Who do you think is the most evil character ever?

[twistedmic]

THE MONARCH

just kidding

Iago from Shakespeare's "Othello."

Actually, as the series goes on, the Monarch ends up pretty evil, especially when he's been drinking.
Not only does he randomly kill his own henchmen, sometimes just for correcting him or annoying him, but he

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murdered and burned Wonderboy (off screen and only mentioned) as well as several different arches. As well as dropped a hooker into a death maze rather than pay her, and is bad enough to scare the murderous moppets/pupa twins.

If he were on any other show besides Venture Brothers, he'd be able to give even the Joker (comic book, animated shows, Batman and Dark Knight versions combined) a run for his money.

 

[mrdude2010]

THE MONARCH

just kidding

Iago from Shakespeare's "Othello."

Actually, as the series goes on, the Monarch ends up pretty evil, especially when he's been drinking.
Not only does he randomly kill his own henchmen, sometimes just for correcting him or annoying him, but he

Spoiler

murdered and burned Wonderboy (off screen and only mentioned) as well as several different arches. As well as dropped a hooker into a death maze rather than pay her, and is bad enough to scare the murderous moppets/pupa twins.

If he were on any other show besides Venture Brothers, he'd be able to give even the Joker (comic book, animated shows, Batman and Dark Knight versions combined) a run for his money.

fair point. i kinda forgot about him killing all his arches in season 4 and just otherwise turning into an evil bastard. i can't wait for season 5

 

[mrdude2010]

Can I ask why SammiYin got a warning for his post?
To be perfectly honest, I (and I'm willing to believe that I'm not the only one) was thinking the same thing. I know that this might seem like trolling because of the backlash that various gods (but mainly the Christian/Judeo-~Christian one) get on this site but the fact remains that god in the Bible is a fucking evil character.
So can I get an answer?

Low content post.

Oh really?
Then how come this didn't get a warning?

Ser Gregor Clegane. Hands down.

Sure, it's 5 words instead of 1 but still, the content is low as fuck

probably because it's designed to upset people, or at least appears to be purely because of that reason because the author provides no supporting evidence, rather than the 5 word post being a serious response

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Judge Claude Frollo. Either Disney version or novel version, they were both fucked up.

But the Disney version is more 'obvious evil', whereas the novel version is just 'evil through insanity'.

Totally religious and sentences and entire group of people to death or imprisonment because his religion tells him they should be purged. He locks a guy up forever and destroys his self-esteem over his entire life because the guy is deformed. Then Frollo falls in love and tries to kill the ***** several times just because he can't tolerate wanting to fuck her while his religious says he should be abstinent, even burning parts of Paris down to find her. Finally he tries to kill both Esmeralda and Quasimodo but ends up falling into fire.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Satan?

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Lijah "Fething" Cuu!

There is nothing redeemable about this fucker. He rapes women, he kills for the sake of killing, he was more than willing to let others take the blame for his killings and he revelled in sadistically playing with those who he intended to kill. And he did it all under the nose of his commanding officer, getting away with it for about 2 years. And he killed like 3 main characters.

This is what I thought of upon reading the thread title.

I remember upon reading the scene...

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...when he kills Bragg, I sent a text to my friend, who lent me the book, that just said CUUUUUUUUUUUU etc for about 11 pages. I was so angry. His death, was sooo satisfying

 

[Hawk of Battle]

Lijah "Fething" Cuu!

There is nothing redeemable about this fucker. He rapes women, he kills for the sake of killing, he was more than willing to let others take the blame for his killings and he revelled in sadistically playing with those who he intended to kill. And he did it all under the nose of his commanding officer, getting away with it for about 2 years. And he killed like 3 main characters.

This is what I thought of upon reading the thread title.

I remember upon reading the scene...

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...when he kills Bragg, I sent a text to my friend, who lent me the book, that just said CUUUUUUUUUUUU etc for about 11 pages. I was so angry. His death, was sooo satisfying

Haha, funny you should mention that, I had a friend do almost exactly the same when I lent him my copy. Yeah, Lijah Fething Cuu is universally hated.

 

[DaWaffledude]

Gonna have to go with Voldemort.

 

[TitanAtlas]

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The girl was rather stupid tough... she was intructed not to eat anything in that monster house... she procceded in eating everything...

That was the one thing I didn't like about the movie, there wasn't enough of a setup for that scene. It should have been that she was being starved for a week as punishment or something. Then it would make sense for her to be tempted by the food. But the way the scene was done it just looked like ADD got the best of her and she just forgot she was instructed FFS don't eat the creepy monster's food!

Yeah thats what i tought... she didnt seem to be hungry or to starve in that house... even if those things looked delicious (and they did), she was instructed that bad things would happen if she ate any of the food... and then she didnt even pay attention to the monster slowly awakening...

Cuz of her 2 fairies died...

 

[The Abhorrent]

"Evil" can mean many things, but one thing I'll point out from the start are the villains who are utterly insane and deranged. The obvious examples are The Joker (Batman), Kefka (FFVI), and Albedo (Xenosaga). They're all nuts up the wazoo; but because they're effective and unpredictable, they are so utterly frightening that there is no solution other than to put them down before they do more damage. The problem is that these characters can act more like forces of nature than being evil, you feel compelled to stop or kill them because it has to be done rather than because they've earned the punishment. That isn't to say that these characters can't be evil, but their utter lack of motive (beyond a lust for chaos or destruction) means it's hard to truly describe them as evil. Great antagonists, but it's not necessarily because they're evil.

I suppose you could say that I consider a lack of morality to not be actually evil, it's just the lack of what makes one a good & upstanding character. A bear trying to kill you isn't evil, it's just hungry or territorial. Evil is moreso the opposition of morality, a deliberate violation of the principles (which requires knowing what morality is). Those who could be good people if they wanted to, but they don't. It can't be reasons that are sympathetic either, it has to be for reasons that can only be described as despicable.

As my suggestion for "Most Evil Character of All Time"....

Spoiler: Griffith from Berserk (manga/anime)

Where to start? Griffith began his rise to power from mere peasant to god-like being by forming the mercenary group known as the "Band of the Hawk". Already feared across the land as being outrageously effective (and perhaps a bit ruthless). Early on he (forcibly) recruits the protagonist of the series, Guts. A few years later he and his band join the Midland Kingdom and almost single-handedly ends their hundred-year-long war with another kingdom... and then it all starts to go downhill, especially after Guts earns back his freedom.

Before then, he was more than willing to kill several others for political gain (though admittedly they were trying to kill him too). Seducing the princess (immediately after Guts departure) was a wrong move on his part, earning him a year in the bottom of a cell with constant torture... but his group eventually breaks him out (with Guts leading the charge no less). He repays them by sacrificing them (in some of the most brutal & bloody ways imaginable) to become a god-like entity.

It's true that people who become demons in the mythos tend to be driven to the point of suicidal despair, and Griffith is no exception; but what seals the deal is his first act after becoming Femto (the name of his demonic form):

He rapes Casca (Guts' love interest), forcing the protagonist to watch.

Motivated by revenge, Griffith sought to break Guts before killing him.... for leaving him. "Sick bastard" doesn't even begin to describe the lengths this guy is willing to go to, be it for power or for vengeance. This event is where the anime series ends, but Guts & Casca do get rescued at this point by the Skeleton Knight in the manga (and the story continues.... and continues, and continues... you get the idea). Either way, Griffith continues his conquest of the land while Guts is just trying to live on and/or help out the people he cares for.

Note: I haven't been following the manga lately, so presumably some more things have happened that aren't mentioned here.

 

[DeManix]

Hank Scorpio from one episode of The Simpsons. He KILLED James Bond and seized the East Coast of America. He's the definition of evil.

But but but... he's just so NICE! He gave Homer his own football team!

Not the team he wanted though

 

[HardkorSB]

Can I ask why SammiYin got a warning for his post?
To be perfectly honest, I (and I'm willing to believe that I'm not the only one) was thinking the same thing. I know that this might seem like trolling because of the backlash that various gods (but mainly the Christian/Judeo-~Christian one) get on this site but the fact remains that god in the Bible is a fucking evil character.
So can I get an answer?

Low content post.

Oh really?
Then how come this didn't get a warning?

Ser Gregor Clegane. Hands down.

Sure, it's 5 words instead of 1 but still, the content is low as fuck

probably because it's designed to upset people, or at least appears to be purely because of that reason because the author provides no supporting evidence, rather than the 5 word post being a serious response

How is it DESIGNED to upset people (unless you're talking about god which I can understand)?
And how are the 5 words ALSO WITH NO SUPPORTING EVIDENCE more serious? Is "hands down" the supporting evidence perhaps?

 

[II2]

Doctor Wallace Breen - not comic book evil but really evil, well hitler evil even, as one might say.

Breen is a great choice, because there are men like him EVERYWHERE, IRL. Smooth talking sycophants and enablers of evil, self concerned and ego centric. Does an excellent job representing the diffuse evil in the many individual pieces in the machinery of bureaucracy and administration.

I wouldn't go so far as to say he's Hitler evil, because he doesn't really have his own evil scheme, so much as simply taking an opportunity to ensure his own relative comfort as the ***** emissary of humanities new alien overlords while selling out his own species.

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As for the poster to listed God, there's merit to that discussion in as far as depictions within a given context, but just throwing one word out there is kinda low-content trolly polly.

Running with the idea though, I think one of the best villainous depictions of the Christian god is in the DC Vertigo comic series Preacher:

Personality wise in the above mentioned comic depiction, he oscillates in a bipolar old testatment / new testament appearances, when he's getting any frame time.

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He causes all the pain and horror in the world because he's "lonely". He gives people free will, but then shits on their life to see who will still love him. A mad puppeteer blighting his creations with pain and misery so they turn to his light and at rock bottom, offer themselves to his mercy. In his own defense, he says, "You cannot know the loneliness of being a creator before creation", but that doesn't hold up in my eyes or the eyes of the other characters in the story.

 

[Jessta]

hmmmm, I would have to say that one guy from full metal alchemist who turns his wife into a tormented beast who starves herself to death just so that she can end her miserable existence. then next year he does the same to his daughter... After that the humonculus from full metal alchemist or scar from the lion king.

Although it depends on your definition of evil, those are evil like evil evil but theres also people like the king of britania from code gease who is lawful evil or the joker from batman who is kind of crazy evil, I consider harmful actions for selfish reasons the ultimate evil however harmful actions for no reason could be even worse, its a hard decision

 

[ExileNZ]

Personally I'd say Furudo Erika from Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (When the Seagulls Cry), though I can't really go into why without massive spoilers.

Granted, her lot in life is pretty precarious and we get a bit of a sob story later on, but at the end of the day she's not an evil ***** because of those things - she does it all because she can and because she enjoys it.

Bare in mind I chose her over Shakespeare's Iago (a close second) for just this reason. She's like him except she enjoys it more.

Scary stuff.

 

[Wondermint13]

Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmations.

She wants to skin puppies and she has the f**ing Devil in her name!!

 

[Vault101]

The question is fairly straightforward; Who do you think is the most evil character ever? They don't necessarily have to be a villain, and they can be from any medium (film/t.v.books/comics etc.)

In my personal opinion, Barnes from 'Platoon', Frank Costello from 'The Departed' and General Nikolai Alexandroich Zakharov from 'The Punisher MAX (Man of Stone specifically) are among the most evil characters I've seen to date.

It is without a doubt....PRINCESS PEACH

ohhhhh sure she may look all cute and harmless, and rather hopeless due to her constant kidnappings

but she is REALLY an evil mastermind, shes playing a sadistic game with mario and bowser as the pawns

she gets kidnaped and rescued on purpose, Bowser and mario are really her playthings

 

[rotkiv]

It(Pennywise) in Stephen Kings book It.

 

[flakmagnet]

We've had mention, he needs a picture...

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But seriously, my vote is for this guy:

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The embodiment of evil, has no morals or sympathy, and does everything for fun. He knows he can keep getting away with it, because Batman will never kill him, and the state won't either as he'll just keep pleading insanity.

 

[mrdude2010]

Can I ask why SammiYin got a warning for his post?
To be perfectly honest, I (and I'm willing to believe that I'm not the only one) was thinking the same thing. I know that this might seem like trolling because of the backlash that various gods (but mainly the Christian/Judeo-~Christian one) get on this site but the fact remains that god in the Bible is a fucking evil character.
So can I get an answer?

Low content post.

Oh really?
Then how come this didn't get a warning?

Ser Gregor Clegane. Hands down.

Sure, it's 5 words instead of 1 but still, the content is low as fuck

probably because it's designed to upset people, or at least appears to be purely because of that reason because the author provides no supporting evidence, rather than the 5 word post being a serious response

How is it DESIGNED to upset people (unless you're talking about god which I can understand)?
And how are the 5 words ALSO WITH NO SUPPORTING EVIDENCE more serious? Is "hands down" the supporting evidence perhaps?

because any statement that implies that one figurehead of some religion or other isn't real tends to piss people off if they happen to be part of that religion

the other reply is something plausible, just god without making it a joke about say, creating light on day 1 and creating the light source on day 4 is just designed to get some people upset