8 of the Most Evil Fictional Leaders

[Dragonlayer]

I'm sorry, but I've been conditioned to fanatically support the Messiah and shout appropriate lines whenever he's mentioned.

Rule of thumb Dragonslayer, you can't kill the messiah.

OUR LIVES FOR KANE!!!

 

[Wilco86]

I'm not sure that Cthulhu should be on this. It ... is not really evil, or good, or amoral, or immoral, or subject to any form of morality even remotely intelligible to human beings. Is a volcano evil? Or the wind? Or Gravity? How can morality apply to such a being?

Yep, make mine Nyarlathotep.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

No Warcraft villains?

Spoiler: Sargeras

Spoiler: Kil'jaeden

Spoiler: Lich King

Spoiler: Deathwing

Spoiler: Old Gods

 

[Rastrelly]

No Horus or Abaddon,

Disagree with Horus, might be able to second Abaddon though.

Well, Horus was the guy to lead all that shite, and he planned everything brilliantly; he was called Warmaster for a reason. Abbaddon, on the other hand, only hinted as being really brilliant. Up till recently he was called Failbaddon the Armless.

no Diablo,

He'd probably make the cut, but Mephisto probably gets the rank of 'most evil,' what with being the Lord of Hatred. Also, I'll give a shoutout to Adria, even if she isn't a leader. Demons are slaves to their own natures (like angels), but Adria willingly chose her path, sacrificing her own daughter included).

Well, yes, it could be either of brothers, but Diablo is the most recognizable.

no Orwellian Big Brother

Not sure if he counts. It's up to the reader's interpretation, but as I saw it, "Big Brother" was just a construct for the Party, same way they likely constructed, same way as Emmanuel Goldstein is likely constructed as the boogyman the Party can blame everything for. I could nominate O'Brien though, even though he's more a Party lackey.

Well, yeah, Big Brother is most likely not an actual person... But he is the most real one of them all.

no baron Harkonnen,

Maybe. Haven't read much of Dune, but while he's brutal in his attempt to erradicate House Atreides, it's an attempt that has the blessing of the Pardishah Emperor. Harkonnen is more systemic of the Imperium's bickering houses, even if he's no saint himself.

Or I think. Like I said, not that familiar with the Dune universe.

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Dune is pretty gray on moral scale, even more then modern all-favoured Game of Thrones. But even in-universe baron was described by Bene Gesserit as "completely mentally perverted", which basically means "evil psychotic madman".

 

[pookie101]

you missed the biggest of all. the player them self in every grand strategy game where you run up a death toll in the thousands if not billions, destroy entire planets, dominate the world or galaxy under your iron rule where you control every aspect of your citizens lives.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Hm. No.

Flowey from Undertale. (Maybe Chara as well.)
Tom Riddle from you know very well what. (Note that I said TOM RIDDLE. Not Voldemort.)
Preston Garvey from Fallout 4. [http://i.imgur.com/lDZxVXR.png]
Vaas from Far Cry 3.
The Cthaeh from the Kingkiller Chronicles.
Felurian from the same. (Not really a villain per se although she unintentionally kills everyone she captures and keeps for herself. But hol-ee-shit, I can't think of a better more beautiful way to be killed. I haven't seen an antagonist like that in like, forever.)
343 Guilty Spark from Halo: CE.
The Joker from The Dark Knight.
Ganondorf from Legend of Zelda.
Revan from Knights of the Old Republic.