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Topic is in and of itself, who is the most despicable/despised/evil villain you have ever seen in a movie or a television show? Please give a reason too-I'm just curious, and this is started by the "video game villain" thread. Obviously, spoilers are llikely if you haven't seen the particular movie or show yet. My personal "most despicable" is Helen Cutter from Primeval. She sets about to destroy the first hominids in season three, after lying to her boyfriend and putting him in a position where he is chomped down by raptors AND after shooting her husband point blank in the chest, killing him, after he rescues her from a burning building. Thankfully she dies in season 3, but her legacy lives on...

Movie wise, I'd go with Kevin Spacey in Se7en. A religious fanatic who is willing to kill and destroy people (innocents, even if he doesn't believe so) to prove his point of humanity's failure and preach his version of God's message.

I have to go with pretty much everyone that V killed in the movie V for Vendetta (and I presume the comic it was based on, but I've only ever seen the movie). Creedy, Sutler, Prothero and Lilliman all scream "fething donkey-cave," and it was really satisfying to see V kill them all over the course of the movie.

Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes 2. He almost started WW1 just to make money!

Have seen few movies but i'd say,

Toby from paranormal activity (The ghost/daemon)
He mercylessly kills and tortures many innocents and those who have seen the movies will agree he's an utter donkey-cave.

Weyland-Utani. They were willing to repeatedly sacrifice the lives of valuable scientists, soldiers and hapless starship crew just to get samples of the Xenomorphs for their weapons development program. That's right, the Xenomorphs aren't villainous monsters any more than the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, they are just animals, following their instincts.

Harry Lime from The Third Man. Steals penicillin from military hospitals, dilutes, and then sells it back to other hospitals that are in dire need of penicillin in post-war Berlin. The tainted penicillin causes a lot of deaths, especially among children.

Cliched but Darth Sideous springs to mind.

Charles Muntz (UP) Evil guy wants to kill a beautiful bird and almost kills another old man (his biggest fan) and a little kid

Coolyo294 wrote:Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes 2. He almost started WW1 just to make money!

no no no... Moriarty from "League of Extraordinary Gentelmen" because he almost started WW1 to make money! hehehe

Alan Rickman in Robin Hood because he tells his followers to cancel Christmas.

Joffrey Baratheon comes to mind. Truly a death that made me smile (although technically a book).

TV only: any of the cast from any of the "real housewives" shows...

"Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror." - Emoperor Ming.

Tony from Scarface, The original.
Dude killes anyone he likes. Slaps it sister and nearly him old mom.

Jenny from Forrest Gump.

You know it's true

I know he's not from a film or television series... but...

Oscar Saint-Just.

George Spiggott wrote:

"Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror." - Emoperor Ming.

Ming is awesome rather than despicable.

Sebastion Shaw from Xmen First Class.

I hate those characters who put people through hell (Killing Mag's mom) and then saying he was doing Magneto a favor.....

Hmm, I feel a top 5 coming on...

Film

1. Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
2. Count Rugen (The Princess Bride)
3. General Woundwort (Watership Down)
4. Jabba the Hutt (Return of the Jedi)
5. Carter Burke (Aliens)

Television

1. Arthur Mitchell (Dexter Season 4)
2. Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
3. President Charles Logan (24 Season 5)
4. Stringer Bell (The Wire)
5. Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)

Locclo wrote:I have to go with pretty much everyone that V killed in the movie V for Vendetta (and I presume the comic it was based on, but I've only ever seen the movie). Creedy, Sutler, Prothero and Lilliman all scream "fething donkey-cave," and it was really satisfying to see V kill them all over the course of the movie.

In the book, they're much more relatable and human. V isn't a good guy, so much as he is simply a force for anarchy. Norsefire does a lot of terrible things, but you come to actually understand the motivations behind Susan (renamed Sutler in the film, to act as an insultingly transparent analogy).

Flashman has a couple of good ones.

Commodus, from Gladiator.

Major Konig, from Enemy at the Gates.

He didn't want to, Harry. He tried to keep the kid away. He was willing to do it because he was ruthless in his goal, but he didn't -want- to do it.

Plus that kid was annoying as hell in My Family.

Because he helped ruin a classic horror film.

@MrDwhitey: He still did it though. He's one of my favourite villians, but I do think the act of murdering a child does make him despicable.

Still better than Commodus though.

Arthur Mitchell (Dexter Season 4)

Go one home folks... It is over

Id say Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Batiatus, in the Spartacus series. Dear god that guy is fething cut throat to the extreme.

*have to say the actor did a fantastic job playing him, Im used to seeing him be all goofy and silly from the Mummy movies.*

Venger, Ming the Merciless, Francis Urquart, Scorpious, Pinhead, Mr Morden, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, Megabyte... Lots of villains I've really liked and enjoyed. That's not what the OP asked for, he wants the villains you hate.


Despicable - deserving hatred and contempt.




I would push the eyes out of this little murdering bastard's skull, Ron Batty style... hatred and contempt are go!

Evil incarnate:

I watched a samurai movie by Miike. I think it was called 13 Assassins.

Even after the villain was finished off, I still didn't think he got what he deserved.


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Easy E wrote:I watched a samurai movie by Miike. I think it was called 13 Assassins.

Even after the villain was finished off, I still didn't think he got what he deserved. He had earned much worse.

13 Assassins was a fantastic movie.

Every single one of the lannisters, except for Tyrion.
Oh and the Frey family from the same series. Kill them all