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Your favourite media villain

Easy answer: Rupert Murdoch

Prince Arthas Menethil from Warcraft.

[Quietly sweeps WoW:Shadowlands under the rug]

Dudes villian arc is perfect, his fall is entierly of his own making. Playing as him in Warcraft 3, you follow his reasoning and by the time the corruption sets in, its far too late. In the expansions, you play as him in full BBEG mode. Lastly, WoW:Wrath of the Lich King had him as the capstone boss of one of the best expansions and 15 years of buildup.

And they never expanded on his character ever again...

Omar Little, The Wire

“I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game, though, right?”

Standartenführer Hans Landa.

"That's a Bingo!"

I've always been fond of Magneto. He's a dick about it, but I see where he's coming from.

Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg. He's a monster.

GLaDOS is mine, too.

(spoilers ahead, play it if you haven’t)

In my first playthrough, I didn’t see it coming, and I felt like she was my friend. That was a relationship twist I’ve never had in a game, and I really appreciated what they did there.

e: if you’re looking for other game recs that fuck with you, I’d say What Remains of Edith Finch.

Scorpius from Farscape is a fantastic villain. He was meant to be a one off villain of the week for a clip show. By the time the episode was finished it was a two parter that had only a few seconds of clips, and instead set up the plot elements that would drive the rest of the series, with Scorpius at the heart of it all.

He's one of the rare genius villains that's actually written well enough to seem smart. He's ruthless but not unreasonable. He's horrific, but also charming. He's a bottomless pit of hatred and vengeance, and yet he is cold and calculating, perpetually in control. I've heard him described as mirror universe spock turned up to 11 and I kind of agree.

Plus, we also get Harvey.

See also: David Xanatos. Imagine if Bruce Wayne put all that effort and planning into villainy, mad science and sorcery, theoretically for money but really just for the fun of it. Now give him an Iron Man suit and the voice of Jonathan Frakes. He's an evil genius that's so good at what he does that his name is literally synonymous with plans can only end in a win.

Me reading these comments:

Sorry I had to

One of my favorites as an adult, and one that scared the living shit outta me as a kid. Jude Doom from who framed Roger Rabbit.

Andrew Scott as Moriarty he was so fun

There's something genuinely compelling about SHODAN.

They're malignant, objective evil, yet when they talk about their goals and ambitions, they seem almost benevolent, which makes them even more unsettling.

It's like something telling you to calm down while it's sawing off your legs to replace them with mechanical versions because it's "improving you".

You didn't ask to be improved.

It has to be this way.

Silco from Arcane.

I often struggle with media villains, finding them unrealistic or unconvincing, but Silco is just so well-rounded and well-written, he elevates the quality of every other character he interacts with. In a series full of near- and actually-superpowered people, this weak, middle-aged man is the most terrifying and influential of them all.

Favorite Sci-Fi Villain: SHODAN from System Shock/System Shock 2

Favorite Fantasy Villain: The Nothing from Neverending Story

Favorite Bond Villain: Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies because the writers touched on something quite prescient here about media moguls wanting to control society a la Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg.

Favorite Disney-esque Villain: Raphael from Baldur's Gate III for his "Raphael's Final Act" song.

Favorite Actual Disney Villain: Lord Hater from Wander Over Yonder

Favorite Action Villain: Hans Gruber from Die Hard

Handsome Jack.

Best hero to villain in a game yet. Plus dude had charisma for days so even though he was a clear cut asshole you couldn't help but love his antics.

Idk who my all time favorite is, but I just finished rewatching Clone Wars and man I had forgotten how much I liked Hondo Ohnaka

Maul: “Filth! You will pay for your insolence!”

Hondo: “Insolence?! We are pirates! We don’t even know what that means.”

I've always liked Dr. Doom a lot. Never had a good adaptation in movies, but he's great in the comics.

Ming the Merciless

as played by Max von Sydow in the 1980 film Flash Gordon

Ming is this potentially goofy over-the-top villain, but Sydow's portrayal makes him dignified, threatening, majestic and malevolent, never laughable.

Oh, it's you. It's been a looong time; how have you been? I've been really busy being DEAD. You know? After you murdered me? Look, we both said a lot of things you're going to regret, but I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.

I find... we'll just say "the villain" of Undertale compelling, but it's one of my favorite games so I'm a little biased.

The Prophet of Truth from Halo 2. Cunning bastard, one of 3 prophets at the helm of an immense alien civilization, manages to get the other two eliminated, apppropriating all the power, creating a martyr and exacerbating the passion against the human enemy in the process, observes that one caste (the Sangheili) is a little too smart to keep buying his lies so replaces them with a more brutish, loyal caste, the Jiralhanae...

Killmonger from Black Panther. He had a pretty valid perspective, for the most part

An old one, but the Emperor from Gladiator. His death is among the most satisfying in movie history. Absolutely amazing performance by Joaquin Phoenix.