Villains that really successfully made you HATE them

[Sgt_Jakeman214]

Inuart, from Drakengard. Stupid creepy, clingy, obsessive son of a *****. Learn to take a fucking hint!

Also, the previously mentioned Dolores Umbridge, Whomever in the FFX verse that created Sphere Break and finally:

Spoiler: Silent Hill 3 Spoilers

Claudia Wolf, for orchestrating Harry Mason's death. Can't believe that shit happened off-screen. BS, if you ask me.

I randomly browse a thread, and spot you in it! I forget that the Escapist is bigger than the RP forums these days...

On topic: Jeoffry Baratheon, all the reasons above.
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story II - Gedharm. Guy was a total douche.

 

[Vuavu]

I'm gonna have to say Harold Lauder from The Stand by Stephen King. He is the personification of the worst that neck-bearded basement-dwellers are capable of, such as: whining about his nice-guy friend zone status, extreme self-conciousness to the point where he feels that genuine compliments are mocking him, and finally turning sides because his utterly-depraved-after-so-many-years-as-a-virgin sexual identity was being exploited by the villian.

I won't detail anything he did but the worst thing about his character is how close he comes to deciding to be good instead (multiple times). And he chooses the dark side every damn time... I did almost feel sorry for him at the end though; he had something of a moment of clarity.

 

[Toy Master Typhus]

Barrot from the anime Fractale.

Head general of the temple who hunts down the hero and heroine.

Spoiler: Spoilers

Heroine is the next body sacrifice to the machine spirit so they(Communist-Islamic-vatican group called "The Temple") can reset the internet. However this guy's entire reason for trying to catch the female is because he sees himself as a father and it as his fatherly duty to be the only one she can truely love and he thinks he can accomplish that by raping her. Which he has apparently done sanction by the church because in order for the cloned bodies to hold the spirit it needs to be put in the exact same position as the original one who was molested by her father.

I wanted to watch him die Slowwwwwwwwwwwly.

 

[Zeldias]

So far...

Gaius Baltar from the 2004 BSG. What a lousy bastard.
Seymour from FFX, but he was really just a true irritant.
Joff Baraetheon, as everyone has said.
Theon Greyjoy, for also being a lousy little bastard.
Vyce of Tactics Ogre: LUCT. Really, man; we survive together as war orphans for years and you're ready to flip on me just like that?
The Forsaken from the Wheel of Time. Bunch of over-inflated bags of wind.
Freaking Hikawa from SMT: Nocturne. Was happy to do that bastard in.

I can't think of anything that's ever really got me infuriated, though. Joff made me physically ill at times, and Gaius makes me sigh and roll my eyes, but I can't think of a villain I was ever like "I can't wait to get you." Well, there was Saren, but I didn't feel much real antipathy; I just don't like being smack-talked. I tend to feel that level of dislike for bad protagonists than good villains. Good villains just make me happy, ironically, because it's a lot easier to invest in a story with a great villain.

Actually, just after having written that, I remembered how blindingly angry Cinderella's step-family made me when I first watched the Disney film. But I can't even really enjoy stuff when I get like that, so I just had to walk away.

Now, as for "real life" villains, Hulk Hogan's heel turn in WCW actually made me cry. He was my hero as a kid. His subsequent descent into ignominy is something that weighs heavily on my heart.

 

[MakerofMysteries]

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.

This, so much this.

Most people who watch Death Note (in my circle of acquaintances, at least) usually side with Light Yagami; they argue that he's a force of good in the world.

All right, fine; he's stopped people killing, raping and robbing each other, halted most wars. He doesn't do this out of the kindness of his heart, though; he does it because he's an egocentric megalomaniac. He wants to be God, put himself above mortal men; but he would be a petty, random and jealous God (much like various scriptures account for a supposed God, which is why such a God would earn my hatred and opposition even if I did believe that such an entity existed).

Right, so; Light Yagami, Joffrey Motherfucking Baratheon... who else makes it to my top 3 most hated villains of all time?

Spoiler

Bayaz, I guess, from the First Law Trilogy (a book series; y'know, non-digital medium).

 

[Grahav]

The protagonist of Clockwork Orange.

Zito, the ex-mayor of a city close to mine here in Brazil. In the last 3 months of his administration after losing the elections he suspended basic services in the city (like trash removal), the delayed payments of public workers and sacked the prefecture of its computers and phone lines. First thing that happens when the new mayor comes in this year? Flood.

 

[repeating integers]

The protagonist of Clockwork Orange.

Ah yes, that book. Well at least the ending was somewhat happy (the original version anyway).

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Most recently, Lancelot Ban in Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Trilogy (got books 2 and 3 for Christmas). In a Dark Ages world where even the good guys are given to pagan sacrifices and bloodlust, Lancelot stands above them all with his smarmy ego and uncanny ability to persuade people to trust him so he can sell them out later for more power. There's an extremely detestable fundamentalist Christian priest character in there too, but he actually believes his own hype. Lancelot doesn't believe in anything but his desire to have more. More wealth to buy more mirrors and pretty statues for his palace, more sex with other people's loved ones causing them to break oaths with his irresistable charm and good looks. To quote his own brother, 'No [he is not a worm] he is, simply Lancelot. He takes what he wants when he wants, and does not seem to ever regret it'.

Any of the 'boring invincible villain's of Shonen anime get a bit grating when they're being insufferble and it doesn't seem like they've had to work at all for their power in contrast to all the protagonists etc. working and sacrificing constantly to overcome them.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Umbridge leaps to mind. Pretty much anyone who antagonized the protagonists of "A Fine Balance".

It's been said elsewhere in the thread, but all you Joffrey Baratheon haters are going to meet someone even worse in the persona of one Ramsay Snow. Joffrey is a stupid, vile, malicious kid and budding sadist turned rotten by entitlement and lousy parenting. Ramsay Snow is a fucking monster of biblical proportions.

 

[kortin]

Saint Dane, the main antagonist of the Pendragon Adventure.

Shit, that guy made me mad sometimes.

Didn't expect to get ninja'd with that here...


Uh, let's see. I haven't watched Game of Thrones and don't really intend to ever, so we can rule out jumping in on that circlejerk. I really didn't like Fontaine. So far, I'm really angry at Haytham. I mean, I like him as a character, he has the most character in the series by far, but goddamn. Okay wait, I honestly don't know how I feel about Haytham Kenway. Maybe I'll form an opinion once I finish AC3.

 

[karamazovnew]

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Gaius Baltar from the 2004 BSG. What a lousy bastard.
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Strange, I've never hated the guy, maybe just slightly in the first season, but by the end of the 3'd season, I started to love the dude. If it wasn't for the major character twists in the 4'th season (Tigh), Baltar would've been my favorite guy in the series.

Although I'm not a fan of Harry Potter, Dolores Umbridge has to take the top spot. Great actress... made me want to punch the tv every time she was on screen. Considering how lukewarm I was about the movies, that was quite an achievement.

Here's something nobody wrote about:
- the bad guys from Gantz (the manga). By the 16'th volume you will punch your walls and cry in anger. That series really knew how to make you hate people.
- the soldiers in 28 Days Later. I've rarely cheered when people died, but here...
- Frank from "Once upon a time in the west". Thank you, Henry Fonda...

 

[ikey]

The colonel guy from Fallout 3. Everything about him and the things he did annoyed me oh so much. I wasn't even angry that he (spoiler, but you should know this the game came out what, 5 years ago?) killed your dad, I was just mad I didn't get to kill him. I did like to wear his coat everywhere though, the thing looked sick. Other than him Tenpenny from the same game. I had a lot of fun finding different ways to kill him after seeing this www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwVDgTxr7fM

 

[Zeldias]

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Gaius Baltar from the 2004 BSG. What a lousy bastard.
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Strange, I've never hated the guy, maybe just slightly in the first season, but by the end of the 3'd season, I started to love the dude. If it wasn't for the major character twists in the 4'th season (Tigh), Baltar would've been my favorite guy in the series.

I'm not through season 1 yet, so maybe that's it? He just feels so spineless to me. I love him as a character; like, I'm glad he's in there because he makes things really interesting and exciting, but my personal, non-critic reaction to him is "Come on, man, you know what the right thing is here."

 

[Muspelheim]

It might be subject of debate wether Alex from A Clockwork Orange counts, but I think he does.

And indeed, a few pages through the book, I hated him down to the marrow. Which made the lion's share of the book where he really, really reaps it all the sweeter. Of course, it could've all been resolved earlier if they'd just taken him out the courtyard and administered a neckshot, like I kept suggesting the pages to do. But they never listen, do they?

And that is how much I hated Alex. And why I love that book, since sparking genuine hatred for a fictional character isn't easy.

 

[crazy_coug99]

Video games: Kesler from Infamous. Although he gave Cole his powers with the Ray Sphere, thus destroying a city, killing Cole's and his love in order to make Cole the super weapon he needed to be is just down right wrong. Not to mention the boss battle was a tough to complete.
Television: Since Joffrey is taken I'll go to the Sci-fi realm and go with the Replicators from Stargate SG-1. Nothing says evil like billions of machines trying to eliminate all races in the galaxy. Thanks to the Ancient weapon on Dakara to eliminate those buggers was great.
Movies: I'm gonna be obvious and say Heath Ledger's Joker. Need I say more.

 

[Oly J]

I came into this thread expecting every other post to mention Joffrey Beratheon, and I was not disappointed, I would also like to say Joffrey Beratheon, Cersei can't take all the credit, that one scene in season 2 with the two whores in his room I found genuinely unnerving

 

[Jamieson 90]

Umbridge, or Umbitch as I prefer to refer to her as, is probably one fictional character I hate the most.

Her crimes:

She loved and played an active part in the persecution and genocide of Muggleborns in DH.
She ordered the Dementor attack on Harry in OTTP and had no problems about murdering a 15 year old child.
She delights in abusing children (Acting all sweet when she does).
She enjoys ruining people's lives by firing them and just being generally nasty.
To top it off she's a down right racist and a controlling *****.

 

[Darkbladex96]

Yawgmoth and Nicol Bolas from M:TG

Yawgmoth was a manipulative bastard, so is Bolas...but GOD! I hate Bolas so much more. He is so condescending.

Nicol Bolas is like the only character I can think of who would sound like a jerk no matter what he does. Even if all he did was give you a back rub, feed you ice cream, and say have a nice day.

I have to agree with you on Yawgmoth.

He really was such a bastard and I couldn't believe how he manipulated himself to the top and practically got away with....well...without going into spoilers, killing people. I was actually impressed with how he managed to do it too.

Poor Glacian and Rebbec though.

Honestly, I didn't even know if I should've trusted him or Glacian until the very end, and I have to respect that.