10 Villains I Just Love
What happened to villains? I like many children grew up on
Disney films and because of this I grew up thinking villains are bad and should
be hated because they are so bad; that was a much simpler time. Nowadays we get
villains that are so amazing, attractive, mysterious and charismatic that its
simply impossible to hate them, now this does make the story more interesting
but it makes me wonder about my moral compass when I find myself cheering for a
villain. Here are 10 villains I personally just love.
Beware of some spoilers.
10 Randy Orton – WWE
From a young age I have been a massive wrestling fan, I once
caught a brief glimpse of a match on TV but I was hooked immediately. Now
forgetting the whole “Wrestling is fake” argument (its not fake), at the end of
the day wrestling is an art, a tale of good Vs evil, A hero (Known in wrestling
as a face) Vs A Villain (Known in Wrestling as a Heel) some superstars can
blend between Heel and Face and be perfect in both Shawn Michaels is one such
superstars; However there are some superstars that are born Face superstars or
Heel Superstars and here I have to point to Randy Orton.
Randy Orton is an amazing Heel he is cocky, aggressive,
spiteful and can do anything to make you hate him. As a heel he has had so many
great matches, moments and rivalries and then the times when he has turned Face
he is bland and vanilla and its really hard to get behind him. Now this is down
to poor booking rather than Randy himself but it’s disappointing to see the two
characters back to back. Give me heel Randy any day.
9 Julian Slink – Blood Drive
Blood Drive was a severely underrated show this year made by
Midnight Grindhouse and shown on SYFY it is a slick, sexy and dirty thrill ride
filled with blood, gore and foul mouthed rants. At the centre of it all is
Julian Slink the charismatic leader of the Blood Drive he is extremely evil and
manipulative always playing people many steps in advance; this is shown when we
find out that main character Grace is only in the Blood Drive because of how he
caused Grace’s sister Karma to go crazy on drugs. Colin Cunningham is amazing
in this part and its annoyed me we won’t get a season 2, I’ll say this now
#RenewBloodDrive.
8 Illusive Man – Mass Effect Series
I love the whole Mass Effect series (even Andromeda had its
high points for me) in the original trilogy we had a sub villain alongside The
Reapers there was The Illusive Man. The Illusive Man the leader of a human
first group called “Cerberus” who plan to make humans the most dominate race in
the universe you can imagine how dark this character could be, voiced by Martin
Sheen this character sounds great as well. The best part of this character is
in Mass Effect 2 you start and work for him and Cerberus. When you work for him
you even start to think maybe his methods are acceptable and that is scary.
7 Sideshow Bob – The Simpsons
Simpsons have always held a big spot in my heart and some of
my favourite involved the mishaps of Sideshow Bob trying to kill Bart. Starting
way back in season 1 Bart thwarted Sideshows Bobs plans to frame Krusty for
robbing the Kwik-E-Mart, ever since then we have seen several amazing and
hilarious episodes where Sideshow Bob has tried to kill Bart. My favourite of
these episode has to be the episode where they parody of Cape Fear called “Cape
Feare”. The element that makes this so perfect is the voice of Kelsey Grammer.
6 Ra’s Al Ghul - Arrow
Honestly I was never liked Ra’s Al Ghul until Arrow, the
Batman Begins incarnation just didn’t have the right level of mystique and the
comics keep him in the background only coming out for special events or filler
stories. In Arrow its written so well and Matt Nable is so dark, mysterious and
I actually believed he was the legendary “Head Of The Demon” and seeing how he
seemed to turn Oliver Queen evil made me love him even more, and when you
consider Ra’s body was never found I hope we see him return.
5 Neo Cortex – Crash Bandicoot Series
Growing up as a PlayStation user in the 90s my childhood was
full of plays and replays of the Crash Bandicoot series, I loved replaying and
re-experiencing the games over and over, these games are remnants of a bygone
era the likes we may never see again; and the thing that made me return again
and again was not the clueless bandicoot it was the Mad Scientist DR NEO
CORTEX. There was just something about him that made me want to replay the game
over and over honestly as far as Villains go he was my first love.
4 Bobo Del Rey – Wynonna Earp
Regular visitors of the Frounks Files will know how much I
love Wynonna Earp a series with balls to the wall action, strong characters,
amazing storylines and one hell ride on the demon express highway. At the
centre of it season one was Mr Bobo Del Rey a demon revenant part of the Earp
Curse that has plagued the family for so long. I started of hating him in
season one but grew too love him by the end which is why I was so happy when he
returned in season 2, cunning, cocky and terrifying I just can’t help but think
“Damn I hate you… but oh shit you’re cool”
3 Jason Voorhees – Friday The 13th
Friday the 13th has a long and complicated
history one that could fill another post like this so many twist turns,
revelations and theories it is one of the cult horror franchises and will stand
the test of time. In such a massive series like this you are going to need an
awesome villain and enter JASON (Sorry Heavy Rain flashback)… Jason is an
ungodly killing machine that has survived so much to stand as a king of horror.
For me I stopped cheering for the camp goers a long time ago and just started
cheering every time Jason killed one of those young campers who had it coming
if you think about it.
2 Joker - DC
He was bound to be here, if you write a list of loveable
Villains the Clown Prince of Crime has to make an appearance, out of all the
major Batman Villains no one has reached the levels he has. I just love his
attitude and humour, when it comes down to it how many villains will just break
into fits of laughter after taking a beating most start crying, complaining or
sucking their thumbs. Throughout the years there have been several incarnations
all that have brought a loveable quirks to the character of the Joker and for
me Joker comes in 2nd simply because he created my favourite
villain… You know who it is right?
1 Harley Quinn - DC
There is my list people now i know i am not the only person who loves my villians so feel free to sound off in the comments telling me who your most loved villains are, if you want to know about future post follow me on twitter at @frounks_ryan
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