who is the most evil evil guy

[Frankychan]

Damn,

Dark Helmet was a pretty good one. I would like to change my answer to include him.

Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb.

- Dark Helmet

ALWAYS cracks me up.

[Barinthus]

Frankychan

Ahh I forgot that one, Ted!

[Boris Godunov]

How could I forget... opera's evil villains!

-Baron Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca. Undoubtedly one of the nastiest heavies of them all. A raging mysoginist who blackmails the heroine Tosca into sleeping with him by threatening her lover Mario with hanging. She thwarts Scarpia with a knife in the chest after he's signed her pass to leave the country, but he gets the last laugh (I suppose) when the mock execution he's set up for Mario turns out to be real. Tosca flings herself from a castle roof in the end.

-Iago in Verdi's Otello. Closely follows the Shakespeare, except he gets a deliciously evil soliloquy ("Credo"), and in the end he gets away.

-Don Carlo in Verdi's La Forza del Destino. After his sister Leonora's lover, Alvaro, accidentally kills their father, Carlo spends his life hunting the duo in revenge. In the end he is mortally wounded by Alvaro in a duel, but as he's dying he manages to stab the grief-stricken Leonora in one last act of spite.

-The Queen of the Night from Mozart's Die Zauberflote. She's shrill, manipulative and just plain mean. She's tricked her daughter Pamina into thinking that the noble priest Sarastro is evil and then uses her to try and assassinate him. When Pamina catches on and joins forces with the good guys, mum decides to kill the whole lot and give Pamina to a slave who tried to rape her. Sarastro calls down the forces of light to vanquish the queen and her minions, however, and Pamina gets to marry hunky Tamino instead.

-The Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto. Even though he gets the best tune ("La donna e mobile"), the Duke is an utter cad. He poses as poor student to seduce Gilda, daughter of his deformed jester, Rigoletto. The Duke's cronies kidnap Gilda and take her to the palace, and the Duke proceeds to rape her. Rigoletto plots revenge by hiring an assassin to lure the duke to a ramshackle Inn and murder him in his sleep. Alas, poor, stupid Gilda gets wind of the plan, intervenes and gets herself killed instead. The Duke gets away scott free.

-Hagen in Wagner's Gotterdamerung. He's a vile, greedy beast who is after the ring of the gods. He murders hero Siegfried and his own half-brother Gunther before being drowned in the Rhine while diving after the ring.

-Claggart in Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd. It's hard to envisage a more hateful character. He is the humorless, cynical master-at-arms aboard the H.M.S Indomitable who makes it his mission in life to destroy Billy Budd, a sailor, just because Budd is handsome and good. He conives to get Billy charged falsely with mutiny, but gets his comeuppance when the strong Billy strikes him dead in a fit of fury over the charges. All doesn't end well, though, as Billy gets executed for murder.

Kabanicha in Janacek's Katya Kabanova. The mother-in-law from hell. She torments her son's wife Katya to no end and eventually drives the young girl to throw herself into a raging river.

Alfio in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rustican. He's the quintessential bully. He's married to the beautiful Lola, but her true love is Turridu (whom she initially wanted to marry, but he left for the army so she jumped to the next fellah). Anyway, in the end Alfio brutally kills Turridu in a duel sparked by jealousy.

Rangoni in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. The snake-like Jesuit monk only appears in Act III, but he's evil enough to make his presence known. He entices the lovely Polish princess Marina to bed the young Russian pretender Dmitri in order to pave the way for Catholic missionaries into Russia. When she resists, he manipulates her by alluding to her fading beauty as well. He later manipulates Dmitri just as skillfully through his love for Marina. In the end he gets what he wants--a Polish army with Dmitri at its head ready to invade Russia to depose Tsar Boris.

Mrs. Lovett in Sondheim's Sweeny Todd. While the deranged Todd is the one slashing people's throats, it's Lovett who is the real ghoul, as she uses their remains for her meat pies. She eventuall causes Todd to kill his own wife, but Lovett herself ends up shoved into an oven to be baked.

The Grand Inquisitor in Verdi's Don Carlos. This evil, bitter and blind 90-year old man allows King Phillip II of Spain to condemn his son Carlos to death on the premise that God sacrificed his own son to save the world. However, the Inquisitor goes further and forces the king to give up his best friend, the Marquis de Posa, to the Inquisition. The Inquisitor has de Posa imprisoned and murdered.

Those are the most evil, at least. There are tons more villains, but those all tend to have at least a few redeeming features.

[chequita guevara]

The Man in Undercover Brother.

[Frankychan]

I thought this was "movie villains"?

[Boris Godunov]

Why limit our villainage?

[chequita guevara]

Lawrence Olivier was better than Ian McKellen as Richard III.

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Why limit our villainage?

Dude, I'm impressed. This is existential stuff. I go to movies because of villains. That's why I don't go to movies like "Armageddon" or "The Day After Tommorow". I like villains more so than the hero/heroine (no puns, please).

But if the villain is cheesy, I get pissed...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Lawrence Olivier was better than Ian McKellen as Richard III.

Heartily disagree. I found Olivier's Richard a bit too pedestrian. McKellan's interpretation was far more visceral.

[sprucemoose3311]

1. dicaprio in titanic
2. warren beaty (anything he is in)
3. the entire cast of mama mia
4. Saddam in Hot SHots part one and deux
5. everyone involved with Catwoman and Elektra

[Dis]

what do you have against mama mia?

[sprucemoose3311]

eh, i never got into mama mia... just didnt care for it, and hada cahnce to pick on it

[Barinthus]

I can't believe I forgot this one... *shudder*

[Frankychan]

that's just wrong, dude.

[Dis]

Originally posted by sprucemoose3311
eh, i never got into mama mia... just didnt care for it, and hada cahnce to pick on it

or are you talking about some movie? I have never heard of the movie. I was talking about the Vegas show.

It's a chick show. But one you hope by bringing a chick to, she'll have sex with you after the show