Best. Villain. Ever.
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So many to choose from. Vader seems to be the hands down favorite. But there's only one that ever pops into the top of my head when someone says "favorite villain."
The Penguin.
Why? At first because he's so striking visually. A chubby little guy with a big nose dressed to the nines and carrying an umbrella. And he's smart and sophisticated. But most of all, because of his background: he was tormented a lot as a kid and he had everything that he ever cared about taken away from him. He became so bitter and despondant that he turned to a life of crime. I can relate. There but for the grace of God go I. If a villain makes you think that, then they've got to be good.
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BLAAAHhh. Vader was OKAY, but he wasn't scary. I don't know, maybe I had nerves of steel when I was 5 years old, but the only thing Vader made me do, was drape a blanket over my shoulders and try to have a deep voice. Scary? No. Menacing? Only to his inferiors. The only really good BAD GUY qualites was his ability to kill without remorse and his intelligence. The killing without remorse seemed more humorous than scary.
Whatever effect the combination of his two qualities had, has only be reinvented in exemplified and multiplied through Scorpius in Farscape, which quadruples all of Vader's villiany qualities with the intelligence of an evil Mr. Spock, and more cunning than them both. Tack onto the end that Scorpius actually thinks he's doing something good with his evilness, and you have a three-dimensionality to his characer not evident in Vader, only consumed with serving his master and the dark evil of the force.
Scorpius wins best villian ever, hands down. Vader was improved a bit in his ruthlessness in Episode 3, but Lucas' sheer inability to explain his way of thinking at the end of the movie, coupled with Hayden's inability to deliver the lines without sounding like an adolescent child, ruined whatever lasting improvements on the character the movie was making.
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Scorpius wins best villian ever, hands down.
I absolutely agree, with this statement and the rest of your post. Except the part where you weren't scared of Vader as a kid. The bit where he chokes the guy at the Empire meeting ("I find your lack of faith disturbing") freaked the hell out of me. But now, post-prequels, all I see is a cool suit over a whining pansy.
My top 3 list (revised and definitive):
) Scorpius
) Dr. Hannibal Lector
) Lex Luthor"Be ashamed to die before you have scored some victory for humanity." -- Horace Mann
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You people wouldn't know a villain if (s)he sat on your laps.
1.)Snidely Whiplash, nemesis of Dudley Do-Right. You can't get eviller than tying Little Nell to the train tracks.
2.)Boris Badenoff with honorable mention to Natasha Fatale and Fearless Leader
Honorable mention to Cruella DeVille for the whole puppy thing.
And no, DIETCOKE, Blue Velvet is not a porno flick. Go rent it. You'll see.
To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. --Robt. Heinlein
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Now being commentary junkies that we are we are watching all these special features, in one they are talking about the design of the "Alien" creature. The physical look was based on a series of art from this artist whose name I cannot recall right now. Anyway, during the commentary it came out that the artist was quite the opium user. He also admitted that he was quite frightened by his own work.
His name is H.R. Geiger, and his work is VERY bizzare. But also cool (scary-cool)
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The real-life box droppin', man-ape gone wrong thing, now without the pesky falling boxes
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Favourite villians? Simple. Auric Goldfinger. Willing to kill MILLIONS just to become richer. He didn't care about anyone execept himself, and that's one of the requirements in my mind for a good villian.
Another one is from a book series. Andrew Warneke, from the book Honor Among Enemies, by David Weber. I mean, NUKING a CITY just to show that you MIGHT do it again, simply to show you have a BARGAINING CHIP?!?
And finally, Niska. I mean, seriously. You don't believe me? What about that scene when he chops Mal's ear off as a 'rebate'? That's SERIOUS VILLIAN STUFF there, people!
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Auric Goldfinger. Willing to kill MILLIONS just to become richer.
Is that in the book? In the movie he (ordered) painted a girl to death, crushed a guy in a car, perhaps killed several other minor characters I don't remember, gassed the soldiers outside @Fort Knox, shot the soldiers inside, and left a small but dirty nuclear bomb to explode & be contained within the confines of Fort Knox. It wasn't even supposed to destroy the gold, let alone the fort, merely contaminate it. I remember hundreds, not millions. But I still support your nomination of him as a great villain.
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Top Dollar in The Crow. By far. Without a doubt. I also have a soft spot for Skank the speed freak.
I'll Explain my love for Top$. He had no agenda. No plan or cause. He burned the city once a year for the fun of it! Art for art's sake. Becoming a kingpin was a side-effect. He would have shattered the world just to see if it made a pretty noise. And let's not forget his respons to the death of his henchmen "By all means, let's have a moment of silence for poor ol' Tin-Tin" ***SNORT*** Pure evil by temperment, not design.
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
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The Return of the Jedi emperor hands down. He was so very evil. He not only would kill everyone in the Rebel alliance he even wanted to turn Luke evil. He'd even kill his right hand man in the process. And the way he just reveled in the evil deeds he did. He loved the horror on Luke's face when he heard about all his friends being in utter peril. He enjoyed cultivating the hate and fear in Luke. All his lines were perfect too. His Return of the Jedi performance is almost all quoatable lines of evily goodness.
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Thought I'd see what folks thought on this one........John Locke from LOST. One of the greatest characters ever.
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