EWB's Top 50 Villains

[Draevyn]

I'd like to run this a lot like YI and his "Top 50 Artists" in the music thread, but I'd like to focus on the the Villains of the screen, whether it be television or movies. So vote for your Top 5 Villains and I'll tally them up at the end and hopefully we'll get a top 50 list going.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

1. Don Logan (Sexy Beast)

2. Mitsuko Souma (Battle Royale)

3. Nurse Ratched (Cuckoo's Nest)

4. Captain Morris Stanley (The Proposition) - ok so it's borderline as there isn't really anyone who is right or wrong but still.....

5. Commodus (Gladiator)

6. Amon Goeth (Schindler's List)

7. Alex DeLarge (Clockwork Orange)

8. Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)

9. Hattori Gennosuke (Zatoichi)

10. Asami Yamazaki (Audition)

Sorry, made a mistake with Proposition character so edited.

I think for me the best villains either THINK that they're in the right, and abuse their position of power because of it - such as Goeth, Ratched, Stanley....Or have an underlying mental affliction - such as Commodus (god complex, oedipus, loads of stuff), Patrick Bateman (spoilered), DeLarge, Souma (past issues involving sexual "deviance").

Or they're just shouty and doublehard like Don Logan.

[Bryan Blade]

Mr. Burns, The general(prison break), Skynet(terminator)

[Draevyn]

Mr. Burns, The general(prison break), Skynet(terminator)

Would you mind actually doing 5...and in list form so they can actually be counted...

[Sousa]

EDITED FOR TEN!

1. Annie Wilkes (Misery)

2. That goddamn shark (Jaws)

3. Warden Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)

4. Jafar (Aladdin)

5. William Stryker (X-Men 2)

6. Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)

7. The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight (YEAH BABY) (The Tick) (and shame on GoGo for not including him!)

8. T-1000 (Terminator 2)

9. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! (Star Trek 2)

10. Scar (The Lion King)

or, if it counts...

10. The theory of evolution (Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed )

Edited December 22, 2009 by Tursous

[ROC]

The Operative (Serenity)

Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds)

Scar (The Lion King)

Hans Gruber! (Die Hard)

Charlotte Gainsbourg's vagina (Antichrist)

Edited December 18, 2009 by ROC

[Ruki]

1. Joker (Dark Knight)

2. Sylar (Heroes)

3. Ben (Lost)

4. T-1000 (Terminator 2)

5. Hitler (South Park)

6. Col. Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds)

7. Darth Vader (Star Wars)

8. The chicks father from Mall Rats (Mall Rats)

9. Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men) (hated the movie, but he was an awesome villian)

10. Team Rocket (Pokemon)

[ZJ Penn]

1 - Ivan Drago (Rocky IV)

2 - Hannibal Lector (Silence of the Lambs)

3 - Darth Vader (Star Wars)

4 - T-1000 (T2: Judgement Day)

5 - Jez Quigley (Corontation Street)(I'm assured he was a right bastard)

[GoGo Yubari]

... man, five is too few, I bet this is going to be hell to tally up. Mine'll come in a little bit after I get the chance to actually think about my answers because I looooove good villains.

[Rich]

1. Alien Queen (Aliens)

2. Warden Samuel Norton (Shawshank Redemption)

3. The Joker (Any and all Incarntations)

4. Mayor Richard Wilkins III (Buffy)

5. Gargamel (The Smurfs)

6. Auric Goldfinger (Bond, James Bond)

7. Amon Goth (Schindler's List)

8. Daniel Plainview (There Will be Blood)

9. "Verbal" Kint/Keyser Soze (Usual Suspects)

10. Hans Gruber (Die Hard)

[Kaney]

I'm trying to come up with five, apart from going the obvious route like Darth Vader or The Joker, but it's fucking hard. Hans Landa from Inglourious Basterds would definitely be in there somewhere. Keyser Soze (Usual Suspects) and maybe Hans Gruber (Die Hard) at a stretch.

[GoGo Yubari]

... fuck, Hans Gruber. Stop making this harder, Kaney!

[Sousa]

Yeah, can we get ten? Ten would be easier.

[Draevyn]

Yeah, let's up this to ten. I wasn't sure I'd get enough interest to be able to do ten but it seems I have.

[GA!]

1. Ernst Stavro Blofeld (James Bond film series between From Russia With Love to Diamonds Are Forever)

2. Norman Bates (Psycho)

3. Jake Heke (Once Were Warriors)

4. Madame Medusa (The Rescuers)

5. Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)

[Jimmy]

I'll edit in my votes later, but I just wanted to pop into say when this list is done, can I call doing EWB's greatest [insert number] TV shows? I've wanted to do it for a while and finally have the time; but I'm not sure two lists at once would work.

1. The Joker (Dark Knight)

2. Number One/John Cavil (Battlestar Gallactica)

3. Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects)

4. Angelus (Buffy/Angel)

5. Sylar (Heroes)

6. The Alliance (Firefly)

7. Bill (Kill Bill)

8. Majin Buu (Dragon Ball Z)

9. Arvin Sloane (Alias)

10. Julian Sark (Alias)

[ZJ Penn]

Not Lex Luthor from Smallville.

[TKz]

Yeah, I loved Lex in Smallville but as far as villains go, I wouldn't rack him anywhere near the top. Dude spent most of his time walking the line between hero and villain. Hell, I'm pretty sure they killed him off partly just because his story had to either end in redemption or destruction seeing how close he and Clark were. (Plus Michael Rosenbaum leaving).

I'm going to go with my favourites as opposed to who I think are the best in terms of development and story blah. Otherwise it'll just be the usual suspects...

1. Xenomorph (Alien)

2. Angelus (Buffy/Angel)

3. Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs)

4. Jack Torrance (The Shining)

5. The Operative (Serenity)

6. The Joker (The Dark Knight)

7. Bill (Kill Bill)

8. The Terminator (Terminator)

9. Magneto (X-Men)

10. Benjamin Linus (Lost)

[GoGo Yubari]

1. Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

2. Hans Gruber (Die Hard)

3. Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men)

4. Col. Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds)

5. Eve Harrington (All About Eve)

6. Antwon Mitchell (The Shield)

7. Legato Bluesummers (Trigun)

8. Gogo Yubari (Kill Bill)

9. Russell "Stringer" Bell (The Wire)

10. Ralph Cifaretto (The Sopranos)

List subject to change a million goddamn times over.

EDIT: For the sake of debate, I don't really get listing Bill. What he does in the flashback is horrible, but then we actually get to him in the present and in my mind Elle Driver is really the biggest villain in the story and the only reason I have Gogo here and not her is because, well. EWB namesake.

EDIT II: The Operative tempts me in a big way, though.

[Jimmy]

I don't know, I guess it's because he orchastrated the whole thing. Without Bill, none of those villians would've meant half us much - I guess. And GoGo was quality. Plus, I really wanted someone from KillBill on my list.