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Best Villain of All Time

I'm gonna try to resist the obvious Darth Vader because it's sort of a thread killer.

I'm going with the Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator from Terminator (1984) and runner up I would probably go Agent Smith from the Matrix (1999)

How about y'alls out there

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Used tmoviesh movies more back-in-the-day but can't say I was necessarily a huge-movie-buff

One that comes to mind is the old-guy with the mustache in the old Clint Eastwood westerns

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Gotta go with either Jack Nicholson's Joker or Anthony Hopkins Hannibal Lechter
Female villianess it's gotta be Louise Fletcher as Nurse Rached or Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery

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twentyfive

@Papi that would be lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes

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Hans Gruber in Die Hard

There could be a category by itself for Bond Villains

Auric Goldfinger is the most memorable even though Blofeld might be more “villainous”

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Papi_Chulo

SJG

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shailynn

I have 2 off the wall:

Denzel Washington in TRAINING DAY.

The bad guy in the movie EQUALIZER also with Denzel Washington. His name is Marton Csokas.

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nicespice

Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight
Helena Bonham Carter when she played Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter movies

Agree with the Training Day and Cookoo Nest characters already mentioned as well

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kilgoretrout12

The remorseless Killing of your own henchmen is of course de riguer. See Bane, Joker, Zorin, and just about every batman/007 villain going.

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Ayn Rand

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ElDuderino_AZ

Jack Nicholson as the Joker was so bad ass.

Did anybody ever watch season 2 of Fargo? Mike Flanagan played by Bokeem Woodbine was fucking awesome.

Christopher Walken has a really short appearance in Quentin Tarantino's best movie (TRUE ROMANCE), but he was fantastic.

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TFP

I liked Shailynn's reference of Denzel in Training Day. Along those same lines, I gotta go with Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen. Dude went full psycho on everyone involved in his family's death.

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tommy lee jones in under siege.

the head bank robber in killing zoe.

the maniac killer in boondock saints.

chains in stone cold (brian bosworth movie).

bryan cranston in breaking bad.

malcolm mcdowell in a clockwork orange.

michael chiklis in the shield.

al pacino scarface.

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Huntsman

Hopkins as Hannibal Lechter for men. Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction for best female villain.

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SanchoRG

Pennywise the clown (V1)

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whodey

Not sure I co

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whodey

Can a lack of an edit button count as a villain??

Not sure I could pick just one.

Heath Ledger as the Joker
Javier Bardem's character in No Country for Old Men
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
Cathy Bates in Misery
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger
Malcolm McDowell's character in A Clockwork Orange
Denzel Washington in Training Day

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pistola

Anton from No Country For Old Men.

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I'll go with Indio character in spaghetti western "For A few Dollars More", played by Jean Marie Volante.( yes, that's his name). Lee Van Cleef plays the good guy dressed in black, teaming up with Clint Eastwood to catch Indio. So many good scenes in that one, with the final duel being a classic.

I'll give Christopher Walken honorable mention for his role in "True Romance", and as Bond Villian in "View To A Kill."

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shailynn

thought of two more - like kilgoretrout12 mentioned, when these characters killed their own henchmen, they are on another level of crazy - and both these characters did that:

Gary Oldman in Leon: The Professional

Tchéky Karyo in Kiss the Dragon

both these guys were playing corrupt cops, go figure!

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Hank Moody

Some really good ones so far. I’ll add:

Ramsey Bolton (made Theon Greyjoy the good guy)
Phil Leotardo
John Malkovich’s character in In the Line of Fire

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datinman

Laurence Olivier as a Nazi dentist in Marathon Man. That scene still haunts me twice a year when I get my cleanings.

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TFP

Most of the movies listed are fiction, not sure if we can include biopics. But if so, I'm gonna say Laurence Fishburne's portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love got to do with it. Damn, he played that role so well it was hard to see him as a good guy in any movie after that.

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ElDuderino_AZ

Been thinking about this some more, really good call on Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men.

Gotta add Kevin Space in The Usual Suspects and Se7en.

Edward Longshanks - Braveheart

Everybody not played by Michael Douglas in Falling Down (he's the good guy, damn it!)

The Irish priest in either season 3 or 4 of Peaky Blinders. That dude was ruthless.

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ElDuderino_AZ

Another really good villain: time.

I get the feeling a lot of people haven't seen a movie called "Buried". That...is a mistake.

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aham5

VADER
Joker
Thanos

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Supremeruler

Thanos

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Supremeruler

Other great villains

Joker
Magneto
Vader
The Monstars

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skibum609

Charles Davis - he played Scorpio - the Villain in Dirty Harry - Most realistic psycho.
Maureen McCormack who plays Rhoda in the original version of The Bad Seed - you know a character is evil when an entire movie theater applauds when a nine year old girl finally dies at the end. This is an old black and white movie and the character is evil personified; push an old lady down the stairs, lock the handyman in the basement and burn him alive etc.

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Kevin Spacey as John Doe in Seven
The Tim Curry bad guy in Criminal Minds also as Richelieu in 3 Musketeers
Norman Bates in Psycho

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I agree with Kevin Spacey in Seven, Denzel in Training Day, Arnold in The Terminator - all great performances as villains!

I also agree with Kathy Bates in Misery.

I have been watching the early seasons of a streaming series called Outlander - and there is a character Black Jack Randall - and the actor who plays the role is excellent in creating a character who appears to be a brutal sadist - and who is also a homosexual.

There was a character in 8 mm who I remember as just awful - and who acted as though he enjoyed the act of killing the girls at the end of the snuff films.

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ElDuderino_AZ

Wait...nobody has mentioned the wicked witch? Go ahead and kill all the people you want. But threaten the "little dog, too", and it's on you ugly green mole-y bitch.

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twentyfive

Talk about a bad guy how about Tony Soprano, his true colors revealed when he killed Tony Blundetto, and if that wasn't enough how about the cold blooded he killed his nephew Christopher in that car wreck.

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Studme53

Tim Roth’s character in the movie Rob Roy was a really interesting, detestable and believable villain

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NinaBambina

I don't think ppl like Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad or Al Pacino from Scarface should count, they're main protagonists.

Actually, I'll put Breaking Bad's antagonist villain Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) as a great villain.

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ElDuderino_AZ

From Breaking Bad I think I the villain was that bitch of a wife. Holy cow I hated that character.

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Cashman1234

This might be a bit obscure - but there was a movie with Kevin Bacon called Murder in the First. The prison warden was played by Gary Oldman and he is a true miserable villain. Some scenes from that movie are painful to watch.

@JustintoLook - that dentist in the movie Marathon Man haunted me for years! “Is it safe?” Then hearing the dental drill! Omg!!

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gobstopper007

Oldman was just sadistic. Think Cool Hand Luke warden pms’ing

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3131

sjg is the worst villain of tuscl

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crosscheck

I always thought Clancy Brown was great as The Kurgan in the original Highlander. That was a great villain.

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Cashman1234

3131 If it was the creepiest villain - SJG would get more than enough votes.

His photos of TJ girls show how disturbed he has become. I’m sure he’s jerking off to the photos he posts.

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TFP

@Nina Gus was a cold as villain! Nigga was just untouchable. Well, until Walt finally got him.

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Papi_Chulo

Rutger Hauer in the 1986 movie "The Hitcher" starring C Thomas Howel

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loper

Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. No redeeming qualities.

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san_jose_guy

That is a really scary and disturbing movie!

SJG

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misterorange

"I don't think ppl like Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad or Al Pacino from Scarface should count, they're main protagonists."

@NinaBambina, I agree, but...

Michael Corleone ordering a hit on his own brother in Godfather 2? That is some cold blooded shit right there.

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Muddy

Alright one more how about Aguirre in Aguirre the Wrath of God. Some Werner Herzog movie. Klaus Klinski being a lunatic in real life I think really adds a realness to it.

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Papi_Chulo

Yosemite Sam

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Call.Me.Ishmael

Kevin Spacey carries the added qualification of not actually needing to be in front of a camera to be a bad guy.

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misterorange

How about Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen?

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rattdog

eli wallach in the good. the bad and the ugly played a real good scuzzbag.

female villian - glenn close fatal attraction

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@misterorange I can see you haven't read the previous comments. But obviously I agree lol.

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TxVegas

Kaiser Soze (kills his own family to make a point)
Hanibal Lecter (just super creepy)

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Chilli_Powdurr

my wifes boyfriend is a really mean villan.

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gammanu95

I'm going with the villains you cheer for:

Heisenberg aka Walter White (Breaking Bad)

Det. Vic Mackey (The Shield)

Honorable mentions:

Jackson Teller (Sons of Anarchy)

Thanos (MCEU), because Josh Brolin portrayed him brilliantly as both the sympathetic visionary who sought to save the universe by killing half of it and sacrificing his own daughter in Infinity War, and an earlier version of the same character as the bloodthirsty narcissist who sought the same end without the sacrifice by remaking reality in his own image in Endgame.

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gammanu95

Let's make believe there is an edit button, and overwrite my previous answers with the two most insidious villains of all time: Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

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shadowcat

Wile E. Coyote!

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ElDuderino_AZ

^ WTF? Wile E. Coyote was the good guy. That arrogant, taunting roadrunner was the real prick. That, and Acme and it's neverending list of failing products.

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gammanu95

^yeah, I always cheered for Wile E. Coyote and Tom from Tom & Jerry.

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ElDuderino_AZ

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Daniel Larusso. What a horrible human being.

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TheeOSU

"Michael Corleone ordering a hit on his own brother in Godfather 2? That is some cold blooded shit right there."

The fact that his bro set up a failed hit on him made his choice for revenge a little easier.

Anyway I scanned through this thread pretty quickly and Lecter's been mentioned a few times but at least he was charming and refined. I don't think that his fan Buffalo Bill who was just plain creepy was mentioned.

Also re: Lecter, his other fan in the Michael Mann film Manhunter was pretty vile in his own right.

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Studme53

loped - Pesci in Goodfellas was a good villain - but he had a redeeming quality - he was funny !

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Cashman1234

Speaking of the Road Runner - and Wyle E. Coyote. I still avoid shopping at Acme stores! If that company couldn’t get its explosives to work properly - I’m not taking a chance with anything they sell!

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DeclineToState

Most of the good ones are taken, so I’ll add that twat Prince/King Geoffrey in Game of Thrones.

And as an aside, best roadrunner episode: “Wile E Coyote, Super Genius. I like the sound of that. Wile E Coyote, Sooopperr Genius.”

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