List of Crap #117: Top 50 Villains 2: Freddy's Revenge

[linszoid]

fun fact: "Father" when translated to dutch is "Vader"!

[Russoguru]

Thank you Johnny for hosting the list! As always, you do an amazing job! 
Anywhere here's my list if anyone cares...

1.   Thanos
2.   Unicron
3.   Darth Vader
4.   The Master (Doctor Who)
5.   Galactus
6.   Khan Noonien Singh
7.   Megatron
8.   Sauron (Lord of the rings)
9.   Davros
10.   Ramsay Bolton
11.   Sephiroth (Final Fantasy series)
12.   Ebony Maw
13.   Gul Dukat
14.   Hela
15.   Lex Luthor
16.   Kylo Ren
17.   Magneto
18.   Hal-9000
19.   General Chang (Star Trek)
20.   Loki
21.   The Predator
22.   Cersei Lannister
23.   Kilgrave
24.   Barry (Archer)
25.   Ming the Merciless

[stethacantus]

For my list, I went more with the fun factor. How entertaining each villain was as opposed to their actual schemes or achievements. There were a lot of villains I completely forgot about. Before I get to my list, here are just some villains I only remembered after I submitted my list.

The Tall Man
From the Phantasm film series.

One of the first things I did was go through all my all time favorite films and look for villains. And somehow Phantasm slipped my mind.

Alfred Pennyworth

Yes, Batman's butler. Back in the 1960s there were accusations that Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson were secret homosexuals, and to counter those accusations, DC decided to get rid of Alfred and replace him with Dick's Aunt Harriet. Because gay men never live with elderly old women. Well, you can't just fire the loyal manservant who knows all your secrets, so DC decided the only way to write Alfred out of the book was to kill him off. Which happened after poor Alfred was buried under a landslide of boulders. Aunt Harriet showed up and insisted she take care of her nephew, and that was that. Except for the television series which insisted on having both Aunt Harriet and Alfred as characters. The television version of Alfred became so popular that DC decided they somehow needed to bring him back.

Not so easy though. Batman had been battling a mysterious foe with supernatural powers called The Outsider for months, the identity of which was never revealed. Some fans began speculating that The Outsider, who turned up after Alfred's death, was actually Alfred. To prove to fans once and for all the Outsider wasn't Alfred, one issue had Batman dig up Alfred's grave, only to find his decomposing remains inside. Alfred was definitely dead for years, definitely crushed, and definitely rotting away. Later when DC decided to revive Alfred, the writers came up with this idea. Batman finally catches up with the Outsider and blasts him with a rejuvenation ray, he turns into Alfred, who has no memory of his years as The Outsider. Batman then concludes that Alfred had been taken to a lab and revived by a mad scientist, only to then turn into The Outsider who then killed the scientist and turned him into the body of Alfred and had him buried in Alfred's grave. Aunt Harriet left, and the issue over possibility homosexuality was settled by writing Dick Grayson out of the book by sending him to college. And Alfred being Batman's greatest foe was never mentioned again.

Van Bullock
From Roots of Evil ( 1979 )

Good thing I didn't submit this one because he would probably have been #2, which means Johnny would have been screwed since you can find zero about this character on the internet, and the film has never been released on home video in English speaking countries, nor is yet available for streaming. My only copy is a now defunct torrent of a VHS home video release of the film from Denmark, in English but with huge subtitles in Danish. Basically, dwarf actor Deep Roy plays a drug kingpin who wants to open a karate school as a front for selling his drugs, but goes into an unreasonable rage when he discovers there is another karate school on the same block, and spends the rest of the film trying to do away with the school's owner Frank Mertens ( German pop star Christian Anders ). I watched bits and pieces of this film a couple of weeks ago when I dug up the disc to make a copy for a friend, and realized the murdering Van Bullock should have been on my villain list.




#1 Mantrid

#2 Evil the Cat

#3 Dean Wormer

#4 Barnaby ( the Crooked Man ) from Babes in Toyland ( 1935 ) and Our Gang Follies of 1938


#5 The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 )


#6 The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 )


#7 Joker

#8 Dick Dasterdly


#9 Lex Luthor

#10 Hedley Lamarr

#11 Yosemite Sam


#12 Isambard Prince from The Lexx


#13 Professor Moriarty

#14 Dr. Charles Decker from Konga ( 1961 )


#15 Grandma Dynamite from The Flintstones


#16 Pai Mei


#17 The Riddler

#18 Ernst Blowfeld

#19 Doctor Who  NO! NOT THAT ONE!  from King Kong Escapes ( 1967 )


#20 Doctor Octopus

#21 Professor Chaos from South Park


#22 The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail  ( 1975 )

#23 The Night King from Game of Thrones

#24 Pearl Forrester

#25 Dr. Clayton Forrester

[goflyblind]

01. Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
02. Randall Flagg (a lot of Stephen King novels, most prominent: Dark Tower, The Stand, Eyes of the Dragon)
03. Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
04. Cancer Man (X-Files)
05. The Beast (Over the Garden Wall)
06. Ben Chang (Community)
07. The Master/Missy (Doctor Who)
08. Rachel Duncan (Orphan Black)
09. Shawn (The Good Place)
10. Elf Queen (Discworld - Lords & Ladies, Wee Free Men, Shepherd's Crown)
11. The Kid (Castle Rock)
12. HAL 9000 (2001)
13. The Psychologist/The Director (Southern Reach trilogy)
14. Sylvanas Windrunner (Warcraft)
15. Joker (Batman, Dark Knight)
16. Moriarty (both the Sherlock and Elementary versions, I haven't actually read any of the books)
17. Loki (both MCU & mythological)
18. Khan (Star Trek TOS, Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan)
19. Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (Fifth Element)
20. Moe (Calvin & Hobbes comic strip)
21. Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice)
22. Gannondorf (Legend of Zelda games)
23. Ananke (Lightless trilogy)
24. Dukat (Star Trek DS9)
25. Ash (Alien)

[Pak-Man]

1. The Monarch (Venture Bros)
2. Megatron (Transformers)
3. The Terror (The Tick)
4. Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
5. Krang (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
6. Jabba the Hutt (Star Wars)
7. Sideshow Bob (The Simpsons)
8. Mr. Mxyzptlk (DC)
9. Gozer (Ghostbusters)
10. Skeletor (He-Man)
11. Xenomorph (Alien)
12. Darth Vader (Star Wars)
13. The Joker (Batman)
14. Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
15. Cobra Commander (G.I. Joe)
16. Bowser (Mario)
17. Vigo (Ghostbusters)
18. T-1000 (Terminator)
19. Dr. Forrester (MST3K)
20. Gannon (Zelda)
21. Thanos (Marvel)
22. Dr. Wily (Mega Man)
23. Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
24, Magneto (X-Men)
25. MODOK (Marvel)

[PsychoGoatee]

Another excellent LoC, great stuff! Well played.... (to quote Leonardo Leonardo from the Clerks cartoon)

01. Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)
02. Mr. Glum (Savage Dragon)
03. Bane (Batman) [The Dark Knight Rises version especially]
04. Bob (Twin Peaks)
05. Light Yagami (Death Note)
06. Judge Death (Judge Dredd)
07. Castor Troy (Face/Off)
08. Clubber Lang (Rocky III)
09. Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)
10. Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
11. Top Dollar (The Crow)
12. Alec Trevelyan (GoldenEye)
13. Legato Bluesummers (Trigun)
14. Evil Ash (Army of Darkness)
15. Dracula (Dracula)
16. Tony Montana (Scarface)
17. Magneto (X-Men)
18. Jason Vorhees (Friday the 13th)
19. Inspector Lau Kin Ming (Infernal Affairs)
20. Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid)
21. The Joker (Batman)
22. Darth Vader (Star Wars)
23. Cobra Commander (G.I. Joe)
24. Kathie (Out of the Past)
25. Jazzman (Batman: The Animated Series)

[RVR II]

Here it is.. Top 25 villains list:
1- Q (Star Trek TNG)
2- Baltar (original Battlestar Galactica)
3- Darth Vader
4- Hal-9000
5- T-1000 (Terminator 2)
6- Zorg (5th Element)
7- Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
8- Weyoun (Vorta Star Trek DS9)
9- The Monarch (Venture Broe)
10- Kahn (Star Trek 2)
11- Dr Forrester (MST3K)
12- Dr Evil (Austin Powers)
13- Megatron (Transformers)
14- Lo Pan (Big Trouble in Little China)
15- Boba Fett (Star Wars)
16- Jabba the Hut (Star Wars)
17- Locutus of Borg (Star Trek TNG)
18- Pearl Forrester (MST3k)
19- MCP “Master Control Program” (TRON)
20- Judge Smails (Caddyshack)
21- Evil Rick Sanchez (Rick & Morty “Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind”)
22- Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars)
23- Gul Dukat (Cardassian Star Trek DS9)
24- Ardra (“Devil’s Due” Star Trek TNG)
25- Princess Ardala (Buck Rogers 25th Century)

[Russoguru]

RVR I am curious. Why did you rank Weyoun far above Gil Dukat?

[RVR II]

RVR I am curious. Why did you rank Weyoun far above Gil Dukat?

I guess because Weyoun had more power than Dukat and Dukat seemed a bit weak at times in the series to me

[Johnny Unusual]

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1. The Joker
2. Mr. Burns
3. Dr. Doom
4. The Kingpin - Another of Marvel's great "noble" villains.  He represents the insidious pervasive evil of crime in the Daredevil books and was made a real interesting threat starting with Frank Miller's run, both more dangerous and more human.  Netflix's Marvel series seemed to get weaker as they went on but Vincent D'Onofrio did an amazing job realizing a larger than life character who seems tricky to do on the screen.

5. Harry Powell
6. Dr. Girlfriend - To me, Dr. Girlfriend gets a slight edge over the Monarch.  Perhaps it is because the characters play so well off of each other.  They are both quite different in their approaches to villainy but love each other for those differences.  Dr. Girlfriend is practical and constantly has to suffer fools.  She loves the Monarch for his passion towards villainy but also has to deal with the tomfoolery that goes along with it.  If villainy is the arts in Venture Bros, then Dr. Girlfriend is constantly playing the role of producer, trying to get weirdos to make peace and fight her way to the top to get the job done and done right.
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7. The Monarch
8. Hans Landa
9. Walter White - Hoping for more votes for this one.  Was Walter a good man who was simply corrupted or was he twisted by personal impotence and jealousy for years and only now acting on it.  Near the end of season two, he takes his first step from merely being a criminal to being a villain (an act or inaction that horrifies even him) and things only get more worse from there until he makes a decision at the end of season four that puts him in "monster" status.  Bryan Cranston is fantastic and has yet to top this role (that said, I actually believe Better Call Saul is the better show overall so far.  Fewer plot cul-de-sacs)
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10. Yoshikage Kira
I didn't expect anyone to vote for him, but he is a really fun villain.  And a bit of an oddity in many ways as he is an atypical villain for a shonen series like this.  Most villains are super powerhouses who basically sit and wait for the heroes to challenge them or search for ways to increase their powers.  Kira just wants to be left alone and live a boring life.  The catch is that he is also a serial killer who will murder anyone who finds out his secret.  Heck, his first appearance is a farce of him trying to hid the hand of one of his victims and getting into tight situations and we follow him.  Many villains of this type also avoid fighting the hero they overpower because they aren't worth their time or something, sending henchmen to do it.  This is sort of the same except he is really just trying to hide because he knows while his powers give him some one-on-one advantages, they need to be used carefully and getting caught will mean his end sooner or later.  He also gets an incredibly satisfying comeuppance by the series end.
Warning, this motherfucker licks sauce off a corpses hand in a very sexual manner.  Nasty.
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11. Hisoka
This villain is a bit problematic.  His deal is that he seems to be sexually turned on by battle and spends a lot of the series wanting to fight two 12 year olds so... ew.  Other than that, he is a great villain.  He's a long line of villains who is on no one's side but his own but he's also fun in that some of the time he is clearly just lying at times not to gain an advantage but because he likes messing with people.  While the show has never really shown him getting defeated in battle, he is, on rare occasion, humiliated, which makes for a fun scene.
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Also Hisoka gets the best facial expressions.
12. Bill Cipher
13. The Riddler - The Riddler is a great, fun villain.  Any plans he has are almost purely to prove how smart he is.  He's willing to steal, kill and do a number of crazy things just to show off.  Plus, if the writer is good, it creates some great puzzles for the heroes to deal with, which is nice.
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14. Charlie Meadows
Barton Fink thinks his plays make heroes of the common man but by the end of the film, he learns he doesn't understand the "common man" at all.
15. Johan Liebert
Blissfully nihilistic, Johan is a super brilliant murderer who becomes a secret messiah to other killers, using them to spread pain and suffering and eventually deciding to "kill himself" by erasing any trace of his existence... including anyone who knows about him.  Years ago, there were plans to make a Monster TV series with the BBC.  I still hope that happens, assuming the show runner is good.  Few villains are able to extinguish all hope as well as he.  And when he does it he feels... nothing.
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16. Doctor Octopus
Another classic comic book villain.  Green Goblin my be Spider-Man's arch-enemy but Octopus is his best one, and the most fun.  He's visually a lot of fun and his powers, though simple, can be done in a variety of ways.  Plus, he's got the classic mad scientist thing going, which I prefer to "evil businessman".

17. Anton Chigurh
18. Aku - Another villain who does what I love: can be both funny and scary in equal measure.
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19. Lorne Malvo - Fargo is a great "Coens remix" series and have killed it with their villains.  Their Anton Chigurh meets human toxicity is a great character.
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20. Mayor Richard Wilkins - My favourite Buffy villain.  Polite and thoughtful guy who happens to be evil AF.
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21. GLaDOS - Portal has great puzzles but it is her narration that makes the game as good as it is.  I feel like some good will has been killed for it through meme-fication but it remains a wonderful game.
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22. Judge Doom
23. Kefka - I never cared much for Sephiroth.  Always struck me as trying too hard to be handsome and cool.  I prefer Kefka's sadism and scheming that leads him to become a supergod.
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24. Mojo Jojo
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25. Lt. Tsurumi - From Golden Kamuy, which chalk full of great characters.  There are no shortage of charismatic villains but with Tsurumi we see why: He really listens to people under him and works to understand them.  So much so that it seems like most of his men have literal crushes on him (note to Tsurumi: stop sending the guy who is into being scolded by you on missions).  In the episode where he meets the guy who steals bodies and sews skins into suits, he doesn't blackmail him or threaten him into joining, he instead expresses enthusiasm and makes him put on a human skin fashion show (which is much funnier and less dark than it sounds, somehow).  We flashback to one of the few men to turn on him and we get to see why he joined him in the first place and very much buy it.  Can't wait for season three to start.

Also, I would watch an entire Tsurumi sitcom...
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[George-2.0]

Johnny, you dun good work as usual.

My listy

1. Kilgrave from Jessica Jones (I truly hated this bastard so much that I gotta put him #1.)
2. Dr. Forrester
3. Norman Bates
4. King Ghidorah - Just because I'm in a Godzilla frame of mind
5. Samara/Sadako from the Ring - just because she made me afraid to turn on my TV or answer the phone or watch a video or take a shower (no wait, that's Norman)
6. Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
7. Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca - I keep thinking, "The God damned Cable Guy made the list. He made the God damned list, but this literary icon didn't. What the f - f - f - flying flaming turtle is going on in this crazy, mixed up world?!"
8. Magneto
9. Nosferatu
10. Thanos
11. Frank Booth, Blue Velvet
12. Auric Goldfinger
13. Anton Arcane from Swamp Thing -The dudes just creepy as sin, body horror at its finest.
14. Dr. Szell, Marathon Man - is it safe?
15. Max Cady, Cape Fear (especially Robert Mitchum’s version. Who didn’t need to overplay it - as De Niro did-  to scare the ever luvin crap out of you. He could just stand and stare at you, looking cool and evil)
16. Reverend Harry Powell, The Night of the Hunter
17. Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files
18. Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons
19. Judge Holden, Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” - Russo wanted vicious, evil, nasty villains - well, they don't come much nastier than the Judge
20. Anton Chigurh, No Country For Old Men
21. Hannibal Lecter
22. Maleficent
23. Professor Moriarity
24. Lady Macbeth - "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" (Lady Macbeth to her dog, Spot after he took a shit on the Macbeth's brand new carpet)
25. Tom Ripley, created by Patricia Highsmith

 

[Johnny Unusual]

I only read the first Ripley book but even based on that, good choice.  I know there were talks of a Ripley TV series but I don't know if that is still happening.

[George-2.0]

I haven't heard anything about a Ripley TV series, but that would have potential.

Oh, and I had to laugh after seeing I added another "i" to Moriarty's name. Because, well, if you saw the last Holmes Rifftrax, you know why. 

[Russoguru]

RVR I am curious. Why did you rank Weyoun far above Gil Dukat?

I guess because Weyoun had more power than Dukat and Dukat seemed a bit weak at times in the series to me

I don't know man he seemed pretty powerful to me when he was possessed by the Pah-wraiths.

[linszoid]

I only read the first Ripley book but even based on that, good choice.  I know there were talks of a Ripley TV series but I don't know if that is still happening.

A Ripley TV series? I don't know if I can believe it or not.