User:Xykeb Zraliv/Top Ten/General Categories

10: Syndrome (The Incredibles)
You may or may not have seen this one coming. Syndrome is the central antagonist of the animated movie The Incredibles, and he is by far the most immature, geeky, intelligent villain ever. We first see him as a little kid trying to tag along as the sidekick of the central protagonist, Mr. Incredible. He's an annoying little kid that has no superpowers at all, but an incredibly high IQ, capable of inventing complex stuff like rocket boots. He then proceeds to totally mess something up and let a villain get away, when Mr. Incredible says that he works alone and that he doesn't need him.

15 years later, he's so bitter about Mr. Incredible not accepting him that he wants to invent something that can kill him, if only to prove that he can be even better than a so-called "super". His true goal is to invent a robot to completely destroy a city...so that he, who has the control panel to the robot, can defeat it, as it is impossible to defeat otherwise. By destroying this thing when nobody else can, he will be praised as a hero. Or he would have if he hadn't failed miserably while posing.

9: Count Olaf (Series of Unfortunate Events)
Count Olaf is the main antagonist of my favorite book series, the Series of Unfortunate Events. He's a greedy man that wants the main enormous fortune of the three main protagonists, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. While he seems quite shallow in the beginning of the series, it's later revealed that he is a member of the mysterious group VFD, which experienced a large schism. Count Olaf is on the so-called "evil" side, although one of the recurring themes in the series is that nobody is completely good or completely evil. He manages to torment the siblings everywhere they go (and I mean everywhere) and eventually even manages to capture Sunny.

8: Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda series)
Come on, this is Zeldapedia. You all know who he is.

7: Vaati (The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap)
Vaati is just one of those characters that you don't like because of their origins or their personality, but simply because they are awesome. It's a hard feeling to emulate; he's just great.

6: Voldemort (Harry Potter series)
Voldemort is the villain of the Harry Potter series, and he is shown as a man incapable of love, who thinks that the concept of "friendship" is unnecessary. He thinks that only pure-bloods deserve to use magic, despite being half-blood himself. He is also apparently the second or third best wizard ever (depending on whether or not you consider Harry "better" than him).

5: Mephiles (Sonic the Hedgehog 2006)
Say what you will about the repetitive, mediocre game that is Sonic the Hedgehog 2006, but past all the infinitely long load screens, the nonresponsive camera, and the enemies that just won't leave you the **** alone, the plot is actually quite good, barring the god-awful Elise of course. And the villain is pretty badass. While the three stories (Sonic, Shadow, and Silver) are intwined and Mephiles does of course appear briefly in Sonic and Silver's stories, he is most prominent in Shadow's story, and almost anything having to do with Shadow is epic.

He's first seen after some staff with a name that I can't remember breaks, and he is released. He is some weird being that is a gas rather than a solid. However, he manages to take physical form by using Shadow's shadow (no pun intended). By doing so, he becomes Shadow's "negative" if you will - he is more or less an exact copy, only with different colors. It's later revealed when Shadow goes back in time that he was an experiment or something and that Shadow himself was the one that imprisoned him in the staff.

On top of all that, he does what everybody else is too much of a wuss to do and kills Sonic without a second thought. Anybody that can do that is awesome.

4: Cyrus (Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum)
Cyrus is the leader of the latest group of villains, Team Galactic, similar to Giovanni, Archie, and Maxie lead Team Rocket, Team Aqua, and Team Magma respectively. However, he is different from all those villains in that he does not wish to rule the world, or change the world to his liking, or anything like that. Rather, he wishes to destroy the world and start a new one from scratch. He is shown to display little to no emotion and sees everything in the world as useless and "incomplete", except himself. He reminds me of an evil version of me, to be honest.

3: The Joker (The Dark Knight)
The Joker in The Dark Knight is presented as an anarchist, who wishes only to prove that deep down, everbody has an evil side and will do anything if they are desperate enough. He cares little about himself as long as he gets his point across, as evidenced by his maniacal laughter as Batman attacks him. He is also the one that turned Harvey into Two-Face.