Who's the first to come to mind when I say - Villain?

[Bren G]

I'm thinking up Villain archetypes and wondered - who's the first Villain that comes to mind when you hear that word. If we get enough, perhaps we can see any commonalities amongst Chroners.


Important: If you need to think more than a second then you're not in the spirit of the request.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Servalan

 

[Mouse]

Scorpius was the first that sprang to mind, but that's TV and I don't know if that counts.

Second was Saruman.

Wait... do all villians begin with S?

 

[nixie]

I'll throw in a couple, Murmurdas, Voldermot.

 

[FromStrangeLands]

Ernst Stavro Blofeld of James Bond fame.

 

[CTRandall]

Peasants.

Theodore Roethke's villanelle The Waking (I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow)

Oh, okay, I'll play nice. The sword Stormbringer from Moorcock's Elric series.

 

[JS Wiig]

Darth Vader

 

[Danny McG]

Dick Dastardly

 

[Thiswriterinme]

Cruella de Vil
Mr. Hyde

 

[Boneman]

Darth Vader

Seconded.

 

[Pyan]

Grand Inquisitor Zaspahr Clyntahn.

 

[Luiglin]

Top of the pile for me is one Professor James Moriarty.

 

[Pyan]

Ernst Stavro Blofeld of James Bond fame.

I love it that the white cat that he's always stroking in the films is obviously very, very p****d-off by the explosions, and is being grasped extremely firmly to avoid it a) inflicting severe damage on Donald Pleasence, and b) leaping off his lap and disappearing under a camera-dolly or something equally awkward.

 

[SashaMcallister]

Flowey

 

[Droflet]

Hans Gruber aka Alan Rickman. Some have described him as a little over the top but then again wasn't the whole movie?

 

[Lawrence Twiddy]

Jafar... please respect my honesty.

 

[Droflet]

Yes, Jafar was a nasty piece of work.

 

[Droflet]

Sasha, Flowey???

 

[nixie]

No one has mentioned Emperor Ming or the Mekon.

 

[Wayne Mack]

The villain that terrified me as a young child was the Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz