Your Top Bad Guy Options

[grif11]

Everyone has encountered that one antagonist who was especially awesome or did something that made you go

My pick is the long haired "hero" with the impossibly long katana, Sephiroth!

reason 1: look at my avatar.

2:He does the unthinkable and kills the pretty hostage.

3: Ive lost count of how many times he skewered Cloud

4: Hes got (count them) one wing. Yeah. You try flying straight with one wing.

5: His English voice actor also does the voiceover for the Prius commercial. I smell irony!

[Ahrenil]

Hmm, it depends how you see your "Bad Guys", but i've always found the enemies in "Avatar The Last Airbender" being amazingly well throught out, animated and voice acted.

If I had to pick my favourite it would definately be Azula, daughter to the Fire Lord, sister to the heir and exile. Drawn to power and able to get it, highly trained, sophisticated, and not above manipulating people to get her own ways. She's cold, calculated and can shoot fire from her hands.

My favourite aspect of all though has to be her descent into madness through her own scheming, especially her unresolved issues with her mother's dissapearence and her friend's betrayal of her...though it's more of a coming to their senses moment as Azula moves to destroy what they love.

[Dantrag]

Hmm, it depends how you see your "Bad Guys", but i've always found the enemies in "Avatar The Last Airbender" being amazingly well throught out, animated and voice acted.

If I had to pick my favourite it would definately be Azula, daughter to the Fire Lord, sister to the heir and exile. Drawn to power and able to get it, highly trained, sophisticated, and not above manipulating people to get her own ways. She's cold, calculated and can shoot fire from her hands.

My favourite aspect of all though has to be her descent into madness through her own scheming, especially her unresolved issues with her mother's dissapearence and her friend's betrayal of her...though it's more of a coming to their senses moment as Azula moves to destroy what they love.

I actually watched that show front to back recently. I was impressed, especially since it's a children's show.

As far as bad guys go, I'm a fan of Bill the Butcher from the movie Gangs of New York.

Also Riviera from my favorite book called Neuromancer. He has 'subliminal' implants. Basically, he can make others see what he imagines, and he's a pure scumbag.

[Jacki Dice]

Hmm, it depends how you see your "Bad Guys", but i've always found the enemies in "Avatar The Last Airbender" being amazingly well throught out, animated and voice acted.

If I had to pick my favourite it would definately be Azula, daughter to the Fire Lord, sister to the heir and exile. Drawn to power and able to get it, highly trained, sophisticated, and not above manipulating people to get her own ways. She's cold, calculated and can shoot fire from her hands.

My favourite aspect of all though has to be her descent into madness through her own scheming, especially her unresolved issues with her mother's dissapearence and her friend's betrayal of her...though it's more of a coming to their senses moment as Azula moves to destroy what they love.

I love Azula and the way the did their characters. THey were so much more than simple good guy/bad guy.

My favorite that I can think of at the moment would have to be Frollo from the Hunchback of Notredame (Disney version, I haven't read the book yet).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyS3weMlxLA

1) Amazing voice.

2) The usual Disney villain sings about how evil (s)he is. His song is torment

[Petra Arkanian]

Ohh, I know! The current Master, out of Doctor Who, played by John Simm. He's hilarious! And yes. I AM a Doctor Who geek.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk1kitU4...jr0mro1_100.png

This post has been edited by Petra Arkanian: Jun 21 2011, 06:36 PM

[bbqplatypus]

A good choice, but the greatest villain in Doctor Who history (and I've seen all of them) is unquestionably Tobias Vaughn from The Invasion. It's technically a Cyberman story, but he absolutely steals the show.



"They can't harm us, Packer. We're in control...or at least I am."


There are a number of great villains I could go with for my #1, any number of which could conceivably be number one (including several from Doctor Who). I'll go with Frank from Once Upon a Time in the West, one of the best westerns ever made. Henry Fonda goes against type to play an utterly ruthless honoured user, and it may be the best performance of his career.

[Lord Revan]

I'll go with Colonel Quaritch from James Cameron's Avatar on account of his sheer badassness. He didn't need a gas mask in a toxic atmosphere, he just accepted it out of courtesy.

His security briefing is pretty much all you need to know about him. His only concern is what goes on in the trenches, he has a job (protect human interests) and he will go all the way to accomplish it. Quaritch's cardinal sin seems to be his frank, unromantic view of Pandora and the locals. Aside from that, he is easily the coolest human character.

[hazmick]

Game villain? Professor Pester from Viva Pinata: Trouble in paradise. When he marched into my garden and destroyed my first ever pinata I was ready to cry.

Movie villain? Sauron from LOTR. No question about it, he is one mean guy. He doesn't even need to appear in person! He just chills in his tower and stares at stuff.

[Destri Melarg]

Here are a few more movie villains to consider:

Alonzo Harris, Training Day
Don Emilio Barzini, The Godfather
Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs

and what list would be complete without

Dr. Evil!

[Ahrenil]

My favourite game villians are probably the Collectors for ME2.

Simply because I really, really hated them. Most game villians are just your token bad guys, you fight them because thats what you have to do to make the game progress. But in ME2 I found myself so vengeful whenever the Collectors abducted a colony that I actually was playing to defeat them, not simply for the sake of playing.

[grif11]

Yeah, I absolutely hate the collecters. On my first playthrough,*SPOILER* I had to watch my entire crew get pureed in giant blenders because I put off going through the relay for a long time.

If were talking about groups of enemies, its the dragon age darkspawn for me. When you *MORE SPOILERS*return to the battle place (forgot the name) I wanted to take a giant flaming greatsword and decapitate them all, for what they did to the king.

This post has been edited by grif11: Jul 7 2011, 10:37 PM

[Thomas Kaira]

My favourite game villians are probably the Collectors for ME2.

ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

So who would it be for me... hmm...

I think I would have to say Dr. Breen from Half-Life 2. Without a doubt one of the most intelligent and cunning villains ever dreamed up.

[Kiln]

Without a doubt, my most hated bad guy is Teyrn Loghain from Dragon Age Origins.

The man turns his back on the king, retreats from the battlefield with half the army, and gets the player character killed (temporarily at least), all so that he can try and take power during the darkspawn crisis. He poisons high ranking political figures, tortures innocent people, slanders your name, and hires assassins to kill you all to cover up this betrayal. For me he is the greatest video game villian of all time just because of the sheer hatred that I developed for him during the course of the game.

This post has been edited by Kiln: Jul 8 2011, 07:59 AM

[Black Hand]

[Destri Melarg]

I think I would have to say Dr. Breen from Half-Life 2. Without a doubt one of the most intelligent and cunning villains ever dreamed up.

I agee on Dr. Breen. I would also put Sun Li the Glorious Strategist from Jade Empire up there

[Black Hand]

I agee on Dr. Breen. I would also put Sun Li the Glorious Strategist from Jade Empire up there

Concurred!

[King Coin]

I think my top bad guy was "The Jackal" from Far Cry 2. He was a really complex character.

[old Andy]

Rowan Atkinson as Toby was really good..

Al Pacino's performance naturally commendable, very.

It's a toss up between Al Pacino and Gabriël Byrne in Arnie's otherwise crap movie.. Al has the drive and raw passion, while Gabe has his devilishly good looks and of course his name going for him..

What Elizabeth Hurley managed to get paid for doing shall forever remain unspoken.. although she is single again. Gotta look in to that, note to self..

And of course Peter Stormare.. who's mere presence blew young Keanu away.

All very sympathetic, yes. I look forward to seeing all of them someday..

Please to meet you..

..hope you guess my name.

This post has been edited by old Andy: Jul 13 2011, 08:56 PM

[Cardboard Box]

My top bad guys are all stupid.

As in, they are too blinded by their own dogma to realise the immorality of what they're doing; any evidence just gets slotted into their world picture of how righteous they are.

So this list includes:

1. Wallace Breen
2. Col. Miles Quaritch
3. That corporate weasel alongside Quaritch who'd have loved Tasmania
4. Tom Marvolo "Voldemort" Riddle
5. Albus Brian Wulfric Percival Dumbledore
6. Petunia and Vernon Dursley
7. Fred Phelps

There are other villains, but they are either transhuman (and therefore do not have human thought patterns), or insane (and therefore do not have rational human thought patterns.)

Mind you, the dividing line is unremarkably fuzzy.

[grif11]

• Albus Brian Wulfric Percival Dumbledore
• Petunia and Vernon Dursley

Not my idea of villains.

Can I ask, why dumbledore?

This post has been edited by grif11: Aug 25 2011, 11:53 AM