For me, it would be GLaDOS.
Portal 2 spoiler
She deleted the one remaining human part of herself because it was just too much to deal with. She releases you at the end of Portal 2 as a path of least resistance measure because “killing you is hard.”
What about you, what is your favorite media villain?
I don’t have one favorite villain in particular, but…
The Good Place spoilers
Michael is the villain for part of the series, and oh boy is he devilish. I mean, in season 2 (i think) he is literally the devil as far as the main cast is concerned. “I can’t believe you figured it out!” perfect delivery. Just wow.
oh, and also Megamind. Megamind is my favorite. I need to rewatch that movie, and completely ignore the “sequel”.
Hmm, a rather difficult question, I have quite a lot of them and I could not get attached to any of them, well, maybe him:
and him:
Forest Whitaker as Jon Kavanaugh in “The Shield”
He made me so viscerally upset. I saw it almost two decades ago but I still remember how strongly I felt
Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg. He’s a monster.
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.
Baron Harkonnen, from the David Lynch dune film.
Long John Silver from Treasure Island. The OG and best anti-hero and heel turn of any character.
Miss Havisham from Great Expectations . An textbook example of how to do capricious rot.
Baby Jane played by Bette Davis from ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?’. God I love Bette Davis.
Traitor General from the comic Rogue Trooper. Traitor General has been a wonderful bastard over the years.
Arthur ‘Cody’ Jarrett played by James Cagney from ‘White Heat’.
Clarence Bodicker played by Kurtwood Smith from ‘Robocop’. “Can you fly, Bobby?” 'Nuff said.
Daimyo Matsudaira Naritsugu played by Goro Inagaki in Takashi Miike’s ‘13 Assassins’. Perfect psychotic aristo upheld by corrupt flunkeys who has no real conception of the effects of his actions.
Prince Nuada played by one of the Bros twins from ‘Hellboy II’. So sympathetic. Team Prince Nuada all the way.
Syd played by Peter Mullan from ‘Children of Men’. Syd refers to himself in the third person (An actual sign of psychopathy) and does not care about anyone else, not even the first pregnant woman in a decade…
Begbie played by Robert Carlyle from ‘Trainspotting’. “Nae cunt leaves here til we find oot what cunt glassed yon lassie.” Never mind that he threw the glass.
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.
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His absence from season two is one of the reasons why it flops compared to season one; Ambessa and Viktor are good characters, but weak villains.
Sir Captain Becket of the E I C
Dart Maul (from a german movie called (T)Raumschiff Suprise)
Bill Cypher
The villains of the Kings Men
robby rotten
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.
hard not to love DIO. He’s evil and he loves it
Your favourite media villain
Easy answer: Rupert Murdoch
It’s actually why I listed the James Bond villain Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies because he was an analogue for Murdoch, a media magnate who wanted to control the world through disinformation. It was a prescient character, because that was still during 1997, long before FOX News had become the danger it actually is. Yet Carver is pretty on-the-nose for what actually ended up happening and we didn’t have a James Bond to save us.
Australia’s most embarrassing export
Followed by Ken Hamm
And Nicole Kidman is awful, she’s friends with Murdoch
Frank Horrigan, that’s who. U.S. Secret Service.
Look the number of times I’ve heard his voice lines has resulted in them being burned into my mind.
