I disagree. What you describe isn't a villain, it's just a monstrosity or a horror. A villain needs to take actions or have motives that are important to the plot, and a truly good villain, in my opinion, needs to have better than some generic take over/destroy the world goal. If that is the goal, there better be a damn good and original motive behind it for me to invest interest. If you can't comprehend the motive, then it's great as an unstoppable horror in a film, but it's not a villain.Silentpony said:A good villain? Like, to have a truly terrifying villain you really don't want to be able to identify with them, or understand them, or relate with them.Casual Shinji said:What villain doesn't have a point?
A guy who just goes around stealing money, because he wants money, when you also want money, isn't really a villain. Even if he kills people, he's just a dick. Just willing to push a little more.
A truly great villain would be like a Lovecraftian horror or a hell daemon. Something that skins babies alive, and eats people whole, and enslaves entire worlds, boiling entire races alive at once, blasts planets from the skies. Something evil you couldn't possibly comprehend, let alone go 'Well to be fair, those babies were crying too much'
Like a 40k Bloodthirster will always make a better villain than any Marvel anti-hero or Anime kinda emo prince, because what a Bloodthirster does is truly villainous, not just the wrong thing does for the right reasons or the right thing done wrongly.
That's why despite my enjoyment of the films, I can recognize that the Marvel movies have had some of the worst villains. Zemo from Civil War was one of the best. Even though it was just a generic revenge plot it took a while before that was revealed, twisting what appeared to be just an elaborate power grab into something much more personal while at the same time holding up a mirror for Black Panther to see how far he could have fallen in seeking revenge himself. It was just really well done in my opinion.