I'll posts my own soon enough, but I think this question should get some play. Villains are usually the more interesting characters, usually the reason for heroes to have to exist at all. So personal favorites, Top-10 or Top-20, whatever you want to state? What villains from the big screen are your favorite, and if so why?

Hannibal lector! mmmm so suave, sexy, charismatic yes and then when he is young he is soooo sexy mmmmmm! and such a gentleman!

The Silas from Da Vinci Code, just cause he is pale, psycho ans good looking.

Louis from interview with the vampire, beautiful doleful and sad mmmmm



There's a few others which will come to me later

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Spike
Even though he wasn't a 'villain' in the end.

I put in work with this, my Top 20 Villains.

20. Detective Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman) - Leon The Professional
19. Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) - Die Hard
18. Commodus (Joaquin Phenoix) - Gladiator
17. Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) - Robocop
16. Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) - The Matrix
15. Gordon Gekko (Micheal Duglass) - Wall Street
14. John Doe (Kevin Spacey) - Se7en
13. Darth Vader (David Prowse/James Earl Jones) - Star Wars IV, V, VI
12. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
11. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) - Psycho
10. Captain Vidal (Sergi López) - Pan's Labyrinth
09. William "The Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day Lewis) - Gangs Of New York
08. Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) - A Clockwork Orange
07. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) - Misery
06. Roger "Verbal" Kint/Keyser Söze (Kevin Spacey) - The Usual Suspects
05. The Wicked Witch Of The West (Margaret Hamilton) - The Wizard of OZ
04. Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) - The Silence Of The Lambs
03. The Joker (Heath Ledger) - The Dark Knight
02. Senator Palpatine/The Emperor (Ian McDiarmid) - Star Wars II, III & VI
01. HAL 9000 (Douglas Rain - voice) - 2001: A Space Odyssey

No disrespect to Heath Ledger but Ceaser Romero has to be my absolute favourite villain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjiIHfKwi0Q

I also like Alan Rickman both as Severus Snape and the Sheriff of Nottingham.

I have a soft spot for wicked boys

David Bowie as Pontius Pilate in Last Temptation of Christ. It's basically a cameo, but a strong one. Pilate is one of the darkest characters in western literature, but Bowie played him not with evil or remorse, as we see in other versions of the passion play, but with apathy. It's rings true in a way other portrayals don't.

Ursula from the little mermaid
David Bowie as the Goblin King in the Labyrinth
Syndro from The Incredibles
The Morrellis (was that their name?) from the Goonies
Tim Curry as Dr. Frankenfurter from Rocky Horror Picture Show...


...the list goes on.

Oooo, I forgot about Ursula! The first villain I ever feared and loved at the same time!

The goblin king - you gotta love the dance magic dance

Goblin King ~ Labyrinth
Frankenfurter ~ RHPS
Chucky ~ Child's Play
Jason ~ Friday The 13th
Hannibal ~ Silence of the Lambs
Alex Delarge ~ Clockwork Orange
Rotti Largo ~ Repo! The Gentic Opera
Phantom ~ Phantom of the Opera
Freddy ~ Nightmare on Elm St.
Jigsaw ~ Saw
Captain Vidal ~ Pan's Labyrinth
Pinhead ~ Hellraiser
Michale ~ Halloween

That's all I can think of at the moment

The Goblin King - the Labryrinth
Malficent from Sleeping Beauty
The Phantom from Phantom of the Opera
Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter
Barbosa and Norrington from POTC
The Joker from Dark Night

I can't believe I forgot Jigsaw.
Shame on me

Adrian- Little Nicky
The Joker- Batman and the Dark Knight
Agent Smith- The Matrix
The hand- Idol Hands
William "The Butcher" Cutting- Gangs Of New York
Darth Vader- Star Wars (every 1 Vaders in)
John Doe- Se7en
Kira (Light Yagami)- Death Note (manga/movie/anime)


that'll do for now

~ Dracula ~

As to why... well he is Dracula after all.

For some reason I thought Freddy kurger was awesome. Now I know he killed little children, I might have missed that part when I was 7.

Christopher Walken in just about anything he's done (The Prophecy, Biloxi Blues)

Darth Vader

Belloq in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

And, forgive me for saying this, Tom Cruise in "Interview" and "Collateral"

Aside from movies I would like to give special mention to t.v. villains Mr. Burns and Sylar from "Heroes".

1.The Phantom (or Erik)--Various Phantom of the Opera adaptations
2.Alex DeLarge--A Clockwork Orange
3.Frank Frank-N-Furter--The Rocky Horror Picture Show
4.Jareth the Goblin King--Labyrinth
5.Patrick Bateman--American Psycho
6.Lestat--Interview with the Vampire
7.Count Dracula
8.Pinhead--Hellraiser
9.Lisa--Girl Interrupted
10.Chucky(my childhood love)--Child's Play

Poison Ivy. Obviously.