# I weeel keeel you! (Your Favorite Cornball Villains) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weeel-keeel-you-your-favorite-cornball-villains/257366 "2004-07-29T02:00:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weeel-keeel-you-your-favorite-cornball-villains/257366/1 "2004-07-29T02:00:04Z")
The campy villain gets his or her sendup with such dastardly characters as Cruella DeVille and Dr. Evil; or perhaps you liked the Sherriff of Nottingham (“Cancel Christmas!”). But for every moustache-twirling Snidely Whiplash, there must be a host of po-facedly serious cinematic evildoers whose unintentional hilarity tickled our funnybones. Goldfinger is an obvious example (“No, Mr. Bond, _I expect you to die_.”), and one of my personal, if not terribly original, favorites. So, are there any campy big-screen baddies whose cornball antics you love to hate (or hate to love, as the case may be)? Lets revel in some MST3k-style irony as we recall our favorite onscreen hambones of villainy! ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weeel-keeel-you-your-favorite-cornball-villains/257366/2 "2004-07-29T02:03:44Z")
Yzma from _The Emperor’s New Groove_. “I’ll smash it with a hammer!” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weeel-keeel-you-your-favorite-cornball-villains/257366/3 "2004-07-29T13:00:24Z")
Emilio Lizardo. I win 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weeel-keeel-you-your-favorite-cornball-villains/257366/4 "2004-07-29T13:31:54Z")
El Guapo ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weeel-keeel-you-your-favorite-cornball-villains/257366/5 "2004-07-29T13:41:24Z")
Sid Haig, who played Drogos in _Jason of Star Command_. I have never seen such glorious overacting. When he got angry after being thwarted, you could practically see smoke coming out of his ears. John Travolta as Terl in _Battlefield Earth_. Man, did he stink. And I actually think he believed he was portraying a serious villain. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weeel-keeel-you-your-favorite-cornball-villains/257366/6 "2004-07-29T14:26:56Z")
Gary Oldman in _The Fifth Element_ never fails to crack me up. He’s a wonderful actor and I love the man, but what was he _thinking??_ It’s Ross Perot in a plastic hat, and how are you supposed to be scared of that? And I often wonder who Jeremy Irons lost a bet with to end up in _Dungeons & Dragons_. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weeel-keeel-you-your-favorite-cornball-villains/257366/7 "2004-07-29T14:35:20Z")
You allude to one of my favorites in the title: Sting as Feyd Harkonnen in David Lynch’s (or should I say Alan Smithee’s?) _Dune_. Actually, it’s the whole Harkonnen family and their hangers-on I delight it. They’re like that old Monty Python sketch about Britain’s Worst Family… of the future! The thoroughly repulsive open-sored, flying fat-man Baron, the nearly as disgusting Beast Rabban, and psychotic Feyd jumping around in his little leather panties–they’re all so grotesquely, evilly over-the-top that I find them hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weeel-keeel-you-your-favorite-cornball-villains/257366/8 "2004-07-29T14:49:25Z")
By far, my favourite OTT villain has to be [The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight](http://www.geocities.com/crimemonkey/embwbam/bio.html). Bad is good, down with government!