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#20 - Magneto (X-Men)
I was never one for reading X-Men comics as a kid, but boy did Ian McKellen kick some major ass as this mutant who can control metals. Get it, Mag-Neato! He's so neato that the blue chick, Mystique, followed him around as he tried to kill all the humans. Like most evil leaders, he surrounds himself with total nincompoops.
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#19 - Darth Vader (Star Wars)
If you're shitting your pants because Darth Vader is so low on this list, remember that at the end of Return of the Jedi, Vader turned good and killed the Emperror. Before that, Ol' Darthy here was known to choke people out for lookin' at him funny. As far as being a parent goes, he'd just as soon cut off his son's hand than spank him.
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#18 - Ben Gulia (The Wedding Singer)
Ben Gulia brought us a different kind of bad. He was going to marry Julia (changing her name to Julia Gulia) just because he didn't want to break up. He wasn't really in love with her. No, Ben was in love with material posessions like fancy cars and CD players. It took Billy Idol to stop Gulia from marrying Julia. Any guy who gets to marry Drew Barrymore is lucky.
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#17 - Venom (Spider-Man)
Every hero needs their evil counterpart. Spidey had a black alien suit that consumed him and turned him into an asshole. When Parker ditched the suit, it latched on to Eddie Brock. Personally, I think the black suit was always way cooler, and having Venom's creepy teeth and tongue make him one kick ass looking super villain.
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#16 - Angela (Sleepaway Camp)
There is NOTHING scarier than watching a cheesy horror movie that goes horribly wrong. The ending of Sleepaway Camp is so terrifiying that you might never look at a girl the same way. That one movie made Angela the Queen of Camp Slashers and I bet should could even take out Jason Voorhees in a fight.
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#15 - Biff (Back To The Future)
It took three McFly movies for this baddie to make like a tree and get lost. Biff was consumed with his love for Lorraine (played by the super-hot Lea Thompson) so much that he would go so far as to travel back in time as an old man to help his younger self become rich and kill her main squeeze, George McFly.
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#14 - Doomsday (Superman)
Doomsday was able to do the one thing that Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Mxyzptlk, Bizarro, The Toyman, and even Darkseid couldn't do. He killed Superman. Sure, The Man of Steel returned from the dead for a re-match, but whatever. Doomsday hit Supes so hard that it made most of us forget all about Nuclear Man.
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#13 - Ivan Drago (Rocky IV)
Not so much a bad guy by choice, Ivan Drago was more of a hired goon when you think about it. He was the greatest boxer in all of Russia and in his first match in the USA he killed the great Apollo Creed. For fuck sakes, whatever he hits he destroys! Except Rocky Balboa, who teaches even Drago that everyone can change.
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#12 - Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Some bad guys are all about the bad puns. I can truly say that I relished every time Shredder said "I'm going to make turtle soup out of these wretched reptiles!" Uh, Shred-head, maybe you should take a closer look... they're fucking amphibians! Oh well, at least in the cartoon you weren't played by Kevin Nash with the whole "go ninja, go ninja go" thing.
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#11 - Cobra Commander (G.I. Joe)
Recently I spilled my true feelings about Cobra Commander in the Cobra Commander Is The Man article, so I'm not going to touch on him anymore.
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#10 - Skeletor (Masters of the Universe)
Oh, we're not talking about the Skeletor from the He-Man cartoon that whined and bitched because Beast Man farted. No, no, this is the movie Skeletor who is way more bad-ass. If Beast Man farted, this Skeletor would've bitch-slapped him into a bajilliion pieces. Nobody messes with this Skeletor unless they wanna piss themselves. It's almost a shame a sequel to the movie was never made.
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#9 - Wicked Witch of the West (Wizard of Oz)
Before any of the other bad guys on this list, there was the Wicked Witch of the West. She was stealing dogs and enslaving flying monkeys long before Shredder was trying to make turtle soup. And all she wanted was a nice pair of ruby slippers. They were even a family heirlume. Was she so wrong to want to own what would've been hers? The Witch should've sought legal counselling and sued Dorothy for the slippers. After all, there was probably a will left over from her sister.
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#8 - Gozer (Ghostbusters)
It can be any form. It can even look like a fifty foot tall marshmallow man. From some angles, it can look like Prince in the Kiss music video. All you need to know is that if Gozer asks if you are a God, you say YES. Otherwise you'd better hope to have a proton nuclear accellerator strapped to your back.
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#7. Dr. Claw (Inspector Gadget)
Let's just pretend that the movie and toy lines never happened for Inspector Gadget, because Dr. Claw was way cooler when we had no idea what he looked like. Just look at his hand! Any hand like that must belong to the toughest fucker on the planet. That glove must be made of pure titanium! It will fuck you up! And yet somehow Gadget always won. Claw should've tried eliminating his niece first.
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#6 - Megatron (Transformers)
You know you're a bad guy when you have no problem shooting your own men. Or maybe you're just an asshole. Either way, Megatron had no problem shooting Starscream for acting out of line. The Deceptacon leader had two things in his sights: 1) Get some energon so he could return to Cybertron in style, and 2) Destroy Optimus Prime and those pesky Autobots.
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#5 - General Zod (Superman II)
Zod's evil is all in his eyes. When you are told to Kneel Before Zod, he isn't kidding. If you don't kneel, you will be executed. If you do kneel, you are blessed with a lifetime of service to your leader, General Zod. With the exception of Australia, Zod was almost the ruler of the whole planet Houston. And unlike most bad guys, Zod's flunkies were actually useful.
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#4 - Jareth (Labyrinth)
Jareth, aka The Goblin King, is a baby stealer. That's right. He steals babies and turns them into Goblins. He grants wishes to young girls with his crystal balls (insert bad joke here) and rules the Labyrinth through fear of the Bog of Eternal Stench. His tight purple pants are also frightening. He's such a bad ass that while he is corrupting, he has no problem tauting his prey by singing to them.
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#3 - The Prince of Darkness (Legend)
Tim Curry's devilish character not only scares us, but teaches us that without darkness there can be no light. Good is nothing without evil. And love cannot exist without fear. That's some heavy shit, especially coming from a former drag queen. Probably the scariest part of all though, is the fact that The Prince of Darkness has no problem telling us that inside all of us is a little piece of him... *shudder*
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#2 - No-Heart (Care Bears)
No-Heart has no feelings. He does not care. His only desire is to rid himself of those furry little fucks known as the Care Bears. If you think No-Heart was a pansy who always sent Beastly and Shrieky (yes, I remember their names) to do his dirty work, you gotta check out the episode "Birthday Bear's Blues" to see No-Heart go on a rampage. He was the villain that sat back and bided his time, but you knew that when he actually put his hand in the game, the shit was going to hit the fan.
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#1 - The Joker (Batman)
There is no greater Bad Guy than the Joker. It's simple. The Joker has no motive. No reason for tormenting people the way he does. No incentive to kill. No, the Joker does it because it's fun. Add in the fact that he's a clown and people are scared of clowns, and Mister J here gets an extra point. The Joker is completely insane. Insanity at its most deadly. I have had a theory for years now that the Joker is secretly in love with Batman. If that were true, then it would give us some demented insight into his endeavors... but at the same time, it would also give him a fragment of a motive and that would ultimately ruin the allure of the Joker's character.
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