Favorite Movie Villains Addendum

My favorite movie villains list was a lot of fun to make. The entire thing, by my word processor's count, comes out to 16,512 words (or 66 pages if it were a book). Holy shit! But there are so many great villains in cinema that I'll admit narrowing it down to even a top 100 was a Herculean task, so, being a benevolent list-maker, I'll briefly pay tribute to the top ten who just barely failed to make the cut:

101. Xenia Onatopp (GoldenEye)
Bond villain alert! The most memorable of all James Bond villainesses, Xenia crushes men between her thighs and evidently orgasms while gunning people down, and it's difficult not to share in the fun the sizzling-hot Famke Janssen is obviously having with the role.

102. Tony Perkins (Heavyweights)
Hilariously over-the-top and arguably Ben Stiller's all-time funniest performance. He pretty much played the exact same character with a different name in Dodgeball.

103. Edgar the Bug (Men in Black)
A great villainous combination of funny and bizarre yet lethal and threatening to perfectly anchor a great cinematic combination of comedy and sci-fi. Shame about the beneath-shit sequel, though.

104. The Pin (Brick)
A high school noir drug kingpin who commands an outfit of thugs and assassins, the Pin's presentation is also hysterically over-the-top, but nevertheless a real and quite possibly deadly threat for our hero. A solid mystery villain.

105. Count Rugen (The Princess Bride)
The six-fingered swordsman who murdered Inigo Montoya's father and Inigo has made his life goal to hunt down, Count Rugen provides us with one of cinema's most satisfying climactic duels.

106. Boba Fett (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
Darth Vader and the entire combined forces of the Galactic Empire can't hunt Han Solo and Princess Leia down, but you know who can? That's right - Boba Fett, bitch.

107. Phillip Vandamm (North by Northwest)
North by Northwest is Alfred Hitchcock's best and most purely entertaining thriller, and while Cary Grant's hero is the most memorable element, Phillip Vandamm provides solid opposition.

108. Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Just a flat-out asshole!

109. Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street)
Although I'm not crazy about horror or horror villains, I will say that the clever Freddy Krueger is my favorite. Unlike the bland, stoic, and silent Leatherface, Mike Myers, or Jason Voorhees, Freddy actually has entertaining stuff to say.

110. Mewtwo (Pokémon: The First Movie)

A psychic Frankenstein who murders an entire island of scientists and researchers like thirty seconds after being born. He's also powerful enough to create a storm that will destroy Earth! Goddamn!

And now, just for fun, a few more tidbits about the top 100:

Most Represented Franchises:

1. James Bond (12) - Jaws (#98), Kamal Khan (#94), Hugo Drax (#89), Max Zorin (#82), Red Grant (#71), Oddjob (#65), Franz Sanchez (#55), Le Chiffre (#40), Ernst Stavro Blofeld (#34), Francisco Scaramanga (#26), Auric Goldfinger (#10), Alec Trevelyan (#7)

2. Star Wars (5) - Darth Maul (#100), Jabba the Hutt (#81), Grand Moff Tarkin (#32), Emperor Palpatine (#5), Darth Vader (#1)

3. Batman (3) - Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow (#68), Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul (#24), The Joker (#3)

4. Kill Bill (2) - Gogo Yubari (#93), Bill (#63)

4. Die Hard (2) - Simon Gruber (#92), Hans Gruber (#2)

4. Spider-Man (2) - Norman Osborn / Green Goblin (#76), Doc Ock (#16)

4. Terminator (2) - T-800 (#58), T-1000 (#4)

4. Rocky (2) - Ivan Drago (#49), Clubber Lang (#27)

And while Disney isn't technically a "franchise," they are kind of unofficially a series, and have three - Ursula (#74), Scar (#53), and Jafar (#21).

Hmm... all three of the top Bond villains come from the only three Bond movies with "Gold" in the title. Conspiracy? Ergo, the third Daniel Craig movie needs to be called GoldenGold and it will have the greatest collections of villainy in the history of cinema.

Two-and-Up Club Actors:

Joe Pesci (2)
#95 - Harry the Wet Bandit (Home Alone)
#61 - Tommy DeVito (Goodfellas)

Tim Roth (2)
#90 - Emil Blonsky / Abomination (The Incredible Hulk)

#79 - Archibald Cunningham (Rob Roy)

Dennis Hopper (2)
#80 - King Koopa (Super Mario Bros.)
#22 - Howard Payne (Speed)

Jack Nicholson (2)
#62 - Jack Torrence (The Shining)
#39 - Frank Costello (The Departed)

James Earl Jones (2)
#60 - Thulsa Doom (Conan the Barbarian)
#1 - Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Christopher Lee (2)
#48 - Saruman (The Lord of the Rings)
#26 - Francisco Scaramanga (The Man With the Golden Gun)

Alan Rickman (2)
#43 - The Sheriff of Nottingham (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
#2 - Hans Gruber (Die Hard)

Orson Welles (2)
#42 - Hank Quinlan (Touch of Evil)
#14 - Harry Lime (The Third Man)

Jeremy Irons (3)
#92 - Simon Gruber (Die Hard: With a Vengeance)
#53 - Scar (The Lion King)
#25 - Profion (Dungeons & Dragons)

Two-and-Up Club Directors:

Ridley Scott (2)
#99 - Guy de Lusignan (Kingdom of Heaven)
#37 - The Alien (Alien)

Christopher Colombus (2)
#95 - The Wet Bandits (Home Alone)
#31 - Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

John McTiernan (2)
#92 - Simon Gruber (Die Hard: With a Vengeance)
#2 - Hans Gruber (Die Hard)

Louis Leterrier (2)

#90 - Emil Blonsky / Abomination (The Incredible Hulk)

#52 - Lola (Transporter 2)

Alfred Hitchcock (2)
#78 - Bruno Anthony (Strangers on a Train)
#56 - Norman Bates (Psycho)

Sam Raimi (2)
#76 - Norman Osborn / Green Goblin (Spider-Man)
#16 - Doc Ock (Spider-Man 2)

Ron Clements & John Musker (2)
#74 - Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
#21 - Jafar (Aladdin)

Terence Young (2)
#71 - Red Grant (From Russia With Love)
#34 - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (From Russia With Love / Thunderball)

Sylvester Stallone (2)
#49 - Ivan Drago (Rocky IV)
#27 - Clubber Lang (Rocky III)

Penelope Spheeris (2)

#23 - Benjamin Caine (Wayne's World)

#4 - T-1000 (Wayne's World - yes, really!)

Lewis Gilbert (3)
#98 - Jaws (The Spy Who Loved Me / Moonraker)
#89 - Hugo Drax (Moonraker)
#34 - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (You Only Live Twice)

Quentin Tarantino (3)
#93 - Gogo Yubari (Kill Bill)
#85 - Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs)
#63 - Bill (Kill Bill)

Steven Spielberg (3)
#86 - Captain James Hook (Hook)
#73 - The Shark (Jaws)
#41 - Rene Belloq (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Richard Marquand (3)

#81 - Jabba the Hutt (Return of the Jedi)

#5 - Emperor Palpatine (Return of the Jedi)

#1 - Darth Vader (Return of the Jedi)

Christopher Nolan (3)
#68 - Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow (Batman Begins / The Dark Knight)
#24 - Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul (Batman Begins)
#3 - The Joker (The Dark Knight)

Martin Scorsese (3)
#61 - Tommy DeVito (Goodfellas)
#39 - Frank Costello (The Departed)
#19 - Bill the Butcher (Gangs of New York)

James Cameron (3)
#58 - T-800 (The Terminator)
#37 - The Alien (Aliens)
#4 - T-1000 (Terminator 2)

Martin Campbell (3)
#40 - Le Chiffre (Casino Royale)
#33 - Captain Harrison Love (The Mask of Zorro)
#7 - Alec Trevelyan (GoldenEye)

David Fincher (3)
#38 - John Doe (Se7en)
#37 - The Alien (Alien 3)
#20 - Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

John Glen (4)
#94 - Kamal Khan (Octopussy)
#82 - Max Zorin (A View to a Kill)
#55 - Franz Sanchez (Licence to Kill)
#34 - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (For Your Eyes Only)

Guy Hamilton (4)
#65 - Oddjob (Goldfinger)
#34 - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Diamonds Are Forever)
#26 - Francisco Scaramanga (The Man With the Golden Gun)
#10 - Auric Goldfinger (Goldfinger)

George Lucas (5)
#100 - Darth Maul (The Phantom Menace)
#81 - Jabba the Hutt (The Phantom Menace)
#32 - Grand Moff Tarkin (Star Wars)
#5 - Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars series)
#1 - Darth Vader (Star Wars series)

Special John Huston Category:

Directed #84 - Kasper Gutman (The Maltese Falcon)

Played #17 - Noah Cross (Chinatown)

And that about wraps it up for villainy! Stay tuned for the sequel list, coming August 2058.