monkey_mouse said:
my favorite villain is Maldis the Psychic Vampire from Farscape.
I would also add from Farscape -
Scorpius:
http://www.sadgeezer.com/farscape/episode-19-nerve/images/farscape-10-30_jpg.jpg
Change of tack - favourite
movie villains:
Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects) - what convinced me that Keyser was a badass was the following line: "He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and then he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they live in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money". You
don't want to fcuk with this guy!
John Doe (Se7en) - a quiet madman who sees modern society as diseased and beyond redemption. Unfortunately he decides to do something about it. The scariest part is that there are many "John Does" out in the community at large...
Col. Nathan Jessup (A Few Good Men) - actually he is the "best" of the bad guys. He serves his country passionately and he is right when he tells Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) "you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall". He's right - I would want Jessup defending my country instead of Kaffee. Jessup's problem is that he will do
anything to serve his country - including covering up a murder.
Darth Maul (Star Wars: The Phantom Menace) - easily the best thing about this movie, woefully underused and worst of all, killed off! This guy could have been a major player in the Star Wars mythos, if only Lucas had considered his potential.
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Manhunter) - ok, so Anthony Hopkins made
Hannibal Lecter his own with his perfomance in Silence Of The Lambs, but subsequent movies turned Lecter into a joke (okey-dokey, anyone?)
In Manhunter, Lecktor had a minor role, but he exuded more menace and danger while on-screen, than Hopkins did in Red Dragon.