Great Non-human Villains

[cojo965]

There are a lot of great human villains, but lets take some time for the non-human villains. Mine are:

Grigori, from Dragon's Dogma. Smaug from The Hobbit could belong here, but I find him too generic evil dragon for me. Grigori is far less obviously evil and his motives less certain at the outset as he does create the one person that can kill him.

For a villain that is more even-handed in their portrayal, Hokmuto and Femuto from Godzilla 2014. These creatures are only out for themselves in a world that doesn't want them. Their only goal is to breed and eat, after all, they are animals.

 

[thejboy88]

I say Saren from the first Mass Effect game was a pretty good non-human villain.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Smaug from The Hobbit could belong here, but I find him too generic evil dragon for me.

Is Doom also a generic shooter?

 

[cojo965]

Smaug from The Hobbit could belong here, but I find him too generic evil dragon for me.

Is Doom also a generic shooter?

You've kinda missed my point. There are more obviously evil dragons than ambiguously evil ones, which is why I like Grigori. He, in person, doesn't seem genuinely evil, but the world around him paints him as such, while Smaug (I like him by the way) is as much a bastard as the world says he is. I'm just saying Grigori is a nice grey area as dragons go.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

You've kinda missed my point. There are more obviously evil dragons than ambiguously evil ones, which is why I like Grigori. He, in person, doesn't seem genuinely evil, but the world around him paints him as such, while Smaug (I like him by the way) is as much a bastard as the world says he is. I'm just saying Grigori is a nice grey area as dragons go.

My point was, it's hard to fault something for being generic when it was among the first

 

[Queen Michael]

Galactus will always be my #1. We're talking seriously comsic power here.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Davros, especially the Michael Wisher version, back in the day.

Though, his greatness had nothing to do with his nonhuman-ness, he was able to talk about terrible, evil stuff and make it sound like a good thing.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

There is only one answer here, and it is most...

Logical.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

snip

Ah, but one cannot be a villainous leader with brute power alone, nooo. It requires subtlety, cunning, an instinct for navigating the treacheries of one's own underlings, yesssss.

Spoiler: Would you not agree?

Big ocean. It depends what balance you prefer of comedy and sympathy or pure vileness and lethality I might also nominate Bowser and Demona from Gargoyles.

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

The first answer I thought of immediately was Saren. I just really enjoy how his villainy is revealed and why he came to be so. Plus, the final Paragon dialogue choice with him at the end of the game is just an amazing moment.

Another villain I've always liked, way back when I watched Superman: The Animated Series, was Brainiac. I always thought of Brainiac as Kryptonite 2.0: a piece of Krypton that survived the planet's destruction and comes back to kill Kal-El. It's really cool how no matter how many times you destroy him he always comes back in a different form with a different plan. He's definitely Superman's best archvillain.

 

[Silvanus]

He's definitely Superman's best archvillain.

[spoiler="Have to agree there.".]

[/spoiler]

Brainiac is one of my favourite supervillains. An absurdly intelligent AI, often with countless alternative bodies he can inhabit (or even control simultaneously).

One of my favourite Superman moments of all is in Alan Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, when Lex Luthor has found Brainiac's old headpiece, and it's taken over his body and mind. Lex manages to beg the heroes to kill him, and they do so... but a few minutes later the body gets back onto its feet, as Brainiac is sending electric impulses through the corpse to keep it moving. Dark and fucking brilliant.

Other good options would be HAL 9000 (only in the first book-- he seems to have been rebooted and "cured" in the second), and the entity inhabiting the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.

 

[Private Custard]

The first thing that popped into my head when I read the title......Jaws!

The model failing on a regular basis resulted in a brilliant way to build tension and make him a real threat...simple yellow plastic barrels!

 

[cojo965]

You've kinda missed my point. There are more obviously evil dragons than ambiguously evil ones, which is why I like Grigori. He, in person, doesn't seem genuinely evil, but the world around him paints him as such, while Smaug (I like him by the way) is as much a bastard as the world says he is. I'm just saying Grigori is a nice grey area as dragons go.

My point was, it's hard to fault something for being generic when it was among the first

Oh, but he wasn't. The Hobbit was written in the 1900s, meaning we had stories involving evil dragons for millennia, so he was just more noteworthy for being younger than the others. That and I was going more on his film portrayal anyway.

 

[Auron225]

Surely there is only one correct answer here?

Spoiler: How could you all forget?

 

[rutger5000]

Well you guys don't know me yet, but a few decades from now you'll all bow to me the great demonic overlord of earth. So I gotta go for myself really.

 

[gigastar]

Do cyborgs count?

Spoiler: If so...

Im just a sucker for villans with VA's who overact that hard.

 

[Hero of Lime]

I guess all the different alien races(The Covenant) in the Halo universe, including the Flood. Especially once we started to see more of their society and the like. I just like them mostly for their varied designs, and in the case for the Grunts, comedic value.

Bowser, particularly from the RPG Mario games. Mainly because he is really well written and funny in those games. You actually feel sorry for him since you can tell he is pretty tired of Mario ruining his plans, but he determined to try anyway.

 

[MorganL4]

So, how did we get this far in the list without the obvious answer?

Spoiler: Be Prepared

 

[Gary Thompson]

Scorpius from Farscape is by far one of the best villains ever.

Especially when he's Harvey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOq0T980x8E

There's also Gul Dukat from DS9; before they made him crazy, of course.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Darkseid, because he's pretty much evil incarnate and since Thanos is pretty much a rip of Darkseid, he also gets mentions. I had the 2-issue Thanos Quest until my collection was ripped off (most of the tail-end 70's, almost all the 80's and early-mid 90's X-Men, the entire Infinity Gauntlet, War and Crusade series as well as the tie-in issues... I'm still angered about that as well as a 20,000 point Chaos WH40k fully painted army with tanks, dreadnoughts and some custom pieces...) but I fell in love with the evil that is Thanos because he was "go big or go home" type-evil. The best kind of evil and yet when he found Death cared not for him no matter what he did he gave up his quest and re-evaluated his life's work. (yeah I also had the Infinity Watch series too).
Darkseid gets top spot though for his minor role in Kingdom Come despite it being non-canon. Definitely my favorite graphic novel DC ever put out and I'd love to see an adaptation on the big screen.