So Who is the most Deliciously Evil Villian on a TV show or movie.

[Justice wanted]

Ever heard the expression? Deliciously Evil? My husband heard me say it one time and He thought I was nuts. But to me it describe a Villian that you can't stop watching. The type of Villian that you know is doing evil and yet so hard not to watch and love what he is doing.


I got stuck doing a Babylon 5 marathon with my husband. Didn't really pay much attention you know did the wifely duty of Oh, it is a good show and fake my way through it than I saw Bester.

Walter Koenig and I just found myself watching.

So what character have been so awesome in a roll that it makes you begging for more?

[lunatica]

1. Shane on the Walking Dead

Though I wouldn't call him a villain as much as I'd say he definitely broke bad. I got the reference from Breaking Bad which is another show about going way too far in your good intentions to protect those you love. Walter in Breaking Bad is another sympathetic character that does really horrible things that you understand why they're doing it.

They're not really bad guys as much as guys who do really bad things.

[Moondog]

2. Dennis Hopper in "Blue Velvet"

[applegrove]

3. The only evil character I have ever really like was Mason on the soap opera "Santa Barbara". He

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really hamed up his evilness. He was more an intellectual snob than a real evil character. He was a shakespearian actor on a soap opera and he played that up.

[XemaSab]

4. Not really a villain but definitely a jerk:

Snape.

[Swede]

5. Anthony Hopkins as Doctor Lecter was creepily good.

[Justice wanted]

6. OH yeah.

[emilyg]

8. ....

[hifiguy]

35. The wonderful thing about the good Doctor

was that he is quite a charming character. He's educated, erudite, has wonderful taste in music and would be quite pleasant to know. He didn't run around murdering people willy-nilly, he only preyed on the "free-range rude" or those whose actions personally offended him, like Miggs.

By halfway through "Silence" I, and many others I suspect, were rooting for Lecter.

[kentauros]

7. I agree about Bester.

Even though he was just plain despicable over the entire series, he still had a heart, too (with regards to his lover, mostly.) JMS was quite good at bringing out various traits and flaws in his characters.

Of course, the Shadows were utterly evil, as were the lifeforms in the standalone B5 movie Thirdspace

[charlie and algernon]

9. Ben from Lost

One of the great villains in TV history

[XemaSab]

19. Good call

[RedSpartan]

10. Hans Gruber

Die Hard.

That is all.

[Still Blue in PDX]

34. My favorite. nt

[CherokeeDem]

40. Hans Gruber...

gave a delicious new meaning to evil....

[hamsterjill]

42. Oh, God, YES!!!!

YES! Yes!

And incredibly sexy! That voice!!!!!

[ChazII]

44. Anothervote for Gruber

and I didn't feel the least bit bad at the way he died.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. The evil preacher in "The Night of the Hunter"

played by Robert Mitchum. A really creepy, thoroughly bad to the bone kinda guy.

[pokerfan]

12. Tim Roth in Rob Roy

for which he won a BAFTA. If you've never seen it, rent it tomorrow!

[Swede]

13. I enjoyed his coup de grace.

nt

[cliffordu]

14. I gotta say Heath Ledger in that batman film.....

I JUST LOVED that sequence with the gangsters in the commercial kitchen...

"Watch me make this pencil disappear......"

"It's Gone..."



And then, as he describes why he uses a knife, because he can hear what people are really like in their last moments.....



"I know more about your friends than you do. Do you want to know which ones were cowards??"

[ChazII]

45. Another truly evil villian.

As I have a son and a very dear friend with severe facial deformities, Joker's sad tale did not go over well with me. I wanted to tell the character to grow up and stop the pity party. He was of course, just jerking people's chains, I chose not to like the story he told to the one group.

[pokerfan]

15. Regarding B5

wait until you see the episodes with Wortham Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia (of Centauri). Evil and completely mad. First five episodes of the fourth season.

[csziggy]

16. Duncan Regehr as Prince Dirk Blackpool in "Wizards & Warriors"

An obscure, short lived sword and sorcery spoof TV series. Regehir had a lot of fun being evil in the show.

(Vulkarr, an undead barbarian, has besieged Castle Baaldorf.)
Vulkarr: For every minute you delay the surrender, one of the palace guards DIES.
(laughs menacingly)
Prince Dirk Blackpool: How many do you have?
King Baaldorf: Over six hundred.
Prince Dirk Blackpool: Good. That gives us at least ten hours before we have to worry.

Jeff Conway was the hero lead, Prince Erik Greystone, and Julia Duffy the love interest, Princess Ariel, in what I consider her best role ever.

The series deserved more than the 8 episodes that were produced.

[Justice wanted]

24. That's Duncan Regehr ! Oh he was young wasn't he.

[csziggy]

41. Yes, that was in the early to mid 1980s

And he was luscious. Jeff Conway was the lead character, but I thought Regehr was sexier. He did make a better villain - Conway couldn't have been as menacing and snide.

[Justice wanted]

47. My intro to Mr Regehr was The New Zorro TV show. He was so handsome and awesome in that.

Granted it was a "family show" but still it was cute.

[csziggy]

53. I would have watched that if it had bee available here!

That was not long before we got satellite and we could get few stations on our antenna. Which of course, was why we got satellite. But I'm pretty sure that wasn't aired in this area.

[Justice wanted]

61. Actually you can get the whole series on DVD. I have it and would rec it! Awesome.

Complete series

http://www.amazon.com/Zorro-Complete-Series-Duncan-Regehr/dp/B0041KKBFE/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1331946001&sr=1-3


If you just want to do a season at a time:

http://www.amazon.com/Zorro-The-Complete-Season-One/dp/B0041KKBJK/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1331946068&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/Zorro-Complete-Season-Duncan-Regehr/dp/B0041KKBK4/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_img_b

http://www.amazon.com/Zorro-Complete-Season-Duncan-Regehr/dp/B0041KKBL8/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_img_c

http://www.amazon.com/Zorro-Complete-Season-Duncan-Regehr/dp/B0041KKBN6/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_img_b

If that helps

[csziggy]

62. Neat, but that will have to wait

I've got surgery coming up and have no idea yet how much my copay is going to be. It may eat every extra penny I have this year. I'd do better to see if it is on NetFlix - which I haven't joined but I'm getting closer. I'm getting tired of having media around that I have to replace every decade!

[Justice wanted]

63. Good luck with the surgery. Let me know if you need anything.

[2ndAmForComputers]

17. LEX. GODDAMN. LUTHOR.

[OriginalGeek]

18. This thread is useless without

Al Swearengen

[siligut]

39. That was the beauty of Deadwood

You ended up loving all these terribly flawed people. Al was tough and pragmatic and we were told what a difficult childhood he had, so we understood his cruelty. But Cy was weak and cruel and, at least in my mind, he wasn't very likable.

[MadrasT]

43. Al Swearengen. Fuck yeah. My hero. n/t

[cliffordu]

51. Fuck yeah!!!

[DFW]

20. I hate to plug this guy because he's a right-wing POS

But Jon Voight, playing a right wing POS (of all things) in "Enemy of the State" was pretty good.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

21. The new king of the Lanisters in "Game of Thrones"

Not sure if that's his title. He's the blonde kid can't be more that 15 or 16.

[sarge43]

50. Joffrey Baratheon.

His uncle/father, Jaime Lannister, is a nasty piece of work, too. Seems to run in the family.

"The things I do for love."

[jobycom]

22. Saffron from "Firefly" was pretty delicious.

Or at least, I imagined she would be.

[Codeine]

36. Indeed.

[IndyJones]

23. Cesare Borgia from the Showtime series, The Borgias!!! **sigh**

François Arnaud is awesome! I can't wait for the second season to start!!

Dexter would be second on the list for me.

[hobbit709]

25. Vincent Price in any of a dozen movies.

[PassingFair]

26. Celia Hodes...I MISS her!

[peacefreak]

27. Glenn Close as Marquise de Merteuil

in Dangerous Liaisons. She was also pretty good with the bunny in Fatal Attraction...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

28. Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men and Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate

[CBGLuthier]

29. Livia Augusta, from I, Claudius

I can not even begin to remember the list of her own family she had murdered.

[sarge43]

49. Husband, son, a couple of grandsons and anyone else who got in her way.

"I never forgot that I was a Claudian."

[unapatriciated]

56. I have the series in a boxed set.

It was the first gift Hubby gave to me. He had never seen it and I went on and on how great it was.

[nuxvomica]

30. Gregory Itzin as Pres. Logan on "24"

He was weak and murderously evil and sort of like Nixon but married to a Martha Mitchell character.

[YankeyMCC]

31. Dr Smith

The only reason to watch Lost in Space

Also, Scorpio from Farscape

[Taverner]

32. Windom Earle - Twin Peaks

[RiffRandell]

33. Jack Nicholson-The Shining.

I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in!

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And no, I am not typing it a million times.

[Codeine]

37. Marlo Stanfield from The Wire

Closely followed by his henchwoman Snoop.

[gratuitous]

38. I'll go with John Huston in "Chinatown"

Huston's on-screen presence isn't all that much, but the character's menace, depravity and greed run the whole show, and cast a shadow over everything that happens in a very deep story.

I just started watching "Downton Abbey," and absolutely loved the deliciously evil Duke from the second or third episode. Unfortunately, I've heard that his appearance was a one-off, but in one 40-minute episode, he leads the family to think that he might marry the eldest daughter which would save the estate and keep it in the family. He tricks Mary into letting him into the footman Thomas's room. He is revealed to be the former homosexual lover of Thomas. During his foray into Thomas's room, he steals back the letters he wrote to Thomas. He then burns the letters right in front of Thomas. Finally, he thwarts Thomas's designs to become a valet. After completely humiliating Thomas, he offers to let Thomas spend the night anyway. Yowtch!

[auburngrad82]

46. "Omar" from the Wire

Not really evil, more amoral. But man, for a killer/drug dealer/robin hood character he was cool.

Now Chris Partlow and Snoop Pearson from the Wire, they were evil!

[cliffordu]

52. Yep - But Marlo had a code of honor.

He was just playing with the players.

The other two were evil.....

[Scout]

48. hmmmmm, been watching "Dark Shadows" on DVD lately

and i think Barnabas Collins is pretty darn creepy! but i like him anyway ... "Bite me!"

[DryHump]

54. Ralph Fiennes

Schindler's List

[unapatriciated]

55. Dexter

I'm still jones for more.

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[WCGreen]

57. Heath Ledger

as the Joker....

[Motown_Johnny]

58. That was a good character

but he was less evil than just delusional. He believed that people with psychic abilities were superior to those without and had issues with the way the "mundanes" treated his people.

He did some evil shit but he was fighting for his people's freedom. There were other characters who were trying to destroy all the psychics and even developed a virus that would kill them all off if they didn't get regular treatments. This would have allowed them to be enslaved for generations, those that didn't die that is. He was actually a fairly sympathetic character once you got to know him.



Babylon 5 didn't have any major evil characters, just characters who had different points of view.


There was one character who was willing to kill millions of others for personal power. I guess he was the worst on that series but he wasn't a major character. Even Mr. Morden wasn't this bad. He honestly thought The Shadows were helping. Lord Refa was pretty evil. He dies in this scene.

P.S. This whole episode was great.

[Mz Pip]

59. The Trinity Killer

played by John Lithgow in Season 4 of Dexter.

[sakabatou]

60. I think Light Yagami is on mine