Best Villain

[Brian G Turner]

Ozymandias.

Because he had a great motivation - he wasn't trying to destroy the world, but save it.

 

[Chris Guillory]

Was he a villain though? He started out as one, but that changed. How about a conflicted protagonist do or even a tortured one?

That's what I started my post with, and as I was typing it, I added "at some point". And that doesn't just apply to Glokta, but almost all of the characters!

 

[Jaxx]

Scared me witless a child, it was the glistening lips wot did it! Freaked a young lad out.

Zoltar

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[Frost Giant]

Scorpius from Farscape.

 

[BAYLOR]

Scorpius from Farscape.

He was awesome.

 

[SilentRoamer]

Was Sand dan Glokta a villain? Just as I was typing that question, I thought yes, and further, who in that series was NOT a terrific villain at some point? Besides West and his sister?

Even West got a bit of villainous coverage - when he nearly strangled his sister to death. "Furious" had a bit of a temper!

 

[SilentRoamer]

Was he a villain though? He started out as one, but that changed. How about a conflicted protagonist do or even a tortured one?

I feel like Glokta was both. We permanently root for him to change and be a better man but he's an absolute ******* with very few redeeming qualities.

 

[the_evil_ted]

There are so many!

Raistlin, Vader, Scorpious, Bester, Lord Foul for certain - for more evil:

Fred Kruger, not sure if he counts. More fantastic than fantasy - Nightmare on Elm Street (movie)
Clarence J. Boddicker from Robocop (movie), he's such a (expletive).
Soft spot for President Snow in the Hunger Games (novels and movies)
The Evil from The Evil Dead (movie)
The eight demons of Kimon from Ninja Scroll (anime)
Tetsuo - Akira (manga, not the diluted version in the anime)

 

[Chris Guillory]

Even West got a bit of villainous coverage - when he nearly strangled his sister to death. "Furious" had a bit of a temper!

How could I forget about how he got that name in the first place!?

 

[The Ace]

Atel Malagate, Lens Larque, Viole Falushe, Kokkor Hekus, and Howard Alan Treesong - Jack Vance's Demon Princes. I'm not sure which of their deaths I prefer, Malagate impaled by Alien roots, Falushe chucked out of a helicopter, or Treesong - the parents of his first victim got to him before Gersen and - well, it would've been kinder to've killed him.

Torak (Belgariad) "I don't blame Torak for the sacrifices. Priests will do just about anything given free rein, but he did nothing to stop them, and that was unforgivable." Belgarath.

Zandramas (Malloreon) and her trail of corpses.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Now I've got you all by the short hairs. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!

Eater of Grass, alias Mellow Yellow

He is a Kzin who killed and tortured probably hundreds of humans for experimentation and stole a captured hyperdrive for the Kzin. From the Kzin perspective he is a Promethean character. He could be compared to Deathwalker in Babylon 5.

psik

 

[Teeny51]

The mad doctor ,whose name eludes me, in the "human centipede".( to my shame!)

 

[Toby Frost]

There are a lot of villains of the puppy-kicking sadistic Joffrey variety (Clarence Boddiker is a particularly good one, though), but I think you'd have to go a long way to find a man more morally dubious than Doctor Moreau: torturer, vivisectionist, killer, racist, semi-fascist and self-appointed god.

Also O'Brien from 1984, because he knows exactly what he is. And for repulsiveness, how about The Head of the NICE from That Hideous Strength? Now there's a grotesque book.

And have we mentioned Dracula yet?

 

[svalbard]

Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth.

 

[WaylanderToo]

have we had Spike yet?