Greatest supervillans ever

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

Okay... we all know that any type of hero has it's opposite... A character that challanges the hero both physically and mentally.  All depends on what type of story and what type of hero... For Guybrush Threepwood it was LeChuck, for The Prince of Shapir it was Ad Avis, for me it is George Lucas... pompous bearded freak... Shove that lightsaber up your--
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Back on topic here...
Who do you think is the most compelling supervillan?  Catagories considered should be appearance, powers, personality, feats of evil (or coolness), and (sometimes) connection to the hero.  This is not to be confined to any genre.  Comic books, movies, adventure games, books, my home-made movie of me attempting to assasinate the beloved creator of Star Wars... (On sale October 15th!)

I hope i'm not misunderstoon... I mean ANY villan.  Ever.  Anything you can possibly think of that has done something evil and deserves to be crowned the best supervillan ever.

[Domino]

It has to be Dr. Evil. The scariest & funniest evil doctor on the planet.

He eventually got friggin sharks with laser beams on their head. How evil can that be.

[Kinoko]

There's no better measure than success. I get sick of villains that make stupid mistakes so that the hero can win. I have great admiration for genuinely clever/intelligent villains.

I can't think of any off the top of my head but combine that quality with sheer charm and ...cooleness and you've got my favourite villain.

[Darth Mandarb]

Satan ...

Truely a great villian.

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled ... was convincing the world he doesn't exist."

- Verbal Kent

[esper]

The greatest supervillain ever is the Joker. Alot of people see him as being just some weirdo, but it's not until you read some of Frank Miller's work where you can really see that the Joker isn't the Assclown that Mark Hamill, Cesar Romero, and Jack Nicholson made him out to be (but then again, everyone who ever played Batman did the same to him). The Joker is a truly horrifying enemy: true madness incarnate. His desire for omnicide and his complete lack of compassion for anything that breathes... In The Dark Knight Returns he poisons an entire Boy Scout troupe to leave as a present for the Batman... There is of course the fact that, although it was in the movie that Batman actually created him, that the Joker only exists because Batman does... If there were no Dark Knight, there would be no Clown Prince of Crime, which is a fact that has made Batman numerous times want to hang up his Batarangs. The Joker might not have any superpowers, but what he lacks in that department he totally makes up for by just being truly and entirely psychopathic.

[Nacho]

Darth Vader, of course...

[Nikolas]

I agree with Darth Mandarb on this one, but one more:

The green Goblin (not as seen in the movie), from Spiderman. He's the guy who killed Gwen Stacy. Unforgetable and unforgivable!
This also gives away my love for spiderman and Marvel Comics (not anymore though...)

[aussie]

What about Gargamel, from The Smurfs!

He rocked.

[magintz]

Two words... Lex Luthor

Best villain ever. C'mon he had no real powers and he stood up to Superman, yes the man of steel himself! But like all super-villains he always fell just short of succeeding.

Another good supervillain would be Darth Vader, but he wasn't all that evil, he turned good at the last minute, he started out good, he wasn't even the real bad guy, just their henchman.

[Las Naranjas]

Magneto, mainly because the rets have stupid "insanity" or shallow "world domination" concepts.

But superheros are better without supervillians in my opnion. When they fight against their own fuckups, it's far more entertaining.

Oh, and Kraven the Hunter, homoeroticism incarnate, oh baby.

[Nacho]

Mmmm... Darth Mandarb mentiones Verbal Kent... That  reminds me that Keyser Sossek was cool. I love the usual suspects... specially because:

SPOILER

Spoiler

It's the story of a man in a big mess... Keyser (Verbal) invents all that story to scape of the police station, but the film is the story of his greatest failute. He makes it all in the movie to eliminate a guy who saw him, but at the end of the fiml there's a lot of witnesses who know how does Keyser look.

[close]

That makes the film soo lovely, IMHO...

[InCreator]

Does Predator count as supervillain? He's the coolest!

[RyRayer]

Ofcourse Mandarin from "Ironman", which was my favorite cartoon when I was little.

[Hamelkart]

Baron Rakosi and Dr. Hellingen

http://www.fumettando.it/viaggiodizagor/mostri/rakosi/rakosi_sin.jpg
http://www.scanner.it/strips/images/hellingen.gif

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Dr. Doom always held some sort of fascination for me...

[Eigen]

Dr. Nonookie all the way! 


-Eigen

[Tuomas]

After watching 60  episodes of the Teenage mutant ninja turtles in a row I feel numb and undecided between Shredder and Krang whom we all know naturally, but I think shredder must be it, since he's always there to make things difficult! And he's evil, talks in an evil way and all...

[rharpe]

Syndrome from the Incredibles is pretty evil! He kills all these supers to make his creations withstand the next supers. (...and all because he had a super for a role model that was too busy.)

And another EVIL villan would be Bram Stoker's Dracula! (...aslo in Castlevania and many other mediums.)

I don't know if I would consider Satan as a villan... he is much much more!!!

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

If satan ever were to be seen as a villan, he would have to be everything that is evil. 

As for dracula... couldn't agree with you more, man 

[bspeers]

My brother and I came up with a pantheon of "absurd" (not merely "silly") villains and heroes years ago, and I did a few comics.

Of those I drew, my favourite is "Christmas Tree" a giant talking christmas tree.  Everything he did was iconic to the comics.  He appears by shattering through a skylight, pot and all (he has no mouth or eyes or any cartoony features) and immediately demands all the "Mr. Sponge" action figures.

When the heroes confront him he has this incredibly bad line, "Eat ornaments do gooders!"  and shoots a barrage of tinsel and bulbs.  Just fun to do.  Possibly the stupidest idea for a villain I've ever seen -- except for my favourite, below.

My favourite "super" villains of all time though (not just villains, because that makes things far too complex) are a mix between Magneto, the Joker (same reasons as those above, though I mostly know them through descriptions of the novels and comics, and from the movies and cartoons having rarely ever read them), Boy and Girl and the Chairman.

Boy and Girl were invented by my younger brother, and are two percotious children that happen to be insanely powerful.  At one point they turn the creator of the universe into a monkey riding a tricycle.  They can destroy the entire earth in less than a blink, and often do.  Their only weaknesses are that they are easy to distract (with toys or videos or what-have-you) for a few minutes at a time, and that they obey their parents (two celestial beings with no real powers, per se) and their babysitter, the Tower of Evil.

But if he had had more than one appearance in a comic, by and large my favourite villain would have  been the Chairman.  Every panel of his scuffle with Spiderman made less sense taken out of context than the last, and the entire premise blows my attempts at parody out of the water.  You can't parodize this, folks:

http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess/spidman20.htm

Mmm, chairs.


EDIT: Looking again, my favourite bit of that comic is right around panels 4 and 5.  THe more I think about it (my mistake) the less sense any of it makes, from the internal logic of the comic itself, through to the attempt to actually sell cakes.