Gaming villain: Infel of AT2. Because she's overtly a genocidal maniac villain, but the game makes sure you're clearly aware that she believes everything she is doing is right and proper, and not only that, the game makes sure you're aware that... She's right. Her plan would indeed work. And she's been helping you throughout the entire game, even right up until entering that final boss room, knowing you're against her, she'll still help you, because she acknowledges that our method would ALSO work, but just be much less effective long-term, it's a stopgap measure, but that you as a party are not evil, you're just opposed to her for professional differences.

Media Villain: His Noble Majesty Lelouch vi Brittannia. No one in media is quite as far gone as he is. He kills hundreds millions, and they make sure you KNOW it, that the weight of those weigh on both the audience, and on himself. None of this delusional Thanos "I did a great job, time to farm" stuff, he HATES what he is, but does it out of what he believes to be evil by necessity. And he succeeds, which to me is an important element of villainy. Ineffectual villainy is just comic relief.

Historical Villain: Yakub Shabazz. "Historical" is a tricky category, but I believe he qualifies, as at least a few million people believe he really exists and did the things he did. As to what he did... Why, he made us. The historical records of the Nation Of Islam highlight the tale of Yukub of the tribe Shabazz as a mad scientist who through using grafting, selective breeding, and magnets, created "white people" as the ultimate weapons of destruction and hatred to curse the world. White People were so evil, so purpose-built to lie and deceive and destroy, that Moses had to blast most of them away with dynamite, but a few survived, and spread, and took over much of the world with their "tricknology" powers. A historical mad scientist, who is just absolutely nutty in his tale's recounting. I have to laugh every time his historical record and the origin of the caucasian human sub-species is brought up. Since he brings so much joy, he has to be my favorite.

Gaming villain: Infel of AT2. Because she's overtly a genocidal maniac villain, but the game makes sure you're clearly aware that she believes everything she is doing is right and proper, and not only that, the game makes sure you're aware that... She's right. Her plan would indeed work. And she's been helping you throughout the entire game, even right up until entering that final boss room, knowing you're against her, she'll still help you, because she acknowledges that our method would ALSO work, but just be much less effective long-term, it's a stopgap measure, but that you as a party are not evil, you're just opposed to her for professional differences.

Media Villain: His Noble Majesty Lelouch vi Brittannia. No one in media is quite as far gone as he is. He kills hundreds millions, and they make sure you KNOW it, that the weight of those weigh on both the audience, and on himself. None of this delusional Thanos "I did a great job, time to farm" stuff, he HATES what he is, but does it out of what he believes to be evil by necessity. And he succeeds, which to me is an important element of villainy. Ineffectual villainy is just comic relief.

Historical Villain: Yakub Shabazz. "Historical" is a tricky category, but I believe he qualifies, as at least several million people believe he really exists and did the things he did. As to what he did... Why, he made us. The historical records of the Nation Of Islam highlight the tale of Yukub of the tribe Shabazz as a mad scientist who through grafting, selective breeding, and magnets, created "white people" as the ultimate weapons of destruction and hatred to curse the world. White People were so evil, so purpose-built to lie and deceive and destroy, that Moses had to blast most of them away with dynamite, but a few survived, and spread, and took over much of the world with their "tricknology" powers. A historical mad scientist, who is just absolutely nutty in his tale's recounting. I have to laugh every time his historical record and the origin of the caucasian human sub-species is brought up. Since he brings so much joy, he has to be my favorite.