Best/Favourite SciFi/Fantasy Villain

[J-Sun]

Lucas Buck from American Gothic

It just weirds me out that apparently five people watched American Gothic and we're all here.

I like that and the Scorpius nominations. I especially can't argue against Darth Vader, though, and I'd add the Emperor.

On the other hand, there's Dr. Emilio Lizardo/Lord Whorfin. (Shame there's not an actual "best of" of him, but that gives some of the idea.)

I think it's clear from those two that I value subtlety in a great villain. (Seriously, though, the Emperor's performance is great.)

My favorite Buffy big bad (nod to Spike and Dru) is the Mayor. (There so needs to be a "best of the Mayor" clip that gets in more Mayory goodness - or badness, as the case may be.) Darth Angelus gave me the tvtrope "affably evil" for the Mayor. He's almost the opposite of the others - he can be full-tilt evil when the chips are down but he spends most of his time being a goofy Ward Cleaver to his sweet killer "daughter" Faith. One of the most beautifully messed up relationships ever made.

Does ST:TNG's Q count as a villain? Because he'd be there.

So there's the funny, friendly villains.

I don't tend to gravitate to many book villains - they may be subtler or less humorous or whatever the case may be. They tend to be "antagonists" more than "villains" like, say, the Mule. But Neal Asher's Skellor was a pretty vivid villain. He was just so revolting and destructive and murderous and just really really weird. The tech with which he could be villainous was pretty amazing. His ultimate(?) fate was pretty remarkable, too. Big time print villain there.

 

[chongjasmine]

I like darth vader from star wars.

 

[Rodders]

Jha-Dur (Deathwalker) from the Babylon 5 episode of the same name was a very good baddie. Shame she was only in one episode.

 

[Deep Space Nina]

About frightening as a child: This alien being from Star Trek TOS that fed on feeling. I was so afraid! I watched the episode with my elder brother (he was nine or ten, I was at kindergarten-age) and I even ran outside the house as I feared that so much.
Today´s favourite villain (if you can call a being beyond good and evil that) may be Cthulhu. But sure, Darth Vader is pretty cool ...

 

[michaelhall2007]

It has to be these bad boys

The DALEKS​

I wonder what they chat about in the cafeteria when they're not EXTERMINATING?

Dalek 1: Have you heard the rumours?
Dalek 2: No. What rumours?
Dalek 1: They recon there's steps.
Dalek 2: Ooh what. We'll that's it then. We're screwed.

 

[EJ Heijnis]

The Tuunbaq from The Terror by Dan Simmons terrified me. A killing monster of mythological proportions, and no one knows what it is, what it wants, or what it's capable of. On the other end of the villain spectrum, Steven Erikson's Korbolo Dom is about as vile a character as you can imagine... And he doesn't even get what's coming to him (or he hasn't yet, anyway... I'm looking forward to the Karsa trilogy.)

 

[Pentagon]

My favorite Buffy big bad (nod to Spike and Dru) is the Mayor. (There so needs to be a "best of the Mayor" clip that gets in more Mayory goodness - or badness, as the case may be.) Darth Angelus gave me the tvtrope "affably evil" for the Mayor. He's almost the opposite of the others - he can be full-tilt evil when the chips are down but he spends most of his time being a goofy Ward Cleaver to his sweet killer "daughter" Faith. One of the most beautifully messed up relationships ever made.

By far, my favourite characters in the whole series. Though i'd add Faith + Mayor

 

[psikeyhackr]

I think the Barons of Jacksons Whole of Bujold's Vorkosigan Universe are the best. It is not like they are all the same. Mark Vorkosigan killed one of them and Ivan Vorpatril married the daughter of another but they are all kind of fiendish.

psik

 

[Old_Man_Steve2016]

The smoking man from X-Files. It's hard to find a more loathsome, persistent villain on TV.
But I did.

Alia A Saachez from Gundam 00. He traveled around war zones in the middle east, kidnapping kids (like the main character) and having them kill their parents to join his army of children. He's got it all in the villainy department:

• heavy on the vices
• hard to pronounce/spell "foreign" name
• Jerk personality with a slice of creep
• blood knight tendencies
• completely irredeemable
• combination of street smart, battle smart, and strategic smarts
• douchebag beard that makes me wonder if he tried to copy Col. Sanders and failed.

It's one of the rare times I cheered when a villain got blown up by a main character, and I was so disappointed when they brought him back in the sequel. Makes me hate him even more!

 

[psikeyhackr]

OK, now I have got you by the short hairs. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

Eater of Grass, alias Mellow Yellow

A Kzin in Larry Niven's Known Space universe appearing in multiple stories in The Man Kzin Wars. He tortured and experimented on hundreds of humans. Kind of like Deathwalker in Babylon 5. But he stole a captured hyperdrive ship forthe Kzin Patriarchy so he is a Promethean character in a sense though an enemy to humans.

psik

PS -I posted this in a villians thread and the thread disappeared. What gives?

 

[Kieran Song]

From movies, definitely the Joker. From fiction, Joffrey! There has never been a villain you wanted to strangle more than him.

 

[Cli-Fi]

The smoking man from X-Files. It's hard to find a more loathsome, persistent villain on TV.

And he basically did the same character on Continuum but with access to advanced technology!!!!

 

[Cli-Fi]

Movies: I always had a soft spot for Magneto from X-Men. Thought he was really well rounded and knew what he wanted. One of the best modern day villains in scifi cinema.

TV: I'd have to go with Star Trek's Gul Dukat. The guy was a complex psychopath of the best kind. A futuristic version of Hitler who reinvented himself for the sole purpose of power whenever he could get away with it.

I don't tend to read a lot of books that have a specific villain that is personified in one character.

 

[BAYLOR]

Movies: I always had a soft spot for Magneto from X-Men. Thought he was really well rounded and knew what he wanted. One of the best modern day villains in scifi cinema.

TV: I'd have to go with Star Trek's Gul Dukat. The guy was a complex psychopath of the best kind. A futuristic version of Hitler who reinvented himself for the sole purpose of power whenever he could get away with it.

I don't tend to read a lot of books that have a specific villain that is personified in one character.

Gul Dukat is easily one the most interesting villains to come out of the Star Trek universe.

 

[BAYLOR]

Lucas Buck from American Gothic

He was a terrific villain. I wish viewers hd given this show a chance.

 

[Phyrebrat]

He was a terrific villain. I wish viewers hd given this show a chance.

Viewers did give it a chance; it was the network that killed it by randomly releasing episodes regularly out of order. It was well received.

pH

 

[ThomasG]

The Mule, Foundation.

 

[psikeyhackr]

The Major in Daemon by Danial Suarez

But you don't learn how bad he really is until the 2nd book Freedom.

Pragmatic sadism with complete indifference.

psik

 

[Luiglin]

Herem (Turiya), Jehannum (Moksha) and Sheol (Samadhi) - the Ravers from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

 

[Pyan]

The New Firm. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip from The Truth, by Sir Terry Pratchett.