# Which evil, malicious, despicable characters light up the screen?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 7, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-evil-malicious-despicable-characters-light-up-the-screen/649532 "2013-02-07T00:44:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-evil-malicious-despicable-characters-light-up-the-screen/649532/121 "2013-02-12T02:42:48Z")

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Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) from _Robocop_

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**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-evil-malicious-despicable-characters-light-up-the-screen/649532/122 "2013-02-12T03:04:26Z")

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> [@Leiko](#):
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> Marc Alaimo as Gul Dukat is my favorite example of this trope, by a long shot. He’s so awful and horrible and icky bad evil, but at the same time, he’s got great chemistry with everyone.
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> (doesn’t hurt that Marc Alaimo also speaks French in the TNG episode Time’s Arrow)

He’s also a good bad guy.

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**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-evil-malicious-despicable-characters-light-up-the-screen/649532/123 "2013-02-12T03:59:08Z")

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Michael Wincott in pretty much everything he’s ever been cast in. (See, e.g., _ **The Crow** _ and _ **Strange Days** _). I borrowed his voice for one of my own more villianous PCs in a CP2020 game, and was pretty decent at it.

Paul Newman in _ **The Hudsucker Proxy** _. Sure, sure.

Patric Zimmerman as Revolver Ocelot in every _ **Metal Gear Solid** _ game other than _ **MGS3** _.

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