Best Super villain
This post has little to do with the course material and such, but in the hopes of getting some discussion going "Who would you say is the best super villain and why?"
Now obviously there are dozens of interesting super villains, from crazy people to brilliant evil scientists to aliens and magicians. The super villain I like the most has to be the Joker from the Batman Genre. He combines a lot of great evil qualities, he's insane, intelligent, witty, and is an all around twisted individual. The relationship between him and Batman is great because they each helped to create the other and in a lot of ways the Joker is the toughest opponent for the Dark Knight.
This post has little to do with the course material and such, but in the hopes of getting some discussion going "Who would you say is the best super villain and why?"
Now obviously there are dozens of interesting super villains, from crazy people to brilliant evil scientists to aliens and magicians. The super villain I like the most has to be the Joker from the Batman Genre. He combines a lot of great evil qualities, he's insane, intelligent, witty, and is an all around twisted individual. The relationship between him and Batman is great because they each helped to create the other and in a lot of ways the Joker is the toughest opponent for the Dark Knight.
posted by LethalDose at 7:41 PM
7 Comments:
My favorite villian in a movie is Mr. Glass from the movie Unbreakable. To see this character develop throughout the movie is fascinating. He is given the resiliance to make it through life with a debilitating disease from reading comic books. Overtime, he comes to believe that stories of heroes must come from somewhere; that there must be some truth which the premiss comes from. Mr. Glass became determined to prove his theory is correct by finding a hero. In the process he commits horrible atroucities. But in the end he discovers his hero and even helps to train the hero. And in the process he discovers himself to be the villian. And I am amazed at the peace this seems to give him. He feels that he has found his purpose in the universe. Mr. Glass is deffinately is my favorite. His story draws my sympathy.
Norman Bates, from Hitchcock's Psycho. Maybe not a "supervillian" by the (unknown to me) "classical" defintion, but definitely CREEPY TIMES INFINITY! That wierd little smirk hiding behind the innocent, good-natured appearance. [PLOT SPOILER ALERT] A peeping Tom murderer who dresses up like his mother to kill young women! His mother whom he killed because she was too repressive but somehow her personality still has control over him! Creepy, creepy! Hitchcock's trademark: a villian who doesn't look like a stocktype villian but is deadly and dangerous. And yes, the Hershey's chocolate syrup that was used for "blood" is very effective. Scarey and creepy and no, I did not shower comfortably for a long time after I saw it. An effective villian and an amazing director. A+!
I'd have to say the best villian is of course Darth Vader. I don't think I need to say too much more. He's the ultimate villian -- evil-looking, long black cape, shiny helmet, strange voice, cuts his own son's hand off. Everyone knows who he is. I don't think Stars Wars would have been nearly as good if we didn't have Darth. Ah so many lines I could quote right now, but I'll resist...
I'm not sure how much this goes with the question, but my favorite movies are the ones that make you root for the "bad" guys. Ocean's Eleven, The Italian Job, even the Hannibal movies (to me at least). I love how I can watch a whole movie rooting for criminals and be happy when they win in the end and then realize exactly what I was hoping would happen. What does that say about human nature? Don't comment about that here...I feel a post coming on...
My favorite is catwoman from the Batman Genres. For a few different reasons. 1 she is a brillent WOMAN thief. 2 She can be as good or as bad as she likes to be. 3 She has nine lives to do anything that she wants. So in a way she has immortality. Plus I like the the different depictions of her costume and character people have come up with. She is a strong "woman power" character. So is poison ivy but she completely bad and catwoman is on the edge and that adds more to her than any other woman villian.
i would say that my favirat villan is venom from spiderman because he is just doing what he wants to do he has no bad plan to think about he just dose want he wants and it could be good or bad and he is very powerful
I'm going to have to agree that the Joker is the greatest of the super villains. I think that the portrayl of him in "Arkham Asylum" is one of my favorites, in this comic he is described as having no filters as to the information that he takes into his brain. Normal people can pick and choose what information we take in through our senses, but the Joker lacks this ability and this is why he can be a clown one day and a psychopath the next. I also think that the Joker is the best because he is such great counter to Batman. The two share many qualities, they share a great intelligence, they both plan their schemes to a T, but the Joker is only in it for thrills, it's how he gets his kicks, Joker is also funny and laughs it up constantly. This is a great contrast to the stoic brooding Batman. A villain can only be as great as his nemesis.
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