Throughout the many years of Television there has been a barrage of brilliant villains, those people you love to hate. A hero is a hero but everybody loves a good villain. Do they always Win? No, of course not, where's the fun in that? But we indeed love to watch them try. And obviously I was unable to put all of them, but here is a list of my top ten. Please leave your comments!
10. The Man in Black from Lost
Born on the mysterious island, the nameless man who wears only black was the main nemesis of Jacob, the guardian of the island and soon became the nemesis of the survivors of the crash of Oceanic flight 815. After being killed by his brother Jacob, the Man in black was reincarnated as a giant pillar of black smoke. He also has the ability to take the form of any dead body on the island most prominently his and John Locke. Since he is evil incarnated he can also see the darkness inside of each person and become that darkness. He is the master of trickery and deception and becoming a giant monster made of smoke doesn't hurt either.
9. Plankton from Spongebob
Since they were kids, Plankton and Mr. Krabs have been archenemies. His main goal is to steel a Krabby patty from Mr. Krabs. He plans on selling them in his restaurant that has never had a customer. Well would you eat at a place called the chum bucket? Plankton is a super genius and has uses mind control, robots, and rockets. But he has never succeeded. In the end he is always some how stopped by the child like high jinks of Spongebob Squarepants.
8. Megatron from Transformers
Megatron is the leader of the evil decepticons whose main goal is to destroy all of the heroic autobots and rule the universe. Although he has recently been in the movies, Megatron started on the animated Transformers TV series from the 80’s. He like all the other transformers can transform, and while the others pick vehicles, he chooses to pick the most deadly thing of all, a gun. His rival is Optimus Prime and the two of them constantly fight. His right hand man is the sinister Starscream who wants to be leader of the decepticons and tries to kill Megatron on several occasions. And unlike Starscream, megatron actually has dignity and respect prime for being so strong and calls him a worthy opponent, but would instantly take up the chance to annihilate him.
7. Benjamin Linus from Lost
Benjamin Linus is the leader of the mysterious group called the Others. Ben is own of the most sadistic and sinister, not to mention brilliant villain on this list. What makes him different is that he is always calm and always has a plan. When it looks like he’s been captured and he’s doomed, he comes back in second and has the upper hand. Although his overall motivations are uncertain, Ben seems to be one of the people who is critical of the island’s beliefs, but will do what ever he is told.
6. Newman from Seinfeld
Although Newman doesn’t fill the normal qualities of a generic super villain, Newman is just as evil, if not more so, than anyone on this list. The chubby mailman who lives down the hall from Jerry Seinfeld is the goofy Kramer’s best friend, and has been referred to commonly as Jerry Seinfeld’s arch enemy. Whenever Newman enters the room Jerry states a disgruntled “Hello Newman.” Whenever he appears on the show, him and Kramer are always scheming something. Weather it’s trying to smuggle 2,000 cans in a mail truck, lying in court to get out of a speeding ticket, or putting an army of fleas in Jerry’s apartment. Newman’s only super power is making Jerry Seinfeld’s life more difficult.
5. Buu from Dragonball Z
From one of the most world renowned animated action series of all time, Dragonball z, the tiny pink alien known as Buu was easily the best. In his strongest form Buu is no taller than four feet tall, but he is more powerful than 1,000 warrior combined. He remains the only Dragonball villain that has successfully destroyed the planet, and with only one blast. He personally killed over half of the series main characters in a matter of seconds and even took on the main Characters Goku's strongest form. So the candy eating, steam blowing, regenerating goo ball that is Buu makes it into the top 5 TV villains of all time.
4. Lex Luthor from Superman
Besides maybe the Joker, you can’t really find a more perfect and pure evil arch villain than Superman’s archenemy Lex Luthor. Being the richest man in the town of Metropolis, Luthor uses his unlimited money to his advantage. Considering that his nemesis is the most powerful super hero of all time, you have to hand it to him, for a villain with no powers he knows how to play the game. But i guess it doesn't hurt to have an limitlessness supply of Kryptonite.
3. Sylar from Heroes
Gabriel Grey was a simple watchmaker from Queens. He had a pretty basic childhood, but he wanted his life to be different. He wanted to be different than anyone else, he wanted to be…special. But little did young Gabriel know was that he was indeed special. Gabriel has the ability of intuitive aptitude. Which simply put is the ability to know how things work. And although that sounds like a lame power, put with the hunger to be special, Gabriel Grey becomes one serious serial killer. Taking the identity Sylar, he travels around the world “collecting” abilities from other people with powers. And when I say collecting I mean using telekinesis to cut a persons skull open and absorb the ability through the brain.
The reason Sylar does this is because he believes other people don’t deserve these powers, and that he does. And although the show seems to have gone down hill, Sylar stays as one of the most riveting characters on television. Plus if you don’t all the other reasons are good enough to put him on the list, the man killed his own mother!
2. The Joker from The Batman
You cant really have a top villains list without at one point or another mentioning the Joker. One of the greatest comic book villains of all time and one of the greatest TV villains as well. Whether it was from the explosive whoopee cushions to the deadly hand buzzer, the Joker was always prepared to psychologically torture the famous caped crusader and have fun with it. With his classic purple suit and green slicked back hair the Joker was ready to go to toe with even the most powerful heroes, but even managed to bring Superman to his knees.
1. Mr. Burns from the Simpsons
Mr. Burn is the sinister, powerful, and seemingly immortal richest man in the cartoon town of Springfield. He manages the nuclear power plant in is the manager of the incompetent Homer Simpson. Burn lives in a creepy dark mansion on top of a hill that always seems to have a dark cloud floating above it. Burns is cold and mean and shows little emotion. How nice could a guy be who’s catchphrase is “Release the hounds.” He dumps nuclear waste in playgrounds, tried to block out the sun, trained the Simpson’s dog to be a blood thirsty attack dog, has killed hundred of endangered species and mad them in to coats and of course stole candy from a baby. Mr. Burns is indeed evil.
