Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter books. She is just enough like an old boss of mine to really, really get goosebumps of pure hatred for her.
For that matter, the pointy haired boss from Dilbert.
Scorpius from Farscape was pretty menacing.
I’ve always loved Sessue Hayakawa’s perfomance as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai.
The shark (Bruce) in* Jaws*.
No mention of Emperor Palpatine yet?
Come on, the dude ruled a thousand planets and shot friggin lightning from his hands. He has to be on that list.
With due respect, we are discussing movie villians.
Ultimately it turns out that
he’s not a villian, does what seems to be on the surface a Heel Face Turn, but his motivations (from the start) are, from a certain perspective, rather honorable. Note his reaction at the end of the Peacekeeper Wars is most certainly not to rub his hands in glee at the wondrous tool which has been delivered to him. His biggest sin is that to him the ends justify the means.
Likewise Magua from The Last of the Mohicans (film) could be seen from his viewpoint as that of a hero exacting revenge, a plot used sympathetically in many a movie. Again note that he performs a noble act towards the end of that film. If he is a villian the Bride in the Kill Bill movies is morally equivalent (at least in terms of body count).
Michael Meyers from “Halloween!”
Would someone like to explain how this list hasn’t managed to include Ernst Stavro Blofeld yet?
Or Dr. Evil, for that matter?
Rhoda, “The Bad Seed”
Television commercials advised parents not to allow kids to watch it because it would make us killers, but the neighbor kid parents went out that night so everyone watched it there. No homicides as yet, 40+ years.
Pazuzu/Regan in The Exorcist
The Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz
And what kind of dental plan did he have?
:rolleyes:
Say what?
Hannibal Lector and Kahn have been submitted, so I will nominate Canino from the big sleep. He made the little guy drink poison, but he didn’t give up the girl. Bogart escapes and gets a .38 Positive Police Special from his car. When I saw The Big Sleep in a theater, the audience applauded when Bogart shot him four times in the gut. 
Nazis. Any Nazis, but especially the Nazi major who got his face and body melted in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Now that was an e-vil Nazi.
Also, Jack Nicholson’s Joker was a much better than Heath Ledger’s.
I hate Illinois Nazis.
Judge Doom (from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”)
Yeah…but they were different, just as Bela Lugosi’s Dracula was different than Nosferatu.
Well no.
Godzilla. in the first movie, of course. Massacres a whole city. Heavy.
OOOOH!
Just thought of: Doctor Strangelove.
Dennis Hopper’s Paris Trout. Trout was beyond evil: he was evil made ideal. Risen to a higher, purer form of existence than everyday man, he was as inescapable as we was gratuitous, as inevitable as he was cruel.