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SF/fantasy film baddies
Xanatic Posted May 19, 2007
It goes Queen - Facehugger - Host - Alien. Presumably some of the aliens are male so they can fertilize the queen.
However I think the interesting villains are the ones that are not through and through evil. I think having a villain who´s evil for the sake of evil is a sign of bad writing. I prefer someone like Lex Luthor in Smallville or Gaius Baltar from BSG.
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Ace Rimmer [pretending] Posted May 19, 2007
I fully agree with that philosophy, but it just struck me that one of the cooler sci-fi baddies might just be the Cigarette smoking man. Not sure if he can be described as greatly multi-faceted, even though he's given many good reasons for doing what he does, and he did have a brilliant episode in season 4 or five where they explained even more about him.
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted May 19, 2007
WOW! Was amazed to find this thread resurrected...
I was watching Sleepy Hollow the other night.I was wondering then which actor has portrayed the best baddy.I reckon that Christpher Walken has covered a few as has Rutger Hauer and Dennis Hopper.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 20, 2007
I always tend to like actors who play a real baddie against type, such as Charles Dance in "Last Action Hero" rather than the likes of Gary Oldman who's made a career of it.
The best I've seen in a long time is Johnny Depp as the psychotic CIA agent in "Once upon a time in Mexico". 
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Powminator Posted May 24, 2007
Does J R Ewing count?
Hannibal the Cannibal?
The Queen/Witch in Return to Oz, which is the scariest film EVER. When all her heads wake up it's terrifying.
I liked Scorpius from Farscape.
There are still real-life villans that kick all their asses though!
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