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For me, it would be GLaDOS.
Portal 2 spoiler
She deleted the one remaining human part of herself because it was just too much to deal with. She releases you at the end of Portal 2 as a path of least resistance measure because "killing you is hard."
What about you, what is your favorite media villain?
Abijah Fowler from Blue Eye Samurai, one of the only four white men in Japan who might be the father of the protagonist. He's one of the few who manage to challenge the protagonist in combat, but you're not just watching for that. The dialogue for the show is top notch, but any time he comes up you know you're in for a treat. My favorite is still "Are you--still alive? Why?", but here's a reasonably spoiler-free scene.
Hex and Daemon from Reboot are both underrated. Hex has genius visual design for the limitations of the technology. And for a kids show, Daemon is very likable, which always makes a villain more compelling.
I've always been fond of Magneto. He's a dick about it, but I see where he's coming from.
Joe Morden in Babylon 5. I do not know much about the actor, but he was cast perfectly.
Biff Tannen, because we should have seen the signs.
Might be more of a monster than a villain, but I've loved the Disney version of the headless horseman since I was a kid. That laugh still gives me chills
what is this from????
I'd guess it's a fan edit of a videogame cutscene or one of the SW animated shows, slapping Jar Jar's face on some other character. I haven't heard of Darth Jar Jar showing up in media in any other than the vague hints dropped in canon or in easter eggs.
ahh yeah, i know the meme but this looks more than just slapping Jar Jar's face on it. Maybe the original version is from a video game, because I don't recognize the jedi from being in any of the animated shows
The Nameless One. From PS:T.
A very practical person!
Idk who my all time favorite is, but I just finished rewatching Clone Wars and man I had forgotten how much I liked Hondo Ohnaka
Maul: “Filth! You will pay for your insolence!”
Hondo: “Insolence?! We are pirates! We don’t even know what that means.”
also the line right before this when Hondo says "who are these horny headed maniacs"
Here are the test results: You're a horrible person. That's what it says. A horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.
Honestly, he was such an amazing boss
Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea!
But Homer! On your way out if you want to kill somebody, you would help me a lot.
Me reading these comments:
Sorry I had to
His superiority complex is tangible
Killmonger from Black Panther. He had a pretty valid perspective, for the most part
Sorry for such a "capeslop" answer, but:
He definitely gets a mention. I wish they actually explored what Kingpin wanting to "change the city" meant, though, because the disney+ shows make it seem like he just wants to sell weapons and be rich. They really took a crap on his character after endgame / season3 of Daredevil.
All the netflix DD villains were just golden. What a ride.
Primal Fear:
Aaron Stampler, and his defence attorney Martin Vail.
Prince Arthas Menethil from Warcraft.
[Quietly sweeps WoW:Shadowlands under the rug]
Dudes villian arc is perfect, his fall is entierly of his own making. Playing as him in Warcraft 3, you follow his reasoning and by the time the corruption sets in, its far too late. In the expansions, you play as him in full BBEG mode. Lastly, WoW:Wrath of the Lich King had him as the capstone boss of one of the best expansions and 15 years of buildup.
And they never expanded on his character ever again...
The Warcraft movie should have just been WC3.
Gul Dukat was the better villain in my eyes. At least he was way more interesting than Kai Winn.
My vote as well.
He constantly finds the piece of humanity within whoever hes talking to and then tries to manipulate it. The man spoiler
led the occupation and still thought he was the hero. Started a Satan-worshipping cult. Killed his daughter. Misled, seduced, and sacrificed the Bajoran Pope.:::
Its hard to top Gul Dukat.
The great thing about Dukat is that he frequently finds his own humanity. You keep thinking that this time he'll do the right thing and start his path to redemption, but he never does. He always chooses to do the wrong thing even though there's clearly good in him and you're always disappointed and even surprised when it happens. He's like the anti-Zuko.
As a super Dune nerd, Erasmus.
From DC: Larfleeze and Volthoom tied. Oh! The Anti-Monitor too.
From Supernatural (the TV series), Crowley is amazing.
BSG: Dr. Gaius Baltar.
The Prophet of Truth from Halo 2. Cunning bastard, one of 3 prophets at the helm of an immense alien civilization, manages to get the other two eliminated, apppropriating all the power, creating a martyr and exacerbating the passion against the human enemy in the process, observes that one caste (the Sangheili) is a little too smart to keep buying his lies so replaces them with a more brutish, loyal caste, the Jiralhanae...
Best voice actor of the game by far, too.
Such a clever weasel
Omar Little, The Wire
“I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game, though, right?”
I would not have thought of Omar as a villain. The man even takes a stand against criminals killing people not in the game.
Hans Landa because Christoph Waltz is just such a good actor
Wakfu Spoilers Ahead! Click At Your Own Risk!
I really like the season 4 villain Toross Mordal, probably more than most any other villain in media in general. Mostly for how badass he is despite how decrepit he looks. Also for how he rules over his people with basically an eternal regret that he can never fully feed them due to their infinite hunger.
I known the trope of the villain having power that is basically the opposite type as the heroes is probably overdone, but I really like how he has mastered stasis, the opposite force to the life force of wakfu. It makes for an interesting enough villain since this is a villain that actually cannot die, unlike every other villain we've seen up until season 4. He's had the time to master his skills since he never has death to worry about.
I also like how he kinda ends up making the main character Yugo temporarily skirt the idea of using stasis alongside with his wakfu in a final showdown. It makes me hope we get some more cool stasis stuff in season 5, but more of an exploratory "this is why you don't use stasis" kinda way. We'd have Toross to thank and blame for Yugo having to learn the consequences of Stasis and I would love to see that.
GLaDOS is mine, too.
(spoilers ahead, play it if you haven’t)
In my first playthrough, I didn’t see it coming, and I felt like she was my friend. That was a relationship twist I’ve never had in a game, and I really appreciated what they did there.
e: if you’re looking for other game recs that fuck with you, I’d say What Remains of Edith Finch.
Scorpius from Farscape is a fantastic villain. He was meant to be a one off villain of the week for a clip show. By the time the episode was finished it was a two parter that had only a few seconds of clips, and instead set up the plot elements that would drive the rest of the series, with Scorpius at the heart of it all.
He's one of the rare genius villains that's actually written well enough to seem smart. He's ruthless but not unreasonable. He's horrific, but also charming. He's a bottomless pit of hatred and vengeance, and yet he is cold and calculating, perpetually in control. I've heard him described as mirror universe spock turned up to 11 and I kind of agree.
Plus, we also get Harvey.
See also: David Xanatos. Imagine if Bruce Wayne put all that effort and planning into villainy, mad science and sorcery, theoretically for money but really just for the fun of it. Now give him an Iron Man suit and the voice of Jonathan Frakes. He's an evil genius that's so good at what he does that his name is literally synonymous with plans can only end in a win.
If favorite is a villain whose motivation was pure and got perverted by his obsession and still awesome:
General Woundwort
If favorite = one i hate the most, it is a tie between:
Joffrey
Ramsey
If favorite is a villain who is cool as hell it is a tie between
Voldemort
Hans Gruber
Warhammer 40k has too many good options to list. The entire ork faction is great, although one of my personal favorites is Grizgutz, an ork who accidentally travelled back in time, and decided to kill himself to steal an extra copy of his favorite gun. The Necrons are also fun, for their unlimited capacity for arrogance and pettiness.
