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Best anime villain
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No one is worse than this guy from "Berserk". Don't really want to mention his name just so you can experience what leads up to the "Eclipse"
The absolute pinnacle. I would even go so far and say he is one of the greatest villains in fiction ever. The pure definition of evil to me.
Honorable mentions:
- Johann (Monster): It's hard to create a good villain in a fictional setting; personally, I think it's even harder to create a good villain in a realistic setting. Johann is the mastermind behind all events in Monster and truly terrifying. He doesn't have a body armor or horns or shit, it's just a slim, pale young man with blonde hair and a pleasant smile - and yet he manages to make you skip a heartbeat once he shows up. I recommend watching Monster, it was so good that I was forced to create my first (and so far only) LTTP thread.
- Shaiapouf (HxH): Pitou is disgusting and does some fucked up shit, but Pouf to me is much worse; dares to manipulate everybody around him to make them play along and contribute to his goal of an ant kingdom. Dude is the biggest hardliner amongst the ants and does a bunch of evil shit; dude even manages
to get Pitou killed because of his fuckery
- Dio (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure): Dude is the definition of a scumbag and doesn't hesitate when it comes to harming the Jojo family in any way. But he is also likeable in some ways, which is something that I don't find in many villains.
- Don Flamingo (One Piece): One Piece is currently at the Dressrosa Arc which is about Flamingo and man.. there are a lot of scumbags in One Piece, yet Oda manages to give them a human side or make them likeable to some degrees. Flamingo though is pure, unfiltered human trash and probably the worst being the Strawhats ever encountered. It's hard to describe him without giving away a lot of his backstory, but he is by far one of the best written shounen antagonists to me, at least for a series with the scale of One Piece. The funny thing is that he isn't an exactly new character and you saw him here and there, but I never knew what he truly was.
I was a lot younger and thought he was cool. I didn't know. I didn't know!
Aaronology
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Femto is an incredibly complex character in addition to being evil as shit. Every single facet of being a great villain he's checked off and written a book about.
Light is great, but there isn't a single mention in this thread that top's Berserk's antagonist. I'd struggle to find a villain in any medium that does.
Star Falcon
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Yep another vote for Femto. The stuff he does is pure evil that no other villain comes close to... usually i cheer for the villains but what he does is so vile nothing can prevent you hating him.
NO NO NO NO Not this goddamn cockroach.
He was good when he still had his mask but then became dreadful.
No villain that
gets Talk no Jutsued by Naruto deserves the "best" moniker.
He's
not a villain but a true hero !
The defender of the weak against Nazi wizards
I can't really think of a lot of villains whom I look back to with a very fond eye. Picks like Dio or Griffith leave me completely puzzled but if I had to pick one, it would probably be the above mentioned Squealer - who is maybe the one villain with understandable motivations, or Kotomine Kirei from Fate/Zero. I don't know how he will fare in F/SN but I love his voice and his mannerisms, he had a pretty good arc and that monologue and laugh in the last episode of the show seal it for me.
Spinosaurus
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Biased but yeah.Frieza
Sawamura in Hajime no Ippo was a dick too.
Guy had a ruthless boxing style.
striferser
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No one is worse than this guy from "Berserk". Don't really want to mention his name just so you can experience what leads up to the "Eclipse"
This dude and of course Johan Liebert
If we can include manga...
this guy
A masochist yakuza who want the ultimate pain (from ichi the killer)
Ultra Numb
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Werewolf Jones
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Wiping out your entire squad who you fought with and who adored you to get a power upgrade>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Killing some people in a really boring fashion with a notebook.
True Savior
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Why ?
Here's one more since nobody called him out:
Kazutaka Hyoudou from Kaiji
There is literally nothing you could like in this guy at all.
He's so bad, he made me stop watching the show.
That guy has so much script power, it's hard to take him seriously at all.
Kazutaka Hyoudou from Kaiji
There is literally nothing you could like in this guy at all.
Shogo Makishima (Psycho-Pass)
He's so bad, he made me stop watching the show.
That guy has so much script power, it's hard to take him seriously at all.
DaSorcerer7
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This dude right here.
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ShadowSoldier89
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This took way too long for someone to post
"I think people only have real value when acting on their own impulses and desires. so I've asked quite a few people about their suppressed free will, I encourage them, I facilitate, then I watch for the truth to play out."
so fucking good.
Episode 11 still haunts me
if you watched the rest you would know
hes an anomaly, but not actually that huge of one. He doesnt seriously have that much script power in the context of the series
John Kowalski
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Mother.
Fucking.
Yanda.
Nothing boils my blood like yanda x yotsuba fanart does.
I'm not even talking about his power.
I'm going to copy paste something I had put in another forum. This is from like 6 episodes and I imagine it gets worst as it goes along
He's a genius engineer + surgeon with underground facilities that can become invisible, control his hue and make people's hue clear just by talking to them. He has a communication network he can run alone, that does not use any traceable communication architecture and yet can stay in touch with plenty of people anonymously.
He's also a hacker, plastic surgeon, pharmaceutical expert and the world's best brainwasher.
He RIPPED A GIRL'S EYE OUT, KEEPS IT AS A SOUVENIR AND A DAY LATER SHE LOVES HIM AND WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR HIM.
He's also a weapons engineer, robotic expert, programmer, server administrator and game maker now too.
He's also a hacker, plastic surgeon, pharmaceutical expert and the world's best brainwasher.
He RIPPED A GIRL'S EYE OUT, KEEPS IT AS A SOUVENIR AND A DAY LATER SHE LOVES HIM AND WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR HIM.
He's also a weapons engineer, robotic expert, programmer, server administrator and game maker now too.
chicagocubsfan
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Griffith
ShadowSoldier89
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uhh, did you watch season 2 instead of season 1? you have the wrong villain you are describing
A Huge Battleship
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There's a theme to this post.
Gasai Yuno from Mirai Nikki. The most infamous yandere of all time, and the benchmark against which all of her kind are measured. Almost single-handedly transformed a poorly written survival game story into something with substantially more success than it otherwise deserved.
Tokisaki Kurumi from Date A Live. A sociopathic, mass-murdering, quasi-immortal time goddess of the highest order, with an unmatched psychotic sensuousness and a voice capable of melting any person or other solid object. Despite her explicit personality, her underlying motives and role in the plot make her the most intriguing character in the franchise. Her weapon, Zaphkiel, also provides her with my favourite fictional fighting style / ensemble of powers. I just wish she was less of an uncompromising jerk to
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Gasai Yuno from Mirai Nikki. The most infamous yandere of all time, and the benchmark against which all of her kind are measured. Almost single-handedly transformed a poorly written survival game story into something with substantially more success than it otherwise deserved.
Tokisaki Kurumi from Date A Live. A sociopathic, mass-murdering, quasi-immortal time goddess of the highest order, with an unmatched psychotic sensuousness and a voice capable of melting any person or other solid object. Despite her explicit personality, her underlying motives and role in the plot make her the most intriguing character in the franchise. Her weapon, Zaphkiel, also provides her with my favourite fictional fighting style / ensemble of powers. I just wish she was less of an uncompromising jerk to
'herself'
Kumagawa Misogi from Medaka Box. A born loser without equal, and one of the most unique characters I've come across in anime/manga, even among his unconventional schoolmates. Justifiably steamrollered everyone in the 2nd & 3rd popularity polls with 300%+ of the runner-up's votes, proving that he is, in fact, capable of winning.
GeNoMe
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No one is worse than this guy from "Berserk". Don't really want to mention his name just so you can experience what leads up to the "Eclipse"
Thread delivers!
Subpar Spatula
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Sounds like you found it pretentious and couldn't stand it. If this is what you got from 6 episodes in then you weren't paying attention.
Schweinehund
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griffifff
ShadowSoldier89
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he also watched season 2, not 1. he described kamui not makishima
Sho_Nuff82
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Are the people saying Meruem honestly forgetting that all he does is
? His subordinates do everything for him.
I mean yeah, he's powerful and pretty smart, but he's not necessarily evil or effective. Cell accomplished more, he at least killed Goku and Trunks.
play board games, kill a few of his subordinates, catch feels for a blind girl, and then get slapped around by Netero for a few hours before dying
I mean yeah, he's powerful and pretty smart, but he's not necessarily evil or effective. Cell accomplished more, he at least killed Goku and Trunks.
Megalosaro
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what is fucked up is that the zabis probably didn't even kill deikun. No doubt they took advantage of the power vacuum though.
Angelus Errare
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Pretty much, then he grows a damn conscience. Not really "villain" material. Alot of the characters suggested are more anti-hero than villain.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I recall Meruem doing a lot more in the manga then he did in the anime, although I might be remembering incorrectly. I could have sworn that he had already started directly killing people
(Only watched anime)
This is more a complaint against the show than against him but they pretty much spoil everything that is about to happen in the first episode. So it took out most of the surprise out of the eclipse and throughout the show's entire run I was all "Just get to it".
His whole rise to power and fame was predicated on him meeting only grade Z, bona fide morons on the field of battle. And subsequently, the way he won those victories was just lame.
He's a dull character to watch.
I know I will catch flak for this but the reason for his fall is stupid as hell. He wasted decades of careful planning, years of patiently waiting all because Guts bested him in the duel. I know this supposed to the moment of his weakness and of him trying to regain dominance or whatever but I'm really not buying it.
In his short carrier as a villain he's more of a pawn being ordered around than someone with agency.
And his demon design sucks. Yep I went there.
Oh that's the season 1 guy?
Ok, then I agree and take back what I said.
My spoiler text was about season 2 guy.
Not sure how I confused them... a quick google check shows that they don't look anything alike =/
I haven't given a crap about anime in a long time, but I've watched a good bit of it. If you are remotely into anime or even if you're lapsed like me, you should go back and watch "Now and Then, Here and There".
When the main antagonist, King Hamdo, is introduced her murders a cat with his bare hands and beats a child with it. There a multiple moments like that in that show. It's one of the most astonishingly depressing things I've ever watched. Two thumbs up!
Apologies if this has already been mentioned.
Sir Ilpalazzo
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He kills and eats several humans too (including children).
BIGWORM
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But cats...
Only correct answer[JJBA Part 3 ending spoilers in this thread]
Dio, from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. He's a complete douchebag with no redeeming qualities (apart from his fabulousness) - he's pretty much pure evil but he's extremely entertaining nonetheless. His Stand,, is my favourite Stand in the whole series too (well, technicallyThe World). The ability toStar Platinum: The World is the same stand I guess so it's a toss up between the two.stop time is just too damn cool, as is the way he uses this power
Angelus Errare
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He takes over a dictatorship in some country and kills like the king and his royal guards. But even then, I don't think that makes him a particularly great villain. I mean Meruem hasn't don't anything nearly as "villainous" as Neferpitou. I'd argue she should have been the main villain, she encapsulated the word in all aspects. She couldn't be redeemed, she didn't fall in love with humans, she gave no fucks about the lives of others. She reveled in the pain and suffering of others and went out her way to seek it. I mean what she did to Gon alone made Meruem look like a damn hero.
Also omg @ Chrome correcting the HxH character names. Google da gawd!
Vegeta is a shrub
LaunchpadMcQ
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Johann is probably the most objectively best one, imo.
Tyki Mikk from D.Gray-man
Millennium Earl, also from D.Gray-man
Hell, I'd include the entire Noah family from D.Gray-man. Not only were they well-designed, they were all sadistic fucks. Tyki and Earl are just the MVPs.
Creed Diskenth from Black Cat
Keigo Atobe from Prince of Tennis
Suigintou from Rozen Maiden
Also, honorable mentions for great designs even though they were second or third rung villains: the Sound Four, Sasori, Deidara (Naruto); Shou Tucker (FMA); Shizuru Fujino, Nagi (My-HiME); Sensui, Toguro Brothers(YuYu Hakusho); the Royal Guards, Hisoka, Illumi(Hunter x Hunter).
Tyki Mikk from D.Gray-man
Millennium Earl, also from D.Gray-man
Hell, I'd include the entire Noah family from D.Gray-man. Not only were they well-designed, they were all sadistic fucks. Tyki and Earl are just the MVPs.
Creed Diskenth from Black Cat
Keigo Atobe from Prince of Tennis
AKA who knew a tennis player could be such a bag of dicks
Suigintou from Rozen Maiden
haha! a non-shonen entry!
Also, honorable mentions for great designs even though they were second or third rung villains: the Sound Four, Sasori, Deidara (Naruto); Shou Tucker (FMA); Shizuru Fujino, Nagi (My-HiME); Sensui, Toguro Brothers(YuYu Hakusho); the Royal Guards, Hisoka, Illumi(Hunter x Hunter).
Yep, this guy right here. Perviest crepiest cruelest dude, yet somehow you root for him.
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