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03 Mar 2015, 7:05 pm

I'm thinking we've all seen villains on TV, or in the movies, that despite how horrible they are, we HAVE TO appreciate them----those who are REALLY good, at being bad.

Please post your favorite person who is the BEST, at being the WORST!! You can post the character, OR the actor.

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Imelda Staunton, as Professor Umbridge - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix": She actually makes me feel a little sick, to my stomach----but, I HAVE TO appreciate what an OUTSTANDING job, she did, acting that part.

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03 Mar 2015, 7:20 pm

Both the character of Jim Moriarty (Sherlock) and its actor, Andrew Scott http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Jim_Moriarty .

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03 Mar 2015, 7:21 pm

Q and Discord/John de Lancie
"WM Clay" :wink: and Snape/Alan Rickman

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03 Mar 2015, 7:24 pm

i think carrie's mom, margaret, (the original 70's version to be specific) did an exceptionally good job at being a nut.

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03 Mar 2015, 7:39 pm

Lana Parrilla as old Regina/Evil Queen in Once Upon a Time. Too bad she's gone good hmph

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03 Mar 2015, 8:29 pm

ViperaAspis wrote:

Snape/Alan Rickman

Oh, yeah, Alan Rickman is unbeLIEVably good, at being bad!! I'm thinking of his character in "Die Hard", as well.....

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04 Mar 2015, 5:17 pm

Lee J. Cobb as Johnny Friendly in On the Waterfront. (Actually, he's not friendly at all. He's a ruthless gangster union boss)

Patrick McGoohan as Edward I in Braveheart.

Agreed with Snape and Umbridge, but I REFUSE to call them professors.

Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris in Training Day.

Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate.

Bryan Cranston as Walter White in Breaking Bad.

Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight.

Sergi Lopez as Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth.

Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List.

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men.

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04 Mar 2015, 5:35 pm

This is a bit parochial, and will not mean much to most of the worldwide WP audience, but an actor called Malcolm Tierney was brilliant as a Merseyside gangster called Tommy Mc'Ardle in the early to mid 1980s, in the British soap opera Brookside.

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04 Mar 2015, 7:16 pm

KyleTheGhost wrote:

Agreed with Snape and Umbridge, but I REFUSE to call them professors.

LOL I hear ya!!

Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate.

MAN, I MISSED that one----I've never seen Angela play a baddie----I LOVE her!!

Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List.

What? No Voldemort?

Jason Isaacs, as Malfoy, Sr. ("You saw only what the Dark Lord wanted you to see." One of the best line deliveries, in cinematic history, IMO!!)

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04 Mar 2015, 7:22 pm

David Morrissey as the Governor in seasons 3 and 4 of 'The Walking Dead.' He did an exceptional job of almost making the horrific things that character did seem almost justified.

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05 Mar 2015, 5:49 am

I never saw movies 5-8. I gave up on Harry Potter by then, so I really don't know.

VegetableMan wrote:

David Morrissey as the Governor in seasons 3 and 4 of 'The Walking Dead.' He did an exceptional job of almost making the horrific things that character did seem almost justified.

I agree.

Bob Gunton as Warden Samuel Norton in The Shawshank Redemption.

Piper Laurie as Margaret White in Carrie. (1976)

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05 Mar 2015, 8:18 pm

I think the best at being the worst is:

Darth Vader - Star Wars movies.
Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious - Star Wars movies.
Walter White/Heisenberg - Breaking Bad.
Gus Fring - Breaking Bad.
The Cigarette Smoking Man - The Xfiles.
Thulsa Doom - Conan The Barbarian.
The Swede - Hell On Wheels.
John Ryder - The Hitcher.

I'm certain there are others.

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05 Mar 2015, 8:38 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

And it turns out, there are in fact others:

Dudley Smith - L.A. Confidential.
Kiser Soze/Verbal Kint - The Usual Suspects.
Count Orlock - Nosferatu.

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06 Mar 2015, 12:05 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

And it turns out, there are in fact others:

Dudley Smith - L.A. Confidential.
Kiser Soze/Verbal Kint - The Usual Suspects.
Count Orlock - Nosferatu.

Okay, just remembered a few more:

Louis Cypher - Angel Heart.
Frank Booth - Blue Velvet.
Tommy DeVitto - Good Fellas.
The Governor - The Walking Dead.

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07 Mar 2015, 5:31 am

J.K. Simmons in Whiplash.

R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket.

Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes in Platoon.

Gene Hackman in Unforgiven.

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07 Mar 2015, 12:30 pm

J.K. Simmons as Vernon Schillinger on HBO's "OZ".

My favorite Best at Worst was Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing on "Dallas".

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