By far.

The Shredder.

At 7/17/13 10:14 AM, Auz wrote:

At 7/17/13 12:54 AM, Grotty wrote: Victor Frankenstein

Isn't he supposed to be the protagonist? It's debatable I guess, but perhaps the best fitting term for him would be a "Byronic hero". Not necessarily a good guy or a villain.

Peter Cushing's Frankenstein from the Hammer movies is totally evil, or at least immoral.

Moriarty from Sherlock, holy shit

Pegleg Pete.

Any villain follows the Joker Archetype.

the joker is pretty cool

At 7/17/13 12:35 AM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

At 7/17/13 12:31 AM, koopahermit wrote: Maximillion Pegasus. He was a very macho guy full of testosterone and confidence. He was a true man's man.

Ha! Yugioh abridged! Anyways I would say sephiroth, azula and Severus Snape (not a villain but serious anti herobordering villain)

Deadpool. You can't completely say his is a villain though...

Colonel Hans Landa

Oh yeah, I forgot Hitler. Hitler was a GREAT villain.

Pinhead is awesome.

He is usually portrayed in two ways. Either as an agent of Leviathan/Hell, who's just doing his job, or as a cackling supervillain bent on world domination.

I prefer the former mostly.

Alexander Anderson from Hellsing
Vicious from Cowboy Bebop
Captain John Hart from Torchwood
the Master from Doctor Who
Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men
the Joker as portrayed by Heath Ledger
the Joker as portrayed by Mark Hamill
the Monarch from Venture Brothers
Stringer Bell from the Wire
the xenomorph from Alien
the alien from Predator
the T-100 from Terminator
the T-1,000 from Terminator 2
Ganondorf from the Legend of Zelda series
Hans Gruber from Die Hard
Balalaika from Black Lagoon (not an antagonist by the viewer's perspective, but still evil as fuck)
Revy from Black Lagoon (see above)
Wrath from Full Metal Alchemist
Raoh from Fist of the North Star
Scorpion from Mortal Kombat
Kain from the Legacy of Kain series
Bowser from the Super Mario Brothers series
Doctor Robotnik from the Sonic the Hedgehog series
GlaDOS from Portal
Darth Vader

Leatherface from the original TCM is still my number one, all time most terrifying movie character.

At 7/17/13 08:18 AM, Havegum wrote: I liked handsome Jack, and I always thought Zant was pretty scary

Handsome Jack is a great bad guy. He's an enormous asshole, and he actually believes he is the hero of the story.

Gendo Ikari. Probably the only person I know of who would use angsty child soldiers {including his own son} against a horde of ironically named Angels and constantly find ways to backstab an apocalyptic cult of sociopaths to his own ends, with a massive ego to boot, and still get away with everything. Truly, a complete bastard of a villain, but a well thought out one too.

Yuuki Termui, the ultimate villainous troll that would give the Joker a run for his money. He has no qualms about mind raping you {if not killing you first} and manipulate everyone around him to get what he wants, Like Gendo, he has a massive ego that is on par with his nigh immortality, and keeps showing up again and again to troll the world into despair.

Transexual ones.

I've been hesitant to check out Evangelion because so many people say that the plot makes no sense at a certain point.

At 7/17/13 10:32 AM, IrishGun wrote: By far.

At 7/17/13 10:30 AM, IrishGun wrote: By far.

At 7/17/13 02:56 PM, Boomstick wrote:

At 7/17/13 10:32 AM, IrishGun wrote: By far.

At 7/17/13 10:30 AM, IrishGun wrote: By far.

Okay, I believe ya.

But my tommy gun don't!

Get down on your knees and tell me you love me.

At 7/17/13 12:50 PM, VinnyXY wrote: Judge Doom.

Oh god yeah, how could I even forget those eyes.

I still have nightmares about those goddamn eyes

At 7/17/13 10:18 AM, Knights wrote:

At 7/17/13 10:14 AM, Auz wrote:

At 7/17/13 12:54 AM, Grotty wrote: Victor Frankenstein

Isn't he supposed to be the protagonist? It's debatable I guess, but perhaps the best fitting term for him would be a "Byronic hero". Not necessarily a good guy or a villain.

Hate to be that nitpicky asshole, but I'm tired of people confusing the term "protagonist" with the idea of heroism. Being a protagonist just means you're the main character of a story, it has nothing to do with you being good or bad, with one example being Macbeth and his antagonist Macduff, who's clearly a hero.

Yeah I guess you're right, but I couldn't find a better word. I didn't want to say "hero" because of the point I was trying to make.

At 7/17/13 10:40 AM, Darthdenim wrote:

At 7/17/13 10:14 AM, Auz wrote: Isn't he supposed to be the protagonist? It's debatable I guess, but perhaps the best fitting term for him would be a "Byronic hero". Not necessarily a good guy or a villain.

Peter Cushing's Frankenstein from the Hammer movies is totally evil, or at least immoral.

I assumed he was talking about the Victor Frankenstein from the book. But yeah, it's a character that has been portrayed in many different media in many different ways. I just raised the objection because he seems to be more often portrayed as a villainous, mad scientist type while his original character was more complex than that.

At 7/17/13 02:54 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: I've been hesitant to check out Evangelion because so many people say that the plot makes no sense at a certain point.

You mean the anime series?

If I'm not mistaken, they ran out of budget before the last two episodes and that's where things get a bit weird. They released a film after the series was over which is an alternative take on the ending of the series. It's more comprehensible. So if you ever watch the series, check out The End of Evangelion afterwards.

At 7/17/13 07:19 AM, Dawnslayer wrote:

At 7/17/13 01:35 AM, TehPoptartKid wrote: Freaky Fred from Courage the Cowardly Dog is probably my favorite villain

Fred wasn't villainous. He was just...

...naughty.

Heh. Ah yes, you're quite right about that. I suppose Katz or Dr Le Quack is a better choice.

Luca Blight from Suikoden II.

Here are some facts about Luca Blight;

Was ambushed when travelling with his parents as a child. His father fled in fear and Luca was forced to watch his mother be repeatedly raped. Gains control of an army when he's older and with them massacres the 'youth army' of his own armies country. Then blames it on the opposite alliance because he hates them and because then he can attack them and claim its for revenge. He burnt down an entire village and made one civilian beg for her life by acting like a pig. She eventually did and when she asked if her life would be spared, he laughed and screamed "Die pig!" before gutting her. He didn't sit back when you fight the armies either. He is front line, always in the action and you don't see that too often with big players. Also he is like the hardest boss to kill, not ever but he's still fucking hard. You have to be well levelled up before you can attempt it in the game. You need 3 parties of 6 (!) for the battle, and he was just a man. Wasn't the typical rpg villain who turns out to be half man half mystic beast, he's just this evil strong human, why he's the best villain imo.

I have several favorites myself, but for the record one of my personal favorites would be pinocchimon form digimon season one.

Unlike all the other bosses in this season he wasn't your typical cookie cutter bad guy. Sure he killed his allies. and hurt the chosen children but we also wanted friends and couldn't understand why he couldn't have any.

At 7/17/13 03:08 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:
Okay, I believe ya.

But my tommy gun don't!

Get down on your knees and tell me you love me.

Baby! I'm over the moon for ya!
If my love were an ocean you'd have to take two airplanes to get across it!

Classic movie. What a scene.

At 7/17/13 08:37 PM, Gagsy wrote: Luca Blight from Suikoden II.

Say, Gags, are you wearing new makeup? Do your hair differently? New jewelery? Cuz you looking fine tonight girlfriend!

Movies~
Hannibal Lecter-Silence of the Lambs
Anton Chigurh-No Country for Old Men
Scar-Lion King
Christof-Truman Show
HAL 9000-2001 A Space Odyssey
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman-Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick knows how to make memorable characters and this was the military's dehumanization process manifest)
T-1000-The Terminator (relentless shape-shifting cyborg, innocent casualties be damned, predator stalking his prey)
Gollum/Sauron-Lord of the Rings
As someone else mentioned, Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa-Inglorious Bastards
Nurse Ratched-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
John Doe- Se7en
Cobra Kai Sensai-Karate Kid
Roy Batty-Blade Runner
Candyman-Candyman (Barker really knows how to imprint horror on your mind forever, watched this as a kid and man was it wicked)
Bodhi-Point Break
Claude Frollo-Hunchback of Notre Dame
Simon Gruber- Die Hard With a Vengeance

I could literally list about five hundred here, so I'll wrap it up with what I have thus far.

Games~
Shodan-System Shock 2
Dracula-Castlevania
Lance Vance-GTA Vice City
Pyramid Head-Silent Hill
Mecha Hitler-Wolfenstein 3D
Revolver Ocelot/Psycho Mantis-Metal Gear Solid
Nemesis-Resident Evil 3
Origami Killer-Heavy Rain
Majora-Legend of Zelda
Mother Brain/Dark Samus- Metroid Fusion
Giygas-Earthbound
Mike Tyson (HE FUCKING COUNTS MAN
Combine Soldiers-Half Life
LeChuk-Secret of Monkey Island
Bob the Killer Goldfish-Earthworm Jim
Dormin-Shadow of the Colossus (for reasons other than pure evil, he was an archetypal tempter and source for inadvertent corruption for the Hero, however shows contrast by keeping his part of the deal -most games shy away from the kinds of endings these characters express in favor of fairy tale like happy endings)
John Eden-Fallout III
Kain-Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Andrew Ryan-Bioshock
Dark Falz-Phantasy Star
Calypso-Twisted Metal
Dr. Nefarious-Ratchet and Clank
Gary Oak- FUCK YOU GARY
Jafar-Prince of Persia
Red Falcon-Contra
Lavos-Chrono Trigger

Comic Book~
Shredder
Poison Ivy
Mystique
Scarecrow
LOKI
Carnage (Unsatiable bloodlust anyone?)
Galactus (He exhibits no interest in conquering or destroying Earth, he wants to eat it)
Magneto
Dr. Doom
Sabretooth
Prometheus
Hunter Rose

This post is not all inclusive, if I wasn't so sleepy I would have put more time into thinking and given brief descriptions of each.

Definitely some good ones mentioned, but there are a few that need to be added.

Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver
Hannibal Lecter (c'mon guys)
and lastly...

Heeeere's JOHNNY!

SINESTRO!! Former member of The Green Lantern Corps, Leader of his own Corps, The one who turned Hal Jordan into "Parallax", and the one who knocked off The Guardians. THAT is badass!!

At 7/25/13 06:05 PM, WaffleVoyager wrote: The new Hannibal. Probably the first potrayal of the character (outside of the books) who has truly terrfied me.

Did that show get better?

I watched the first two episodes, but the tired procedural format, and the serial killer with weird gimmick of the week stuff scared me off.

Green Goblin, Venom, Carnage, Ganondorf, Lizard, Joker, Zod, Bowser, Robotnik and Metal Sonic.