Villains that really successfully made you HATE them

[Scorpid]

Light Yagami
Walter White
Moebius *ooo, nice
Game of Thrones villains

Are all great choices SO I'LL PICK A NEW ONE!
Every single asshole (AND OOOH ARE THERE MANY) from Final Fantasy Tactics. I've not seen such a rich menagerie of despicable motherfuckers ever put into a videogame before or even since that games release. So it's difficult to pick a single one, but I can because the one that stands out above them is this guy.

Spoiler

He's not only hated by me but loved, because the reason he does what he does make sense and is absolutely respectable in a twisted way but it's unmistakably corrupt in its outcome, but what's worse is you hate him because he contrasts the main characters ambitions and methods perfectly. For me I didn't even realize how absolutely evil he was till days after I played through the game because that character kept me thinking and I couldn't place exactly why till I gave him the title of villain.

Also if I had to pick a more obvious villain, Liquid Snake. Beating him and his many iterations was simply satisfying after all Solid Snake went through because of him.

CAPTCHA: Go gadget go
Oh I suppose Captcha has good opinion, Dr. Claw was a pretty cool villain too.


EDIT: And all you people talking about Joffrey stop it, or spoiler that shit... Alot of people are only watching HBO series and don't want get that shit ruined just because you've read the books.

 

[CAMDAWG]

Joffrey's a dick, yes. But you haven't seen jack shit until you come across Ramsay Snow (it's snow damn you! I'm not fucking calling him bolton!). Joffrey was a sadistic little shit, but he was to a large degree incompetent, unintelligent, and a huge coward. Ramsay is serious business. He's twice as sadistic, much, much cleverer, and he prefers to do most of his dirty work himself.

Spoiler

Come on, he kidnaps a grieving widow, rapes her, forces her to marry him, then leaves her locked in a tower to rot, just to get his hands on some land, and it looks like he may have been planning to do the same to "arya stark"

 

[Uncle Comrade]

Joffrey's a dick, yes. But you haven't seen jack shit until you come across Ramsay Snow (it's snow damn you! I'm not fucking calling him bolton!). Joffrey was a sadistic little shit, but he was to a large degree incompetent, unintelligent, and a huge coward. Ramsay is serious business. He's twice as sadistic, much, much cleverer, and he prefers to do most of his dirty work himself.

Spoiler

Come on, he kidnaps a grieving widow, rapes her, forces her to marry him, then leaves her locked in a tower to rot, just to get his hands on some land, and it looks like he may have been planning to do the same to "arya stark"

This, so much. It's like Martin saw how hated Joffrey was and thought "Pfft, you think he's hateful? Just you wait."
Everything Ramsay does makes him more despicable in the reader's eyes.

Spoiler

Especially his interactions with Theon. Let's not forget, he was the one (in the guise of 'Reek') who convinced Theon to murder two innocent children, dress them as Bran and Rickon, and publicly display the mutilated corpses to intimidate the people of Winterfell. Then, when the Stark bannermen start closing in, he promises to get help, and returns at the head of an army, turns on the northmen, then slaughters Theon's men too (a double-whammy of betrayal) and burns Winterfell to the ground. And that's just in one book, he then spends the next few months torturing Theon into a broken barely-human creature who will do anything his master tells him.

Oh yeah, and he's also responsible for killing his father's legitimate children, to ensure that he's the only heir Roose has left. Although Roose doesn't seem that bothered by it, treating it as more of a "Tsk, should have kept an eye on him, the rascal" situation.

 

[generals3]

I wouldn't say hate, but this guy has always been the perfect villan to me (I've been trying to kill the bastard for the last 15 years!!, he just wont DIE!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOWw2Iu2a4M

I thought we were talking about villains here. Kane is the good guy! He merely wants us to reach divination!

On a more serious note, I would say Colonel Volgin from MGS3, he was actually the only villain in MGS i watched dying with a sadistic smirk on my face.

 

[Winnosh]

Hojo from Final Fantasy 7 (Screw Sephiroth) Hojo was the real villan of that game Sepphy was just the end boss

 

[Kenbo Slice]

Dolores Umbridge. I've never hated a character so much before. I hated her more than I was supposed to hate Voldemort.

 

[suitepee7]

More recently, the Governor in The Walking Dead. (From the television series; I haven't reached that point in the comics yet).

Spoiler

Seeing his initial interactions with Michonne was offsetting, but then watching him spiral into a depraved maniac was just... ruthless. When he finally got his hands on Maggie, that was it. I wanted to slit his throat myself. No one touches my baby girl!!

Oh god this. Hes a very convincing villain. And i LOATHE him.

When:

Spoiler

She jams that glass into his eye i roared "FUCK YES DIE YOU FUCKING BASTARD DIE DIE DIE" so loud people came over to see if i was ok. NOBODY hurts glen. GLEN IS A BOSS.

really? i thought he was an awesome villain. pretty glad he isn't dead, because now we get to see how he pans out in full asshole mode, rather than closet manipulative asshole. being said, if he had of killed maggie or glen, i woulda changed my mind instantly.

OT: gotta throw in with joffrey, vile vindictive bastard, every scene i see him in when he's on a psycho trip is uncomfortable to watch (props to the beating whores, was probably the most uncomfortable thing i've sat through in the last year)

 

[Angie7F]

joseph gordon levitt in Killshot was pretty annoying

 

[Nathan Josephs]

none in the traditional sense really. cheap fighting game end bosses getting all of my hate for a different reason.

 

[CAMDAWG]

Joffrey's a dick, yes. But you haven't seen jack shit until you come across Ramsay Snow (it's snow damn you! I'm not fucking calling him bolton!). Joffrey was a sadistic little shit, but he was to a large degree incompetent, unintelligent, and a huge coward. Ramsay is serious business. He's twice as sadistic, much, much cleverer, and he prefers to do most of his dirty work himself.

Spoiler

Come on, he kidnaps a grieving widow, rapes her, forces her to marry him, then leaves her locked in a tower to rot, just to get his hands on some land, and it looks like he may have been planning to do the same to "arya stark"

This, so much. It's like Martin saw how hated Joffrey was and thought "Pfft, you think he's hateful? Just you wait."
Everything Ramsay does makes him more despicable in the reader's eyes.

Spoiler

Especially his interactions with Theon. Let's not forget, he was the one (in the guise of 'Reek') who convinced Theon to murder two innocent children, dress them as Bran and Rickon, and publicly display the mutilated corpses to intimidate the people of Winterfell. Then, when the Stark bannermen start closing in, he promises to get help, and returns at the head of an army, turns on the northmen, then slaughters Theon's men too (a double-whammy of betrayal) and burns Winterfell to the ground. And that's just in one book, he then spends the next few months torturing Theon into a broken barely-human creature who will do anything his master tells him.

Oh yeah, and he's also responsible for killing his father's legitimate children, to ensure that he's the only heir Roose has left. Although Roose doesn't seem that bothered by it, treating it as more of a "Tsk, should have kept an eye on him, the rascal" situation.

He also

Spoiler

kills the other ironmen who were in on theon's plan, which kinda pales in comparison to the other stuff he's done, but still.

Apparently Iwan Rheon is likely to be playing Ramsay when he starts showing up (should have been shown already, but the tv series cut out a few highly significant characters until later, like the reeds etc.), which I hate, because Rheon was Simon from Misfits, and he was such a nice little guy. The polar opposite of ramsay.

I have a feeling that we might be in for some nasty stuff from Roose as well. It's said a lot how cruel and manipulating he can be, and all the stuff surrounding ramsay's conception suggests he's not above some of the stuff ramsay does. The red wedding wasn't a picnic either. A less brutal, more cunning version perhaps?

gah, I can't wait for TWoW, dance ended with so many cliffhangers! I mostly want to see

Spoiler

what happens with Jon, and whether or not he stays dead, or lives in Ghost, or gets resurrected. And what happened to Val after he "died". I don't think he'll stay dead, because apparently in an interview, someone asked martin why he killed jon or something, and the response was "Oh? So you think he's dead, do you?". Or something along those lines.

And I want to see the freys get their arses handed to them. Given joffrey's and tywin's death, it seems martin is as good at killing off villains as he is at killing off the good guys. Although I think I'd have preferred it if Joffrey had just choked acting like a fuckwit rather than having been poisoned (probably)

 

[Jarl Gullberg]

Kai Leng. At the end of ME3, I absolutely HATED the bastard. He was annoying, showed up at every turn and always managed to slip away. It felt good pelting him in the end.

 

[Fractral]

Joffrey's a dick, yes. But you haven't seen jack shit until you come across Ramsay Snow (it's snow damn you! I'm not fucking calling him bolton!). Joffrey was a sadistic little shit, but he was to a large degree incompetent, unintelligent, and a huge coward. Ramsay is serious business. He's twice as sadistic, much, much cleverer, and he prefers to do most of his dirty work himself.

Spoiler

Come on, he kidnaps a grieving widow, rapes her, forces her to marry him, then leaves her locked in a tower to rot, just to get his hands on some land, and it looks like he may have been planning to do the same to "arya stark"

This, so much. It's like Martin saw how hated Joffrey was and thought "Pfft, you think he's hateful? Just you wait."
Everything Ramsay does makes him more despicable in the reader's eyes.

Spoiler

Especially his interactions with Theon. Let's not forget, he was the one (in the guise of 'Reek') who convinced Theon to murder two innocent children, dress them as Bran and Rickon, and publicly display the mutilated corpses to intimidate the people of Winterfell. Then, when the Stark bannermen start closing in, he promises to get help, and returns at the head of an army, turns on the northmen, then slaughters Theon's men too (a double-whammy of betrayal) and burns Winterfell to the ground. And that's just in one book, he then spends the next few months torturing Theon into a broken barely-human creature who will do anything his master tells him.

Oh yeah, and he's also responsible for killing his father's legitimate children, to ensure that he's the only heir Roose has left. Although Roose doesn't seem that bothered by it, treating it as more of a "Tsk, should have kept an eye on him, the rascal" situation.

He also

Spoiler

kills the other ironmen who were in on theon's plan, which kinda pales in comparison to the other stuff he's done, but still.

Apparently Iwan Rheon is likely to be playing Ramsay when he starts showing up (should have been shown already, but the tv series cut out a few highly significant characters until later, like the reeds etc.), which I hate, because Rheon was Simon from Misfits, and he was such a nice little guy. The polar opposite of ramsay.

I have a feeling that we might be in for some nasty stuff from Roose as well. It's said a lot how cruel and manipulating he can be, and all the stuff surrounding ramsay's conception suggests he's not above some of the stuff ramsay does. The red wedding wasn't a picnic either. A less brutal, more cunning version perhaps?

gah, I can't wait for TWoW, dance ended with so many cliffhangers! I mostly want to see

Spoiler

what happens with Jon, and whether or not he stays dead, or lives in Ghost, or gets resurrected. And what happened to Val after he "died". I don't think he'll stay dead, because apparently in an interview, someone asked martin why he killed jon or something, and the response was "Oh? So you think he's dead, do you?". Or something along those lines.

And I want to see the freys get their arses handed to them. Given joffrey's and tywin's death, it seems martin is as good at killing off villains as he is at killing off the good guys. Although I think I'd have preferred it if Joffrey had just choked acting like a fuckwit rather than having been poisoned (probably)

I too cannot wait to see them get their arses handed to them.

Spoiler

After the red wedding, I found myself making up scenarios in which Walder Frey was brutally murdered in the most painful way possible. I hate his guts, although I can't make myself hate Roose Bolton much, oddly. Perhaps because he actually knows what he's doing, unlike Robb who just screwed everything up. Also, now I really want Catelyn to die, preferably for real this time, after what she did to Brienne.

 

[Ishal]

Muruta Azrael from Gundam SEED. Essentially Hitler with nuclear weapons.

OH YES! Definitely him. I just finished watching Gundam SEED the other day and yes that guy is completely unlikeable. Everything from his personality, his demeanor, to his attitude towards Coordinators (genetically engineered/modified humans), made you want to strangle him.

For the preservation of our blue and pure world!!!

Funny that the same VA who plays him in the dubbed version also does a character in MLP.

OT: I'd say Lucien from Fable II, Kessler from Infamous, Illusive Man was pretty bad too. Minister Prozen from Zoids:Chaotic Century.

I see a lot of hate for Chaotic Villains in this thread. I find that interesting.

 

[CAMDAWG]

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Unfortunately I don't think Walder has made arya's list, and I'm hoping she gets to do a bit more than hang on the edges of everything. There's also big and little walder's who are with Roose, and are massive dicks as well.

I never really got the feeling that Robb screwed up much. The tv show and the books really portray the cat-robb stuff differently, seeing as most of Robb's actions leading to the red wedding are not seen by a POV character.

Spoiler

In the show, he's just "oh, I must have you now! Screw promises! Let's get married!", whereas in the book, he sleeps with jeyne westerling (I don't get why they had to change her to the other random girl), which is extremely common in the setting, and then is compelled by his sense of honour to marry her, while being aware that there would be backlash from the freys. The show paints him as more of an impulsive child, and the book as a very positive character who made a small mistake and got dicked over massively by people not following an important custom. As for cat, she was just whiny and irritating for most of the time, and I don't think she does kill brienne in the end does she? She kills Pod, but doesn't brienne show up in the last jaime chapter, presumably leading him to a trap? But yeah, she needs to go. For good. It sucks that of all the dead characters Beric brings back, it's cat. Why not oberyn martell? That guy was badass.

Roose just worries me. Like he's not doing TOO much to warrant hate at the moment, but he could set up something else as bad as the red wedding in the future, and that's what makes him a nasty character.

 

[Kitsune Hunter]

This bastard right here, General Sheppard

I must say, he did a really good job fooling everyone

Spoiler

After the nuke exploding in the CoD4 mission 'Shock and Awe' were 30,000 US troops were killed, it pretty much changed him and made him feel that the US was weak and he wanted to restore the USA's reputation as a global power and how does he plan to achieve this boys and girls, by allying himself with international terrorist, Vladimir Makarov and placing one of his own men with him to carrying out a terrorist attack at a Russian Airport killing hundreds of people and then making it look like the US carried it out which led to Russia invading America thereby kickstarting World War III and as a result, Sheppard was put in charge of America defense and given a blank cheque for any resources. So let me get this straight, you caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people just because you're butthurt that the America's ego trip has ended *puts down controller, walks outside and screams "I'm going to kill you, you fucking bastard"*

Of course that's only the tip of the iceberg on how much I hate Sheppard

Spoiler

He kills Roach and Ghost after finding information linking him to Makarov and orders that all Task Force 141 be killed so as to cement his position as a war hero and to also frame Price and Soap as war criminals

It just made it all the more satisfying when you kill him

 

[Fractral]

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Unfortunately I don't think Walder has made arya's list, and I'm hoping she gets to do a bit more than hang on the edges of everything. There's also big and little walder's who are with Roose, and are massive dicks as well.

I never really got the feeling that Robb screwed up much. The tv show and the books really portray the cat-robb stuff differently, seeing as most of Robb's actions leading to the red wedding are not seen by a POV character.

Spoiler

In the show, he's just "oh, I must have you now! Screw promises! Let's get married!", whereas in the book, he sleeps with jeyne westerling (I don't get why they had to change her to the other random girl), which is extremely common in the setting, and then is compelled by his sense of honour to marry her, while being aware that there would be backlash from the freys. The show paints him as more of an impulsive child, and the book as a very positive character who made a small mistake and got dicked over massively by people not following an important custom. As for cat, she was just whiny and irritating for most of the time, and I don't think she does kill brienne in the end does she? She kills Pod, but doesn't brienne show up in the last jaime chapter, presumably leading him to a trap? But yeah, she needs to go. For good. It sucks that of all the dead characters Beric brings back, it's cat. Why not oberyn martell? That guy was badass.

Roose just worries me. Like he's not doing TOO much to warrant hate at the moment, but he could set up something else as bad as the red wedding in the future, and that's what makes him a nasty character.

I just don't like Catelyn any more.

Spoiler

She was still a dick to Brienne and nearly killed her, and we don't know what happened to Brienne anyway. I can't remember, but she seemed a bit weird when she meets up with Jaime. Also Robb, while a great tactician, made so many small mistakes, such as marrying Jeyne rather than the Frey girl, and that did sort of lead to his own death (although that doesn't make me like Walder frey any more). Roose on the other hand seems like he knows what is best for the northerners, who I still think are the people we are supposed to support. Plus he always seemed really badass whenever he makes an appearance. And as for Arya, well, I hope she gets to go back to Westeros and start murdering all the people who made her life hell, starting with Cersei.

 

[Littaly]

Last person to really get at me is without a doubt...

Light Yagami from Death Note.

I usually don't care much about villains. They can be exceptionally creepy and genuinely disconcerting but I never actually get myself to hate them. Yet this little fucker managed that like no-one before or after: he's an insane megalomaniac who is so utterly devoid of all empathy and so caught up in his own egocentrism that he routinely deceives, lies and murders everyone that stands in the way of this insane game of his. He doesn't even stop when it comes to family members or innocents, despite his claims to only rid the world of "evil people". He's by all means a true sociopath. And when a series does it's utmost to present a world that gives such a person real power...damn...that makes me angry.

I'll echo this. I'm not even a huge fan of Death Note, but I don't think a piece of fiction has ever made me despise its villain so much. I think it's the slow crawl towards being completely unforgivable that makes it. How the show starts out by saying that he's got good ends to his means and presents him as a flawed main character, and then slowly, one by one strips away the things that make him redeemable until you just want to see the guy burn in hell. You feel like not only did he betray his friends and family in the show, he betrayed you as well, you as a viewer end up almost ashamed that you were routing for this guy in the beginning.

I'll go ahead and mention Warren from Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well. It's interesting how they made him the least dangerous and least threatening but in many way most evil of all the villains throughout the seasons. You kind of end up glancing over him for a long time because he doesn't wield any awesome power or threaten to take destroy the world. Then when he ends up causing harm, it kind of dawns on you all at once what a swine he really is.

Also:

Spoiler: spoilers for Training Day

Honorable mention also goes to Alonzo Harris, Denzel Washington's character from Training Day. I personally didn't end up hating him as much as some other villains, but that was mostly because I wasn't paying full attention to the movie the first time I saw it. Looking back on it that really is a despicable character that is revealed in a really good way.

 

[Quicksilver_Phoenix]

Seiji Noumi from Accel World. Good God, I have never hated a villain as much as this guy.

 

[RJ 17]

The main character of the movie There Will Be Blood.

Spoiler: As to why I hate him, it will take some spoilers to explain.

Firstly I thought that movie was absolute crap. Three of the longest, most boring hours of my life, it was literally the first and only movie I've actually seen that had me checking my watch wondering when this crap will be over. Why? Because nothing frickin' happens! The main character (and "villian") goes absolutely unchallenged throughout the entire movie. He makes all the right moves, plays everyone else for his own gain. The story arch is pretty much nothing but "rising action". There is no conflict, no adversity by which the main character is tested. There is no lesson learned by the main character, nothing gained from having experienced the story other than perhaps "Greed makes you an asshole". The problem is that the main character has always been an asshole and in fact LIKES being an asshole, so the journey is pointless to him. Really that's the entire plot of the story: "There's a guy who's an oil tycoon who gets rich and disowns his son. The end." In Peter Griffin's words: "There, I just saved you three and a half boobless hours."

Well what happens on the way to the guy getting rich? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nothing in the story has any baring on the ending. You know the rage that a lot of people felt when they got to the end of Mass Effect 3? Saying that none of their choices really made a difference? Yeah, that's how I felt by the end of this movie. NOTHING the main character does comes back to bite him in the ass. He wins, hands down, with no negative consequences (at least in his eyes) at all.

While I confess I do love the milkshake scene, it's definitely not worth sitting through the rest of the (seemingly) longest movie in history just to watch a guy verbally tear down a douchebag before beating him in the head with a bowling pin.

And that's why There Will Be Blood is the worst, most boring movie I have ever seen.