Not worst as in completely uncharismatically sadistic. Not worst as in an absolute hate sink. WORST as in horribly written, uninteresting, annoying, one note, has a annoying voice, completely moronic motives, or straight agonizing to sit through!
Elon Musk
(You didn’t say it had to be someone fictional. I mean, just look at him!)
Basically a real life cartoon villain from a shitty family Guy clone. LMFAO
He comes complete with the “hey this guys a phony!” character to heckle Musk.
Satan. Loses his job over a difference of opinion and then suddenly becomes the complete antithesis, and raison d’être, of his boss. How convenient. He just screams “plot device” to me.
I said this in another thread recently, but Ted Faro from the Horizon Zero Dawn series was so badly written. He was a one note guy, use technology to get profit at the expense of the planet, lying and dishonesty and being a douchey and thoroughly despised tech bro—
and then I realized, he’s incredibly well written. He’s fuckin’ Elon Musk but American. He’s Sam Altman. He’s all these fuckers, and they’re him.
Elon Musk would totally irradiate himself in a bunker to become an immortal monster. Hell, that’s literally what Peter Thiel goons his tiny dick to every goddamn night!
Ted Faro was a bad villain back in ‘18. In ‘26, he fits in.
They saw exactly what was happening. Artists aren’t stupid.
Most aren’t. Eventually I’ll hold the brain cell for a bit.
My partner holds sessions where everyone passes it around. If you’re in Seattle, you should join us.
He was a well written character in 2018, too, you just weren’t ready to see it.
Anakin
I was a 1980s kid. Darth Vader was one of those peak villains one sees in childhood, the ultimate bad guy. He killed indiscriminately. He had space wizard magic to find you and read your mind and choke you remotely. He had the evil (red) version of the coolest weapon in the universe. He was so scary his own soldiers on the bad guy side were afraid of him. He tortured the princess. For some reason he was part robot, had a deep commanding voice, and even his breathing was scary. And to top it all off, it turned out he was the good guy’s father. Fathers are supposed to be safe, not scary!
I had many, many childhood nightmares about Darth Vader. I watched the movies an incalculable amount of times, I cheered when the good guys beat him, or at least escaped him with their skin intact.
Then I grew up, and the prequels happened. I don’t know if any retroactive backstory could have matched the feelings my childhood mind had generated so many years earlier, but I was at least curious about what they’d come up with to explain who Darth Vader had been and what made him that way… only to learn that apparently the ultimate scary badass was apparently just some dull and whiny guy who somehow was randomly lucky, smart, and magical, lived a really nice and comfortable life with lots of support and encouragement, but was just all “no I wanna be bad now because some easily-resolvable life stuff made me angry waaaah.”
So disappointing.
Oh, I got a real fictional answer. Dominic Toretto. His crew started as simple thieves who stole DVD players. Dom had no problem with Brian getting iced by the Koreans to throw off the feds. He played all sides against themselves and showed real potential as the villain who got away. Stone cold sociopath who drives 2 nice cars.
Fast forward 20 years and he’s a super spy who has reluctantly saved the world three times while driving variations of those same 2 nice cars.
He’s become the anti-villain. Not a hero but someone who stops other villains. There’s also no real person anymore. Dom is just a guy who drives and has a one word catchphrase that’s so boring it’s a joke now. There is no more depth or nuance to him. And since he contractually can’t lose fights in his films there is no chance the other villains succeed.
Yup, after the first three films it’s basically like watching a kid play with action figures.
I still enjoy them, because I’m freaky for fast cars, but that’s about it. Fast X has been sitting on my HDD for years unwatched, lol.
Eddie Brock in spider man 3 comes to mind.
It’s amazing how much they bastardized both Sam Raimi’s Spider Man movies and Venom in that movie.
Lots of baddies in Asian media seem to be completely two-dimensional. They’re bad because they are bad people, full stop.
They must be stopped before they destroy whatever, for no particular reason. Oh good, the goody came along and defeated them. Woo.
Please don’t ask me to name any of these, I don’t read Korean or Chinese so I can’t remember them.
The Hamburgler
Willy Wonka is definitely up there. Slave labour, child endangerment, unsafe working conditions the list goes on. The man is psychotic
Edit: I didn’t read the whole prompt.
suggestion: edit the question so it asks who is the worst-written villain. Unless you really want boring political rants.
