Favorite villains

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Who says only villains should have fans? They need love too. So, let's hear it for the villains! If it weren't for them, fiction would be boring.
So who are your favorite villains?
I'll start with my first love: Disney. You know, for such a sweet, beautiful body of work, Disney created some of the most frightening villains ever.
1. Scar (Lion King)--this guy is so ruthless. And I love his villain song!
2. Xanatos (Gargoyles)--that cunning smirk. And Jonathan Frakes is his voice actor. It's a perfect match.
3. Cruella De Ville (101 Dalmatians)--Sing it with me: If she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will.
4. The Coachman (Pinocchio)--Every time I hear that line "They never come back--as boys!", I get chills.
5. Jafar (Aladdin)--his voice is so bone-chilling.
6. Shere Khan (The Jungle Book)--he's Scar, but worse.
7. Hades (Hercules)--So what if he's not accurate. He's great!
8. Demona (Gargoyles)--the sad part is that she can be sympathized with. You almost feel like if you were her, you might've chosen the same path.
9. Magica Da Spell (Uncle Scrooge comics, Duck Tales)--June Foray was perfect as this villain.
10. Mirage (Aladdin: the series)--Because she's just in it for the fun of tormenting others. And I love that scene where she turns Jasmine into a poisonous monster and Aladdin volunteers to be turned into a male version just so they can still be together.

Dr. Horrible. He's got a Ph.D. in horribleness, after all.

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Red Queen (Alice in Wonderland, 2010) - She makes me laugh. And the way she treats the denizens of Underland is horrible. As she says, "It is better to be feared than loved."

Illosovic Stayne/Knave of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland, 2010) - He's probably even worse than the Red Queen. At least she had an excuse (sort of) to behave the way she did, but Stayne was just a jerk because he felt like it. Still, his character is what led me to have a minor Crispin Glover obsession, which is why he is one of my favorite villains.

The Major (Hellsing manga/OVAs) - He has no redeeming qualities. He's a neo-Nazi who likes starting wars because he gets off on it. He's also the physical opposite of how attractive anime men are supposed to look, because he's short and fat. And yet, there's something so fascinating about his character, because he's obviously mad, but in a refined and controlled way.

Rip Van Winkle (Hellsing manga/OVAs) - One of the Major's lackeys. She only appears for one manga volume and its corresponding OVA, yet she is one of the most popular characters in Hellsing fandom. It's not difficult to see why - she's physically attractive (if you like freckles, glasses and suits on women) and has a personality that careens from giddy and girlish to cruel and homicidal in the blink of an eye.

Cain Nightroad (Trinity Blood) - I love him because he's Abel's evil twin, which means he looks pretty much exactly like Abel, arguably the prettiest guy in the series, though minus the ponytail and glasses. Yeah, it's shallow of me, I know.

Captain Barbossa. I actually like all of the villains in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, but he's the funniest.

Like the ones posted, captain barbossa, red queen, scar, hades, and most of the loonies from Batman.

Edit: plus dr.evil and mini-me lol and every other vilian I can't think of who I also like.

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I like Dr. Evil and Mini-Me.

There are so many of them, but the three that came to mind instantly are Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker, and Jar Jar Binks. Yeah, I like Star Wars.

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Count Dracula and Professor Moriarty, of course.

lol I love Lord Ba'al, what a baddass. Apophis was gay, Hathor was hot and Anubis...welll i dont know about him

Personally I like Hans Landa from Inglourious Bastards

Bebop and Rocksteady from Ninja Turtles were awesome. Horrible villains, but awesome.

OK, now on to literary villains:
Voldemort (Harry Potter series): As I've said, he's the closest thing the series has to Satan.
Delores Umbridge (also Harry Potter): No, she's not a well-intentioned extremist. She is evil. You can't call anything she did justified.
Sauron (LOTR): Fear the giant evil eye!
Queen Cersei (Song of Ice and Fire): She makes my skin crawl.
Saint Dane (Pendragon Adventure): Don't let the name fool you. This guy is no saint.
Tigerstar (Warriors/ Warrior Cats, whichever you want to call it): Take Scar from the Lion King, make him an utterly cute kitty, and you have Tigerstar.
Frollo (Hunchback to Notre Dame): The book version's the one Disney didn't want to know about. Hey Disney, explain to me again why you honestly thought this story was a good kid's movie plot? Yes, because all kids need to see a gypsy girl get killed by a priest who wanted to molest her.
Jadis: (Narnia) A great Lilith analog. Now that I've reread Narnia, I don't think she's as stereotypical as I first thought.
The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen, of course): A great, heartless sorceress.
It (Wrinkle in Time): Like evil itself, it cannot withstand love.
Luke (Percy Jackson series): He may be an anti-villain to some, but I don't think his actions were that justified.

Most villains from the original Criminal Minds.

HAL 9000-(2001 book and movie) HAL starts as a the helpful ship AI who wishes only to reach Jupiter(Saturn in the book) but through a sort of glitch, he becomes slightly unhinged. He finds out that the crewmembers want to shut him down. He tries to stop them at all costs, because he sees them as an obstacle to the mission. All the while, his calm, monotone voice perserveres. It is intensely creepy.

Roy Bat(t)y-(Blade Runner/ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) Really and anti-hero and a true hero at the end of the movie(I haven't finished the book yet), Roy Batty is really just a person who wants nothing more but to live, to live freely. That's what we all want, isn't it?

Darth Bane-(Star Wars) Darth Bane is so wickedly intelligent and reserved and yet he really is evil and has little regard for life. He cares less about himself and more about keeping the Sith tradition alive. He is very wise, but in an evil way. For that, I've really liked this villain since I wa first introduced to him nearly ten years ago in the Jedi Vs. Sith comic.

SHODAN-(System Shock) Similar to HAL.

Darth Nihilus-(Star Wars KOTOR 2) Self-explanatory if you know who he is.

Darth Vader-(Star Wars) If you don't know about him, go jump off of a cliff.

This next one is rather obscure and complex as his life is painted over multiple books, but he is arguably my favorite. I want to explain it a bit more in detail. There aren't any major spoilers.
RuGaard, Tyr of the Underdome(The Age of Fire/ AKA one of the most underrated fantasy series of all time): RuGaard is a lame dragon he is blind in one eye, has a shattered wing, a broken foreleg, and a fire bladder that barely works. He is also the ambitious leader of the final bastion of Dragonkind, The Underdome. He wasn't born this way. He definitely wasn't born into power or into the royal family. He was born to two unimportant dragons somewhere high up into the mountains. Each and every male dragon is forced to fight their siblings to the death when they hatch. He lost to his brother and was disowned out of pity rather than killed. His parents never even named him, so he had no identity originally. His hate for what his parents and his brother did to him eventually led to him lead an assassination attempt on his family with a bunch of dwarves. They killed the parents and one of the daughters, but his sister Wistala and brother AuRon escaped. The dwarves then betrayed him. Wracked with guilt, he attempted to throw himself into a chasm thus commiting suicide. He failed and wound up in a vast network of tunnels underground called the Underworld. Wandering for weeks, he wound up at the Underdome and by circumstances not entirely under his control, he wound up being adopted into the royal family and christened RuGaard after the leading Dragon's(the title is Tyr) deceased uncle. However, the narrator never refers to RuGaard by that name but instead calls him "The Copper" after his scale color, thus implying that RuGaard still believes that he doesn't have a true identity. Eventually, RuGaard became Tyr, and led a war against the hominids who had long persecuted his kind.
The reason why I like RuGaard is because he really isn't bad. But life experience leads him to do morally questionable things throughout his life. The series covers much of his life and that of his orphaned siblings. He's the most interesting because of how he evolves over time from an innocent drake who wants to be accepted to sort of Fuhrer who wants to purify the world so that everyone can live in peace. He does this violently, however.