Who is your favorite movie villain?

Ah, good question! And welcome 'n stuff.

Huh. Villain. I like multidimensional characters, particularly those who don't seem evil at the outset or purely evil.

One villain who still looms large is the rather realistic Steff in Pretty in Pink. I realize it's a John Hughes film, etc. (and also that he's essentially a villain from the word go, thereby negating what I just said about villains), but Steff is a rich, arrogant, petty bastard. He hates pretty much everyone and everything, and wipes them all off his designer Italian leather shoes. Seeing him get his comeuppance, when Blaine tells him off (and even when Ducky unsuccessfully attacks him in a fit of rage) is pretty satisfying.

Christof the Creator. Such a loving villain.

Sherlock Holmes' arch enemy, Moriarty.

I also loved Pontius Pilate from Life of Brian.

Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man

Some may consider Bronson, in Deathwish, a hero. I viewed him pretty dimly and did all I could to keep my children from seeing the movie. (Which, in the day of the VHS tape, that proved a failure)

Lee Van Cleef

Frank Booth from Blue Velvet



Rap

He's an antihero or vigilante rather then an actual hero. Not a villain and definitely not a hero.

To me it's villainous to fish for creeps to shoot, making citizens' due rights irrellevant.

You beat me to it rap. I'll just have to go for my second choice.

For an all round cad you can't beat Terry Thomas.

Oh yeah. He was a baddie.

You know you've lost it with Hollywood California when you find yourself rooting for the outright villains in their stupid movies generally, but my favorite is Daniel Day Louis' character in Gangs of New York. I was rooting for Bill all the way.

Other candidates would have to include the multilingual colonel in Inglorious Bastards and Hannibal Lector.

I feel horrible for not being able to get on here sooner! Lol. With my 3rd shift work schedule I cannot make it on here every day on my desktop and this topic received more replies than I expected!

This thread has received wonderful answers and some I didn't even expect!!!

Edward Norton in Primal Fear. - Brrrrrrrrrr.

Either Hades from Hercules or Lord Voldemort from, obviously, Harry Potter.

Hades is so funny! "Zuesy, I'm hooome!"

And Voldemort has so many sides to his story which makes him a really interesting character. He's also scary looking, which you almost always have to be if you're a villain, in my opinion.

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Voldermort isn't Ralph Fiennes' greatest screen villain. This is.