I dropped the ball somewhere along the way....

When he slaughtered that entire village of Sandpeople, including their women and kids.

I always have considered Darth Vader's "redemption" in "Return Of The Jedi" to be too fake.

I mean, even before he puts on the armor, he slaughters little kids.
Tries to kill his own pregnant wife.

He chokes a guy to death.
Chokes another almost to death.
Tortures a woman, personally.
Helps in the death of BILLIONS when Alderaan is blown up.
Lies to a city administrator.
Cuts the hand off his own kid.

And we're supposed to accept that now he's a good guy who's become "One with the Force?"
Nope.

It would have been cool if we were left to wonder whether Vader got his angel wings, but sadly, Lucas explicitly showed Anakin smiling in the last minute of Return of the Jedi.

Apparently, a war criminal can get past the pearly gates so long as he saves his own kid.

Umbridge

I wonder if the resemblance was intentional...

Whether Imelda Staunton based her wonderful performance on Pickles is another matter.

add Voldemort and Bellatrix to the list.

But he may have a non-fictional twin...

Mr. Burns!

Even though he hasn't reached 60 yet, it's still gross that he married a 16-year-old.

I give you...HAL:


"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that."

He was the hero.

A tragic hero. Watch the movie again with that in mind. You may see it in a different way...

He started off as a straight-up villain. But the more you got to know him, the more you realized he was just as capable of being the protagonist. By the end of the show, that's pretty much what he was. Amazing character development.

Weird, but true.

And hated? Never!

Swearengen was the dad in the series. Sometimes hard yes but more often fair and even loving in his own way.

Tolliver was straight up evil even if he had some affection for Joanie. He was the villain.......until Hearst showed up.

Swearengen is my favorite character from any series ever.

antagonists but not all antagonists are villains, I guess?

Remember when he comforted the prostitute who thought she'd been exposed to small pox? That was classic.

Gollum

I'm Melting . . .

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I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.

gave me the serious creeps: Nurse Ratched

I found myself enjoying the throttling scene immensely.

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Maleficent from "The Sleeping Beauty"

we have Daphne's mother on Frasier...



...who is, at least as of this writing, the most reprehensible bitch of a TV character I can think of.

Although he really existed, the characterization given in Deadwood made it easy
to hate the c&^# sucker !

the Pentagon there is someone like him skulking about.

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"Why don't you make like a tree & get outta here?"

The sadistic Sgt Barnes.

He was a baddie.

I thought of Perry Cline before I saw you put up Jim Vance. He made me want to spit at the TV. Ultimately I chose Raynald of Chatillon from Ridley Scott's "King of Heaven". Truly a venal character very Dick Cheneylike.

(However, the number one slapworthy person on TV is and will always be Sean Hannity. The mere sight of his face and sound of his whiny little voice makes me want to jump through the TV to give him a giant bitch slap.)

Not having read the Martin books, I was hoping he wouldn't be killed off too soon, just because I like hating the guy so much.

Who doesn't love to hate Dr. Evil???

attached to their heads.

This post cracked me up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1240&pid=109136

She a real life villainess. After doing the Bush family bidding they sure tossed her aside though.

"You took a yellow red before a white American; that's pretty Pinko"

Loved him!

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but Gny. Sgt. Hartman would have better trash talk.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit! Get the fuck off of my obstacle! Get the fuck down off of my obstacle! NOW! MOVE IT! Or I'm going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!

She was damn scary!

Portrayed by Jason Isaacs

Evil perfectly personified. Sort of an 18th Century Joe Arpaio mixed with Jan Brewer and Scott Walker.

My two favorite villains who I truly despise but respect how well they manipulated people in a game. I hate them so much I really don't want to publicly give them credit.

Johnny Fairplay (Survivor: Pearl Islands, 2003)
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Jeff Probst was correct that Fairplay set-up and told the greatest lie in Survivor history (even nearly a decade later), but Fairplay was also wicked good at breaking up alliances by peeling off the weakest link and changing their votes. No one lied or manipulated weak players better than Fairplay.

Russell Hantz
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Russell's ability to find hidden idols was fantastic, but his vile and nasty approach of voting off anyone who started to question him was truly amazing. It worked to intimidate several groups of people in different seasons. Russell's treatment of his nephew, however, was really repulsive. I'd like to believe it was a part of his tv persona, but the impact on the nephew was real.

I would shake the hands of these men, but damn they were good at being evil.

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Alan Rickman was perfect in that role.