Top 10 Villains

And so to number two. One basic rule here: monsters are not villains. So Jaws and the xenomorph don’t count. Monsters are not villains.

They are monsters.

Top 10 Villains

Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem)
No Country For Old Men (2007)

Anton Chigurh - And you know what’s going to happen now. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.

Carson Wells - You go to hell.

Anton Chigurh –  Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

Carson Wells – Do you have any idea how crazy you are?

Anton Chigurh – You mean the nature of this conversation?

Carson Wells – I mean the nature of you.

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JJ Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

You’re dead, son. Get yourself buried.

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The Joker (Heath Ledger)
The Dark Knight (2008)

I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hmm? You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go ‘according to plan’. Even if the plan is horrifying. If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all ‘part of the plan’. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair.

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Henry (Michael Rooker)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

If you shoot someone in the head with a .45 every time you kill somebody, it becomes like your fingerprint, see? But if you strangle one, stab another, and one you cut up, and one you don’t, then the police don’t know what to do. They think you’re four different people. What they really want, what makes their job so much easier, is pattern. What they call a modus operandi. That’s Latin. Bet you didn’t know any Latin, did you kid?

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Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper)
Blue Velvet (1986)

Do me a favour. Don’t be a good neighbour to her anymore. Or I’ll send you a love letter straight from my heart, fucker! Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker! You receive a love letter from me, and you’re fucked forever! You understand, fuck? I’ll send you straight to hell, fucker!

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Andrew ‘Pope’ Cody (Ben Mendelsohn)
Animal Kingdom (2010)

Joshua ‘J’ Cody - But the guy they really wanted, the guy they really hated, was my other Uncle – Uncle Andrew, but everyone just called him ‘Pope’.

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Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison)
The Green Mile (1999)

Paul Edgecomb - Men under strain can snap. Hurt themselves. Hurt others. That’s why our job is talking, not yelling. You’ll do better to think of this place like an intensive care ward in a hospital.

Percy Wetmore - I think of it as a bucket of piss to drown rats in. That’s all. Anybody doesn’t like it can kiss my ass.

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Chad (Aaron Eckhart)
In the Company of Men (1997)

We take a girl, just some cord-fed bitch who’d practically mess her pants if you sharpened a pencil for her, and we both hit her. You know, small talk, a dinner date, flowers. No pushing it, not all in her glass the first night out, but it’s like taking her out to, you know, see an ice show, something like that. And we just do it, you know, you and me, upping the ante all the time. And suddenly she’s got two men, she’s calling her mom, she’s wearing make-up again… and on we play, and on and on. And then one day, out goes the rug, and us pulling it hard, and Jill… she just comes tumbling after. Hour later we’re on a flight back to civilisation like nothing ever happened. Trust me, she’ll be reaching for the sleeping pills within a week. And we will laugh about this until we are very old men.

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Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino)
The Last Seduction (1994)

Mike Swale – I’m trying to figure out whether you’re a total fucking bitch or not.

Bridget Gregory – I am a total fucking bitch.

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Harry (Ralph Fiennes)
In Bruges (2007)

An uzi?, I’m not from the South Central of Los fuckin’ Angeles, I didn’t come here to shoot 20 black ten year olds in a fuckin’ drive by. I want a normal gun for a normal person.