Poll: Dark Lords

[Odude]

Exar Kun. He enslaved an entire planet (Yavin IV, yes the planet from New Hope). He also took on several hundred Jedi when the Old Republic was in it's prime and didn't exactly lose. Instead of dying, he drained the entire native population of the planet's life force and used it to bind his spirit to the Sith temples there.

He resurfaced 4000 years later to kill some of Luke's Jedi students and put Luke in to some sort of coma-like state. He also converted a student to the dark side, who then went on to steal the Sun Crusher (size of a tie fighter, invulnerable, and more powerful than the death star). Kun was eventually defeated, but I know in the future some author is gonna use him again because of his shear badassery.

He INVENTED the double-bladed lightsaber (don't you dare say it was Maul), could change the length and intensity of it at will, throwing off his opponents, and he could fly. I'll say it again, HE COULD FLY. Oh, and this was before he found Sith artifacts that amplified his power many, many times over.

He did a whole lot more evil things that I'm too lazy to list, so here's a very limited wiki page on him.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Exar_Kun

 

[CoziestPigeon]

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Pleased to meet you.

Please check your free will at the door.

That one.

 

[Yokai]

I have to say Sauron. He was pretty much the original Dark Lord. He's bent on complete world domination--a very suitable Dark Lord goal--and he's willing to go to any extent to reach it. His right-hand (undead)man is nearly immortal, and all of his lieutenants are capable of taking on a small army on their own. He has legion upon legion of pissed-off grunts to conquer things for him, and when he was at full power he could back them up with all manner of dark sorcery as well. Plus there's that scene in the first film where he's casually sweeping entire ranks of elite Numenorean soldiers aside with his seven-foot mace, which pretty well sets his badassery in stone.
Of course, he did make the dumbshit decision of pouring all of his power into a ring, a fact which screwed him over twice. The first time all the good guys had to do was whack off the finger with the ring on it, which caused his physical body to go up in smoke. And then, once he was just a malevolent soul floating around in his tower, some four-foot tall guy with big feet throws the ring into a volcano, which causes his soul, as well as all of his commanding officers, to go up in smoke as well. The only good thing he got out of the ring was the Nazgul, who, while powerful, just had to be stabbed in the face by a woman instead of a man and that was it for them too. You'd think Sauron could come up with a better way to control peoples' minds than making an all-or-nothing gamble, which he eventually lost anyway.
So, the greatest Dark Lord on this list who made one incredibly stupid decision.

 

[Mordereth]

I said "Other", because we need to remember this:

Had Luke not been Vader's son, he would have struck him down. He still had hopes they could both defeat Palatine. Things just went to fast. He didn't want to live in a world where he reigned with no remaining loved ones (episode 3, if it did nothing else, proved that).

But he looses lots of brownie points for cheap-shooting Mace. Mace Windoe could have taken him in a 1 on 1 any day of the week at that point (his broody, aingsty and poor acting phase).

 

[Haliwali]

Big Brother, and his spiritual successor in V for Vendetta.

 

[Ben Jamin]

I like Arthas because of the whole "Lose your Soul, Kill your father, Attack other Races"
Thing hes got going on.

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

I say Alucard as he is actually Dracula, the original dark lord. Also he can heal from any manner of physical injury, transform his body into ANYTHING, may be able to be in multiple places at once, I haven't seen enough of the OVA to know, and can kick Supermans ass all because he is magic.

 

[MasterSqueak]

Darth Vader.

Revan is a Vader wannabe, Palpatine is an old corpse, Sauron gets his power from a ring, and Ganondorf just cant take a hint.

The Day Star a.k.a. The Devil a.k.a. Lucifer (Morning Star) a.k.a. Iblis a.k.a. Shaitan a.k.a. Satan

So evil, one name is just not enough.

The rules say no Satan.

one question? how can Revan be a Vader wannabe if Revan was alive several thousand years before Vader?

Vader was created before Revan.

no he was not. Revan was from KOTOR1 which takes place like 5000 years before the empire.

I give up.

 

[Yokai]

I have to say Sauron. He was pretty much the original Dark Lord.

never read the sillmarillion have you?

Well, I guess I should say Tolkien created the concept. I have read the Silmarillion, most of it anyway, and Morgoth is like Sauron only better. I was just sticking to the ones on this list, but Morgoth beats them all. What with his army of dragons and Balrogs, and his volcano fortress, and since it actually took a demigod to bring him down and throw him outside the universe where he's still hanging out...yeah, he's the most awesome of them all. Hey OP! Add him to the list!

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

I have to say Sauron. He was pretty much the original Dark Lord.

Dracula.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Darth Bane.

I'm too lazy to type out the reason so just read this. [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Bane]

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

I vote for The Dark Lord Chuckles, the silly piggy.

It's pretty self-explanatory,

 

[TheFacelessOne]

Darth Revan. He is awesome.

Then I could say the same for Saren, from Mass Effect.

If he counts.

 

[Yokai]

I have to say Sauron. He was pretty much the original Dark Lord.

Dracula.

No. He doesn't qualify. Either you mean Vlad Dracul, who being a historical figure doesn't count, or more likely vampire Dracula, who doesn't meet the specifications. While he's flamboyantly villainous and has all manner of evil powers, he lacks two of the main features required to be a dark lord: He has little in the way of a massive hard-to-reach goal like taking over the world, and he doesn't have an army of minions to carry out that goal. He's just a magnificent arse who likes to drink blood. It's not the same.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Sauron. He had a giant tower with a flaming eye at the top that watched the world and a horde of evil beasts, not just misconstrued humans.

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

I have to say Sauron. He was pretty much the original Dark Lord.

Dracula.

No. He doesn't qualify. Either you mean Vlad Dracul, who being a historical figure doesn't count, or more likely vampire Dracula, who doesn't meet the specifications. While he's flamboyantly villainous and has all manner of evil powers, he lacks two of the main features required to be a dark lord: He has little in the way of a massive hard-to-reach goal like taking over the world, and he doesn't have an army of minions to carry out that goal. He's just a magnificent arse who likes to drink blood. It's not the same.

He had tons of Vampiric minions, and he does have an all encompassing hard-to-reach goal, turning the human race into his dark army so as to destroy Christianity, or something along those lines.

 

[Twilight_guy]

None. there all evil for the sake of "I want powers. Give me give me!" (I can't comment on big brother, I did not read the book). Whatever happened to villains with tragic and compelling motives?