Obviously Casanova Frankenstein (from Mystery Men) has the best villain name of all time. So who’s number two and lower?
Remember, it’s about the name, not the person. The Joker may be awesome, but his name is pretty blah.
Alotta Fagina.
Darth Vader. Exciting pick right? His name is synonymous with evil.
Diogenes Pendergast, The Limehouse Golem and Hannibal Lecter.
Some good ones.
The Lamentation, a thing from the Nightside books.
Marcus Jefferson Wall, aka “The Wall” from the Matador books.
Him Who Doesn’t Walk, from a Tim Powers novel IIRC.
The Unclean; bad guys from Hiero’s Journey.
Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Shoggoths from the Lovecraft mythos
Borg.
Sunlight Gardner from Stephen King’s ‘The Talisman’
Betray of Hope from The Wheel of Time series
Hannibal Lecter
Thulsa Doom
Oh, yes.
I retract my Star Trek entrant and vote for the Robert E. Howard candidate.
Sauron
Lex Luthor
Dick Dastardly
Xykon
And in the Bartimaeus Trilogy, Quentin Makepeace–but only if you haven’t figured it out beforehand.
Don’t forget the Evil League of Evil:
Professor Normal
Fake Thomas Jefferson
Tie-die
Dead Bowie
Furry Leika
Snake Bite
and the Thoroughbred of Sin himself, Bad Horse
and of course Dr. Horrible!
Zardoz.
Oil Can Harry
Malagate the Woe, from Jack Vance’s Demon Princes series.
Come to think of it, Viol Falushe from the same series ain’t bad either.
The strangers from Dark City:
Mr. Wall
Mr. Hand
Mr. Book
Mr. Quick
Bubba Ho-Tep.
Victor Von Doom(!)