Your wings are red.
Part two of EE's favorite villains!
(note: to save myself some time, I am going to endorse Eor's list with the exception of Rattigan just cuz I haven't seen the movie)
Trent Easton
You just don't claw your way up to the top of the National Security Agency
and find time to be filthy, with your elbows deep in crime without being really good at hiding it. He also wields a gold-plated magnum. Why? He wants people to see something cool before they die. What a nice fella.
Perfect Dark for N64
Mr. Blonde
The answer to the question everyone wants to know: Are Scandinavians aliens? The answer, of course, is yes. This fella is an alien killing machine disguised as an Eastern-European killing machine. Wicked!
Perfect Dark for N64
Alec Trevelyan
As far as I'm concerned, the only equal Bond ever faced in the movies. Just pure bad ***, that's really all there is to say. You know a guy is good when an explosion and being thrown from a hundred-foot fall don't kill him.
GoldenEye, film and N64 game
Max Zorin
The top of the ladder as far as industrial villains go in the Bond series. He is a vicious psychopath, the result of a Nazi experiment to create supermen (in the Nietzche sense, not the DC Comics sense). Though it was a success in the sense of forming a genius, Zorin became a severe sociopath. He kills offhandedly. He can kill somebody with just about anything, and he commits mass murder on his own men for fun.
A View to a Kill, film.
Max Shreck
Continuing down the Walken pike, Max Schreck is some kinda villain. He's one of the few evil industrialists that both wants to push his secretary out a window
and does so. He also somehow persuades an entire city that The Penguin would be a good mayor while dodging assassination attempts from Catwoman. And, as a villain, Batman is naturally after him. In other words, two supervillains and a superhero were after him, and he not only survives to the end, but almost kills Batman! He wins major points for not giving any speeches about his motives. Someone says "Bruce... YOU'RE Batman!?" Instead of going into some sort of monologue about why he knew it all along and will succeed, Shreck simply says "Was!" and shoots him in the head. Now that's no nonsense!
Batman Returns, film.
Cigarette Smoking Man
It's hard to describe this guy, but he's like a relic from the film noir days slapped into a contemporary conspiracy piece. He exudes atmosphere just in the way he lights up, and isn't exactly a weakling when it comes to the rough stuff or playing the spy game.
The X-Files, TV show.
Alex Krycek
A Russian mole deep in the FBI. It takes the gift of gab to get far enough to pick your own assignments. But he's also a smart dude, and a tough SOB too -- he kills a man while handcuffed and hanging from a balcony, and beats up the protagonist with one arm. Literally one arm. His other had been sawn off.
The X-Files, TV show.
Omar Santiago
That's right, John Locke once had his beginnings as the philosophizing antagonist on a quickly dead sci-fi show. And boy, did he pull it off. In the final episode he outwits the main character about eight thousand times, as well as some angry Native Americans. He actually stole a guy's face.
Harsh Realm, TV show.
Lucy Butler
We didn't actually find out what this broad was, but apparently she's tough enough to murder an armed two hundred pound detective with just a knife. Of course, I knew she was bad *** when she flipped a cop over her head and broke his jaw with his own assault rifle. She's apparently a demon, and may or may not be Satan. I thought Satan would be a dude.
MillenniuM, TV show.
Edward Mars
This guy is one helluva jerk. He's a great foil to Kate, and seems to have a mild sadistic streak, as he enjoys playing their cat-and-mouse game and rubbing her face in all the **** she's done any chance he gets. They beat up on each other a lot, but he is infinitely more bad ***. While half-dead, he managed to jump out of a coma and would have killed her had he not been interfered with.
Lost, TV show.
Sutter Cane
A great, hammed up character from the best actor you've never heard of. Cane is a Stephen King-ish novelist that discovers that not only is his writing driving readers insane, but beginning to take a life of his own. Instead of trying to stop it, he basks in it, delighted in the insanity he is creating. He becomes God, and loves every minute of it.
In the Mouth of Madness, film.
