I’m almost pacifistic by nature, but seeing the hotel room scene in True Romance made me just wish she had more shells in her shotgun.
I can honestly say it’s the only time I’ve found myself yelling “Hit him again! HIT HIM AGAIN!!!”
Perhaps I should clarify by saying it was actually a motel room. I’m not referring to the hotel room bloodbath.
Ooh, I forgot. Although no one really killed Jack Nicholson, didn’t it make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside when Shelley Duvall clocked him with a baseball bat in The Shining? I find Jack Nicholson loathsome in every film he’s in, so I’m always rooting for his demise.
second Burke from aliens
second Mr Blonde from R/Dogs
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West
Don’t forget the guy who used to be Aral’s lover, whatsisname… feeling too lazy to search…
Can we nominate people who aren’t officially villains? I’ve been wanting to carve Charles Francis Xavier’s heart out with a rusty teaspoon since forever.
That Sauron dude, I never really liked him.
In theory, yes. In practice – living in a world with Willow in it would make me vvvvveeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyy nervous.
Teague (and his gang) in Cold Mountain. I actually jumped up and cheered when Inman took Teague’s sidearm and blasted him in the chest at point blank range.
Surprisingly, I wasn’t the only one in the theatre that did this!
CedricR.
Gee whiz, why?
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Everyone who died in Dogville
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Itachi Uchiha from Naruto. At least until Sasuke turned evil too. Who cares about anything then.
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The guys from Sleepers
I recall him being quite entertaining.
“Begat, begat, begat, begat, and lo and behold” 
Sour Billy Tipton and the top bad-guy vampire in George R.R. Martin’s Fevre Dream.
Saruman and Grima Wormtongue in LOTR. Oh, and Sauron. Eons earlier, Morgoth. Responsible for more suffering than just about anyone in history (Middle-earth or otherwise).
The cyberpsycho SID 6.0 in Digitality.
Mr. Cyphre in Angel Heart. You know what I mean.
Syndrome in The Incredibles. A richly-deserved fate, high in the sky above the Parr home.
Another vote for that conniving corporate scumbag Burke in Aliens.
Mordred and Morgan le Fay in John Boorman’s Excalibur.
The eeeeeeeeeeeeevil British cavalry officer (loosely based on Banastre Tarleton) in Mel Gibson’s The Patriot.
True, and considering the prophecy Elan received, we may be getting our wish (of course, Elan would probably want Nale to reform and become his best friend).
Huh? Fun to have around? Is this some unevolved-clam-from-Xenu’s-day idea of “fun”?
Maxie Zeus was at least almost amusing in a creepy way. The Joker’s a hideous monstrosity who would sooner kill you than look at you.
Fun?
Which is Exhibit One in Why British Comic Writers Should Be Run Out of American Comic Books on a Rail.
I can’t agree with the “Willow should have died” line. Didn’t Willow save the world in the S7 finale?
Um, I don’t have anything to add.
Oh, OK. Fake Max Lord (Giffen fans know he’s not the real Max, because real Max is a good guy & an android these days) in DC’s Infinite C[hildishness] miniseries. Of course, since that whole mess will, the Source willing, be elided from continuity in a few years… never mind, didn’t happen.
Bite your tongue!
I have to say, about the Joker, I’m conflicted. On the one hand, yes, it really is ridiculous to not have had someone bring him down by this point (okay, fine, Batman can’t or won’t do it for whatever reason, and neither will Gordon. What about the other authorities in Gotham? The DCU at large? What about the relatives of everyone who’s ever died at the Joker’s hands?).
On the other hand, he’s just such a damn good villain–such a perfect foil for Batman–that it’s hard to imagine Gotham without him. He’s Batman’s archnemesis. He’s the antithesis of everything Batman stands for, and if you look below the surface, they’re more scarily alike than Bruce would like to admit–which is precisely what makes the Joker brilliant as a villain. So it would be a huge loss to see him go.
As for my personal choice: I pumped my fist and cheered when
Nina Myers got the bullet in 24
and although it’s technically not a death, per se,
Magneto’s getting stabbed by the ‘cure’ needles in X3 was a perfect Nelson Muntz ‘ha ha!’ moment.
Oh, probably something about how a man with immense financial, technological, and mutant resources who says he wants humans and mutants to live in peace and sponsors a team of unbelieveably powerful people trained to a razor’s edge, lets them sit around waiting for the next big Mutant Menace.
Hey, Charles, while your people are sitting on their keisters, why not look at something they could do to help the puny humans?
Wolverine would be perfect for Search and Rescue. Shadowcat would have been a godsend at that last mining collapse. Storm probably would have been able to save New Orleans.
Pick a mutant, pick a power, and pick a way to better serve humanity than nancing around in a bunch of Spandex supersuits.
And to add to the “he needed killin’ and she was the one to do it” theme:
Eowyn beheading the Witch-King’s steed and then driving her sword through the Witch-King’s face.
Good in the book, but when I saw it for the first time in the theater, I nearly stood up and cheered, and so did most of the audience.
Because it would rapidly produce contradictions between the real world and the comic world if superheros behaved like sensible people would. New Orleans would have been spared; the second plane would never have hit the WTC, and so on. I recall in the preface to one of the Astro City collections, the author commented that one of the most implausible things about most comic books is that you could have all these superhumans running around, and not change history or society whatsoever.
So, don’t blame the poor X-Men, blame the authors. They’re evil, I tell you, eeeeevullll !