Who Is Your Favorite Villain?

Oh, with the video game lineup, huh? Let me see, I don't know any of these actually just guessing from the art-style:

1) An RPG game with lots of magic?
2) SquareSoft-esque?
3) Shadowman boss?
4) Half-life or GTA
5) Twisted Metal?

 

OMG, it's these bitches.

 

These guys gave me nightmares back in the day. I watched both like 43 times.

 

Didn't seem too much like a villain to me in the film. More like a victim.

A very hot victim, lol.


Plus, Corvus man. Corvus.

 

1) yes - lunar silver star story
2) esque, i suppose. not sure who actually made it, but it was a competitor to ff7. wild arms.
3) i'm not familiar with shadowman. this is the boss from morrowind.
4) gta4. a relatively minor villain, but the main antagonists were kind of annoying. one was basically just a failed gangster making his last desperate attempt at not completely losing his business (i actually liked him enough that i don't really even consider him a villain). and the other one made no sense at all, just doing douchey things with no apparent motivation.
5) yeah, i think that was the version from 2 (best game of the series), but any calypso will do.

 

I love a good anti-hero. A well-wrought villain is often much more interesting than any hero.

 

Khan!!!!!!!!!

I know he was a good guy, but I think Snape was my favorite harry potter character, and portrayed as a bad guy the whole way though. More interesting than Voldemort. Basically a Gnostic Judas.

Hans Gruber from Die Hard.

 

Loki ends up banging a wolf and bringing about the Ragnarok.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajsNJtnUb7c

Snape also kinda comes across as a victim imo. Kinda like the lost child who gets into trouble not because he's fiendish, but because he doesn't know where else to go.

 

Macbeth, because that could have been any one of us.

 

Because his son is a wolf? That's not how nordic mythology works : he shagged a giant.

 

Dracula (1992) - because he's so damned human. Yes, that was a play on words.

Satan from Milton's Paradise Lost. Because he's like a friggin hero. Even Dryden asked "Hey man, who's side you on here?"

@Asmo:Loki had sex with a stallion.....a stallion. That's one freaky mofo.

 

I admit that is closer to a wolf. Its at least an animal. But as i understood he was a mare himself. That's divinity i guess!

 

Keyzer Soze in The Usual Suspects

 

the joke. bo questions asked he is the best one

 

The Source (Of all Evil) on the TV show Charmed









Hotwater

 

My favourite villain is Duryodhana of the ancient epic Mahabharatha who had the audacity to challenge the Avatar Krishna himself for his greed to get the kingdom for himself at the expense of his cousins , the Pandavas and not even relinquishing 5 villages to them as requested by the Pandavas as a final plea to avoid war.

Just as Arjuna was the best archer in the Mahabharatha , and Yudhisthira the best wielder of the spear in combat, Duryodhana was the best wielder of the weapon of the mace and surpassed all in using it. He had trained himself in it under his mentor Balarama, Krishna's elder brother, undergoing privations and leading an austere life.

Duryodhana was a brave and skilled warrior in combat. He was also noted for his hospitality, chivalrous nature in respecting other accomplished warriors even if they were of a humble origin and rewarded them, and thus brought them to his side.

His failure lied in extending this sense of chivalry to his cousins the Pandavas and envying them for their accomplishments and popularity.

He was repeatedly admonished by his uncle Vidura , grandfather Bheesma and martial arts masters Drona and Kripa for his hatred towards his cousins the Pandavas , highlighting their virtues and moral qualities. However he could not bring himself to come to friendly terms with them out of a sense of insecurity and perpetually saw them as his enemies and rivals. This lead to the Mahabharatha war.

There is a psychologically insightful saying of his after being reprimanded repeatedly by his grandfather and uncle to cease his hostile attitude towards his cousins....

' I know what is dharma (righteousness), yet I cannot get myself to follow it! I know what is adharma ( unrighteousness), yet I cannot retire from it! '

This shows that Duryodhana distinguished right from wrong, and yet was not able to adhere to the right due to his shortcomings in character which he acknowledged honestly. He was of the conviction that might and strength alone determined sovereignty and not right. And in tune with this understanding, he trained himself in martial arts to attain unsurpassed expertise , and also took care to forge alliances with skilled warriors and bringing them to his side.

At the beginning of the Mahabharatha war, Duryodhana enjoyed numerical superiority over the Pandavas as well as the most skilled warriors.

In the end, he died fighting valiantly his cousin Bheema , who was only able to defeat him with Krishna's tactical counseling.

 

Russel Crowe in 3:10 to Yuma

 

Duryodhana is a good choice. I think though that Shakhuni who is really the brains behind Duryhodhana is probably my choice from the Mahabharata.