Top Five Movie Villains?

toaster6
toaster6 Posts: 703 Member
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Bored. So... who are your top five movie villains of all time?

My rankings:

1. Joker (As seen in Dark Knight, I should probably pick Darth Vader, but there you go.)

2. Darth Vader

3. Boba Fett

4. Tyler Durden

5. Hans Gruber

*Edit to add: No specifics-- just picking the villains you personally like best. Use whatever guidelines you want.
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  • smtillman2
    smtillman2 Posts: 756 Member
    Dr. Hannibal Lecter
    Darth Vader
    Jack Torrance
    The Joker (in any form)
    Hans Gruber
  • The_Kid84
    The_Kid84 Posts: 28
    The joker
    Wicked witch of the west
    Hit man from no country for old men
    Hannibal lector
    Terminator
  • TheNewo
    TheNewo Posts: 239 Member
    It's hard to say what I'm ranking here: most frightening, favorite in general, most creepy...

    1.) The Joker (Dark Knight specifically)
    2.) Dr Hannibal Lecter
    3.) Cruella Deville (-what? She scared the bejesus out of me!!!)
    4.) Voldemort
    5.) Tybalt from Romeo & Juliet (played by John Leguizamo)
  • smtillman2
    smtillman2 Posts: 756 Member
    Wicked witch of the west

    Ah, that's a good one.
  • Shara126
    Shara126 Posts: 144 Member
    Voldemort
    Darth Vader
    Professor Moriarty
    Norman Bates
    Mike Myers
  • Diary_Queen
    Diary_Queen Posts: 1,314 Member
    Roger "Verbal" Kint - played by Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects

    Mason Verger - played by Gary Oldman in Hannibal

    John Holmes - played by Val Kilmer in Wonderland

    Aileen Wuornos - played by Charlize Theron in Monster

    Tom Stall - played by Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence (both villian and hero and the whole complexity of Viggo Mortensen kills every damn body!)
  • TheNewo
    TheNewo Posts: 239 Member

    Mason Verger - played by Gary Oldman in Hannibal

    oh man, he was so creepy in that!!!
  • BlackStarDeceiver
    BlackStarDeceiver Posts: 590 Member
    1) The Joker (I like both Jack and Heath)
    2) Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York
    3) Kevin Spacey as John Doe in Se7en
    4) Gary Oldman as Stansfield in The Professional
    5) Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in The Matrix
  • toaster6
    toaster6 Posts: 703 Member
    It's hard to say what I'm ranking here: most frightening, favorite in general, most creepy...

    1.) The Joker (Dark Knight specifically)
    2.) Dr Hannibal Lecter
    3.) Cruella Deville (-what? She scared the bejesus out of me!!!)
    4.) Voldemort
    5.) Tybalt from Romeo & Juliet (played by John Leguizamo)

    Deville! I love, love, love her and her fabulous hair.
  • NobodyInParticular
    NobodyInParticular Posts: 352 Member
    Joker
    Terminator (1 & T1000)
    Michael Meyers
    Dr. Lecter
    Jew Hunter
  • mariapuhl
    mariapuhl Posts: 529 Member
    Anton Chigurh - Everything about him is amazing. He's polite, yet completely demented with a strange set of morals he sticks to so much. Also, the sand blaster gun thing? Yeah, awesome.

    Hannibal Lecktor - Again, I love the polite respectable villains. He's so charming and amazing, that if I had to be eaten, I'd love to be eaten by him.

    Edele & Dez (Running Scared) - Hardly anyone has seen this movie - and you don't see much of what this couple does, actually. You see their home, them interacting with children, their "play room", and you get a sense of what is going on. You later find out what they do to the children, so imagining it is just so much worse. Great movie, by the way.

    Jigsaw - Dear god why do I love the smart killers? Jigsaw is one of my favorites. I love Saw 1, and I'll let Saw 2 and 3 slide by... but beyond that... meh. Still, I love the premise of Jigsaw and his method and his even more demented moral set than Anton.

    Ryu and/or Park Dong-jin (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance) - I love them because who is the villain? Who is a victim of circumstance? Who actually committed the greater atrocity? For anyone who liked "Oldboy", this film is the first in the trilogy. All three are amazing... Lady Vengeance is actually my favorite, but I like these villains more for just the deciding for yourself who is really the villain versus victim.

    I like movies. A lot. Especially horror.
  • edge_dragoncaller
    edge_dragoncaller Posts: 826 Member
    Not in order :

    The Joker (Heath Ledger's portrayal was awesome)
    The Family from House of 1000 corpses
    Hannibal
    Darth Vader
    Viki from I, Robot


    I'm just going to footnote this by saying that Trinity from the TV series Dexter trumps them all
  • mariapuhl
    mariapuhl Posts: 529 Member
    2) Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York

    That is one of my favorite movies SOLELY for that character.
  • The_Kid84
    The_Kid84 Posts: 28

    John Holmes - played by Val Kilmer in Wonderland

    Really? I never saw him as a villain I guess in the classical way... Just a drugged out dude
  • smtillman2
    smtillman2 Posts: 756 Member
    3) Kevin Spacey as John Doe in Se7en

    Dang it! I need more than 5. He totally creeped me out in this movie!!!
  • leejusd
    leejusd Posts: 81
    Darth Vader
    The Terminator
    Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)
    The Joker (still partial to Jack Nicholson's version)
    Lex Luthor
  • Krizzo87
    Krizzo87 Posts: 14,186 Member
    1. The Joker(Especially Dark Knight)
    2. Darth Vader
    3.Voldemort
    4. Michael Myers
    5. Hans Gruber(I'm in love with Alan Rickman)
  • bigphatcat
    bigphatcat Posts: 7,843 Member
    Dr. Hannibal Lecter
    Darth Vader
    Jack Torrance
    The Joker (in any form)
    Hans Gruber

    Good list!!! I might change the order, but all 5 make it
  • mariapuhl
    mariapuhl Posts: 529 Member

    The Family from House of 1000 corpses

    I saw "Devil's Rejects" BEFORE House of 1000 Corpses, even though timeline wise it happens after it. I LOVED Devils Rejects before I saw House of 1000 Corpses. Now I can't watch Devil's Rejects just because I always think of some of the nastiness in House of 1000 Corpses so it ruins it for me, ha.
  • brianna49415
    brianna49415 Posts: 87
    Lord Voldemort - Harry Potter

    The Evil Queen - Snow White

    Freddy Krueger - Nighmare on Elm Street

    The Wicked Witch of the West - Wizard of Oz

    My favorite though is Scar on The Lion King though because never wastes time exposing his plan, never hesitates... he just takes matters into his own hands and gets **** done
  • perfectionisntme
    perfectionisntme Posts: 205 Member
    Voldemort
    Darth Vader
    Professor Moriarty
    Norman Bates
    Mike Myers

    My top 5
  • _the_feniks_
    _the_feniks_ Posts: 3,412 Member
    1: Darth Vader
    2: John Doe (Se7en)
    3: Joker (Dark Knight)
    4: Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men)
    5: Michael Corleone
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    1. The Joker (Heath, hands down)
    2. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs...the sequel was just bllllleeeeegggghhh)
    3. John Doe (Kevin Spacey in Se7en)
    4. Scar (The Lion King...I MEAN CM'ON, HE KILLED HIS OWN BROTHER THEN TRIED TO KILL HIS NEPHEW.)
    5. Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving in the Matrix Trilogy)
  • NobodyInParticular
    NobodyInParticular Posts: 352 Member
    Edele and Rez from running scared is a great one!
    Scar, Devils Rejects, John Doe (7), Predator, Denzel Washington in Training Day

    I'm also adding Bane to my original list.
  • Diary_Queen
    Diary_Queen Posts: 1,314 Member

    John Holmes - played by Val Kilmer in Wonderland

    Really? I never saw him as a villain I guess in the classical way... Just a drugged out dude

    Well not only did he, in the movie, participate in bashing people's heads in, he also, in the movie, sent his underage g/f out to settle a dope debt by basically agreeing to be raped and who knows what by the drug king pin..... idk, some pretty bad stuff IMHO
  • RedBullLiz
    RedBullLiz Posts: 469 Member
    Anything with a sexy twist.

    The ones where:

    - you HAVE to go through with the game - Saw.
    - you almost don't care to be killed because he's kinda hot - Terminator.
    - you want to join him - Joker.
    - you also want the gold - Jafar from Aladdin.
    - and most of all, because I love the rush - Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

    That chainsaw noise is a turn on.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    Not really my favorites, but wanted to throw some new ones out there because there's a lot of overlap

    The Warden - Shawshank Redemption
    General Zod - Superman 2
    Biff - Back to the Future
    Dr. Evil - Austin Powers
    Gordon Gekko - Wall Street

    Edited to add Derek Vinyard - American History X
  • The_Kid84
    The_Kid84 Posts: 28

    John Holmes - played by Val Kilmer in Wonderland

    Really? I never saw him as a villain I guess in the classical way... Just a drugged out dude

    Well not only did he, in the movie, participate in bashing people's heads in, he also, in the movie, sent his underage g/f out to settle a dope debt by basically agreeing to be raped and who knows what by the drug king pin..... idk, some pretty bad stuff IMHO

    Oh he was by no means a role model. Lol. But yea cocain and heroin a hell of a drug. Lol.
  • RipperSB
    RipperSB Posts: 315 Member
    1. Darth Vader (cuts off his son's hand for misbehaving... that's tough love)
    2. Ming the Merciless (had his own daughter imprisioned and tortured)
    3. Khan Noonian Singh ("Allow me to introduce you to Ceti Alpha 5's only remaining indigenous life-form.")
    4. Col F.E. Cochrane (you can always tell how much of a d!ck the villain is by how loud the applause is when he gets wasted... it was thunderous!)
    5. The Violator (John Leguizamo playing just right)
  • notaperfect10
    notaperfect10 Posts: 48 Member
    The Child Catcher - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ... well, scared me when I was little, lol! Probably not quite what you were thinking of!
    Col Hans Lander (Christoph Waltz) - Inglorious Basterds
    The Creeper - Jeepers Creepers
    The Joker - Dark Knight
    The Dentist in Marathon Man (Laurence Olivier) ... when he was taking Dustin Hoffman's teeth out ... shiver!
    ... and Rutger Hauer's worth a mention, in Blade Runner as the replicant ... and as the driver in The Hitcher
    ... and Richard Attenborough as Pinky in Brighton Rock. Chilling.

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