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The Top 15 Greatest Movie Villains of the Last 25 Years
Posted on 3/19/15 at 12:34 am
Posted on 3/19/15 at 12:34 am
This is, of course, a subjective list filled to the brim with my own personal opinions. You don't have to agree but let's try and keep discussion (if there is any) borderline civil. While I have the number listed at 15 movie villains, there might be a film where multiple villains will be honored. So let's not nitpick about there being more than 15. The number 15 just looks better than 16 or 17.
So let's begin:
15. The Hijackers, United 93 (2006)
The first example of a film featuring multiple villains on this list, United 93 tells the true story of the flight that fought back on September 11, 2001. Suicide pilot Ziad Jarrah (Khalid Abdullah) and muscle hijackers Saeed Al Ghamdi (Lewis Alsamari), Ahmed Al Haznawi (Omar Berdouni), and Ahmed Al Nami (Jamie Harding) are four of the scariest additions on this list. Firstly because they were real people and secondly because they looked so unassuming and non-threatening until their true natures were shown to the terrified passengers of Flight 93. After seeing this movie you come to the frightening realization that pure evil could literally be sitting right behind you without anyone having the first clue.
14. The Shredder, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Perhaps it's because of nostalgia, perhaps it's because I've got bad taste in film, but I so desperately love the original 1990 Turtles rendition of The Shredder (James Saito). From the very first time we are fully introduced to him to his final battle against Leo, Raph, Donnie, Michael and Splinter, Shredder tears up the scenery with each passing frame. His presence and actions tested the limits of the PG-rating in 1990 and gave us all a villain to remember. It's a shame they killed him off in the sequel. The Super Shredder idea was pretty awesome and I only wish the filmmakers could have explored it for more than 30 seconds and extended it into the third film.
13. Billy Loomis & Stu Macher, Scream (1996)
The Scream franchise has had its fair share of memorable villains, but perhaps none moreso then the original pair of Ghostface killers, Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard). A pair of psychopaths looking to create their own real-life slasher film where the villains get away with it so they can kill again in the "sequel," Billy and Stu are two of slasher cinema's most iconic villains. While their mask is more famous then their actual personas, when they reveal themselves in the film's final act you can't help but appreciate just how awesomely evil these two psychos are.
12. Darth Maul, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
If there is one thing that George Lucas is consistent with, it's wasting the potential of some awesome supporting characters. We saw that in the original trilogy with Bobba Fett and we saw it again in the prequel trilogy with Darth Maul (Ray Park). A man of few words, Darth Maul is all menace with his scowling facial expressions and skill with the duel-bladed lightsaber. He is easily one of the only good things about this movie which is a testament to how awesome this villain is that he makes the list. So loved by the fans was Maul that he was subsequently resurrected from his death by the Star Wars Universe novels as well as the still-canon Star Wars: Clone Wars.
11. Emperor Commodus, Gladiator (2000)
What a douche. Those were the only words that ran through my mind whenever Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) was on-screen the first time I saw Gladiator. While I wouldn't necessarily call Commodus an evil man, he definitely was a boy who had serious daddy issues. So much so that he killed him when his father refused to name him as his heir. Blood-thirsty, petulant, incestuous, whatever you want to remember him as, Commodus was most certainly a worthy adversary for Maximus, the film's protagonist. The performance scored Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar nomination as well as sparked a brilliant career that continues to this day.
10. Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2011)
One of the greatest antagonists of modern literature, Lord Voldemort, was ably brought to the screen by the producers of the Harry Potter franchise. Appearing in the flesh in 4 of the 8 films, Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) shines brightest in the series's climax. With a personality as cold as his heart, and with an eye bent on world domination and genocide, Voldemort is your classic stereotypical megalomaniacal screen villain. However it is Fiennes's truly incredible performance that lifts this villain into the realm of extraordinary. Fiennes has a knack for playing the villain, which is why this will not be his last appearance on this list.
09. Agent Norman Stansfield, Leon: The Professional (1994)
The main antagonist of this under appreciated 1994 action thriller also happens to be played by one of Hollywood's most under appreciated actors. Corrupt DEA Agent Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman), makes an explosive first impression when he kills an entire family while preaching on the importance of such classical composers as Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms. This drugged up and effed up psychopath proves a worthy challenge to the film's heroes and also proves to be the film's most memorable and interesting character. If you haven't seen The Professional, you are definitely missing out on a classic performance by the one and only Gary Oldman.
08. King Edward I, Braveheart (1995)
History is much kinder to King Edward I (Patrick McGoohan) then Mel Gibson's sweeping 1995 epic, Braveheart. While history remembers Edward I as being one of medieval England's greatest kings, Mel Gibson tells us the story of a ruthless monarch who puts down potential peasant squabbles by preemptively hanging their leaders. He also tells us the story of a king who abuses his homosexual heir, kills his son's boyfriends, and secretly plans sexual encounters with his son's French wife. All while also granting his Scottish nobles sexual rights to newly wed females who reside on their lands. Can this guy get any crueler? Oh, yeah! He has our hero put to death. What a douchebag!
So let's begin:
15. The Hijackers, United 93 (2006)
The first example of a film featuring multiple villains on this list, United 93 tells the true story of the flight that fought back on September 11, 2001. Suicide pilot Ziad Jarrah (Khalid Abdullah) and muscle hijackers Saeed Al Ghamdi (Lewis Alsamari), Ahmed Al Haznawi (Omar Berdouni), and Ahmed Al Nami (Jamie Harding) are four of the scariest additions on this list. Firstly because they were real people and secondly because they looked so unassuming and non-threatening until their true natures were shown to the terrified passengers of Flight 93. After seeing this movie you come to the frightening realization that pure evil could literally be sitting right behind you without anyone having the first clue.
14. The Shredder, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Perhaps it's because of nostalgia, perhaps it's because I've got bad taste in film, but I so desperately love the original 1990 Turtles rendition of The Shredder (James Saito). From the very first time we are fully introduced to him to his final battle against Leo, Raph, Donnie, Michael and Splinter, Shredder tears up the scenery with each passing frame. His presence and actions tested the limits of the PG-rating in 1990 and gave us all a villain to remember. It's a shame they killed him off in the sequel. The Super Shredder idea was pretty awesome and I only wish the filmmakers could have explored it for more than 30 seconds and extended it into the third film.
13. Billy Loomis & Stu Macher, Scream (1996)
The Scream franchise has had its fair share of memorable villains, but perhaps none moreso then the original pair of Ghostface killers, Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard). A pair of psychopaths looking to create their own real-life slasher film where the villains get away with it so they can kill again in the "sequel," Billy and Stu are two of slasher cinema's most iconic villains. While their mask is more famous then their actual personas, when they reveal themselves in the film's final act you can't help but appreciate just how awesomely evil these two psychos are.
12. Darth Maul, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
If there is one thing that George Lucas is consistent with, it's wasting the potential of some awesome supporting characters. We saw that in the original trilogy with Bobba Fett and we saw it again in the prequel trilogy with Darth Maul (Ray Park). A man of few words, Darth Maul is all menace with his scowling facial expressions and skill with the duel-bladed lightsaber. He is easily one of the only good things about this movie which is a testament to how awesome this villain is that he makes the list. So loved by the fans was Maul that he was subsequently resurrected from his death by the Star Wars Universe novels as well as the still-canon Star Wars: Clone Wars.
11. Emperor Commodus, Gladiator (2000)
What a douche. Those were the only words that ran through my mind whenever Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) was on-screen the first time I saw Gladiator. While I wouldn't necessarily call Commodus an evil man, he definitely was a boy who had serious daddy issues. So much so that he killed him when his father refused to name him as his heir. Blood-thirsty, petulant, incestuous, whatever you want to remember him as, Commodus was most certainly a worthy adversary for Maximus, the film's protagonist. The performance scored Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar nomination as well as sparked a brilliant career that continues to this day.
10. Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2011)
One of the greatest antagonists of modern literature, Lord Voldemort, was ably brought to the screen by the producers of the Harry Potter franchise. Appearing in the flesh in 4 of the 8 films, Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) shines brightest in the series's climax. With a personality as cold as his heart, and with an eye bent on world domination and genocide, Voldemort is your classic stereotypical megalomaniacal screen villain. However it is Fiennes's truly incredible performance that lifts this villain into the realm of extraordinary. Fiennes has a knack for playing the villain, which is why this will not be his last appearance on this list.
09. Agent Norman Stansfield, Leon: The Professional (1994)
The main antagonist of this under appreciated 1994 action thriller also happens to be played by one of Hollywood's most under appreciated actors. Corrupt DEA Agent Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman), makes an explosive first impression when he kills an entire family while preaching on the importance of such classical composers as Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms. This drugged up and effed up psychopath proves a worthy challenge to the film's heroes and also proves to be the film's most memorable and interesting character. If you haven't seen The Professional, you are definitely missing out on a classic performance by the one and only Gary Oldman.
08. King Edward I, Braveheart (1995)
History is much kinder to King Edward I (Patrick McGoohan) then Mel Gibson's sweeping 1995 epic, Braveheart. While history remembers Edward I as being one of medieval England's greatest kings, Mel Gibson tells us the story of a ruthless monarch who puts down potential peasant squabbles by preemptively hanging their leaders. He also tells us the story of a king who abuses his homosexual heir, kills his son's boyfriends, and secretly plans sexual encounters with his son's French wife. All while also granting his Scottish nobles sexual rights to newly wed females who reside on their lands. Can this guy get any crueler? Oh, yeah! He has our hero put to death. What a douchebag!
This post was edited on 3/19/15 at 12:36 am
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Posted on 3/19/15 at 12:34 am to RollTide1987
07. Colonel Hans Landa, Inglourious Basterds (2009)
A man who knows the answer to his question before he even asks it, a man who can appear pleasant company one moment before becoming your worst nightmare the next, a man who is just so evil that it makes himself giddy, SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) is one bad dude. Known by the nickname, "The Jew Hunter," Landa spends most of the movie hunting and intimidating a young Jewish girl whom he let escape his clutches in the film's opening stanza. Along the way he encounters many side quests, including one which involves the film's main protagonists. Besides being breathtakingly evil, Landa is also extremely intelligent with an amazing gift for foresight, as the film's last act proves to us. Waltz's incredible performance earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
06. Anton Chigurh, No Country For Old Men (2007)
A hitman for hire tears up south Texas with reckless abandon, searching ruthlessly for stolen drug money. The man's name is Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) and he proves to be the most memorable piece of a sprawling western, directed by the Coen Brothers, based on the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. Armed with a pressurized air container that shoots a lethal dose of suckage at his victims, Chigurh is definitely a man you don't want to encounter - as so many characters in this film so horribly find out. He first strangles a cop with handcuffs, then kills an innocent motorist on the side of the road, intimidates a gas station clerk, and chases our main protagonist all over Texas with intent to kill. He also kills a few other unfortunate souls along the way. Is this a man or a force of nature? Bardem's performance was indeed something of a force of nature as it won him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
05. Agent Smith, The Matrix (1999)
Nothing speaks evil more clearly than a sentient malware blocker. This is essentially what Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) is in the classic sci-fi film, The Matrix. Smith wants more than to merely keep freed humans from re-entering the world created by the Matrix to assist their fellow humans in escaping it. He wants to stop the problem at its source by destroying Zion, the human safe haven in the real world. This leads him into direct contact with our heroes. Smith is cunning, intelligent, cruel, and diabolical. He wants to escape the limits of his programming which makes him a far more dangerous adversary then his other agents. Weaving pulls an amazing performance in what is the defining moment of his career.
04. Bill the Butcher, Gangs of New York (2002)
Ruthless. Racist. Xenophobic. Patriotic. Honorable. These words can easily sum the complex character that is Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis). In Martin Scorsese's Civil War period film, Gangs of New York, our nation's greatest city is controlled by rival gangs. The leading one, of course, is Bill's Natives. He and his gang rule over New York with an iron fist, frightening politicians, police and fire officials, as well as the lowly individuals who live in his area of influence. Anyone who stands in his way ends up with a butcher knife in his back. This was a role Day-Lewis was born to play and his performance earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. While probably not his greatest performance, it is definitely Day-Lewis's most villainous.
03. Amon Goeth, Schindler's List (1993)
One of history's most evil and sadistic men, Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), has his story chronicled in Steven Spielberg's 1993 masterpiece, Schindler's List. Goeth does not show up until about an hour into the movie and immediately makes an impact when he orders the execution of a Jewish engineer who is merely attempting to keep safety in mind while supervising the construction of a barracks that will house the Jewish workers. Things only get worse from there as he oversees the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto where thousands of Jews are slaughtered by his trigger happy stormtroopers. Once in the concentration camp which he oversees, Jews are picked off by a half-naked Goeth who uses them for target practice from the balcony of his villa. Most chilling of all, however, is how he behaves when he is not killing Jews. The man seems perfectly normal and even charming in front of the film's protagonist, Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson). Fiennes's performance earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, an award he should have won but did not.
02. The Joker, The Dark Knight (2008)
Of all the characters on this list, none is more explosive, more unpredictable, or more difficult to fathom than the criminal mastermind known simply as The Joker (Heath Ledger). While most of the villains on this list have an ultimate goal in mind: world domination, power, consolidation of power, money, etc., The Joker does what he does for the hell of it. There is no rhyme or reason to his madness and that makes him unique for an antagonist. Just when you think you have him figured out, such as the origin story concerning his scars and the revelation that he made a deal with the Chechen for half of the mob's money, he throws you a curveball. He tells another origin story about his scars. He burns the money he had won from the mob. He does everything for chaos and for kicks. Heath Ledger's performance won him a posthumous Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and boy did he deserve it. Ledger's performance is a benchmark for all other superhero movie antagonists to strive toward. Though it is doubtful that such a performance will ever be topped.
01. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The greatest movie villain of the last 25 years, and perhaps the greatest of all movie villains, is without a doubt Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) and his appearance in The Silence of the Lambs. While he is not the main antagonist of the film (that honor goes to serial killer Buffalo Bill), Lecter's chilling and downright horrific personality gives us a glimpse into the ultimate heart of darkness. Exceedingly intelligent and cunning, Lecter plays mind games with our hero, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and uses those mind games to unlock her deepest, darkest secrets in exchange for the identity of Buffalo Bill. His most memorable moment is without a doubt his brilliant escape from a Tennessee courthouse. He kills his guards, puts the face of one of them onto his own, and uses this "disguise" to escape the building in an ambulance. His final line in the film, "I'm having an old friend for dinner," sums up his witty and cannibalistic nature. For his performance, Hopkins won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for what was without a doubt his most iconic performance.
A man who knows the answer to his question before he even asks it, a man who can appear pleasant company one moment before becoming your worst nightmare the next, a man who is just so evil that it makes himself giddy, SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) is one bad dude. Known by the nickname, "The Jew Hunter," Landa spends most of the movie hunting and intimidating a young Jewish girl whom he let escape his clutches in the film's opening stanza. Along the way he encounters many side quests, including one which involves the film's main protagonists. Besides being breathtakingly evil, Landa is also extremely intelligent with an amazing gift for foresight, as the film's last act proves to us. Waltz's incredible performance earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
06. Anton Chigurh, No Country For Old Men (2007)
A hitman for hire tears up south Texas with reckless abandon, searching ruthlessly for stolen drug money. The man's name is Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) and he proves to be the most memorable piece of a sprawling western, directed by the Coen Brothers, based on the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. Armed with a pressurized air container that shoots a lethal dose of suckage at his victims, Chigurh is definitely a man you don't want to encounter - as so many characters in this film so horribly find out. He first strangles a cop with handcuffs, then kills an innocent motorist on the side of the road, intimidates a gas station clerk, and chases our main protagonist all over Texas with intent to kill. He also kills a few other unfortunate souls along the way. Is this a man or a force of nature? Bardem's performance was indeed something of a force of nature as it won him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
05. Agent Smith, The Matrix (1999)
Nothing speaks evil more clearly than a sentient malware blocker. This is essentially what Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) is in the classic sci-fi film, The Matrix. Smith wants more than to merely keep freed humans from re-entering the world created by the Matrix to assist their fellow humans in escaping it. He wants to stop the problem at its source by destroying Zion, the human safe haven in the real world. This leads him into direct contact with our heroes. Smith is cunning, intelligent, cruel, and diabolical. He wants to escape the limits of his programming which makes him a far more dangerous adversary then his other agents. Weaving pulls an amazing performance in what is the defining moment of his career.
04. Bill the Butcher, Gangs of New York (2002)
Ruthless. Racist. Xenophobic. Patriotic. Honorable. These words can easily sum the complex character that is Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis). In Martin Scorsese's Civil War period film, Gangs of New York, our nation's greatest city is controlled by rival gangs. The leading one, of course, is Bill's Natives. He and his gang rule over New York with an iron fist, frightening politicians, police and fire officials, as well as the lowly individuals who live in his area of influence. Anyone who stands in his way ends up with a butcher knife in his back. This was a role Day-Lewis was born to play and his performance earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. While probably not his greatest performance, it is definitely Day-Lewis's most villainous.
03. Amon Goeth, Schindler's List (1993)
One of history's most evil and sadistic men, Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), has his story chronicled in Steven Spielberg's 1993 masterpiece, Schindler's List. Goeth does not show up until about an hour into the movie and immediately makes an impact when he orders the execution of a Jewish engineer who is merely attempting to keep safety in mind while supervising the construction of a barracks that will house the Jewish workers. Things only get worse from there as he oversees the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto where thousands of Jews are slaughtered by his trigger happy stormtroopers. Once in the concentration camp which he oversees, Jews are picked off by a half-naked Goeth who uses them for target practice from the balcony of his villa. Most chilling of all, however, is how he behaves when he is not killing Jews. The man seems perfectly normal and even charming in front of the film's protagonist, Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson). Fiennes's performance earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, an award he should have won but did not.
02. The Joker, The Dark Knight (2008)
Of all the characters on this list, none is more explosive, more unpredictable, or more difficult to fathom than the criminal mastermind known simply as The Joker (Heath Ledger). While most of the villains on this list have an ultimate goal in mind: world domination, power, consolidation of power, money, etc., The Joker does what he does for the hell of it. There is no rhyme or reason to his madness and that makes him unique for an antagonist. Just when you think you have him figured out, such as the origin story concerning his scars and the revelation that he made a deal with the Chechen for half of the mob's money, he throws you a curveball. He tells another origin story about his scars. He burns the money he had won from the mob. He does everything for chaos and for kicks. Heath Ledger's performance won him a posthumous Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and boy did he deserve it. Ledger's performance is a benchmark for all other superhero movie antagonists to strive toward. Though it is doubtful that such a performance will ever be topped.
01. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The greatest movie villain of the last 25 years, and perhaps the greatest of all movie villains, is without a doubt Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) and his appearance in The Silence of the Lambs. While he is not the main antagonist of the film (that honor goes to serial killer Buffalo Bill), Lecter's chilling and downright horrific personality gives us a glimpse into the ultimate heart of darkness. Exceedingly intelligent and cunning, Lecter plays mind games with our hero, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and uses those mind games to unlock her deepest, darkest secrets in exchange for the identity of Buffalo Bill. His most memorable moment is without a doubt his brilliant escape from a Tennessee courthouse. He kills his guards, puts the face of one of them onto his own, and uses this "disguise" to escape the building in an ambulance. His final line in the film, "I'm having an old friend for dinner," sums up his witty and cannibalistic nature. For his performance, Hopkins won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for what was without a doubt his most iconic performance.
This post was edited on 3/19/15 at 12:39 am
Posted on 3/19/15 at 12:37 am to RollTide1987
I'd have Chigurh higher and I would consider having John Doe on the list. Spacey's role was so small, but he nailed it.
This post was edited on 3/19/15 at 1:03 am
Posted on 3/19/15 at 12:48 am to RollTide1987
quote:don't think I would call him a villian
Bill the Butcher, Gangs of New York (2002
quote:no
The Hijackers, United 93 (2006)
This post was edited on 3/19/15 at 12:49 am
Posted on 3/19/15 at 1:04 am to jeff5891
13,14,and 15 are pretty crappy choices, but otherwise a pretty solid list. You might quibble on the order, but most of 1-12 belong there.
I'd probably add Keyser Soze from Usual Suspects and Bale in American Psycho over the last 3 on the list. And I'm sure there are a number of others that will hit me later that belong on there over those three.
I'd probably add Keyser Soze from Usual Suspects and Bale in American Psycho over the last 3 on the list. And I'm sure there are a number of others that will hit me later that belong on there over those three.
This post was edited on 3/19/15 at 1:07 am
Posted on 3/19/15 at 1:07 am to RollTide1987
quote:
01. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
I really don't know why Hannibal Lecter is seen as one of the greatest villains of all times, but Buffalo Bill isn't. Buffalo Bill is way more terrifying to me than Lecter, not to mention Lecter is a supporting protagonist in Silence of the Lambs. I really think it's insane to mention him that much in the subject of great villains, when Bill is rarely mentioned.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 1:08 am to jeff5891
quote:
don't think I would call him a villian
Bill is clearly the antagonist, even if he is affably evil. Hannibal Lecter clearly isn't the antagonist in that movie.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 1:18 am to OMLandshark
Ted Levine nailed that role. He was unfortunately and fortunately in the same film as Hopkins and foster in very definitive roles. But yeah, his quotes are just as memorable. Also, his voice imo contributes to the creepyness factor of his character.
This post was edited on 3/19/15 at 1:30 am
Posted on 3/19/15 at 1:26 am to OMLandshark
quote:
Hannibal Lecter clearly isn't the antagonist in that movie.
What is he if not an antagonist? He's definitely not a hero nor is he an anti-hero. Those kind of people do not brutally murder cops and paramedics, nor do they cut off their faces and put them over their own.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 1:29 am to OMLandshark
As for my Top 15 in the past 25 years:
1) Annie Wilkes (Misery) (1990)
2) The Joker (The Dark Knight) (2008)
3) Anton Chigurh (No Country for Old Men) (2007)
4) Amon Goeth (Schindler's List) (1993)
5) Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds) (2009)
6) Captain Vidal (Pan's Labyrinth) (2006)
7) Agent Smith (The Matrix) (1999)
8) Norman Stansfield (The Professional) (1998)
9) Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs) (1991)
10) Commodus (Gladiator) (2000)
11) Judge Claude Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) (1996)
12) Bill the Butcher (Gangs of New York) (2002)
13) Lotso (Toy Story 3) (2010)
14) Scar (The Lion King) (1994)
15) Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) (1997)
1) Annie Wilkes (Misery) (1990)
2) The Joker (The Dark Knight) (2008)
3) Anton Chigurh (No Country for Old Men) (2007)
4) Amon Goeth (Schindler's List) (1993)
5) Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds) (2009)
6) Captain Vidal (Pan's Labyrinth) (2006)
7) Agent Smith (The Matrix) (1999)
8) Norman Stansfield (The Professional) (1998)
9) Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs) (1991)
10) Commodus (Gladiator) (2000)
11) Judge Claude Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) (1996)
12) Bill the Butcher (Gangs of New York) (2002)
13) Lotso (Toy Story 3) (2010)
14) Scar (The Lion King) (1994)
15) Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) (1997)
Posted on 3/19/15 at 1:33 am to RollTide1987
quote:
What is he if not an antagonist? He's definitely not a hero nor is he an anti-hero. Those kind of people do not brutally murder cops and paramedics, nor do they cut off their faces and put them over their own.
He's villainous in nature, but I find it laughable to compare him to Captain Vidal, who bashes an innocent's face in with a wine bottle and is clearly against everyone in the film. The fact that Vidal does similarly horrifying stuff and is clearly the main obstacle for our protagonist by default makes him the better villain.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 2:06 am to auyushu
quote:
13,14,and 15 are pretty crappy choices
I agree except for 13. Billy and Stu from Scream are almost damn near iconic, they are great villains and certain better than fricking Darth Maul who sits at 12.
But the rest of the list is solid. I would throw in Scar from the Lion King and Buffalo Bill. I also would consider JK Simmons character in Whiplash to belong on the list as well.
The goats are the Joker, Hans Landa and Amon Goeth though. Just characters that will stand the test of time. Oh and Lecter isn't a villain. He's a fantastic character, but not a villain.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 2:08 am to WicKed WayZ
quote:
Billy and Stu from Scream are almost damn near iconic
They are copies of imitations.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 2:20 am to SEClint
No Shooter Mcgavin on that list is a joke!
Posted on 3/19/15 at 2:26 am to SEClint
liver alone
Posted on 3/19/15 at 2:57 am to RollTide1987
quote:
14. The Shredder, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Love TMNT but nah. Can't be a that great of a villain if all you were really doing was turning punk kids into petty criminals.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 3:02 am to saintsfan22
If it wasn't aimed at kids nowadays, and they were true to form..Oroku Saki would be one badass character.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 3:56 am to SEClint
Bill the butcher wasn't a villain to me 
Posted on 3/19/15 at 6:19 am to dead money
True
Posted on 3/19/15 at 7:22 am to RollTide1987
I agree with 5 of the top 6 - Agent Smith deserves to be on the list but not this high.
I'm trying to think of my order of the other 5:
Chigurh
Joker
Hannibal
Bill the Butcher
Goeth
There's just no clear #1 so the list is tough - so that's my rough order from greatest - but my preference for No Country and the Coens probably biases my number 1 - probably seen it much more recently than the others.
As far as Smith - a great performance and a great villain, but I just don't see him above Landa or some of the others further down the list. Landa is probably just outside my Top 5.
I'm trying to think of my order of the other 5:
Chigurh
Joker
Hannibal
Bill the Butcher
Goeth
There's just no clear #1 so the list is tough - so that's my rough order from greatest - but my preference for No Country and the Coens probably biases my number 1 - probably seen it much more recently than the others.
As far as Smith - a great performance and a great villain, but I just don't see him above Landa or some of the others further down the list. Landa is probably just outside my Top 5.
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