top ten baddest bad guys

[Leah]

http://www.spike.com/video/top-10-baddest-bad/3001586

I agree with the list, but how come Norman Bates isn't on the list?

[Newt]

http://www.spike.com/video/top-10-baddest-bad/3001586

I agree with the list, but how come Norman Bates isn't on the list?

Norman Bates does not usually spring to mind when listing 'bad guys'.  He's somewhat 'soft' in that department.  Sure he killed women, but he was wearing a dress!

More seriously: being bad or evil is magnified by it being a choice on the part of the character.  One chooses to be one or the other; it's the volitional commitment to/pursuit of evil ways in the face of the possibility of not being 'bad' that makes a bad guy truly bad.  Norman Bates was driven long ago to where he was no longer able to make any choice: he was unable to respond in any other way.  That lack of choice - being so damaged as to be unable to choose - makes the character pathetic and we can end up sorry for him rather than afraid of or hating him.  He cannot be blamed for what he does.

[Doggett]

Captain Hook should've been there...

[lester1/2jr]

the dude from pocket ninjas with all the face surgery is THE baddest

[judge death]

Hannibal Lecter for the win!