Greatest Villain in either Fiction Literature, TV or Movies..?? no real persons please..

[Stuart G]

The witch in Disney's version of Snow White

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs).

Or Frank Booth (Blue Velvet).
Or Reverend Harry Powell (The Night of the Hunter).

All of 'em scared the bejeezus out of me.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter gave me nightmares for years!

[Tom Ripley]

2. Pap Finn or Veda Pierce

[flvegan]

3. Dr. Evil

[Shadowflash]

4. Professor Moriarty

[rrneck]

5. Iago. Maybe Morgoth. nt

[Graybeard]

6. Mrs. Danvers.

In the 1940 Hitchcock version of "Rebecca" Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers is spooky, scary and evil.

[Madison Blue]

22. Great choice!

And great film.

But my choice is Cruella Deville from 101 Dalmations.

Hell, the name says it all, and she wanted to skin puppies.

[Graybeard]

28. Welcome to DU!

It's always a treat to welcome newbies on their first post. Have fun here. You'll love it.

[Skinner]

41. Welcome to DU, Madison Blue.

[Angleae]

7. Darth Vader

[Doc_Technical]

8. Brian Donlevy as Sgt. Markov

in the 1939 version of "Beau Geste".

[Graybeard]

17. One of my favorite films.

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**SPOILER**

I love when at the end the brothers stage a ritual cremation and they need a dog to place at the foot of the hero. They use the body of the rabid, mad dog Markov.

Yes, one of the all-time great villians.

[jeanV]

9. Sauron

[Kaleva]

10. Jack Wilson in "Shane"

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[EastTennesseeDem]

11. This is the best I can do. Call it.

[brendan120678]

39. Anton Chigurh, from one of my recent favorite novels...

Although obviously the photo is of Javier Bardem, who played Chigurh in the movie.

[Ter]

12. Gargamel

[bluesbassman]

13. Tuco

[Art_from_Ark]

16. Tuco's romp through that cemetery

is one of the greatest scenes of any Western movie

[Toblerone]

14. Without a doubt, Frank Booth

[geardaddy]

37. This ^ ^

[mrmpa]

15. Randall Flagg from "The Stand" by Stephen King....eom

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Javert - Les Misérables

[charlie and algernon]

20. You wanna know why I use a knife?

Surprised the Joker hasn't been mentioned yet.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. Any evil person that Alan Rickman plays.

"And cancel Christmas!"

[deutsey]

23. The original Barnabas Collins

Scared me when I was a kid.

Even now as I watch reruns of Dark Shadows, the character can still creep me out (despite his occasional flubbed lines and hammy performances).

[HopeHoops]

24. The head of "Water & Power" in "Tank Girl".

He was a nasty fuck.

[NRaleighLiberal]

26. Mr. Potter - It's a Wonderful Life.

[Graybeard]

31. He was such a good actor.

Lionel Barrymore could be convincing as a lovable Grandpa or Dr. Kildare's curmudgeonly boss or a nasty hated villain.

[Stuart G]

45. If I had a second and third ..I would go with Potter, and Nurse Ratched.....

Often it is villian who makes a story...and those two above, those people were great in their roles...

but that is cheating...ok?? see post 43..

[Vincent89]

27. Spam deleted by Violet_Crumble (MIR Team)

[Blue_Tires]

29. Lex Luthor?

[NRaleighLiberal]

30. Actually, either Henry or (worse) Charles Wilcox from Howards End are despicable

[LynneSin]

32. A tie between Mr. Blonde from "Reservoir Dogs" and Keysersoze from "Usual Suspects"

Michael Madson (Blonde) and Kevin Spacey (Keyser) did killer job with these characters!

[pink-o]

33. The "protagonists" from two Poe stories:

The Telltale Heart and especially The Black Cat. The latter being the scariest thing I'd ever read at aged 11. And the fact that the nameless sociopath was narrating the story, acting like the victim was even creepier. I slept under the bed for weeks!

Horror films, later books--yeah, they can be scary, but NOTHING beats an opium-crazed Victorian writer who'd never seen images on a screen for evoking pure fear!

[AsahinaKimi]

34. General Zod.

[ohiosmith]

35. Dr. Victor Frankenstein aka Victor Helios from the Dean Koontz novels.

[Bertha Venation]

36. Cruella deVille

[ManyShadesOf]

52. +101

[MrScorpio]

53. Darkseid

[geardaddy]

38. Charles Montgomery Burns

[brendan120678]

40. John Kramer, a.k.a. Jigsaw

From the Saw series of movies.

[BrendaBrick]

42. Gregory Anton played by Charles Boyer

in Gaslight - 1944

[NightWatcher]

43. Nurse Ratched

From Cuckoos Nest

A truly evil character

[Stuart G]

46. I was truly stunned by this movie and Ratched was the key..

spoiler here:

Allmost 40 years ago, I walked out of the theater stunned by this one person and her evil. What a terrrific character and what she
did ..If you don't know, you gotta see this. It is truly a great film.

[Ikonoklast]

44. Mary Poppins.

Malevolent agent of unknown origin who cunningly used children in an attempt to single-handedly topple The Bank Of England, and thereby destroying the British economy, throwing the world into economic chaos.


The blatant Disney propaganda trying to sugarcoat that near-disaster is sickening stuff.


Was later seen in the company of a certain Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, and was reportedly employed as nanny to the Romanov children at the Winter Palace from 1915-17.

[RadiationTherapy]

48. THE ORIGINAL Scary 'Mary Poppins' Recut Trailer

[Ikonoklast]

49. That is freakin' AWESOME!

I wonder how many innocent little children that monster blew into the cornfield?

By the way, it is rumored that she keeps the skull of Emperor Caligula in that carpetbag she always carries.

[petronius]

47. Gary Oldman or Glen Close

Well, actually, they're probably OK people. But Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, Isabelle de Merteuil, Stansfield, and Alex Forrest are pretty awesome villains...

[Shampoobra]

50. Dr. Josef Heiter

(played by Dieter Laser) in the Dutch horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_centipede

[roody]

51. Wilhelmina Slater from Ugly Betty