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Who are some of your favorite villians from film?

"Ming the merciless" from Flash Gordon
"General Zod" from the Superman movie - you gotta love zod
pumpkinhead..because he was just misunderstood..heh

Actually looking for any creative responses away from the popularized villians (like hannibal)

Scorpio from Dirty Harry
The Vigilante Cops/Lt. Briggs from Magnum Force
The shark in Jaws
Steele, Rhodes, and Rickles in Day of the Dead
Goldfinger
Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker

Craig Scheffer's character in Hellraiser: Inferno
T-Bird, Top Dollar, and FunBoy (If I need to tell you the movie, you don't deserve to know)
Sadaam Hussein in South Park...

Hmmm...who else...

Oh yes. Malcolm in The Filth And The Fury.

>>Craig Scheffer's character in Hellraiser: Inferno<<

Apparently a flick I missed.lol. I remember him as the "bad guy" in those teen 80's flicks, but wasn't he also in..I'm so bad with the names of movies but the one where the guy gets bit by some monster and goes to a cemetary (forget the name) where other mutants and creatures live underground?

>>T-Bird, Top Dollar, and FunBoy (If I need to tell you the movie, you don't deserve to know)<<

The Crow..right. I know it had a sequel where the girl is grown up, but didn't it also have a third..maybe a straight to video one?

As for Bruce the shark, love that movie. One of my favorite lines in it is when Bruce meets his demise "Smile you sonofab***h!"

James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom in CONAN THE BARBARIAN.

Susan wrote:
>
> Apparently a flick I missed.lol. I remember him as the "bad
> guy" in those teen 80's flicks, but wasn't he also in..I'm so
> bad with the names of movies but the one where the guy gets
> bit by some monster and goes to a cemetary (forget the name)
> where other mutants and creatures live underground?
>

That would be Clive Barker's Nightbreed.  David Cronenberg played the nifty villain in that :-)

>>James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom in CONAN THE BARBARIAN.<,

good one - i'm a huge fan of conan.
Since non-people can count I also like the Dragon from "Dragonslayer", one of my favorite dragon flicks (well done). I don't know that there was need to really show the whole dragon, just watching the claw come out of the cave..hearing it breath. Never understood why it was satisfied with a monthly virginal burning tho

Agent Smith from the matrix. Just a really well rounded villian character.

Let's see, I like
General Toad from Hell Comes to Frogtown
Zorro from Frankenhooker
Farmer Vincent in Motel Hell
The boys in Mother's Day
The trappers in Cannibal: The Musical
The quacker in New York Ripper

Keifer Sutherland in The Lost Boys
Jack Palance in Young Guns(He's a real @!#$!)
Put my vote in for Thulsa Doom(great performance by James. Plenty of classic lines.)
Robert Patrick in Terminator 2(He's so good as the villain makes you wonder what he was thinkin when he did Double Dragon)
Yuen Wah in Eastern Condors and Dragons Forever(A real sonofab***h in both of these but he's awesome at it!)

The best villians in movies are:

3. The Grim Reaper in the Frightenners
Why? Because he looked awsome and even as just a ghost he was maniac cool. The guy who plays him(I forget the name) knows how to do a good evil.
2. Ash's Hand in Evil Dead 2
Why? Becuase it was like a cartoon in the middle of a horror movie. And he was never defeated, unlike most villians. At the end he was still kicking... so to say.
1. The Collecter from Demon Knight
Why? Simple, Billy Zane is the most mellow evil being ever. It's just fun to watch everyone running and screaming and he's just like, "Hey, come on, Hell's not that bad."

Runner Up: Jack Nickolsons Joker in Batman

The guy who plays the Reaper in Frighteners was  Jake Busey.  (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Busey,+Jake)

>>The Grim Reaper in the Frightenners
Why? Because he looked awsome and even as just a ghost he was maniac cool. The guy who plays him(I forget the name) knows how to do a good evil.<,

I forget his name too but i'm almost positive he's Gary Busy's son. In that fact - he's gotta be scary!

>>The boys in Mother's Day<<

lol..nuff said

Yes, The Crow had a 3rd film (The Crow: Salvation), that owns the 2nd film in every which way (William Atherton AND Fred Ward are in it).

Yes, Craig Scheffer was in Cliver Barker's Night Breed.

Alien.
Now that's a kick-ass bad dude (dudette?)

Also Ilsa from Ilsa, Shewolf of the SS, etc.  She's a very sick pup (and not in a good way either).

Frank Langella as Dracula, plus as Skeletor in Masters of the Universe. In MOTU, he gives Skeletor some much needed credibility and gives him a bit of a spooky feel.

Also, Robert Patrick, of course, as the T-1000. Surprisingly, I also liked him in Double Dragon. Another one is the Advanced Model from Drive. The guy who played him mighten have said much, but again he had a spooky air around him. That and he was able to bring it to Mark Dacascos, so you have to be impressed.
Another great villian... the killer tomatoes! They were fun.

>>Another great villian... the killer tomatoes! They were fun.<,

"Could you pass the ketchup?"

The Evil-cat-thing in 'The Uninvited'. Especially when you can see the puppeteer's arm.

David Lo Pan in 'Big Trouble in Little China'. You may notice from my past posts in similiar topics that I quite like that film.

Dim in 'The Dark Power'. How aptly they named the stupid Toltec.

The big bad 'I Said No!' from 'Stoppit and Tidyup'. It's a great little British cartoon from the 80s.

Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher. He's just as creepy and menacing as you can get.

Jaws (Richard Kiel) from the Bond films.

Darth Vader

Thulsa Doom, for sure.

Khan Noonian Singh. Ricardo Montalban does a fantastic job.

Danny Vermin (Joe Piscopo) from Johnny Dangerously. "You shouldn't grab me. My mother grabbed me once. ONCE!"

Frank the Fixer (Lou Albano) in Wise Guys.

Unicron in Transformers: The Movie. How can you not like a giant robot that devours planets for fuel, especially when he's voiced by Orson Welles?

 The Tall Man

  Megatron from Transformers The Movie

 Kurgan from Highlander (No, there were no sequals to it. Why do you ask?)

  The Predator

 Oh and I can't believe I didn't mention Chris Sarandon in The Resurrected. Good movie, go see it

>>Kurgan from Highlander (No, there were no sequals to it. Why do you ask?)<<

You mean villians like him in all the highlander sequels? You knwo, I didn't need to find out the immortals were aliens..damn them sequels! He was a cool guy, raspy voice, wonder what else that actor did and what became of him. Kinda like that villian with the Massive jaw in that stallone prison movie..never saw much of him afterwards but how could you forget that mug

Scorpius from "Farscape"

The Car from "The Car"

Keiffer Sutherland in "Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico"  (A town, I might add...I once woke up in the hospital of once)

Vin Diesal in "Pitch Black"

Yeah, I liked the Kurgan, and I also agree with Future Blob about Megatron. One of my favourite transformers.

Susan, the actor who played the Kurgan is Clancy Brown. Off the top of my head, I can remember him from a couple of other movies. He was Frankenstein's monster in The Bride, one of Buckaroo Banzai's team, starred in the short-lived Earth II series, and did the voice of Lex Luthor in the animated Superman series of the late 90s.

Jerry Dandrige from Fright Night.
Tell me you didn't get chills the frist time you heard him say, "Welcome to Fright Night...for real."

The Leprechaun from the Leprechaun films- since he is usually the only likeable character in them, plus he's funny and  Warwick Davis is one of my faves. I WANT ME GOLD!!!!!!!

I can't believe I forgot to add The Tall Man!

Best villian in low budget movie.....

Radical Z,  the guitar goovin evil demon of heavy metal from "Rock'n with Satan".

Any character played by Michael Ironside.

My favorite villains fall into three categories.
Category 1. Those played by one of my favorite actors. As that list is quite
                        extensive, and they're mostly dead anyway, except for Christopher
                        Lee, we'll go on to the second category.
Category 2. The villains for who I feel some empathy. Kurt Kelly (Lance Fenton)      
                         "Heathers," Scott Wormer (Devon Sawa) "Now and Then," and
                         Edward "Evil Ed" Thompson (Stephen Geoffreys) "Fright Night."
Category 3. Not individuals, but groups for I feel some empathy. NSA employees
                        in "Enemy of the State" and the Hawk hockey players in "D2." Enjoy!

Anyone know a link of a good pic (and i don't mean a large one) of thulsa doom? I want to add him to my new villians page. I had a hell of a time finding cujo as is.

Some people has mentioned Tulsa Doom and Scorpius from "Farscape".

Some others...

Mengele (Gregory Peck) in "The boys from Brazil".

Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in "Blade Runner"

Pat Garrett (Kris Kristofferson) in "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"

Sheriff Little Bill (Gene Hackman) in "Unforgiven"

Sheriff Charlie Wade (Kris Kristofferson) in "Lone Star".

Thulsa Doom  (James Earl Jones) in Conan  ..  That voice,  the look..  

General Zod from Superman II   -  He had style and style is enough

Denzel Washington in Training Day  -  Surprisingly good as a bad guy

Angus Scrim (Aka) The Tall Man

Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes  -  Style Style Style..  

James Mason as Captain Nemo -   So cool,  so stylish,  plus he had cool toys.

> Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in "Blade Runner"

Try him out in "The Hitcher"

My wife will not watch *any* movie with him in it after seeing him in that

A few more great villians that should be added to this extensive list are:

Diamond Dallas Page in Ready to Rumble.
Red Skull from the Original Captain America movie.
Nemesis Enforcer from G.I. Joe the Movie.
and finally Golum from Lord of the Rings, who we'll be seeing more of this Christmas.

Actually, I rather preferred Golobulus over Nemesis Enforcer.

care bears are cool

Ok maybe I am reaching out on a limb on this one but some of my personal faves as villians are::

Night Slasher--Brian Thompson--Cobra
Sam--Peter Weller--Firstborn
Wulfgar--Rutger Hauer--Nighthawks
Velvet Von Ragner--Gene Simmons--Never Too Young To Die
Charles Luther--Gene Simmons--Runaway
Malak Al Rahim--Gene Simmons--Wanted Dead or Alive

of course then there are your standards::

Micheal Myers
Freddy Krueger
Jason Voorhees

But I would have to say that my all time favorite villian is::

Darkness--Tim Curry--Legend

My favorites villians are green godlin,crontroller from planet x and nmany other as well.

Oh Tim Curry WAS good in "legend". You wouldn't know it was him but he is a great character actor - the kind who can, behind any costume, fit the part so completely. He was also the clown in "It" that creeped so many out.

I was trying to avoid it, but with 38 posts gone by and noone mentioned him, I have to nomainate the incredible David Lo Pan. Tall guy, weird clothes. First you see him then you don't.

Pete

> I was trying to avoid it, but with 38 posts gone by and noone mentioned him,

Um...*you* mentioned him further up the page

I apologize. My little brother will be soarly punished for his crimes(where's that chainsaw?!!)

The first one's a stretch:

Prime Evil: Ghostbusters (not the REAL Ghostbusters)
Megatron: Transformers
Wild E. Coyote/Sylvester/Yosemite Sam: Loony Toons

 Shang Tsung: Mortal Kombat...I forget who his name is but the guy looked cool and had a smooth flow and calmness to it. Sometimes being a villian does not mean being loud all the time.  The same thing has to be said for Lex Luthor in the Superman cartoon.

Dr. Evil! BUH HA HA HA!

Oh, I did, but I like best villains with past story and a comprehensible aim for their actions.

>Oh, I did, but I like best villains with past story and a comprehensible aim for their actions.

Fair enough, there was more backstory for him in "Blade Runner"  than "The Hitcher"

> I was trying to avoid it, but with 38 posts gone by and noone mentioned him,

>Um...*you* mentioned him further up the page

I apologise for my AWFUL memory. Completely forgot i'd already posted on this one. I'll sit in the corner with my dunce's cap on.

Pete the Dumbarse

Thanks ok, he was good villian

A good villian, to me, is one that makes you fear for the heros life if the hero and the villina are in the same room.

Darth Vader had the going on, at least in "Empire". As soon as Han and Leia walked in the room and there was Vader at the end of the table it was like "Oh, no!  There doomed!"   A good villian should inspire the same reaction s a shark, you're only hope is so stay away from them because actually being in their presence threatens certain and imminant death at almost any moment

You know what? I like most villians, I like them because they're bad and good is stupid. But my favorites have to go to these guys, the ones that made me interested in them winning more than anything else!

     Dinosuars (stop-motion or suit animation)- child hood thing that is my personal kryptonite.

     Freddy Krueger- yeah, got to dip into the 80s some.
     
     Oh and lets not forget the Dark Overlord in Howard the Duck.

     Dr. Frankenfurter (?)- Tim curry does no wrong, even in panties, although his role in Clue was very good too.

I can't believe this post has made it this far and my favorite villian has yet to be mentioned! I am speaking of course of none other than...Doctor Clayton Forrester! Come on, ruling the world through bad movies, what's not to like?
Also, Zartan and the Drednoks from GI Joe (pass the grape soda and choc. donuts to Winken, Blinken, & Nod)
Hmm, there's also that great villian, Kofax Mongo
(read Spidey Super Stories, and you'll get the joke)