OT: Poll: Greatest Movie Villains of All-Time

[NittanyChris]

For purposes of this poll, only human villains, no monsters, animals, robots. You may choose 3!

This is such a difficult task for me as there are SO MANY phenomenal villains. I thought it would be fun.

 

[NittanyIllinois]

Anton Chigurh. For two reasons.

1 -- it's what he represents. The unstoppable nature of evil and death. No matter how good you are or how hard you try, "you can't stop what's coming". The good guys -- Tommy Lee Jones, in this case -- are no match for death and its inevitability. Death doesn't care if you're a high-paid bad guy (Woody Harrelson's character), an innocent man pulled over onto the side of the road, or a gang of Mexican drug runners. It can snatch you in an instant.

2 -- that hair cut.

 

[rudedude]

 

[NittanyChris]

I figured Lecter would win it. Understandably so. The battle for silver and bronze is ON.

A little surprised Nurse Ratched has only 1 vote. DAMN, she was evil.

 

[NittanyChris]

 

[BobPSU92]

What about the woman in Misery?

 

[PrtLng Lion]

Death Vader and Lecter. None of the others on this list are in the same league, IMO.

No Dr. Evil?

 

[NittanyChris]

What about the woman in Misery?

You could make a case for her. The ankle thing was brutal. I would just say that the question is who would you bump for her?

 

[NittanyIllinois]

And just a few others to consider if you expanded your list (though your list is a good one):

Bane
Hans Gruber
Norman Bates
Annie Wilkes (from Misery)
Jack Torrance
Bill the Butcher

 

[NittanyChris]

And just a few others to consider (though your list is a good one):

Bane
Hans Gruber
Norman Bates
Annie Wilkes (from Misery)
Jack Torrance
Bill the Butcher

All great. Especially Bill the Butcher. He was awesome!

 

[Dunkindonuts]

Mr. Potter ftw

 

[NittanyChris]

 

[NittanyPirate]

Ivan Drago was quite the movie villain.

 

[sammyk]

Where is Chong Li from Bloodsport

 

[Relayer]

Albert Ganz...48 Hours
Scorpio....Dirty Harry
Mitch Leary....In The Line Of Fire
Brad Wesley.....Road House
Cyrus The Virus...Con Air
Clarence Boddicker....RoboCop
Little Bill Daggett....Unforgiven
Jack Torrance....The Shining

 

[Nitt1300]

Genius cannibal who can analyze you while eating your liver, there can be only one.

 

[Nittany Ziggy]

Genius cannibal who can analyze you while eating your liver, there can be only one.

With a nice Chianti!

 

[ILLINOISLION]

Dean Wormer Of Faber College!

 

[psuro]

Dean Wormer Of Faber College!

Greg Marmalade begs to differ.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

I mean....

 

[ivan brunetti]

Dr. Christian Szell

 

[mrtailgate]

Goldfinger

 

[paulrandythomas]

 

[Beachwineguy]

Kaiser Souze

 

[N&B4PSU]

Still my #1... the Kurgan from Highlander, with the 3rd Vignette "ever play chicken?" my favorite of all... Queen's NY NY was amazing.



and who can forget the ever priceless... "hey.. where you going with my car?" lol

 

[psuro]

Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction.

I mean-seriously. Rabbits in a pot of boiling water?

 

[BringBackStoneys]

Somehow the Corleone family was erroneously
included in this list. They are legitimate businessmen.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction.

I mean-seriously. Rabbits in a pot of boiling water?

Pet rabbits no less.

How about this guy?

 

[A2Nit]

Kaiser Souze

That is who I immediately thought of...

 

[psuro]

Pet rabbits no less.

How about this guy?

I don’t know. I have never seen Morgan Freeman in a pot of boiling water.

 

[A2Nit]

I don’t know. I have never seen Morgan Freeman in a pot of boiling water.

Another great one...

 

[Dunkindonuts]

Chris Walken in At Close Range

 

[harbest]

 

[ram511]

This one scared me the most !!

 

[91Joe95]

Albert Ganz...48 Hours
Scorpio....Dirty Harry
Mitch Leary....In The Line Of Fire
Brad Wesley.....Road House
Cyrus The Virus...Con Air
Clarence Boddicker....RoboCop
Little Bill Daggett....Unforgiven
Jack Torrance....The Shining

Little Bill was the good guy in the movie.

 

[NitneLiun]

Satan - The Exorcist

 

[LionJim]

There was an Ingmar Bergman film festival on campus in 74-75 and one of the films showed was Torment, which Bergman wrote but did not direct. There was this character, a high-school teacher, who was distinguished citizen by day and this monster manipulator by night. Long story short, in one of the tensest scenes I’ve ever seen, the hero of the film punches him in front of the other students and the entire audience in the theater spontaneously broke out in applause. Awesome.

Not that this particular bad guy compares with Hans Landa, but that’s the only time I’ve ever been part of an audience that broke out in applause.

 

[psuro]

This one scared me the most !!

I think I dated her. In several different iterations over the years.

 

[hlstone]

John Lithgow in Ricochet

 

[Hotshoe]

This would be an incredibly hard list to put together. I'll add the character Joey Garza from Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo. Gene Hackman as Herod in The Quick and the Dead.