful world without any interferance from the force. That's pure evil in my book.

 

The AT-ST gunner who killed the Ewok in RotJ.

 

Hard question: Shouldn't Kylo Ren be the biggest bad guy?

After all, he kills his father Han Solo and he is also responsible for the death of Luke Skywalker ...

 

I voted Palpatine but was surprised that Vader aka child and jedi murderer has zero votes.

 

I find the massacre of the younglings to be the most heinous act in Star Wars. Theoretically destroying Alderaan is worse, but it's a case of pulling levers and pressing buttons from a distance, in that case, rather than swinging a sword at a room full of helpless, trapped kids, into whose eyes one would have to look, and who looked to their murderer for salvation. That act is so bad, when I think about it, it makes Vader's easy 'redemption' seem like an insult. Tarkin's guilt is a bit more shared-out, too.

 

I would argue though that Anakin at that point was Darth Vader, consumed and dominated by the dark side. The rational thinking person he used to be was destroyed when he lashed out at Windu and bent the knee to Palpatine.

In other words Anakin would never murder the younglings, but Darth Vader did. I see them as two seperate people. Anakin is a Jedi, friend of Kenobi, husband of Padme and a hero. Darth Vader is a monster and agent of evil fuelled by the dark side.

Depends how you view the impact of the dark side on someones actions. Darth Vader is obviously evil, but Anakin isn't so I'm unsure who to apply the blame to.

 

Obi-Wan agrees with you.

 

I never found the sudden moral transformation very convincing or very palatable, considering that Anakin was still ostensibly motivated by his hope of saving Pademe from the imagined peril when he bent the knee to Monster Mash.

 

Bend the knee, I love that expression I haven't used it enough since my GOT obsession.

 

Ya there's no doubt that Palpatine, Vader, and Tarkin are the 3 worst baddies. What order you put them in is subjective I suppose.

Going back to Vader's redemption. When ROTJ came out we obviously had no idea about the younglings but we did know that Vader had choked out some of his officers, killed some jedi (one on screen and others implied off screen), chopped off his son's hand, tortured and froze Han Solo, and stood by while Tarkin blew up Alderran. So he did have a few heinous acts in the OT as well.

 

Salacious Crumb because he laughs at people being sentenced to their death.

 

Uncle Owen, for making Luke finish his chores.

 

Every Tatooine teen's worst nightmare. Even today, we all pray that Luke made it to Tosche Station eventually.