The Best of the Worst

This list will be the exact opposite of the last list I made, instead of counting down the worst villians ever, I will be counting down the greatest of the adversaries so despised by the heroes we love.

10. Mr Sinister

Sinister has an undeniable quality thats makes him so great, he is a completely sick bastard. He has generally appeared in attempts to kidnap a given individual, slice them up like a Christmas ham, and use their DNA to do anything form mak a virus to creating the perfect bloodline for future mutants. A common thorn in the side of the X-Men, Sinister is never openly seeking world domination, just looking for something to entertain his sick mind. As a result, the X-Men are rarely satisfied with the results of their encounters because they never know what he was after or if they really beat.

9. Lotso

Lotso is a master manipulator, he has worked his way to the top of the ladder, and tricks newcomers into making up the bottom rungs everytime they arrive. The villian of the latest Pixar film is perhaps the most sinister yet. When Lotso finds himself replaced, he convinces his cohorts that they are in the same position as him, gets them to leave everything behind only to stay with him. Even after having his life saved by the other toys repeatedly, Lotso decides to try to kill them all for no apparent reason. Vile to the core.

8. Loki

Loki: the God of Mischief and eternal pain for Thor and the rest of Asgard. Loki has spent centuries trying to overthrow his half-brother and his kingdom and like a good villian, he always loses. Loki comes closer to defeating Thor everytime and will stoop to any level to break his eternal opponent. From tricking Thor into killing his own grandfather to stealing the body of Thors true love Lady Sif, there is no level Loki will not stoop to.

7. Lucy

Has there ever been a childrens comic ctrip character that was easier to hate than this little skank? Lucy goes beyond just being a cruel child, Lucy goes out of her way to humiliate people she calls friends. Charlie Brown will never kick that football and if he survives his teens without killing himself, he can count on back problems the rest of his life. However, everyone is mean to Charlie Brown, Lucy bullies everyone around her. She destroys sculptures of her beloved Schroeders hero Beethoven out of jealousy on a regular basis, attempts to destory the beloved blanket of little brother Linus even more regulary, and then tops it all off by getting people to pay her to yell at them and call it advice.

6. Bowser

Bowser is a classic villian if ever there was one, he never gives up, and never wins. Bowser has kidnapped the Princess more times than I care to count, and is always this close to getting away with it before having her plunged out of his arms by everyone's favorite plumber. Bowser is also the only villian that is actually frightening in the Mario series. My hatred of goombas has already been stated, but Mario usally fighting to Bowser by getting past smiling turtles, black orbs that bark like dogs, chipmunks with mime costumes (shy guys), and bullets that move only in straight lines at two miles per hour. Bowser is a fire breathing, two ton turtle that is covered in spikes. Comparatively to the rest of the characters he is the greatest villian around.

5. Draco Malfoy

All right Harry Potter fans, show of hands, who loves Draco Malfoy? What? No one? Of course not and that is why he is a great villian. Malfoy, although not completely evil through the majority of the series, is about as big of a prick as is humanly, or wizardly, possible. On top of being, a complete, elitist jerk, he is also an incredible bigot. Draco spends the majority of the series hating on everyone who is not a pureblood and doing everything from sabotaging games to ratting his enemies out to students, to even paralyzing his adversary and stomping on his face to break his nose. As easy to hate as a character has ever been.

4. New York Yankees

There are two types of baseball fans, Yankees fans, and people who enjoy fair fights. The Yankees are the sports equivalent of watching a dragon face of against a pack of dwarves. Sure, sometimes the dwarves get off a lucky shot, hit the dragon with an arrow right in the heart or something, but the dragon always goes down swinging if he goes down at all. Since I started following sports in 1998, the Yanks have missed the playoffs one time. Two times they have managed to lose in the first round. If you do the math, that means they been in the ALCS at nine times in twelve years, capturing the world series title four times and fighting for it two more times. This is not a magical decade for the Yankees, it is a decade, that is all. The Yankees have won 27 world series since 1990, meaning 1 out of every four times the dragon kills all the dwarves. The Yanks buy their whole team, there is no building it internally. Every year the Yanks pay someone new the largest contract in sports history, every year some other hard working team watching the player they love abandon them, and every year the Yanks finish better than that team. The most hated entity in the history of American sports.

3. Sylar

If you have ever watched Heroes, you know exactly why he is here. If you watched more than the first season of Heroes, Sylar is probably why, he was cooler than the series was bad. Sylar is obsessed with power, and has killed countless heroes to increase his own, even when they tried to make him a hero, you were just patiently waiting for the moment he decided to just kill everyone instead. Which he did. Sylar has had just about every power possible, and only ever gets them by killing someone else who has it. Never showing remorse, even while killing his own mother, Sylar is everything a great villian should be: inherently evil, completely in love with himself, and super bad-ass.

2. Cartman

While not a real, conquer-the-world, type villian, I don't think there has ever been a more morally bakrupt and sadistic character in the history of media than Eric Cartman. The following dialouge gives a perfect example of the character of Cartman for those unfamiliar with him.

Kyle: that's not being nice

Cartman: what?

Kyle: What you are doing, that's not being nice, that's just wearing a nice sweater.

Cartman: I don't understand the difference.

Kyle: I know you don't

The idea of morals, friendliness, and considering others are completely foreign concepts to the world's worst fourth grader. Over the years Cartman has attempted genecide (twice), forced a kid to eat his own parents, flooded a town, mocked every disease known to man, attempted to bomb a hospital, and brought back the confederate army. I'm only use examples from the first eight seasons of South Park, there are seven more I'm not even touching.

1. Dr. Doom

Yes, this selection is loaded with bias, as Dr. Doom is my all time favorite comic book character. That being said, I dare anyone to challenge it. Dr. Doom is the gold standard of comic villians. He has that undeniable quality every great villian needs: he believes in every word he says. Ever utterance of arrogance, every time he says that only Doom is worthy, every time he kills someone for crossing him, he truly believes it all to be for the best because he is above all. Doom is the most infamous villian in Marvel comics and aside from quality of villianous character, he has historical proved by actions to be the most deplorable villian of them all.