# Most EVIL person of all time (Game nomination thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 4, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688 "2011-05-04T13:43:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/21 "2011-05-05T16:17:21Z")
Genghis Khan – Possibly tops in numbers killed (40 million) Caligula – Psychotic Roman emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa – Cannibalistic African dictator Mehmed Talat – Initiated the Armenian genocide Adolf Eichmann – ‘Banality of evil’ remains evil ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/22 "2011-05-05T16:28:24Z")
Ghengis was a conquerer. He was out to expand his empire, wealth and influence. Vlad just killed people for the hell of it. His idea of a good sport. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/23 "2011-05-05T16:29:03Z")
Thanks, **BlinkingDuck**. I love these threads! Attila the Hun: Led rapacious, murderous hordes Heinrich Himmler: Ran Hitler’s death camps Jeffrey Dahmer: Odious, cannibalistic serial killer Vasili Blokhin: Personally killed thousands for Stalin Francisco Solano Lopez: Almost destroyed his “beloved” Paraguay > **[Vasily Blokhin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin)** > > Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin (Russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Блохи́н; 7 January 1895 – 3 February 1955) was a Soviet major general who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolay Yezhov, and Lavrentiy Beria. > Hand-picked for the position by Joseph Stalin in 1926, Blokhin led a company of executioners that performed and supervised numerous mass killings during Stalin's reign, mostly during the Great Purge and World War II. He is recorded as having... > **[Francisco Solano López](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Solano_L%C3%B3pez)** > > Crimean War: > Paraguayan War: If I were a betting man, I’d guess Pol Pot will win. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/24 "2011-05-05T16:49:11Z")
Thanks Elendril…I like these things. Still waiting for someone to nominate Jesus Christ or Mohammad 😃 I actually thought of Lopez…a top 3 contender in worst military leader thread…but incompetence is not same as evil…or is it? ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/25 "2011-05-05T17:05:07Z")
Ivan the Terrible - had thousands tortured and killed in The Massacre of Novgorod; beat his pregnant DIL, causing a miscarriage Isabella of Castile - helped create and oversee the Spanish Inquisition Ilse Koch, Bitch of Buchenwald - wife of commandant at concentration camps; took money from inmates; made lampshades etc. from their tattooed skin Irma Grese, Bitch of Belsen - Sr Supervisor at Auschwitz; tortured women prisoners with attack dogs, whippings Delphine LaLaurie - sadistic slave-owning socialite fond of torture and mutilation ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/26 "2011-05-05T17:46:05Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > Thanks Elendril…I like these things. > > Still waiting for someone to nominate Jesus Christ or Mohammad 😃 I can’t express how delighted I am that this hasn’t happened yet. It gets old, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/27 "2011-05-05T17:54:01Z")
Tamerlane - truly pointless butcher; made ruins of cities and towers of skulls (you thought that was ol’ Genghis? Wrong!)\* \*Note: the historical figure, not the SD poster 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/28 "2011-05-05T18:09:34Z")
Careful Malthus. Tamerlane will come into this thread and kick your butt! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/29 "2011-05-05T18:14:19Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > Careful Malthus. Tamerlane will come into this thread and kick your butt! Wouldn’t ‘cut off my head and make an architectural ornament of my skull’ be more appropriate? 😉 “That’ll learn you for calling me evil!” ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/30 "2011-05-05T18:21:18Z")
Fifth nomination: [Ibn Taymiyyah](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Taymiyyah) - intellectual founder of radical Islam. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/31 "2011-05-05T18:40:19Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Wouldn’t ‘cut off my head and make an architectural ornament of my skull’ be more appropriate? 😉 > > “That’ll learn you for calling me evil!” He’s mellowed over the last few hundred years. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/32 "2011-05-05T18:41:44Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Ghengis was a conquerer. He was out to expand his empire, wealth and influence. And one other thing – I have read that he killed huge numbers of people _specifically to clear land for grazing horse herds_. > [@soulmurk](#): > > Isabella of Castile - helped create and oversee the Spanish Inquisition Hey, that reminds me. **Torquemada** – greatly expanded the Inquisition; his name became a byword for torture and fanaticism ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/33 "2011-05-05T19:03:06Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I can’t express how delighted I am that this hasn’t happened yet. It gets old, doesn’t it? Yeah, but think of the fig trees! ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/34 "2011-05-05T21:46:08Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Hey, that reminds me. > > **Torquemada** – greatly expanded the Inquisition; his name became a byword for torture and fanaticism One things for sure…you can’t Torquemada anything! [/History of the world part 1] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/35 "2011-05-06T02:33:28Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > …I actually thought of Lopez…a top 3 contender in worst military leader thread…but incompetence is not same as evil…or is it? No, but his (mis)conduct crossed the line into evil, I’d say: naked aggression, megalomania, blind ambition, massacres, flogging his own mom, executing 23 bishops who wouldn’t agree to his canonization, etc. etc. etc. Lopez should be better known in the world at large, the way he keeps popping up in threads like this - kind of your all-purpose historical bad guy. He really was quite awful, and probably crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/36 "2011-05-06T02:49:14Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Tamerlane - truly pointless butcher; made ruins of cities and towers of skulls (you thought that was ol’ Genghis? Wrong!)\* > > \*Note: the historical figure, not the SD poster 😃 My votes: I’ll also say: Mao Zedong Hitler Stalin Genghis Khan Pol Pot ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/37 "2011-05-06T07:01:51Z")
I’m gonna nominate Carl Panzram, murderer and all-around brutal guy. Others have killed more, or more gruesomely, but Panzram was something else… [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl\_Panzram](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Panzram) Joe ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/38 "2011-05-06T17:15:57Z")
Here is what we have so far: Adolf Hitler - Started WWII which resulted in much death and misery. Joseph Stalin - Killed millions of his own people and terrorized the rest Pol Pot - killed 21% of his people Idi Amin - killed 100,000-500,000 countrymen in 8 years Elizabeth Báthory - Vlad, not the only player in town Gilles de Rais - Child murdering satanist Leopold the second of Belgium - cut out the heart of africa and left a 150 years of civil war and genocide John Chrysostom - influential early exponent of Christian antisemitism Josef Mengele - for the win, good luck topping him Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria - Stalin’s butcher Mao Zedong- capricious, heartless megalomaniac Vlad the Impaler - Estimates are he killed 30 percent of his own people. He was a nasty. Sargon of Akkade - The first imperial conqueror; established the state as an aggressor. Trofim Lysenko - Scientific crackpot used Stalin to strongarm opponents Genghis Khan – Possibly tops in numbers killed (40 million) Caligula – Psychotic Roman emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa – Cannibalistic African dictator Mehmed Talat – Initiated the Armenian genocide Adolf Eichmann – ‘Banality of evil’ remains evil Attila the Hun: Led rapacious, murderous hordes Heinrich Himmler: Ran Hitler’s death camps Jeffrey Dahmer: Odious, cannibalistic serial killer Vasili Blokhin: Personally killed thousands for Stalin Francisco Solano Lopez: Almost destroyed his “beloved” Paraguay Ivan the Terrible - had thousands tortured and killed in The Massacre of Novgorod; beat his pregnant DIL, causing a miscarriage Isabella of Castile - helped create and oversee the Spanish Inquisition Ilse Koch, Bitch of Buchenwald - wife of commandant at concentration camps; took money from inmates; made lampshades etc. from their tattooed skin Irma Grese, Bitch of Belsen - Sr Supervisor at Auschwitz; tortured women prisoners with attack dogs, whippings Delphine LaLaurie - sadistic slave-owning socialite fond of torture and mutilation Tamerlane - Truely evil SD poster…or truly pointless butcher; made ruins of cities and towers of skulls Ibn Taymiyyah - intellectual founder of radical Islam. Torquemada – greatly expanded the Inquisition; his name became a byword for torture and fanaticism Carl Panzram, murderer and all-around brutal guy. Others have killed more, or more gruesomely, but Panzram was something else… ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/39 "2011-05-06T17:40:21Z")
I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688/40 "2011-05-06T21:24:54Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > I’m gonna nominate Carl Panzram, murderer and all-around brutal guy. Others have killed more, or more gruesomely, but Panzram was something else… Wow. This guy was hardcore evil. Per Wiki, said to his executioner, when asked for his last words: “Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-person-of-all-time-game-nomination-thread/580688.md?page=3)