Villains you actually like

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WolfOfOdin

Thirding Captain Cold, I loved the scene where he violently beats Mirror Master for using drugs and says "We're not scum and filth like the street vermin. We set ourselves to a higher standard.

Aaaaaaaand

When he kills the man who killed his sister. He only freezes the outside of his skin so he's fully aware and gonna feel every inch when he shoves him off the roof of a building. "Problem with my gun is....I usually freeze'em solid. No pain, it's quick and humane. But you..yeah...tried something new this time. You're gonna feel it when you hit the pavement. You're gonna feel the warmth drip out of your rotten body like my sister did."
 
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Man that's what rocks about Flash's whole gallery. They're all awesome. They're all sympathetic in a good way (except maybe Girder) without going stupid.
 
Just Me

Just Me

Another that just came to mind, Vul Kuolun from the Capatin Future series.
Man, I rooted for this guy when I was like 8 or 9 years. he was cool, smooth and one bad mofo that really made the captain work for his pay...

 
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Havelock Vetinari (Discworld) Try as I might, I just can't decide if this guy is even a villain. He's a manipulative dictator who's not above, well... just about anything in order to make the world run the way he thinks it should, but at the same time his vision of the world isn't nearly as destructive or restrictive as most villains. At times he even seems to have some sort of standard of good that he's working towards.

Vetinari is just the best example of that type of character, in my opinion. Others who sometimes fill a similar role are Vandal Savage (DC Comics), David Xanatos (Gargoyles), Magneo (Marvel Comics) and many more.
 
General Specific

General Specific

I never saw Vetinari as a villain. He's definitely got things wired exactly how he wants them and he very easily could be become a powerful villain, but he doesn't. He seems to be interested in keeping the city running in an orderly manner and not with personal power.
 
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Another vote for Redcloak. Also, the core Linear Guild: can't go wrong with a megalomaniac who wants to make everybody pay for past (imaginated) slights, an affable half-orc who balances wholesale slaughter with a love for ice cream, and a shape-changing seductress who considers getting schtoinked four times in three hours as having "errands to run, too".
 
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North_Ranger said:
Another vote for Redcloak. Also, the core Linear Guild: can't go wrong with a megalomaniac who wants to make everybody pay for past (imaginated) slights, an affable half-orc who balances wholesale slaughter with a love for ice cream, and a shape-changing seductress who defends only getting schtoinked four times in three hours as having "errands to run, too".
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Shawn

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I have always liked Billy Zane's Collector in Demon Knight. It's hilarity that's scary and twisted as hell.

 
@Li3n

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IronBrig4 said:
I'll second the Linear Guild, especially Thog. I have a hard time thinking of him as a villain. He'll do whatever Elan tells him to do, of course, including murder. But he's also got a childlike innocence and an unshakable loyalty towards his friends.
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I think Thog's Int score is so low that alignment doesn't apply to him any more then it does to a regular animal in 3.5.
 
Gusto

Gusto

I kinda have to disagree with the Linear Guild, just because their aims are so petty and ...not real. I think Miko was a better antagonist than the LG, if not a true villain.
 
ElJuski

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BUT THEY HAVE A MEOWTH DUDE

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Oh, and seriously? These are the best villains ever...

 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Professor Moriarty, Aaron the Moor, Goldfinger, Hans Gruber, Mr. Burns, JR Ewing and Rowdy Roddy Piper just to name a few
 
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Iago. And I am only mentioning him now because I just discovered that Ewan McGregor played him in a stage production in 2007.

I weep that I will never get to see that performance. Apparently it was recorded for BBC 3, though, so I might look that up.
 
Bubble181

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Kane, the Prophet of the Brotherhood. KANE LIVES IN DEATH.

Oh, and Darth Vader.
And, and this may strike you as strange, Palpatine in the prequels. He's not really around enougg in the originals, but I love how he works himself to power in the prequels.

And Vetinari? Definitely not a villain. He just wants life to run the way it should. In the end, Vetinari and Vimes have thge same goals; they just play on a different field.
 
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Andromache

Well, since someone already said shegokigo, I guess I'll have to default.

Literary: God

Film: Palpatine.

The emperor's presence made the prequels bearable
 
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WolfOfOdin

POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! UNLIMITED POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
 
Enresshou

Enresshou

Veteran said:
Can't stop to chat I'm in the middle of a FUN RUN!



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Totally agreed; he's just enough of an over-the-top Bond villain to be genuinely threatening, but awesome enough to where you'd go have a beer with him nonetheless.

And, of course, "When you get home tonight, there's gonna be ANOTHER STORY on your house!"
 
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