Just going from recent memory an easy one comes to mind.

Mr. Electric/George Lopez from Shark Boy & Lava Girl.

I mean seriously, it's hard enough to take George Lopez seriously, but as a supposed menacing big bad in that movie it was just laughable. The juxtoposition of this being that Rodriguez has made some of the most terrifying things I have seen on screen. Toby Maguire in Sin City bothered the shit out of me for weeks.

But the fact that even as a teacher he wasn't even menacing, only ineffective and with a temper that made him outburst like a 5 year old which if I was a kid would make me laugh at recess with the other kids, not place him in my nightmares.

Then his villan form is his head in a big tank making it look distorted and he had bad CGI plugs chase around our heroes and run a non-stop ammusement park. Not even a scary ammusement park, just one that was so fun nobody would go to sleep (which BTW was sorely forgotten and ignored almost as quickly as it was brought up).

You don't happen to have one of those shirts in a 2T, my baby should totally be rocking one. (^_^)

Okay, as I start writing this it would be the first post. So let's start it off by keeping it fairly modern.

Pinbacker from "Sunshine" - Here's a guy who's been staring at the sun from a very close distance for 7 years after killing his co-astronauts to sabotage their attempt to re-ignite the Sun, because he wants to be the last person in the universe. So he can, I dunno, stare at the sun more peacefully?

But why is he considered so fucking terrifying? Because he has no real skin (we're supposed to buy that you can build up and immunity to being vaporized by sunlight)? Because he's so motivated? Or because director Danny Boyle never wants us to see just how bad the costume job is, so he puts him in static and at weird angles?

The truth is, all Pinbacker amounts to is an overcooked crackhead who goes around stabbing people. And that's TERRIFYING? Even Cillian Murphy gets more gaspy than normal when he sees him. Chris Evans, who spends the whole movie being a badass who no one listens to but is always right, doesn't even get to face him - he has to fix the damn computer, which results in him dying from blood loss and hypothermia simultaneously. So the rest of the movie is just a bunch of skinny intellectuals running scared from one guy with no special powers when they could have just stabbed him back. Or shot him. Or they could have killed him in ANY WAY you kill a normal person. Except sunlight - he's IMMUNE.

Face it Boyle, you're better served sticking to Indian game shows.

HAHA BEAT YA TO IT MATT!

Torgo.

I am not this guy and do not care if you steal my fucking cloudsong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN08jEthoB0&feature=PlayList&p=1191909EE662B648&playnext=1&index=16

my pick for worse movie villain would be Jared from Laberyth for the only think scary about David Bowie is his wardrobe in the early days. for he was not scary and evil as the so called goblin king in the film. more stupid

Definately Dracula from Van Helsing...he just looked like a flamer and was a terrible actor to boot.

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I so wished youtube videos weren't borked at work, it's been a minute since I've watched that... All in good fun Matt.

But Chad, Bowie was very terrifying in Labyrinth, just not in the intended ways.

Ghostbusters 2 mini-villain Janoz.

Worst accent ever.

Or Jon Cryer's villain from Superman IV.

Nuff said

The Good Mike D.

Least terrifying fantasy movie villian?

It's gotta Lord Voldemort. That asshole got pwned by a baby.

Im going to say Sauron from those rings movies. You know that scene where the ring is cut off from his hand...the dude looks like a lead singer from some hardcore Scandinavian death metal band. To add to the LULz factor...Then he turns into some fucking all seeing eye? The hell?

Dark Helmet - Can you get any less terrifying person? I mean come on... For some one with the power of the schwartz hes kinda a pansy. I mean heck he couldn't even prepare himself for ludicrous speed. Also name me one other villain in the history of ever that has a space ship that transforms into Mega Maid. I mean even a snooty English butler would have been more menacing than Mega Maid.

The Scorpion King from The Mummy 2.

The whole movie was building up to some sort of mean, vengeful uber-villain played by The Rock. We even saw him playing the scorpion king at the start of the movie. I was primed for some horrendous battle replete with much smashing of heads and Egyptian-mummy-magic-style badness.

Then he is revealed. Not a live-action Dwayne Johnson ready to kick ass and take names with T-1000-style invincibility. Not a horrifying monster, not some mystical quasi-undead freaky abomination of nature that poses no hope of victory for the protagonists.

Nope. A criminally badly CGIed half-Rock-half-scorpion turd with stilted movements and a poorly textured facial expression suggesting that he's so irate because he was constipated for the past few millennia.

I burst into uncontrollable laughter, and couldn't stop until a good 10 minutes after the movie ended. Good times.

Gozer from the first Ghostbusters. It turned into a giant fucking MARSHMALLOW MAN!

I would have to say Damon Killian from The Running Man. I mean, it's a game show host. Let me repeat that, a game show host. I mean,come on, who here would really be scared of the movie equivalent of Ryan Seacrest? The Govinator should have just kicked him in the coconuts and ran off with the dancing girls. Then it would have been a porno. But I'm okay with that. (post shortened to comply with the limit)

I'm not sure if it counts, but Daleks. I don't care how scary they're supposed to be in-universe, I'm not afraid of a garbage can armed with a plunger and a whisk...

Gargamel.

The Dude seriously looked like an old balding lesbian. His whole quest of hatred for a race of small blue people makes no sense.

The dude kidnaps a smurf in order to make gold but ends up getting attacked by a whole squad of these small little guys and in the process is made a fool.

So what does he do?
Forgets about his whole get rich with gold scheme and vows an eternal vendetta upon all Smurfs.

Let me say it again he stops trying to become insanely rich so him and his cat can chase around a bunch of tiny blue creatures. Even when he naps one of them, nope no gold. Hell he even manages to clone one in the form of a female.

My god, he could have cloned a smurf for his gold creation and bought as many cats, robes and other items lonely old people want.

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Big Gay Dracula" - aka Drake from Blade - Trinity. As an honorable mention I'd like to cite Parker Posey as vampire in the same pathetic movie. I couldn't take either of them seriously.

What about the aliens from Signs. They could be defeated by water and a baseball bat.

Ewoks. Nuff said.

My entry is double-edged: Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith. Remember back in '77, staring up at the screen after the huge Star Destroyer sucked in the Tantive IV, the droids got away, and Vader strode into the hallway all menacing and crap? Then he choked the captain, and was a jerk to Leia, and choked a Moff until Tarkin made him stop, then blew up a planet, then was all bad-ass in Empire, then almost kicked Luke's ass in Jedi...okay, now things start to go downhill. Luke lops off his hand, the Emperor fries him, and the wheezing Sith lord chucks him down a shaft! Luke pops his helmet off and it's a crusty old dude! Then the prequels showed him to be, sequentially, a whiny brat nicknamed "Ani", a moody teen with no ear for metaphor, and a moody young adult with a penchance for sabering Jedi kids. C'mon! What happened to the Vader we feared through the late 70's/early 80's? He got wussified! Thanks for shitting on such an awesome villain, Lucas. Asshat.

Do you remember back in 2001 how great Lord of the Rings was? Great production value, flawless casting, one of the top-grossing movies of all time... it's amazing that, a few months earlier, the cinematographic travesty that was Dungeons and Dragons didn't abort an entire generation of fantasy movies. A decaying, charicatural Jeremy Irons, the most annoying of the Wayans as a stereotyped sidekick and the big boobed girl from American Beauty did nothing but climb the first steps of the lameness ladder. The one character that made d&d nerds worldwide swallow their d20's in anger was Damodar.

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This affected, fiberglass armoured, glowing blue lipped Power Rangers: season one discarded villain is a token of the dark ages of fantasy movies.

Does Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commando movie count as fantasy? I mean hell it's pretty damn unrealistic. And even if it doesn't count I have to mention Bennett as one of the worse villains ever for any movie ever made. How the fuck am I supposed to believe a fat-Freddie Mercury in tight leather and chain-mail is supposed to be John Matrix's arch-rival. What the fuck made Bennett qualified to even join Matrix's commando unit in the first place? Just look at that sad sack of shit, at least the guy who got blasted taking his garbage to the curb or the Cadillac salesman look like maybe they could have been part of Matrix's commando unit, but Bennett? Shit. Please forget the fact that the movie is like watching a live action cartoon, but seriously, Vernon George Wells is supposed to take on Steroid-Stud Schwarzenegger? Even Flying Jesus is more believable than this crock of shit.

Gargamel 2009

The Iceberg from titanic.

Now hear me out on this one. The contest says "fantasy", and there is nothing about that movie that isn't a fantasy, including the ending, ( who really would throw the biggest gem in the world into the ocean when your living in a crap apartment ). And I say its a villain because it killed the hero of the story.

Oh, it has to be Terl from Battlefield Earth:

http://dirtyharrysplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/battlefield_earth.jpg

Terl is a complete moron, only marginally smarter than the rest of the idiot aliens that populate this turd of a movie. He gets out-thought by a bunch of cave men and seeing Travolta clomp around in stilts in a lame attempt to look like an eight foot tall alien is just pathetic.

Okay, he's not from a movie, so he probably doesn't count, but by far the least terrifying SF villain of all time has to be Sil, from the Colin Baker era of Doctor Who. Take something that looks like bastard offspring of Billy Barty and Jabba the Hutt, give him a simpering, lisping voice and a quasi-gay personality. Hmmm...can we make him less threatening? Oh yeah...he CAN'T WALK! He has to be carrier around on a sedan chair by slaves. He's basically 40 lbs. of anthropomorhic live bait, and he's lucky The Doctor was stuck with the brainless, spineless Peri Brown at the time, because one of The Doctor's ballsier companions, like Ace or Leela or Sarah Jane, would have stomped a mudhole in his squishy brown body.

Hmm, tough one...

If it weren't restricted to movies, and live action at that, I'd have something else. But under those parameters, I'd say Biff Tannen, from Back to the Future. He's just your average dick of a jock, and he gets put in his place easily enough. His only real threat comes from the other three incompetent cronies he has hanging around him, and that his interference might screw up you getting where you need to be for the whole time travel thing to pan out well.

...mind, I'm talking 1955 Biff. 1985-B Biff is actually a little more threatening, thanks to foresight and a handgun.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

Komodo. Warriors of Virture. Defeated by the positive chi... Power... Energy of kangaroo people and a twelve-year-old kid.

Defeated by the power of positive energy. Positive energy, that shit they keep screaming at you every five minutes in those self help seminars. And he's defeated by hideous kangaroo people. And not even a hideous kangaroo person who's also Ice T, no, these are even worse.

After blowing up from all of the positive energy (yes, they blow him up) he emerges from the rubble as an Alzheimer's-ridden hobo, or something like that. My memory's fuzzy on this and like hell am I going to Youtube to rewatch that terror.

I haven't even seen this film in years, but it's burned in my skull so deeply as a piece of garbage movie I hold a strong, emotional hatred of it until this day.

And at least Gargemal had a halfway-evil sounding name. Komodo is the name of an oversized lizard.

What about "The Octopus" from Frank Miller's adaptation of "The Spirit?" Samuel Jackson took overacting and scenery-chewing to a new extreme in playing a villian who had absolutly no character traits other than being a crime boss and the Spirit's arcenemy. But despite being a crime boss, his only henchmen are those fat, stupid clones that he creates to be all the same and never improves upon them despite their continued failures and idiocy. And despite being the Spirit's arcenemy, they tussle like schoolboys having a playground fight (not to mention the cartoonish imagery).

Okay, I need to give Jareth from Labyrinth a better mocking than he got.

1)At one point, he defeats the plucky heroine with a magic bubble. Yes, his most nefarious means of disposing of his foe is a giant magic soap bubble... that apparently evolved from one of his equally magical glass balls.

Brings me to:
2) He spends the entire movie playing with his glass balls. I'm sorry, but could we examine the symbolism of having BALLS made of GLASS? Villainous cahoneys should be made of sterner stuff.

3) When defeated, he turns into an owl amid a CLOUD OF GLITTER. Yeah...

Seriously, the only thing scary about Jareth is his freakishly oversized codpiece, which will one day take over the world.

(Oh, and he's defeated by the recitation of poetry. And then, yeah, glitter birdie.)

a small addition to the jareth pile-on...behold these frightening lyrics from "magic dance"

you remind me of the babe,

what babe?

the babe with the power,

what power?

the power of voodoo,

who do?

you do,

what?

remind me of the babe,

Hey, lay off Jareth. He was great until I noticed that his junk follows you no matter where you stand in relation to the screen.

I'd say the combined might of the villains of City of Lost Children is about as unterrifying as they come. Then again what I can't get out of my mind is Krank crying like the little boy after stealing the Santa nightmare in the first scene. I was honestly embarrassed for the poor man.

It's gotta be the lame ass aliens from ID4, I mean come on, their plan is thwarted by Jeff Goldblume and a copy of mac os 8.1 and they were easily detected by said goldblume, why because they were too cheap to bring thier own satalites to shut down our communications. and even in thier huge battle armor it takes one punch from the "fresh prince of bell aire" to knock one out for hours. and thier quest was to destroy us? how Even the forces of Cobra are more efficient and scarier!

My vote goes to Poison Ivy from Batman & Robin, for several reasons. She’s a hot redhead in a green leotard who fights good guys with plants, toxic kisses and magic love dust. Be afraid. Be very afraid. (I’m probably opening a can of worms here with a “This villain is least terrifying because she’s teh hot” argument. And I’m okay with that).

Also, she’s not Bane or Mr. Freeze. When you’re sharing time with other villains, your terror-factor is probably going to go down a little. Now, some of you might argue that Mr. Freeze was less terrifying, because he was glittery and kinda glowed in the dark, and how could you be terrified of a nightlight? Well, while sitting through Batman & Robin, I was terrified anytime Mr. Freeze was on screen because that meant he was going to say the worst thing ever. Whatever he had previously just said WAS the worst thing ever, and whatever he’s saying now is more painful and IS the worst thing ever. He scared my ears. (You’re not sending me to the cooler! Ice to see you! Cool party!). Ouch!

I was glad when Poison Ivy was on screen because whatever terrible puns she had about tending to her garden, they were nowhere near as bad as whatever Arnie was saying. When you’re duking it out to see who can make me cry less with your stupid wordplay, then you are the least terrifying villain. And also she’s hot.

Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy disappointed me, because I've just never thought she was all that hot.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

My pick would probably be Jafar from the godawful Sinbad and the Seven Seas movie.

So Jafar manages to depose the king and claim the throne. So what does he do? He takes the five crystals that are his weakness and sends them to random far away places all over the earth. This makes little sense anyway, seeing as his "powers" consist of mind controlling the princess, using a hidden trap door on Sinbad, and having pointy fingernails and modern plastics in his secret lab.

So Sinbad sails around the earth collecting the crystals while Jafar slowly drains the princess of energy in his plastic contraption and watches Sinbad through his magical seeing ball, and the rest of the movie consists of Sinbad getting the crystals while Jafar runs around uselessly. Even better is the fact that Sinbad knows that Jafar is watching him, and taunts him whenever he gets a new crystal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJZuPJZpIyw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsTIVTes-GQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZJbVrj9XNQ

He even lets himself get pushed around by his female henchwomen, who just up and abandons him for the finale, where he runs like a bitch and gets dropped down his own trapdoor.

The Black Knight, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno

Sure, when you first see him, he seems somewhat scary, as he's kicking some loser's ass. Then, a few minutes later, all his limbs have been cut off.

His most terrifying attacks: bleeding on you, and threatening to bite your legs off.

John Travolta in Battleship Earth. Seriously? A seven foot tall white Rastafarian with a speech impediment? He's so lame he got overthrown by a bunch of illiterate slaves and a guy who spent a few weeks home schooling himself on a futuristic Leapfrog Learning Pad. Whoopee for the advanced alien race...the humans didn't even need a Mac to beat you, they did it with salvaged 'antique' weapons. He's such a poor villain that his deputy betrays not only him, but their entire race when he chooses to side with the humans instead of sticking by John's side. The whole movie is a flop, but the worst part is the lame villain supposedly in charge of it all.

About Smith punching out the alien, what do you expect? They were definitely up to no good and had started making trouble in his neighborhood.

My entry is Kesslee from Tank Girl. He leads Water & Power which controls the world by rationing water after an asteroid changes the atmosphere, preventing rain for 11 years. He is attacked by the Rippers (genetically enhanced super-soldiers who were infused with kangaroo DNA) and has part of his body rebuilt with robotics. This leads to the end where he sticks the girl TG is trying to rescue in a pipe with a hose in it to attempt to drown her. TG slows him down with beer, dumps water on him to disable his robotics, and then stabs him with a device that sucks all the moisture out of him.

The worst live action fantasy villain is Mephistopheles as played by Peter Fonda in Ghost Rider. He's loosely based on Marvel Comics' version of The Devil, Mephisto. In the comics, Mephisto looks like a ruddy Willem Dafoe with crazy hair in a loincloth and cape or a cycloptic crimson serpent. In the movie they adapted this by having Peter Fonda look like ... Peter Fonda. That's disappointing, but not necessarily a deal-breaker. Unfortunately, Peter Fonda also delivers all his lines like he's Peter Fonda. This prevents the character from being the least bit scary, sinister, evil, or threatening. No one would ever mistake this character for Satan unless dialogue outright stated he was, but even then audiences are dubious. Louis Cyphre he is not. He does have a skull-headed pimp cane, but it’s akin to giving a two-toed sloth a scimitar.
While Jareth may be fey, he at least is a powerful Goblin King. I don’t know what this vagrant’s version of Mephistopheles has going for him save incompetence. He has to rely on Ghost Riders like Sam Elliot to collect the souls of the damned for him for some unexplained reason. The first thing we learn from the film’s opening flashback is that Sam Elliot betrays him. Getting gyped by your own minions at the start of the film is no way to inspire fear. Instead of taking revenge on Elliot and reclaiming the souls he’s owed, Mephisto completely forgets this plot point for a good 150 years.
He later takes Johnny Blaze’s soul in return for curing his dad’s cancer. Ironically, Blaze’s dad dies soon thereafter in a motorcycle crash. Of course, since Blaze’s dad was a professional stunt cyclist, the odds were excellent that this sort of thing was bound to happen regardless of Satanic intervention. This is the zenith of his evil and it’s still the first act. The deal also has the side effect of making Johnny Blaze immortal, so it’s even harder for anyone to stay miffed at Meph.
Mephisto’s son, Blackheart, is planning a coup based on the flashback dangler. This would amp things up if Blackheart looked like the Rasta satyr made of stalagmites as he does in the comics, but, in the most depressing turn of events, he looks like that abstinence vampire with the nancy-boy hair from Twilight. Even Mephistopheles’s demon seed can’t produce an intimidating villain! There’s no reason why any Lord of the Underworld wouldn’t be able to extinguish this emo enfant terrible and his elemental toffs like dollar store birthday candles, yet Meph can’t. Instead he imbues Johnny Blaze with Ghost Rider powers to defeat the upstarts in a matter of seconds. Why couldn’t he have just cut out the middleman?
In the end, Ghost Rider prevents Meph from finally collected the souls of the damned Sam Elliot stole from him. Mind you, these are the souls of evil people who bargained to have their spirits rot in Hell fair and square, yet his own underling prevents Meph from upholding his end of the Faustian bargain. Meph tries to barter for the souls he rightfully owns by releasing him from the curse of being Ghost Rider. Blaze turns him down, so he can continue to enjoy immortality, a bunch of supernatural powers, and the inexplicable ability to nail Eva Mendes despite being played by Nic Cage. So Mephistopheles does … nothing? Yup, there are zero repercussions for Blaze’s defiance. He doesn’t even try to take back the Ghost Rider powers.
By now you’re thinking, “Mephistopheles doesn’t belong in this contest; he’s clearly not a villain.” HE’S MEPHISTOPHELES! OF COURSE HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE THE VILLAIN! Mephistopheles is the textbook case of an epic fail. He’s the Devil, but he’s continually screwed over by his underlings and son plus some sinners who don’t have to go to Hell now? He’s completely ineffectual for an omnipotent being. Isn’t the whole point of the Satan archetype to screw over people with their own shortcomings? Here, he gives people superpowers for ruining his immortal livelihood. This irony does not compute. The guy who botched Daredevil wouldn’t know how to cast The Devil in a revisionist light if I lent him “Master and the Margarita.” Ghost Rider’s Mephistopheles is not fit to lick Tim Curry’s hooves.

I say Gus Gorman. The guy made a computer that could do anything. It could hack anything. It could control the entire earths weather. Hell, he made a hurricane in Columbia just because they wouldnt give him coffee. It made some crazy broad cyborg woman. It even managed somehow to make some fake rock that split a guy into two people, then those two people proceeded to fight each other.

Gus Gorman sounds like a crazy mad scientist to be feared, but no, hes a fumbling idiot who is stupid and impulsive. Not too terrifying at all, though he would be a great comedian.

*puts head down in shame* goddamn superman 3 sucked

Seeing as how my first entry wasn't by the rules I'll give this one more shot.

Ivan Ooze. Yes the villain from the Power Rangers movie. His appearance can be summed up as a mixture of The Grandpa from the Munsters, with a little bit of Frank Langela, Skeletor thrown in and a hint of Gargamel to top it off. So he's a crotchety purple senior citizen who wants to rule the world.

His plan to rule the world makes absolutely no sense what so ever. Let me just lay it out in steps so you can understand.

1. Destroy the Power Rangers- You'd think by destroy it would mean kill right? Well no. See Ooze simply has them depowered by destroying there command center and showing everyone that Zordon is really a crusty old man in a tamale. That's it, no need to kill them. Just depower them.

2. Sell his Ooze at a local theme park so it can take over the bodies of unsuspecting parents and make them all become construction worker zombies.

3. Awaken these huge birds to guard the construction workers and replace putty patrolers.

4. Have zombie construction worker parents dig up giant bad zord's to take over the world.

5. Become one with bad zords and take over the world by I guess smashing shit while marketing more Oooze.

You know how he could have fixed this? Killed the fuckin Power Rangers and market the Ooze. A whole city bought that shit. It's obvious the stuff sells. So market that crap and brainwash the Earth while not having to worry about a bunch of Teenagers you let live.

but no, mother fucker did it the hard way. The way an old ass man past his prime would do it.

Then the power Rangers became Ninjas and kicked his ass or something like that.

I'm gonna go with Baron Harkonnen and family from the DUNE movie. Granted, I haven't read the books so there may be some dimension here I'm missing. But Harkonnen was defeated by a fucking premature toddler!

Now, it's pretty stupid to go into the villain business if those you oppose can conjure up a magical voice that makes you do whatever the hell they say. Harkonnen did nonetheless, despite being an ugly fat fuck who needs a special suit to levitate him around because he's too lazy to walk. And for all his power and influence in the galaxy, he apparently can't find a single competent dermatologist.

But if you're going to be such a villain, do not have an easy-to-pull plug on your suit that a bald walking infant can just walk up to and pull, sending you into the mouth of a sandworm. I mean, sure, it's hard to predict a walking psychic infant, but your defenses ought to be able to withstand tougher things.

whatshisface out of the eragon movie. nevermind that the movie as a whole was low budget lord of the rings fanfic, this guy (i forget his name) just sat on a throne leering n glaring evilly at the camera and his lackeys. we're told throughout the movie how evil and killy this guy is, but we never seem him actually do anything to warrant our fear. also, his eeevil army is outfitted in bright orange

Also, Ad'har Ru'afo from Star Trek: Insurrection was downright terrible.

I'm not going to get into why. If you've mercifully blotted the movie from memory, just consider the fact that his name is Ad'har Ru'afo, and the scariest thing about him is that he's an old alien who's had lots of plastic surgery.

Writers like set pieces. But woe to the writer who bases a movie around a set piece or two without looking into the motivations of the characters and other important things – like plot. This situation occurred with Star Trek: Generations in 1994. The screenwriter(s) had two things to accomplish:
1. Kill off Kirk.
2. Have Data say “Oh, shit!”
Everything else was gravy.
Case in point: Dr. Tolian Soran.
The main villain in ST:Generations wasn’t like the great Khan Noonian Singh, who was a raging storm of hate and anger directed towards Captain Kirk.
Dr. Soran was a scientist who wanted to go to his “Happy Place”.
Fuck you Star Trek screenwriter(s).
Everything else was dull setup for an extended (and boring) trip through the “Happy Place” where it’s Christmas every day and everyone you’ve ever loved is riding carousels, frying ugly-ass eggs, and chopping wood.
Again – fuck you Star Trek screenwriter(s).
Dr. Soran was poorly developed and only existed to build a bridge on some planet so that Kirk could fall off of it and die.
Seriously – fuck you Star Trek screenwriter(s).

Naturally it's not easy to be intimidating when your primary adversary is an indestructible, virtually omnipotent alien wearing dicktogs over his unitard and shoots fire from his baby blues, but Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor takes failure to a new level. On the surface it may seem he has everything he needs to take on the man of steel.
Bumbling goons? Check, I mean who wouldn't choose Kumar and a gay aussie ex-rugby player to do his dirty work for him.
Phony damsel in distress? Check, how could Supes resist a hot flushing 40-something whose art of seduction is as subtle as her bulimic purges.
800 ft luxury liner fitted with walk in wig room? Check, because the winds of the high seas necessitate a copious supply of fresh toupees.
But none of this can compete with the fact his greatest villainous act is to sleaze his way into the bed chamber of little old ladies to swindle them into handing out cash. Bangin' rich granny's is really more a premise for FFF than a plan to combat the strongest man in the galaxy. If you have a need for pudgy guys with unconvincing wigs and an unhealthy rapport with the golden girls, you'd be better off calling Dame Edna. At least she won't be just phoning it in, and you won't need to shoehorn comedy relief into the script with a sledgehammer.

King Galbatorix as played by John Malkovich in the epically bad movie Eragon. Sits on his ass the whole movie and says stuff like "I suffer without my stone. Do not prolong my suffering." The only time he gets up is at the end to reveal a sequel that will never happen.

General Greivous.
When Revenge of the Sith starts there's this kick ass space fight which makes you think 'hey maybe this one won't be so bad'. Then he came. A wheezing coward who runs at the first sign of trouble. Sure he has four arms that twirl lightsabers around but Obi Wan lazily cuts 2 of them off like it's no big deal. Oh and the name Grievous, Jesus Christ Lucas seriously fuck you.

My vote would be for the Nemesis in the 2004 movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

One of the few things they actually took from the game series was the Nemesis. He's a super zombie with a big leather trench coat who hunts you down with a rocket launcher. Amazingly, he was not a CG creature, but rather a guy in a rubber suit...and it looks like a guy in a rubber suit. Or like a Muppet, with its fur and flesh burned off, wearing an S&M gimp suit. Oh, and they made it so that the Nemesis was actually the protagonist's love interest from the first movie, so of course he remembers his humanity and turns good at the last moment. Boo, hiss, etc.

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg from The 5th Element. Is with out a doubt the lamest villain ever. Just look at the facts he is still rocking the flight of seagulls hairstyle in the future, wears half of a salad bar sneeze guard on the bald side of his head. Takes orders from "the great evil" that is actually just a pissed off moon and gets taken out by his own people. I mean his biggest problem is a tie up to a girl in a stripper outfit with jelly suspenders and his thought process that hiring the Vogons' stupider cousins was a great idea.

Did I mention he had a flight of seagulls haircut a a sneeze guard on his head?

It is easily Luke Skywalker, enemy of the established government. This whiny farm boy is introduced to us as being careless with the property of others and is defiant to his elders, whom have adopted him even though there is no blood relation. Against their wishes, he leaves home and throws his lot in with a pirate and attacks a government detention area in order to release a major leader of the enemy forces. He then throws in with the rebel terrorists and takes the kill shot that destroys the most expensive piece of government weaponry ever built, murdering everyone aboard the space station and costing the taxpayers an unmeasurable amount of money. He continues to destroy property of the empire in an attempt to protect his frozen rebel den and eventually seeks help from the greatest enemy of the Republic, Yoda himself. With his new found (banned) knowledge he confronts Emperor Palpatine's right hand man, Lord Darth Vader! During this meeting Skywalker plants the seeds of dissension in Vader's mind, despite Luke's whiny presentation. Shortly after, he takes time from his busy anarchist ways to stick his nose into a personal business dispute and almost gets all of his friends killed in the process. Next, he takes a break to visit Yoda again, who has slowly wasted away waiting for Luke to return for a visit. He uses this opportunity to scold the ghost of his dead mentor Ben Kenobi, never taking the time to say even thank you for giving him a new start on life. By the time Luke is ready to attack the established government again, he almost kills the Emperor, endangers his sister by revealing his greatest personal secret, and then finishes manipulating Darth Vader by convincing him to turn against his master. Oh yes, there was more whining and pleading involved all through this. In the end, Luke single-handedly destroys the structured government and ends any hope for the prophecy of balance in the force. As a special bonus, his distraction of the government's top leaders allows his friends to annihilate a second space station, the debris of which would rain down on the forest moon of Endor, blocking out the sun, destroying the ecosystem and guaranteeing a holocaust of the moon's indigenous life.

Ronny Cox, in RoboCop and Total Recall. Sure, he talks tough, but once his hired thugs/robots are out of the way he turns out to be a complete pussy in both movies.

satur8, those were some excellent points. :) It was also pointed out in Clerks that thousands of simple construction workers were also wiped out by the insidious acts of the Rebellion.

Topher Grace as Venom in Spiderman 3. Maybe, I should just say the Symbiote in general because "bad Peter" was a laughably bad villain too. But with Topher, the ridiculous fangs, his 'menacing lines'... yeah right... you're still Eric Foreman, the wussy kid from "That 70's Show". There is no way I could take him seriously in that movie.. I was more overwhelmed by him as Eddie Brock than as Venom. I was laughing too hard when he was 'face-exposed' Venom for almost the entire final part of the movie.

Maester Seymour from Final Fantasy X. It's hard to be afraid of someone with that little hairdo. I know other characters have spikey hair, but his literally breaks physics. Plus, The dude has a pot-belly. Come on, Nomura! Who can take a pot-bellied, silly-haired monstrosity seriously, especially when you kill him, like, four times throughout the game? And that's just his physical appearance. His main goal? To become Sin. His whole purpose in life is to be the bad guy, which he failed to accomplish. So, to sum it up, we've got a silly looking failure who's summon is far more powerful then he is. Plus, who name's their kid Seymour?

Shgubgub: Darth Vader
Hugo: Bruce Payne as Damodar - Man that guy chews scenery in every film he's ever been in Passenger 57, Highlander: Endgame, Dungeons & Dragons, and lets not forget his triumphant return for Dungeons & Dragons II.
THE PR0F3550R: Bennet, Bennet, Bennet. Trying so hard to be straight, he went so butch he ended up back at flaming.
http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/reviews.cfm/id/774/back/80/page/commando.html
Evil Monkey Pope: And they gave Mephisto Dracula's hairdo from Oldman's Dracula. Satan needs a better stylist.
Deathninja McSex: General Grevious, Good old Obi Wan dismembering a chronic asthmatic and then shooting a couple of blaster bolts straight to the lungs.
Satur8: Yeah, rebel scum. And all this time he's been hailed as a hero.
Scortia: One more reason that Spiderman III is totally unwatchable.

The tomatoes from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, they can be destroyed by a) a knife, b) a sword, c) music. Yes you heard me right, FUCKING MUSIC! What's up with that? The lamest part is that they can't even get around on their own, they need wooden platforms to ROLL DOWN HILLS WITH! At least the Martians from Mars Attacks! could easily kill you with their death rays and such, but tomatoes are just lame.

Damnit, Arsenal beat me to The Fifth Element. That whole movie is like a video game with great graphics, nice controls, and cool levels; except all the power-ups are right there in front of you when you start, the bad guys have like negative AI and will kill themselves if you hang back long enough, and the scariest thing about the big boss is his haircut.

I'll go with John Travolta in the Punisher: he was a halfway decent bad guy in Broken Arrow, but just couldn't pull it off there. And his death scene was pretty laughable.

FLOCK Of Seagulls, DAMMIT! FLOCK! NOT FLIGHT!

Bruce Campbell....... the only guy to defeat Spiderman/Peter Parker in all three movies.

As far as villians go, Zorg was one of the best, so shame on all of you for besmirching his honor! Futuristic movies have always shown that regardless of how bad a fashion was it will eventually come back again and again. If it's not salad bar headcaps it'll be zubaz pants. So please don't hate the player.

I'd also like to change my vote from the Ewoks to Arnold's version of Mr Freeze. In fact just about every character ever played by Arnold could be on this list.

Chuck De Nomolos as played by Joss Ackland in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. Why you ask? Well because he is from the future, and caused the very events that produced he future.
i cant even try to explain how ass backwards time travel worked in this movie but for fucks sake if your a villain with time travel capability's why not just kill them as infants? Or if you cant kill a baby kill their father just before he gets laid?

@ArtF

Your right it is flock, I was on the phone ordering tickets to the flight of the concord's show while typing so my barin wires crossed. My Bad. Still bad haircut

So, I was despairing because my villains are from a TV series, but then I realized that the pilot of said series was a made-for-TV movie. Oooh, snap!

So, I can forgive that Stargate: Atlantis has all sorts of goofy sci-fi cliches in it (what's that? Your guide to distant lands and people is a vaguely tribal mystic from a simple yet noble culture of hunters whose primary characteristics are wearing leather, speaking in awkwardly correct grammar, and lots of hippie jewelry? Who uses Proud and Ancient warrior traditions of martial arts? *chug*), because I still have goodwill towards the franchise from SG-1. What I *can't* tolerate are the villains, the Wraith, whose every aspect makes them a comical parody of lame villainy.

Even their *name* sucks, for cryin' out loud. The "Wraith"? Why not just call yourselves The Evil Ones or something? The Spookies?

Anyway, you'd think that a race that has an insatiable hunger that can only be satisfied by feeding off of living humans might be scary, but oh god no: first, they don't eat them, they "drain their life force," which somehow makes their victims age really fast (they have little miniature Machines from The Princees Bride in them, maybe?). And they do this by placing the palm (where their feeding orifice is, again for no damn reason) on the chest, an action which inexplicably requires leering and snarling at your victim first, and then theatrically raising your feeding hand up and slamming it theatrically onto your victim. This gives the protagonists ample time to shoot them, even if they're the intended victims.

Their ships look okay, but the sound they make just sounds like some dork in the sound studio wailing on his guitar really hard (which, after reading too much of http://www.realultimatepower.net/, means that I expect them then to pop like a million boners, and/or explode).

They dress like some reject goth kiddies from 1992, complete with bleached long hair, metalmouth (which I guess is supposed to be sharp, clear teeth, for which they have no use because they eat from an orifice in their GODDAMN HANDS), and leather trenchcoats.

Their weapons just look like big glowing dildos, which are too big even for their super-soldiers (despite that
said soldiers are supposed to be enormous), who just end up carrying them under their arms, which I guess is why they can't hit for shit.

And last, everything they do has to be accompanied by snarling, leering, eye-bugging, and growling in their synth voice. Really, didn't that stupid Scarecrow from Jeepers Creepers do this? Why don't they just go all the way, and start showing up outside Atlantis's windows, pointing at people and licking the glass?

That would be *totally* terrifying. For a retarded eleven-year-old, watching this sitting in his feces-laden diapers in the group home. For everyone else, it's just stupid.

Now I have to go back to watching this shit, and bashing my head in with a scotch bottle. The point is, the Wraith suck, the end.

PS: you have to take the comma out from that link to make it work. Sorry.

I'd have to say The Dredge from Titan A.E..

Ok they blow up planet Earth, yet fail to kill the one guy on the planet who knew how to create other life-sustaining planets using a spaceship that looked like it could have been the Death Star’s autistic cousin. I mean that’s pretty lousy intel for an ENTIRE RACE of ruthless, super intelligent, energy-based beings. I mean that‘s the equivalent of having unprotected sex with some chick then shoving a handful of birth-control pills up her vagina, walking away and hoping for the best; and during the whole ordeal you were in possession of a “no-baby” ray gun. Then you walk away thinking that this situation could not possibly bite you in the ass in the future.

Secondly even though they have an intense hatred for humans, they manage to recruit one who was none other the best friend of the dude who built the insta-planet spaceship. After their spy befriends the dude’s son who happens to have some sort of laser tattoo map on his wrist, the Dredge simply bide their time and eventually allow their spy to realize what he’s doing is bad, and in turn he turns on the Dredge. I mean since they slaughtered an entire planet simply trying to kill all existing humans, it does not sound very logical that they would A) recruit and/or barter with any human, ESPECIALLY one directly tied to the reason you wanted to kill all of them in the first place (ie the guy who built the spaceship that makes planets) and B) Assuming you did suffer a lapse in judgment and recruit this human who finds the dude with a map to the spaceship that could destroy your entire race; WOULDN’T YOU FUCKING KILL THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE rather than letting your spy suffer a crisis of conscience, and then kill your other spy?

With battle tactics such as these, how did this master race consisting of super-intelligent shades of blue become the scourge of the galaxy? Also, with a name like Dredge….c’mon what is this “Allegory for Dummies?” Not even Lucas was this bad (ok maybe he was).

Ok well I'm obviously half-retarded from my father's side. Not only did I mention a cartoon, I obviously posted an entry that was way longer than 250 words. Well nothing like completely doing the opposite of said directions to make a good first impression. Sorry, I at least hope my entry was slightly humorous.

I've already won a shirt but this one is easy: Galactus from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (and btw, what exactly did the Surfer rise to?). In the comics Galactus is a giant humanoid with a bad hat and a taste for planets. So when it comes to making that transition to film it's not surprising that they decided to change his appearance. After all a big dude in a pink hat really isn't particularly scary.
So they send it off to the conceptual design crew, who are apparently a tank of retarded manatees, and they come back with a Foggy Nebula. That's the best they had? Really? By comparison a direct and exact replication of the comics version would have been scarier. At least people would be terrified of his poor fashion sense (Pink and Purple! Will nobody save us!?). But no...they came up with a space storm. Which I guess is scary if you live in a trailer in Florida during hurricane season. But I'm from Oregon, where we call a storm "another Monday", not a super villain.

Oh, Jeez. There are too many bad villains to narrow it down. I'll pick my favorite of the "worst of" lists...

The robot from "Saturn 3".

If you've never seen this 1980s SciFi gem, it stars Farrah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas as lovers on a space station (nevermind the kinda gross age difference) with a young, devious Harvey Keitel (with another man's voice dubbed over his) and the robot. I'll spare you the build-up, and get to the robot's villainous motivation: It has inherited, though mind-transfer, a crush on Farrah (and, I mean, who didn't in the 70s?) and proceeded to stalk her.

Now, you've got to see this robot to believe it. It's barely a biped, and it walks like those wind-up robot toys you see in dollar stores, tottering back and forth like an unstable 2-year-old after a Sudafed overdose. It has no head; Instead, they gave it a sort of eyestalk that just rises out of the neck area, with two clear, plastic, lit-up prongs as eyes. The body is a tangled mess of cables, tubes, and clunky metal frame that looks like it was built from parts found in a hospital dumpster. Its actions are as jerky as a Jamaican chicken dinner; The thing can barely reach out to clamp something without falling over. It almost always moves like a muppet being operated by a quadriplegic, blind, mildly retarded version of Frank Oz. And it sounds like... Well, it's hard to explain...

You know that sound you hear when a dishwasher has an aluminum pan in it, and the water is hitting it at an odd angle? Yeah, that, plus the sound of a Thomas Dolby album being spun backwards and played with a needle made of cheese. In short, it sounded like a badly-designed personal website created in 1996.

So the robot wants to rape Farrah, don't you know? I guess the creator put a little too much of himself into it or something (I don't quite remember, and I'm NOT watching it again!) and the robot goes on a-- well, "rampage" isn't the word-- Let's say "A ponderous, clumsy imitation of a noisy special-ed stalker" where it follows her around the ship, locks all sorts of doors (which is SCARY! Right?) and attempts to kill her old-enough-to-be-her-grandpa boyfriend/astronaut.

It's kind of like Terminator crossed with Cape Fear, only the bad guy isn't a cool futuristic robot or badass stalker, but a Radio Shack "build-your-own-robot" kit that was assembled by a drunken jizzmopper with chronic shakes and a crushing fear of women. And yet they call his model the "Demi-God Series". (Low expectations of the gods in this universe, I suspect.)

Let me put it another way: C-3PO is more menacing than this robot. If you put this robot in an Ultimate Robot Battle Tournament with The Robot from "Lost In Space", a power droid from Star Wars, and Sony's Aibo, this robot would not only lose; It would lose to the Gonk in the first round.

And here's the motherfucking punch-line: The robot's name was HECTOR.

HECTOR!?!?! How can ANYthing with a name like "Hector" be menacing?

But at least Hector could speak... Sort of. You see, he didn't WANT to speak, so he mostly output text, and was a real smart-ass. When told "Don't get smart", hilarious old Hector responded, "What shall I get?"

I didn't mention that Hector has the brain of a human fetus, did I? No? Well, he does. He's literally an abortion in a tin suit, with the implanted thought patterns of a psychopath! Yay for science!

Hector's death toll includes his mentally-unstable creator Benson, a dog, and Kirk Douglas, who sacrificed himself to save his granddau-- er-- Girlfriend Farrah. In the end, everything blows up and we never see or hear from Hector the horny, aborted-fetus-brained, clumsy pile of junk robot again.

And Farrah goes on to sell lots of posters.

I choose Carter Burke, Paul Reiser's character from 'Aliens'.
Is he a villain? Definitely. He screws everybody over, tries to kill the main characters (multiple times), and is responsible for the deaths of an entire space colony. He is sleazy, two-faced, greedy, cowardly, underhanded, cold-blooded, and perfectly willing to kill any number of people to achieve his goals. He is easily one of the biggest scumbags in movie history.
His reason for causing the deaths of the colonists? "So I made a decision, and it was... wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call."
He also spends more of the movie trying to protect or defend the aliens, going so far as to say, "This is clearly-clearly an important species we're dealing with and I don't think that you or I, or anybody, has the right to arbitrarily exterminate them."
Yeah, clearly this guy is a scumbag.
Yet, he is also played by Paul Reiser. There is no way that he could ever be intimidating by any stretch of the imagination. There is nothing about Paul Reiser that is even in the slightest terrifying. Is he loathsome? Yes. Are you glad to see him die a painful death? Yes. Is he an evil, selfish jerk? God yes.
But is he scary? Nope.

Least terrifying movie villain? Well, it's not technically the villain itself, but the vehicle for the "villain's" works. The god head, Zardoz, from the 1974 Sean Connery movie of the same name. It is important to understand what Zardoz looks like before we proceed.

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/zardoz-head.jpg

That is Zardoz. He speaks in a loud booming voice. He actually has a colony of people in cryostasis inside of him. He is operated by one person, Wizard of Oz-style (and in fact, this is where he gets his name from). And yet he manages to terrify an entire group of people into doing exactly what he wants: Natural Selection at hyperspeed. Zardoz manages to coerce a group of people (the "Exterminators") into wiping out the other people (the "Brutals"), while other people (the "Eternals") sit around and enjoy tea.

But here's the question.

Did he terrify me? God, no. Did you see that picture? What? That might be slightly terrifying, you say, if you were a child in 1974 and were also a total wuss? Well, I guess. Maybe he wouldn't be terrifying if he didn't, you know, throw up guns and ammunition. And also sit around long enough with his mouth open to easily be walked into (which happens, naturally). I mean, honestly. A giant head throws up a bunch of guns and ammo and tells you me go kill people? First thing I'm gonna try to kill is the GIANT HEAD IN FRONT OF ME.

Christ, Zardoz. Least terrifying God-Head thing I have ever seen. You know what was terrifying in Zardoz? Sean Connery.

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/zardoz.jpg

THAT gives me nightmares.

With battle tactics such as these, how did this master race consisting of super-intelligent shades of blue become the scourge of the galaxy? Also, with a name like Dredge….c’mon what is this “Allegory for Dummies?” Not even Lucas was this bad (ok maybe he was).

Yes... that Joss Whedon is certainly an excellent writer, isn't he? ;)

Worst villain in my book has to be Ray Liotta as Gallian, the evil wizard in the Dungeon Siege movie. I couldn't keep a straight face watching him straining to pull off a freakin' wizard instead of a mobster. Hilariously bad.

Least terrifying Sci-Fi Movie villain ever? Nute Gunray. 'nuff said.

These contests always remind me of the episode of News Radio where Phil Hartman tires to explain Urkel-Bot to Jon Lovitz.

Chuck De Nomolos (Joss Ackland) from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey need proof two words: Neck Light

http://www.billandted.org/pics/bj/btbjdenomolosbw.jpg

Least terrifying villian??
I have a few nominees.....all of whom are not scary.

1. Dr. Walter Jenning (played by Jeffrey Jones) from Howard the Duck. This dude was just a sweaty version of the Ed Rooney from Ferris Buellers Day Off.

2. Any of the villians from The Monster Squad (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093560/). Dracula, Frankenstein and all were not scary at all.

3. The Blob......goofy looking KY jelly....come on

All of em suck.

Personally, that would have to be Mr. Smith from the Matrix.

All I see is the Elrond in shades.

So at the end, when it comes down to the ultimate battle, all I can see is Neo and a ton of elves in shades...

I strongly believe the most terrifying villain ive ever come across is tumbleweeds. yes, you heard me right, tumbleweeds.
In the outer limits "cry of silence" the villain is killer tumbleweeds. i know its not a movie, buts its just as long as a movie.

Now, just image some unsuspecting people trapped in a house while a bunch of tumbleweeds brush up against the house unable to get in. i think i would be more afraid of something with the tagline "this pair of safety scissors just fell into the wrong hands." instead, im expected to be afraid of sentient tumbleweeds with a thirst for blood. if you are unable to believe this ridiculous story please check out the episode, its on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f2ST9w7rB4

The Boogens.

If you havent had the displeasure of seeing this steaming turd thats smeared on the shoe of 80's horror films, then you are both a) very lucky and b) probably not one of the 12 or so people to have ever watched this. Plot points aside (a monster unleashed from a mine in a small town, etc) the predictability of this creature is astounding. once the first guy is killed I was surprised the other characters didnt just get in a line and declare themselves the obvious next victims. To save on special effects costs heighten suspense, the monster only kills in low/no lighting and leaves the victims writhing in a puddle of catsup (they wouldnt even pay for ketchup!). Even the poodle is subjected to monster-cam. It pans back, after the off-screen kill, to a pile of cotton balls.

What the creature lacks in creativity it less than makes up for in appearance. Imagine an even-less-frightening Gamera, with horrible latex doc-oc tentacles that accomplish nothing but to lend the thing some comic relief through their miserable flailing. This dumb bastard of a monster even dies in an explosion, a spray of rubble, latex and cliches.

This movie-monster defines the very essence of unfrightening. I was the kind of kid who got scared by "My Pet Monster," but I slept like a rock the saturday night that this was on TV.

All I see is the Elrond in shades.

You think you have it bad? I see Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, riding atop a giant pink bus, sitting on a 10-foot-high pink pump, lip-syncing opera and trailing fabulous chiffon.

Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter films - not the books, mind you. In the books, Voldemort is a scary motherfucker. He's singlehandedly able to control thousands of people using the Imperius Curse, has no real remorse about killing children, has an army of bloodthirsty giants and werewolves and a FUCKING ZOMBIE ARMY THAT GUARDS PART OF HIS SOUL. Granted we haven't actually seen the latter yet, but still.

What did they do to him in the film? They neutered him. They turned him into a pasty, white, bald, androgynous old man without a nose who makes hissing noises like a snake and has a weird penchant for melodrama and overacting. This is probably more due to the ineptitude of the director of the HP4 film, but one of the most anticipated and highly kept secrets was how they'd portray Voldemort - and they made me laugh, not jump. I was expecting something more along the lines of a charred monster who took pleasure from his torture in a way more subtle than laughing uproariously like somebody's grandfather every time he used the Cruciatus curse. He's supposed to look inhuman, like a monster. And that whole possession scene in HP5 - he wasn't fucking toying with him, he was trying to *kill* Harry. Not convert him to the dark side or whatever nonsense.

Seriously Ralph. Mind putting some gravitas in your character? Making him at least *feel* evil? The man eventually takes over the magical world and imposes draconian laws which round up "undesirables" and where people go hunting and killing non-magical people for sport, and this is the best you could come up with for the magical version of Hitler? Although I guess he could only be rivaled by Gambon's Dumbledore in sheer ineptitude.

I really *do* understand English. I have no clue where that extra 'the' popped up.

Now behold, the second worst scifi villain ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCYdvORyItA

Dennis Nedry from Jurassic Park! He's no T-Rex or Velociraptor, but he's the motherfucker who screwed up everyone on the island, including himself; and therefore the “bad guy” of the flick. He's overweight, a computer nerd (his last name is a play of the word 'Nerdy'), and played by Wayne Knight. The fact that he got eaten by a Dilophosaur he released himself isn't cool either. When I tried to Google a picture of him, what do I get the most? The picture of him screaming in terror and pain with sticky venom blinding him: http://www.elrancahuaso.cl/tmp_images/251/noticia_12546_normal.jpg
What kind of villain got his most popular picture on the internet being that of his own demise?!
Also, we see how cool movie villains are from their toys! Ledger's Joker is so scary that his toy needs to be kiddified into this: http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1YhY5A
How about Nedry? Unlike the other adult characters that got their basic looks and outfits faithful enough to their movie counterparts, he needs to be badassified into this:
http://www.jptoys.com/toy-database/jurassic-park/jurassic-park-series-1/humans/dennis-nedry/img/nedry.jpg
A man with sunglasses and a gun strapped on his chest. He's so lame that even his toy is cooler than the actual character!!! But he still got 'Dino-Damage Arm!', so his arms can be mutilated by kids. So much for being a movie villain of the greatest sci-fi movie of all time...

Maybe a better question would be, "Has there ever been a frightening villian in a sci-fi movie?" Because let's face it, all the villains are as corny as hell. There may be a point in time in your life where you've considered Darth Vader frightening, but that sort of washes away once you watch Episodes I-III, and the Clone Wars cartoons, and then you would refuse to acknowledge his presence if he came up to you in the hallway. He becomes the sort of guy you would ditch and go get ice cream if you were hanging out with your friends, or tell him that the really hot popular girl wanted to go on a date with him, and he should go ask her out to watch him get beat up by her jock boyfriend.
But my vote for least frightening would have to be the giant killer poodle from the Ang Lee Hulk movie, because it sort of signals the point at which there's no hope left for the movie to redeem itself, and you should just walk out and cut your losses.
WTF was the poodle doing in the movie anyway? What purpose did it serve? What did it represent? What was it symbolic of? It was never in the comics, or TV show. If you're going to have monster dogs, why make a giant poodle? Why not more giant pit bulls, or a scary-looking dog like that? Something that'll make you go, "Oh shit," when you see it running at you, instead of, "Uhm... What? No, I'm not doing this." Break into the zoo and get some fucking lions, if you're going to pull off some mad science shit like that. Even a monster zebra would get more respect than that. People wouldn't fuck with you if you had a 20' tall zebra with fangs. You could say things like, "What's black and white and red all over? My zebra, bathed in your blood. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!" You could wear striped suits and call yourself Zebra-Master.
What the fuck is wrong with you, Ang Lee? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Never do that again. That was a bad Ang Lee. You go to your room!

"Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy disappointed me, because I've just never thought she was all that hot."

...Join the club. I've never understood why people think Uma is so attractive. She damn sure didn't fill out a cat suit worth a frack in that dismal Avengers remake.

...My submission for this contest? The Son'a from Star Trek: Insurrection. How can you be terrified of aliens who require a daily visit to a beauty shop?

the mice from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Amen in regards to Uma! I have no idea where this whole "Uma is hot!" myth began. I saw the ads for The Truth About Cats and Dogs and kept wondering how this lanky average looking woman could stop traffic and turn heads the way they suggested.

I think she is a good actress and I loved her in Kill Bill, I just do not think she is as drop dead gorgeous as some people think. Joel Schumacher is gay so I can see where he has no idea what turns hetero men on, but otherwise I don't know what other directors and producers' excuses are.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the villain from the first Star Trek movie yet. The reason this villain is so terrible is due in part to the rich history and universe that the original TV show was based upon and it's huge cult following.

All the writers could come up with for the villian of the first movie was a huge junk pile that floats around "learning" and destroying a few Klingon ships.

The only reason I put up with the glacial pace of this movie was because of the franchise's name attached and the mystery of what the mile-long crap log was. After enduring what seems like 5 hours of slow monologue and poor art direction, it's revealed that the vessel is Voyager 6, a space probe that met some living machines that pimped it out and then let it go on a junk-hording fest only rivaled by most Great Depression survivors.

It's hard to get excited about Spock and friends communicating with a centuries-old NASA pack rat that has too much time on his hands. Give me a Klingon or Romulan any day over this literal pile of crap.

Hello TR,

I have discovered the least terrifying fantasy villain by traveling back in time to 1987. The craptacular horror movie is called Rock'n'Roll Nightmare and the villain is Satan.

Muscle-bound Hair-metal demigod Thor does battle with Satan while wearing nothing but a cape, spiky codpiece, and about 10 pounds of hairspray and makeup. You have to see the video footage for this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmxtDl-u1aQ

Satan has the power to transform from an ugly redhead to an awkward alien form and uses an arsenal of one-eyed evil starfish creatures to battle while flailing his arms about in an evil ritualistic pattern. He surrenders the earth after a long embrace and choke-out session with the ambiguously gay pagan god. Satan returns to the underworld after some children off-camera light some fireworks.

Possible thoughts from Satan.

"If only I had a center of gravity I could battle."

"Wow, that blond chick was tough!"

"Will people remember this battle as Satan versus Thor or Transvestite versus Giant Ant?"

"They couldn't get David Bowie!"

Box from Logan's Run.

This is the keeper of hell? A limey fruitbat covered with breadboxes and medicine cabinets who just wanted to see some naked strange and then was rendered helpless because someone bonked his birdy chandelier? Really?

Um. Ok.

This guy was lame even by low standards of sword-and-sorcery movies. First, he looks like Gene Siskel. Shaved heads are threatening. Male pattern baldness isn’t. It also doesn’t help that he prefers lavender headdresses and white furs to the standard black robes.

Okay, so he looks like a joke… but his plans are even worse.

Troxartas has two main goals– build an army of the undead and find two crystals that are the key to a lost jeweled city. He raises the dead easily enough but his army of the damned is made of the same boobs who couldn’t stop the hero while alive. What’s worse is that even though Troxartas holds the souls of these men, there’s nothing to…

a) force them to kill the hero when he accidentally stumbles across them making camp. (zombie minions making camp?)
b) stop them from telling the hero how he can free their souls!

You know a villain is lame when he can’t stop soul-bound minions from turning traitor.

But the most laughable part of all comes when Troxartas finally gets the two crystals – entirely because the good wizard accidentally teleported into Troxartas’ castle while fleeing his minions – and we find out that…

a) Troxartas screwed up his research – he actually needs THREE crystals.
b) The third crystal was already in his lab. Seriously.

The Sentinal's from KRULL. Despite their comlete obliteration of Corwyn and his men in the opening battle, they prove completely incompetent and rediculous throughout the rest of the movie. First off, the only people worse than fighting on the planet Krull are the soldiers in Corwyn's army. I can't tell if he doesn't take any of them with him becasue they are ALL dead or becasue he thought to himself, "why the hell bother..."
Back to the Sentinals. They have what appear to be the musket equivalent of laser guns..they fire once and then seem to be out of ammo...requiring them to use the swords at the other end of their weapon. I hope this is the reason they use the swords...and not because they feel like gunning their opponents down from a safe distance doesn't present enough of a challenge for them...becasue when they run in against Corwyn and his not so mighty forces, they are limited in combat by their inability to raise their arms above shoulder length. "Ha! We are the super soldiers sent from the Beast to kill your men, destroy your villages, and make your women our wives! HAHAHA! Now you wil lfeel the wrath of...no! Wait! NOT IN THE FACE!"
After the first battle, where exactly are the Seintinals effective? In the swamp? No, they kill one man despite their obvious planning and getting the jump on our heros. When defending the castle? Hey, they did manage to kill one person...i mean it was the fat guy that was slow and couldn't hide behind any of the enormous rocks...but a kill is a kill. How about inside the castle where three Sentinals, the unstoppably army of the unstoppable Beast, are beaten by a tiger. Where were their musket lasers then? It basically makes them the equivalent of Sigfried and Roy post-maul. Just the type of soldier i would take to conquer the universe...

Megatron from the "Transformers" 2007 movie (as well as the show, but for different reasons.) He fails at killing Sam at point blank and Sam kills him later. Come on. For Pete's sake, he's retarded enough to crash land and end up frozen for hundreds of years like a moron.

Joel Schumacher. Neon Lights, Tommy Lee Jones with half a pink face, Arnold Schwarzenegger spewing ice-related puns, bat-nipples, bat-credit card (never leave home without it), all these lame, lame, weapons at his disposal, and he do with them? He uses them to make two movies designed to emasculate, embarrass and homoeroticize the batman franchise, thus eliminating Batman, once and for all. This long-winded, convoluted plan of his was so ridiculous that not even the Riddler could've deciphered this messy abomination.

Oh, this is so damn easy.

Mario Van Peebles as Kane in Highlander 3. Come on, what kind of follow up is this to the Kurgan from the first one (I omit the whole second movie as it is pretty much blasphemy toward the whole franchise). When he is not off tapping random hookers in sleazy motels, better be thankful he's immortal, he occasionaly drops in to challenge Conner MacLeod. He even takes the head of one of his own henchman, gee whiz Einstein, ya think you might just need that help to make it super easy to finish off MacLeod. Then he gets taken out by that little sword trick the old Japanese teacher shows MacLeaod to do right before he dies. Oh yeah, here's this quick slight of hand that may come in handy when you face the big baddy that is coming to kill me.
Just lame.

Miss Elizabeth Burke-The Faculty
So you're a kid in a shitty high school with assholes for teachers and dickweeds for friends. I mean, some of them are cool like Professor John Stewart and your buddy Jordana Brewster. But then "all of a sudden" Famke Janssen becomes your new teacher. Then when you confront Famke Janssen and tell her that you know that she's an alien, she totally tells you that she'll do you.

As imdb puts it:
"Herrington High, Ohio, a small-town highschool. All of a sudden, the teachers start changing attitude. When Casey and Delilah have to hide in a closet in the teacher's lounge, they witness the strangulation of Nurse Harper [Selma Hayek] by two of them. Shocked, they manage to flee. Only moments later, the nurse [Did I say Selma Hayek?] seems to be very alive, but also somehow changed, like all the teachers and most of the students."

Yeah, all of the kids and adults look like Usher and the T-1000, but are actually really nice and considerate. Plus, they are totally into you and getting along nicely with everybody else. No more fighting. No more drugs. No more shitty music. Everybody around you seems to be happy and having a great time. Can you imagine what would happen if the aliens took over the entire world? I imagine it would be a nice place to live. If all that requires is a little "neck adjustment," I'm in.

"Only Casey, Delilah and four others seem to be suspicious. Proof of an alien infection is finally brought by the chemistry teacher, who also points out a way to kill the infected humans. The plan now is to get the queen, before the aliens can spread out over the whole country. Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133751/plotsummary

Skeletor was a bitch. That's all you need to know.

Post 100!

I realize that the Sentinels from Krull have been mentioned already, but I think perhaps the forest might have been missed for the trees.

The Beast has to be the goofiest looking, least effective villain in a fantasy film. Never mind that his shock troops are highly ineffective, I mean, we've seen that before. The Imperial Stormtrooper might have a frightening uniform, but its hard to be afraid of something that you know couldn't hit water if it fell out of a boat.

So, The Beast, the ultimate enemy. Head like a giant testicle, teeth in dire need of a cleaning, and eyes in dire need of Visine. The only advantage he has is his ride/house/spaceship/castle. And, its only special because it moves around. His house can move? So, now I have to be afraid of hillbilly laden trailerpark? There's nothing that seperates them from The Beast.

So, after he takes an asswhupping from an overgrown shuriken and the power of love(Oh, it's flaming alright!) And what was his goal in the first place? To prevent the marriage of Colwyn to Lyssa. That's right...an intergalactic cockblock!

This being said, I do like this movie quite a bit. But, The Beast isn't frightening. The only thing scary about him is the incompetence of his army, and his oral hygiene schedule.

What about the giant, incredibly lame jellyfish in "Sphere?" The book's description scared me to death, but the blobby mind-controlling jellyfish did nothing but make me laugh in the movie. Another in the long line of Michael Crichton books that sucked as movie adaptations... except for "Jurassic Park," of course.

O.K> I know we haven't seen it yet (except for an exceptionally hilarious picture) but I gotta change my vote to the doctor/Cobra Commander for the new G.I. joe movie. First, look at his pedigree, Cobra commander was about as frightening as an arthritic grandma, among his worst plans were a plot to control minds with a bad 80's hair band and unleashing something called fatal furries on the joes (GOD I wish I could make this shit up!!) and secondly the live actionversions of most old cartoons has a factor to make them, lamer still. look at monkey Lips prime or weird insect Bumblebee. or any of the deceptiocons who's personalities made the cartoon soundwave look like mr. Charisma. add to this the fact that his "doctor" persona looks like the villian of any 16 bit shooter, I look at him and half expect him to scream "all your base are belong to us! Cobra!!!" just damn lame

My vote has to go to the Slitheen from the Doctor Who series. How can you be afraid of something that looks like a walking globule of mucus with a ET/kewpie doll face. Add to this the fact that they fart incessantly, they move like characters in a Benny Hill chase scene, and that they all act like your stereotypical British bit players (the smart-assed kid, the effeminate uncle, the fat jolly goof, etc.) and they just don't scare you one bit.

Once they shed the skins they've ripped off of their human victims (through a ZIPPER in the head nonetheless!!), you can basically chase them around with a box of Scott tissues and discard them at will.

Those rubber terodactyl creatures that got pushed to their death in AT THE EARTHS CORE (w/Peter Cushing and Doug McClure)

Other villains I'd not be afraid of:

Callisto from Xena: Warrior Princess - A beautiful, toned, half-naked lesbian. Ooh. I'm shuddering.

Sleestaks from Land of the Lost - You could hear them coming a mile away, thanks to all their HSSSS SSSS SSSS SSSSSSSSSS!!! On top of that, they moved very slowly, had no fingers, and from the way they bobbed around, I think it's a good bet they had trouble focusing with those eyes of theirs.

Hoodoo from Lidsville - A gay, barely-skilled magician in Mr Yuck makeup, who rides around in a giant flying top hat, accompanied by two of the most inept henchmen ever? Oh, yeah. That's worth worrying about.

Witchie-Poo from H.R. Puffnstuff - A gay, barely-skilled witch in Mr. Yuck makeup, who rides around on a rocket-powered broom, accompanied by two of the most inept henchmen ever? Deja vu, man.

ANY villain on Scooby Doo - Old dude with a rubber mask, a slide projector, and a fog machine. No wonder a group of teenagers foiled your plot, man. It was like you bought a "Keep the treasure for yourself kit" from Walmart.

Captain Hook from Peter Pan - Any pirate who lets a gang of uneducated homeless children defeat him doesn't deserve a ship.

Lord Cutler Beckett from Pirates of the Caribbean - The head of the East India Trading Company is the arch-villain? A merchant lord? Really? In the modern world, that would be the equivalent of having Donald Trump as the villain. And what's his diabolical plot? To get rid of all the pirates? Well, gee... What a bad guy he must be, trying to rid the seas of those who would kill his employees and take his merchandise. A real bastard, that one!

Annie Wilkes from Misery - I bet more than 1/3 of us have a spouse or in-law just like her. Hell, I think I sat next to two people just like her on the bus yesterday!

Christine from Christine - OK, so a car can be pretty scary... Unless you stay inside, upstairs, and don't get in its way. It can't get to you, can it? Instead of fighting a car on the ground, wouldn't it have been smarter to get up in a tall building and just report it stolen and loaded with anthrax? The feds would blow it up, you'd be safe, and you could spend all the time worrying about getting in your best friends' girlfriend's pants.

The Biplanes in King Kong - No, the ape's not the villain. It's those damned planes. Here's a marvel of nature, the king of all beasts, once revered as a god, and he's killed by a couple guys in primitive flying machines with machineguns strapped to them. How sad. I hope those assholes are proud of themselves.

Lex Luthor in Superman the Movie - Sure, he's clever, but he's hardly scary. He's a bald guy in a curly-hair wig, with a single moronic henchman and a traitorous mol. His whole scheme is basically to blow up California to make worthless desert land into valuable real estate. Nevermind that he can't exactly become a real estate mogul if everyone knows he committed an act of terrorism this heinous; He's very short-sighted, apparently.

Let Luthor in Superman Returns - And then he does it again! This time, the plan is to make one half (or more) of the world uninhabitable, murder one half (or more) of the the population of Earth, and then sell the remaining, devastated people some "prime" real estate on a barren, radioactive, unstable land mass covered in jagged rocks and razor-sharp crystal formations?

Yeah... That would have worked.

Wait... One more:

The bat creatures in Descent - So let me get this straight; The villains in this movie are The National Enquirer's BAT BOY, and his extended family?

Color me unimpressed.

Correction: Miss Tessmacher is a moll, not a mol.

Just in case you were confused.

OK, I'm tempted to say Ernest Borgnine as Corbis from "The Devil's Reign". I mean... Ernest Borgnine.

But the winner hands down in my book is Overlord from "Yor, Hunter from the Future". This dude was about as scary as a middle school janitor and for a mystic superbeing from the future, he sure had a hard time beating a caveman with a broken piece of wood. OVERLORD!

Rita from Power Rangers. I was too busy thwapping to be afraid.