What do you consider to be some of the BEST and the WORST (as in lame) villains in science fiction?

I'll give some examples of excellent villains;

...as IF it needed to be said.

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

The Borg were badass early on.

Baron Harkonnen from DUNE.
Evil...even in death...the books really show his nastiness.

ALIEN.

'nuff said.

...and some of the lame ones...

...a letdown almost as epic as the movie itself.

...any alien that gets knocked out by one punch from Will Smith is a pussy...

OK...I know it's a campy film...but come on! You're an advanced planet-invading civilization and can't keep your heads from exploding?

I think Darth Maul as a character is dope. It George's fault he turned out to be lame.

Tittypants said:

I think Darth Maul as a character is dope. It George's fault he turned out to be lame.

Dude honestly, I haven't read any of the subsequent books or graphic novels that detail his character. I'm basing it strictly on Episode I.

PurpleJedi said:

Tittypants said:

I think Darth Maul as a character is dope. It George's fault he turned out to be lame.

Dude honestly, I haven't read any of the subsequent books or graphic novels that detail his character. I'm basing it strictly on Episode I.

Exactly. Blame George for wasting such a dope character.

Brave New World By Aldophus Huxley-the villian of this novel is society its self.

Roy Batty From Blade Runner.

I love that movie

Okay, as a recent convert of the whole SG series...and despite it's overall campiness...

The Wraith

In passing I thought these were the silliest creatures ever but then getting to know the series and what they were they creep me out now. I still eat meat though but I got the point.

The Ori Priors

Even being religious, these guys make me nervous has heck.

Rococo said:

PurpleJedi said:

I'm having a problem replying dirctly to ur post Morningsong (damned iPod!) but I wanted to say that I'm a huge fan of the original Stargate movie, and watched the original TV series religiously. I fell off the wagon around the time Stargate Atlantis jumped in the mix. But in the origin movie, that Rah character was good.

I got hooked into all of it, SG-1, Atlantis and Universe, now the franchise is gone forever. I remember Rah from years ago, I went to see it when it first came out, it's been a long time since I seen the original movie. But speaking of the Gould...

Ba'al is just the embodiment of sexiness. But what he did to O'Neil was evil as heck. The Gould where more entertaining and stylish to me but yeah they were evil.

Best!

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retina said:

best AND worst

XxAxX said:

One of the worse, though I doubt anyone knows who they are.

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lazycrockett said:

One of the worse, though I doubt anyone knows who they are.

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Reminds me of 'City of Lost Children.'

lazycrockett said:

One of the worse, though I doubt anyone knows who they are.

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I recognize the image...and I know that I SHOULD know it...but I just can't place it right now...

They were these whale like creatures that were part of the Xindi in Star Trek: Enterprise. the picture i was looking for, this is the closet I could find, was a whale species that had basically created the technology of space flight without fingers, thumbs or anything that could be used to grasp objects. It was just so ridiculous. They had this scene with the Xindi alliance and had these huge water tanks that the whales was swimming in as the conference was going on. SMH

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Gary Oldman in "The Fifth Element" was terrible...I don't even remember his name.

Loved the movie and practically everything else Oldman has done, but that one...

Some of my favs!!

PurpleJedi said:

I'm having a problem replying dirctly to ur post Morningsong (damned iPod!) but I wanted to say that I'm a huge fan of the original Stargate movie, and watched the original TV series religiously. I fell off the wagon around the time Stargate Atlantis jumped in the mix. But in the origin movie, that Rah character was good.

I loved the movie...not so much the series.

But Dil was awesome, right???

BEST

WORST

I might just have to watch Battleship Earth, I know, weird compulsion, but… I… feel… compelled…

PurpleJedi said:

What do you consider to be some of the BEST and the WORST (as in lame) villains in science fiction?

I'll give some examples of excellent villains;

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

The Borg were badass early on.

Yes!

But it was all about the Queen!

I always thought these villains were lame.

andykeen said:

YES.

Also:

But not:

Rotwang from Metropolis

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The Strangers from Dark City

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I can't think of the worst, maybe Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon:

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Too bad, you didn't include Fantasy films, I would have included Tim Curry's brilliant potrayal of the Lord of Darkness in Legend:

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Too bad, you didn't include Fantasy films, I would have included Tim Curry's brilliant potrayal of the Lord of Darkness in Legend:

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Tim Curry is awesome.

kewlschool said:

XxAxX said:

best AND worst

I don't know what that is but is sure reminds me of "It", I stayed away from roadside storm drains for weeks, even now I give them the side eye.