The good guys no longer wear white hats and the bad guys black, but the villians usually look evil, don’t they? But not always. Sometimes the bad guy/gal is pretty hot. What movies and TV shows have the hottest villians?
For the purposes of this thread define “villians” as “no way they could be mistaken for a good guy or gal,” and skip the characters shaded gray.
My picks:
Tom Riddle from Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. I know he’s the bad guy, but he didn’t look evil. (or 16, which he wasn’t; Christian Coulson’s only a year younger than me)
William Hamleigh from Pillars of The Earth. Watching this wasn’t my idea, nor did I like it much, but the attractive bad guy made it a bit less painful to endure.
Prince John from this year’s Robin Hood.
Raymond Blossom from Playing God. The blond hair worked for Hutton.
Who are your nominees?
Man, Jennifer Jason-Leigh is just such a sexual tempest, beautiful, everywoman and she has such a dingieness. Ever since she played femme fatale in the 90’s opposite Bridget Fonda, I have had a hard on for her.
But she really truly had me much earlier with Fast times at Ridgemont High, as Stacy. That’s my teeenage wetdream… she was just so sexy with those full hips in the blue bikini briefs and white cali wife beater t. Perfection. She has some supernatural breasts and perhaps was even better than Lily White Phoebe Cates in that movie… many remeber spiccoli and Phoebe, I remember Mark Ratner and Stacy, that knockwurst whore.
I think I’ve seen ‘evil == ugly’ used more in deliberate inversions (where someone’s initially assumed to be a good guy because they’re beautiful/a bad guy because they’re not, but it turns out that they kinda aren’t) than played straight.
To provide something other than a TV Tropes link (for which I do NOT apologize, mwahaha)…some of my favourite examples… (This is going to be animation and comics heavy…)
The Wicked Queen from Snow White, and Malificent from Sleeping Beauty.
Lily the Reader Extraordinaire from Read or Dream. (A thief, a kidnapper, and possibly a sexual predator…yet…I’d let her prey on me, let’s leave it at that.)
Significant numbers from Batman’s rogues gallery, special mention to Poison Ivy, who uses her sexiness for nefarious purposes, and Harley Quinn, just because she’s Harley.
Tira from the Soul Calibur games.
Bellatrix Lestrange from the Harry Potter series (the movies, anyway…I can’t remember if I thought of her that way when reading the books).
Both of those last two, I have literally referred to as ‘so hot, I need to die by their hands…’
She was good-looking (though not as good-looking as she thought she was) but had an extremely unattractive personality; contrast the Mayor in season 3 who wasn’t (at least by TV standards) all that good-looking but was extremely suave and personable.
BTW, to what degree is the “hot villain” thing gendered?
