My Favorite Villains Ranked
10. Loki “The God Of Mischief” from MCU
I adore Loki’s character because he’s funny, clumsy, and satisfies the color green (a personal favorite). He’s a sense of relief from the crazy villains we usually have in the Marvel Universe and is more relatable than most. He’s the last on my list because I feel that his background is a bit wishy-washy. I understand that he was adopted but I can never tell what really is going on with his character. Yes, I have watched the Thor movies, No, I have not finished the Loki television series.
9. N’Jadaka “Erik Killmonger” from Black Panther
I promise, I will not trash anymore Marvel characters after this one. I thought this was really interesting because it was a black antagonist directly against a black protagonist, yet at the end of Black Panther you still felt that sense of community between the two. I understood his motive for revenge, but I felt as though it was too Batmany or similar to a “ I am Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die” kind of vibes. The character’s costumes were always amazing though, especially the scars.
8. Stuntman Mike from Death Proof
Stuntman Mike is a villain that uses his car against his female victims. He causes car accidents that leave more of a mark on others rather than himself while also driving around maximum speed and stopping when a person in the passenger seat is not properly buckled in. I like Stuntman Mike because he’s not given much of a backstory and he has quite a unique way of killing his victims. Death Proof is also directed by Quentin Tarantino, so I think you may get the point of how gruesome this story is.
7. Henry Bowers from It
Henry’s character was even scarier than the dancing, sewage-smelling clown in my opinion. It was the fact that he was a real person, a teenager, and lived in their neighborhood that made my skin crawl. His actions towards the small kids almost went too far for me to watch because you don’t expect it from someone so real. I admired how the story reveals his backstory in only one or two scenes. You can see how he lives, what his parents are like, and what he does on a daily basis. Henry is definitely the type of villain that takes revenge on his parents rather than society.
6. Rose Armitage from Get Out
*SPOILER ALERT*
Rose Armitage is the most twisted villain I’ve seen, courtesy of director Jordan Peele. She’s a woman that actually goes out into the world and builds a strong relationship with black men (sometimes women) and brings them back to her family for them to be auctioned, experimented on, and controlled by white supremacists. I cannot go into depth of how creepy this lady is. She gives me the chills whenever I see the scene of her drinking milk and eating cereal separately. The only reason she is not higher up is because she needs more screen time.
5. Boggis, Bunce, and Bean from Fantastic Mr. Fox
Boggis, bunce, and bean were my favorite villains in my childhood mainly because of how the story describes them. They were all an extreme of one’s body type “One fat, one short, one lean” which added to their character when they didn’t speak much or at all throughout the film. In the film and story, they try to stop a fox from stealing their products by destroying his home. Wes Anderson always knows how to describe a character’s personality through their rituals, in this case we know what they ate and small specifics about their life. This of course gave us everything we needed to know about the characters for us to hate them.
4. Gogo Yubari from Kill Bill Vol.1
Gogo Yubari is the coolest schoolgirl on the block. From the vague backstory to the innocent costuming, Gogo is the definition of a surprise. I enjoyed how her presence in Kill Bill was very short and sweet but still had a lasting impact on the viewers. Her specific weapon is also very unique: it’s not normal to see a realistic antagonist with their own personal spiky ball and chain. She’s not higher up because she works below (or for) the actual villain of the story.
3. Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard
I’m not even sure if people consider Norma Desmond a villain, but I sure do. She’s manipulative, narcissistic, and a psychopath which are all wonderful traits in a villain. Norma Desmond is so good at being a villain that her ex-husband is her maid (Girlboss move). I love her confidence for getting what she wants no matter the circumstance.
2. Walter White aka “Heisenberg” from Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad shows the evolution of a regular man who becomes a villain. I am obsessed with how we get to see him go from a family man selling drugs on the side to pay for his cancer treatments, to a drug lord wanting to gain power no matter the consequences. The reason he is so far up on this list is because he continues to say that he does everything he does for his family up until the end but that would have been covered way before many of his encounters. He is a deceiving mastermind in disguise.
1. Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange
Notice how all the creepiest villains drink milk? It's a sign…Alex DeLarge is sociopathic, ruthless, violent, and charming, all of the traits of the perfect villain. I enjoy his unique and specific taste like his clothing, music, and drinks. He’s the leader of a pack which makes one interested in why they followed him in the first place. Although the film A Clockwork Orange is not exactly based upon him being a villain but instead being changed by a controlled environment, his scenes in mischievous action really know how to make the viewers uncomfortable yet willing to see how far he’ll go.
Villains are the ones we’re told to hate, but shouldn't we love that we hate them and that the actor is doing an amazing job? Some Honorable mentions are Gustavo Fring, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and Cruella.