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

[reiver33]

Yup, I second Servalan!

 

[BAYLOR]

The Shinning One from Abraham Merritt's novel The Moon Pool .

 

[Wayne Mack]

But the runaway winner is Alan Rickman, as Snape, but even more so as Obadiah Slope in the BBC series , The Barchester Chronicles.

Don't forget Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

 

[SilentRoamer]

Amon Goeth. One of Fiennes best performances, absolutely chilling...

"An educated jew"
"Shoot her!"
"Im just doing my job!
"and I am doing mine"

One of the most chilling scenes ever.

 

[ANV]

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.

Dracula in many of his forms in media lately

 

[JunkMonkey]

Dick Dastardly for me too.

 

[ZroSkeerd]

Darth Vader. Enough said.

 

[paranoid marvin]

The Hooded Claw.

 

[Swank]

Dr. Claw.