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Aug 19, 2022 · Movie villains are essential pieces to great movies. And some — like the Joker, Anton Chigurh, and Annie Wilkes — have become iconic. Here are the best movie villains of all time, ranked.
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- The Alien. 'Alien' (1979) As far as unnamed antagonists go, none are better than the titular alien from 1979's Alien. This acclaimed Ridley Scott movie has a premise that's about as direct as sci-fi/horror movies come, given it follows a crew on board a spaceship trying to survive a deadly alien life form that's roaming around the craft, deadset on taking out every human being in the vicinity one by one.
- Hans Landa. 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) Quentin Tarantino has made several great crime/thriller movies, but with 2009's Inglourious Basterds, he proved he could also make an all-time great war movie.
- Nurse Ratched. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) Jack Nicholson might be well known for playing villains, but in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, he got to be the film's central protagonist.
- HAL 9000. '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) An influential science-fiction classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a film without a traditional villain, at least for the first two of its four main sections.
- Darth Vader. The Star Wars trilogy (1977-1983) Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith (2005), Rogue One (2016) And so we come to the villain you voted as the best of all time.
- The Joker. Batman (1966), Batman (1989), The Dark Knight (2008), Joker (2019) From his comicbook roots as a maniac, through the campy incarnation brought to movie and TV screens by Cesar Romero, The Joker was always a figure of fun (shout out also to Mark Hamill's cartoon take).
- Loki. The Thor films (2011-2017), The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Loki (TV, 2021) Even in the MCU, a place overflowing with memorable, witty heroes, there's a chance for a villain to make more of an impact.
- Hans Gruber. Die Hard (1988) “I’m going to count to three. There will not be a four.” Possibly the most perfect combination of voice and face put to screen for a villain, Alan Rickman brought something so very special to Hans Gruber.
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May 16, 2024 · These are the greatest, most vile movie characters we love to hate (or even laugh at) ranked by the wisdom of the crowd, which makes this ranking an accurate, real-time reflection of the crowd's collective opinion.
- Kylo Ren
- Magneto
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- Bill
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- Jack Torrance
- Biff Tannen
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- Keyser Söze
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