The Most Evil Anime Villains Of All Time.

Greetings, ladies and gentle-men, it is I – your most-humble and evil-smiting Dark Savior, back again from his commie maddrassa with a nice, new shiny post for all of you.  Today we’re going to be talking about the evil ones of anime, which is appropriate given where I’ve been lately.  But the Villains of anime (not those of the left-wing variety), they are the stars of the show today.  And I’m not talking about those you love to hate, I mean the real Villains, the ones who you loathe with every fiber of your being, those that live only to kill and destroy all that is good and just, the ones who when they die, you do a little happy dance because they finally got what’s coming to them, or at least the ones you always gripe about because they never got their comeuppance.  And I’m not counting those that despite their status as the bad guy, you can’t help but love ’em, such as Folken Fanel from Escaflowne or Alexander Anderson from Hellsing.  They’d deserve their own List, but worry not, there’s only one more Anime List after this one, and that’s the Hero List.

 

THE MOST EVIL ANIME VILLAINS OF ALL TIME

 

List Number:  13
Name:  William Will Woo
From:  GunXSword
Status:  Squished under his own castle after being partially cut in half and stabbed.
Wanted For:  Having a stupid name, killing his own mother accidentally in a failed attempt on his father, Oedipus complex (which made him try to rub out daddy), being an elitist jerk.
Why He’s Here:  Ah, William.  After so many incestuous heroes and heroines in anime and video games (i.e. RahXephon, Elfen Lied, Fire Emblem, etc.) it’s rare to see a villain with an interest in his own family.  And it’s no less sick.  While characters like Quon Kisaragi had a thing for a family member, I was willing to overlook it because she was such a great heroine.  You, on the other hand, are just a sick bastard.  And a spaz to boot.  You had some fun knocking Vann of the Dawn about in your first fight with him, but during the second, as he started to beat the hell out of you, your cool mask slipped, showing just how big of an enraged loon you really are.  And though it was sad to see you break down like that as you died, you deserved it.  The whacking of one’s own family, as one of the greatest graphic novel character (not that he’s getting a list, mind you) knows all to well, is something one should never do.

 

List Number:  12
Name:  Friday Monday
From:  Madlax
Status:  Really, really dead.  First, he was shot, then left in a burning building which proceeded to blow up.
Wanted For:  Being loony as a toon, having an exceptionally stupid name, creating a civil war for kicks, carrying out Darwin’s ideas way too far.
Why He’s Here:  Mr. Monday, I have to ask:  Exactly how little was the guy who names characters getting paid when he thought your moniker up?  Seriously, now lame of a name could one lunatic have?  Mr. Happyface would have been more worrying, given the way you always have that sly permagrin.  You were a very interesting villain, as you could drive the most hardened assassins and cops insane with one little phrase, and could plunge an entire world into chaos with a simple ritual.  However, for all your creepy mannerisms and evil scheming, your backstory was about as paper thin as could be (a failed artist.  Hmm, wonder where they got that from…?), and besides your devotion to Darwinism, no one ever knew why exactly you wanted the world to burn.  Even saying it was for the hell of it would have been better than saying nothing.  And that’s exactly why you’re so low on the list, along with fellow idiotically-named villain.

 

List Number:  11
Name:  “Bloody” Harry MacDowell
From:  Gungrave
Status:  Dead, riddled with dozens of bullets alongside his best friend in a bombed out diner.
Wanted For:  Treachery, lying, being a backstabbing weasel, killing his best friend, mental instability.
Why He’s Here:  Evil.  Cruel.  Megalomaniac.  Lunatic.  All are ways one could describe Harry MacDowell.  From your start as a low-level hood, everyone knew you were going places.  You had a certain charisma, a way about you that commanded respect.  And then you used and abused said respect to the fullest extent you could, killing everyone on your meteoric rise to the heights of the underworld.  From betraying friends and sworn family members, to raising the dead and creating dread monsters to fight for you, you didn’t give a shit what you had to do for power.  All for the sake of “being free.”  And your worst offense?  Shooting your own best friend, your blood brother, out a building by putting a bullet through his left eye.  Though you felt bad about it later and lost your wife to a mafia coup, I still never felt that bad for you.  And you never even got what you deserved, dying a happy death alongside your old, resurrected friend.  Screwing the viewers to the end, eh Harry?

List Number:  10
Name:  Fuma Monou
From:  X
Status:  Alive and living happily after being turned back to his former good self by his best friend’s self-sacrifice.
Wanted For:  Being really evil for someone who’s really just a tool of fate, creepy deadpan delivery, cruelty to allies as well as enemies, penchant of crucifying enemies’ girlfriends, casually dining in the most luxurious restaurant a city has before blowing said city to kingdom come.
Why He’s Here:  For someone who’s not inherently evil, you’re damn good at being a rotten scumbag, Fuma.  You could have been on the side of light or darkness, depending on what your best friend chose.  And since he was good, the dictates of fate made you evil, and boy did they make you evil.  Your crucified your former best friend’s girlfriend, turned lovers against eachother, killed the loved ones of anyone who got in your way, and took pleasure in getting to know those you were about to kill just for the hell of it.  And in the end, because your friend was a dumbass, he let you kill him just to return you back to normal, which is why you’re here instead of higher up on the list.  If only you had been truly evil of your own choosing, that would have made you far worse.

List Number:  09
Name:  Masayoshi Kuki (Pictured Left)
From:  RahXephon
Status:  Dead as a doornail, having been ripped apart by a pocket dimension opening right in his face.
Wanted For:  General bastardy, being spiteful, pouring salt in every old wound he can find, being way too overconfident, having a very creepy laugh.
Why He’s Here:  You know, from the moment I saw you, I just hated you.  From your smarmy grin to your creepy as hell laugh, you’re all sorts of rotten.  You ordered the deaths of millions through your unwitting subordinate, dropping a nuke on a city full of innocent people so the other-dimensional beings you sold your soul to could play upon the liberal idiocy of many in the world that would feel your side’s justified to kill tons of humans because humanity shot first.  And your lieutenant, following your orders like a good soldier, ended up killing his own daughter in the blast.  Upon being reunited, the first thing you did was rub it in, trying to break him down until you figured he’d give up.  Well, your former underling didn’t give up, Kuki.  He got pissed, and though near death, set off a dimensional rift right in your face.  Take that, you creepy freak.

 

List Number:  08
Name:  Montanna Max
From:  Hellsing
Status:  Currently having a bloody shootout with a really pissed off ass-kicking british noblewoman.
Wanted For:  He’s a nazi, for God’s sake.
Why He’s Here:  Well, he’s a nazi, for one.  He wants to destroy the entire world for no other reason than that he wants to, for two.  And did I mention he’s a nazi?  Max began his “career,” as it were, by saying he was a cousin of Hitler when in fact he was an illegitimate child who killed his prostitute mother and her current client because it was annoying to hear her mom’s business while he was trying to read.  And that’s when he was about sixteen.  Since then, he became a spook, operating in the shadows and eventually given a special directive by Adolf himself to start World War III with an army of vampires and ghouls should the Third Reich fall.  And start WWIII he did, engulfing the world in flames for kicks, surrounded by his little band of most devoted, and extremely powerful, underlings.  However, being a nazi, he’s very tenacious and as such, is currently doing a little gun-kata with Integra Hellsing (see Fourth Greatest Anime Heroine of all Time) aboard his blimp.  No points for guessing who I’m rooting for.  Die, nazi, die!

 

List Number:  07
Name:  Mamoru Torigai/Shinon Meru Baramu
From:  RahXephon
Status:  Happily married to his high school sweetheart, though in his past life he was known as the headless bastard.
Wanted For:  Devious nature, betraying his best friend and then trying to kill him, taking advantage of other’s pity and sympathy, hitting a defenseless 14 year-old girl.
Why He’s Here:  God, I despise you, Mamoru.  And every time I watch RahXephon I hate you a little more as I find new subtleties to your despicable presence.  You began as Ayato’s funny best friend, but as we all came to know, you were the fourth true Mulian to make his way to Earth with the explicit purpose of spying on Ayato to make sure he becomes your race’s instrument of genocide.  Well, because of a very tragic accident, your beloved Hiroko was killed and you sought revenge on Ayato for it, clouding your judgement, and turning you in an even more hateful and vicious monster.  And in the penultimate battle, having thought you were fighting a mere shell, Ayato came back with a vengeance, ripped off both your arms and blasted you miles away.  Still angry, still intent on your vengeance, you tried a suicidal attack and it failed, Ayato exploding your rotten little head with a telekinetic burst.  But even though you were such a backstabbing weasel, Ayato felt bad, and when remaking the world, he brought you, as well as Hiroko, back to life.  Though you’re surely different now, my feelings are still the same:  You suck, Mamoru.  You suck, and I hate you.

 

List Number:  06
Name:  Dilandau Albatou
From:  Escaflowne
Status:  Back as a girl, being taken care of by his/her/it’s kind older brother.
Wanted For:  Psychosis, pyromania, the fact he’s only alive when killing someone, narcissism, obsession with petty revenge.
Why He’s Here:  Ah, Dilandau.  You’re one of the few villains that I not only hated, but one I sometimes rooted for.  Then again, given you were so preoccupied with killing Van Fanel (see Fifth Worst Anime Characters of all Time), it’s no wonder why I liked you.  However, it doesn’t excuse the fact you’re a murderous lunatic who’s got a thing for fire.  I don’t know why you like burning things, people, animals, buildings, whathaveyou.  Maybe it has something to do with the fact you were born female but got a magical sexchange (don’t laugh) to turn you into the freak of nature that made it onto this List.  Sadly, your former female self is related to Allen Schezar (to appear in the next List) which makes Allen a bit stupid, such as willingly throwing himself between you and an attacking Van.  Then again, that’s not very dangerous seeing as it’s Van, but still.  However, you turned back to your old self and gave up your hatred of said moron (because he scarred your “beautiful face”) after your friend/dog/guardian died and ended up distracting poor Allen, causing his first loss ever, and worse still at the hands of that halfwit Van.  So, sadly you got let off the hook Dilandau, but consider yourself lucky.  If you weren’t Allen’s sister/brother/…thing! he would have kicked your ass, and I would have done a happy dance for it.

List Number:  05
Name:  Maria
From:  Witchblade
Status:  Flying and leaping around Tokyo Tower, attempting to claim the Witchblade as her own.
Wanted For:  Insanity, being extremely creepy in her childish temper tantrum way, lust for power for power’s sake, sadism.
Why She’s Here:  At first, I thought you nothing more than a spoiled brat with a bit of power, which makes you dangerous.  Then it came to light how truly sadistic you are, as evidenced by the killing of all your sparring partners with so little effort and then saying, “Oh, are you done already?  That was boring…”  That made your terrifying.  Sitting in your room with all your torn-apart stuffed animals in silence was a chilling image, something only surpassed by your radical change from immature murderer to genocidal maniac, intent on wiping out humanity, and for what?  That is the mystery both your allies and enemies attempt to solve, only to be revealed during your battle at Tokyo Tower, and the answer is both surprising and at the same time something anyone could have seen coming.  And while you got a few pity points, you’re still a vicious psychopath, and you deserve what’s coming to you.

List Number:  04
Name:  The Portrait Of Cossette d’Auvergne
From:  The Portrait Of Little Cossette
Status:  A pile of ash in the dreamworld after being burnt down to the ground by the one it sought to ensnare.
Wanted For:  Manipulation, spiteful hatred of all things living, creepiness, devotion to it’s master (a murderous pedophile).
Why It’s Here:  Cruel to the core, born of evil and sickness, you are truly one vile spirit.  After the real Cossette left her beloved Eiri for the dreamworld, knowing that further contact with him would kill him, you took her place and tried to make the poor sap the vessel for your master’s rebirth.  However Eiri, unlike so many guys in anime, was smarter than you gave him credit for and fought back.  Despite your attempts to destroy his will and drive him to insanity with pain, he purified the Portrait you resided in through the sheer strength of his will and love of Cossette, destroying you once and for all, along with your sick creator.  After all you’ve done, normally I’d say burn in hell, but you already did.  Heh, heh, heh.

 

List Number:  03
Name:  Maya Kamina/Maya Al Padis
From:  RahXephon
Status:  Back among the living and now a loving mother after being blasted into a million ity-bitty pieces in her past life.
Wanted For:  Being a cold unfeeling witch, using her own “son” as a tool, not to mention constantly drugging him and screwing up his memories, trying to wipe out humanity, attempting an eleventh hour “conversion.”
Why She’s Here:  From the moment you first appeared, Maya, I knew I wouldn’t like you.  And you only furthered my dislike with every moment on screen, as you can’t help but do something sinister every few minutes, as if on some sort of schedule.  From keeping your son drugged at all times to surpressing his memories, to betraying humanity as a whole, one would have to look incredibly hard to see any hint of goodness within you.  Though all of your appearances might fill about thirty or so minutes of a thirteen hour series, you left an impression on anyone who’s watched it.  And with your weird slurry voice, whether you’re speaking japanese or ancient mayan, you even sound evil.  However, you do attempt to show some kind of regret at having done such horrible things, especially to your son, but I don’t buy it.  You’re still a rotten witch, and you deserved not only the Number Three spot, but also the sudden, explody death you received.

 

List Number:  02
Name:  The Claw Man/The Comrade
From:  GunXSword
Status:  Thankfully dead by having been sliced in half.
Wanted For:  Lunacy, wanting to commit genocide and mind-controlling a planet’s population, masking his insanity with the “nice old man” routine, communist tendencies.
Why He’s Here:  I think you’ve got to be the first communist villain in all of anime, Comrade.  And that alone already warrants you high marks in villainy, as we all know how I abhor commies, hippies, and their assorted offshoots.  Like all commies, you wrap yourself in peace and love and equality for all when in fact you’re a sociopathic madman intent on imposing your will on all people, taking it upon yourself to tell everyone what they can do, think, or say; how they can do it; and when it can be done.  Sounds like someone running for office, doesn’t it?  Your desire to become god-like and have absolute control is matched only by the Most Evil Villain of All Time, but unlike him, you were finally whacked by the hero of your show.  I can’t describe how happy I was to see Vann of the Dawn slice you in half and then just walk away, giving no fanfare to the end of your pathetic existence.  I hope you like hot climates, Comrade.

List Number:  01
Name:  Ernst Von Bahbem
From:  RahXephon
Status:  Formerly laying atop a cliff with a very big hole in his head, currently not even a part of our existence.
Wanted For:  Genocide, attempting and succeeding in playing God, cloning, practicing Nazi-level genetics, lying, treachery, overall bastardy, smugness, taking over the bodies of others.
Why He’s Here:  “The greatest trick the Devil ever played was making the world believe he didn’t exist.”  The greatest trick Ernst Von Bahbem ever played was making the world believe he was someone else.  Evil to the core, you Sir, are practically the AntiChrist of anime.  Selfish, cruel, and sadistic, you tried tens of thousands of years ago to become a god, but your creation, the RahXephon System had a fatal flaw:  You.  Your own creation split the world into two dimensions (one for humans and another for your kind, the Mulians), and sent you to the human world, along with the Black Egg of Xephon, one of two parts necessary to put your System back together.  To that end, you cloned yourself countless times, enslaved people, conducting experiments Hitler would be proud of, designed what could only be described as programmable human beings, and betrayed your own kind as well as the humans you also aligned yourself with.  All to gain the power of God, knowing that as the “Designer,” as long as you were alive while the world was remade you would have a certain degree of power and control.  What you didn’t know was that the man standing behind you, the one you wrote off and gloated to after having taken over the body of your “niece” (i.e. female clone) was packing, and that intelligence agent, Jumonji Takeshi, put a .45 through your head just to spite you, making sure you wouldn’t get the satisfaction of getting what you waited your entire life to experience.  For all those reasons and even more, Ernst Von Bahbem is the Most Evil Anime Villain of All Time.  And if you had been more of a fighter instead of a puppeteer, I’m sure you would have made a great last victory for Ayato Kamina, but being so evil, perhaps you didn’t deserve the honor.  A bullet’s good enough for you, Bahbem, now be a good little bastard and fry well.

 

Wow, that’s really damn evil…  The last time my blog was filled with so much demonic energy, Rotavres Xyno jacked my site and started spewing commie claptrap.  Well, I have AMVs and you have something to watch, most loyal plebs.  However these videos won’t really provide much evidence of the baddies’ evilness, as there are few videos on YouTube dedicated to the evil ones.  Besides, these people are so horrible, they don”t deserve tribute videos anyway.  So instead, I’ve decided to show videos of those Anime Heroes and Heroines that didn’t get their own AMVs during their respective Lists, and if some of the videos show the Villains, well that’s just a bonus then, ain’t it?

 

 

The first AMV today is an NGE AMV set to a song from one of my favorite bands, but a song of theirs I’ve never heard before.  The band is The Rasmus, and the song is “Lucifer’s Angel,” which is somewhat appropriate as a tribute to Rei Ayanami.  It’s a bit strange, and don’t let some of the scenes fool you, most of them part of the strange end of the world, surreal…thing Shinji brings about with Rei, though most of the time he’s afraid of her god mode until she takes the appearance of Shinji’s boyfriend (not shown in the AMV).  Most of the AMVs involving Rei are usually romantically-theme pairings of her and Shinji, which just makes me chuckle.  Like he’d even become involved with someone who doesn’t have a Y chromosome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQL8vfOLWSg

 

 

Another song that rocks!  “45” by Shinedown is one of those songs that I’d heard once in my youth and then never heard again until Q101 played it and I caught the name.  Most of the Gungrave AMVs on YouTube are pretty lame, focusing just on the action when there’s quite a bit more to the show than that.  This one’s better than most, showing the inner turmoil of Brandon Heat, the one who would become Beyond the Grave, as well as his broken friendship with the man who murdered him:  Harry MacDowell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgg4m6Btzs8

 

 

Third up is another AMV of Evangelion (*gasp!*  Two NGE AMVs?  Blasphemy!).  Set to Crossfade’s “Cold,” this one is a tribute to Gendo Ikari, one of the Anime Heroes to appear on the next list.  Even though in the context of the show, and certainly from the point of view of the main character, Gendo’s actually the real villain of Evangelion, given the “evil” Angels are just our mutated biological cousins.  But as they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and we all know how badly I hate Shinji.  Thus anyone who demeans, belittles, and makes that stupid little wuss feel like the living piece of shit he is, that person is my hero, and that means Gendo rocks.  The video starts with their first meeting in about nine years or so, just for your edification.  And because I’d hate for you to take something from the lyrics that makes it sounds like he’s apologizing to Shinji, it’s actually his deceased wife that this song’s aimed at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9awgaYuw4gI

 

 

AMV Number Four is Muse’s “Time Is Running Out” set to The Portrait of Little Cossette.  Both Cossette’s Portrait and Eiri (a great hero) appear in the video, and I personally think that the song really captures Eiri’s feeling toward his entire situation and the seemingly bi-polar switching of Cossette between innocently flirtatious to cruelly sadistic.  This is also the first AMV I ever saw, so it holds a special place in my otaku heart, as well as being perhaps one of the top five coolest AMVs I’ve ever seen on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd0aSEbzMTU

 

 

The last AMV is a particularly well-done one.  Now I’d hadn’t heard of this song, nor even of the singer before, but I have to say that this song fits with RahXephon rather well.  The song is called “Lust For Blood” by the japanese techno-rocker Gackt.  Though I certainly don’t know the lyrics, the title itself fits RahXephon, as in the video we get more glipses of the villains than we usually do as well as how Ayato’s “lust for blood” has meant rather gruesome deaths for friends and foes alike, torturing his soul.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_1eEg37NyU

 

 

 

And done.  I hope you enjoyed seeing my thoughts on the Most Evil Villains of All Time, and if you have a different opinion, I’d love to hear it.  However, as evil villains go, I’m not talking about those you love to hate, just the ones you despise and want to see die, because they’re too damn rotten to let live (though in far too many animes, the bad guys either live and get some sort of conversion that is supposed to make us feel sorry for them).  Since I’m just starting a new semester of agony, I don’t know when I’ll be putting up my Greatest Anime Heroes List, but in between now and then, I’ll be sure to put up the long-awaited Rurouni Kenshin Review.  It’ll sure be interesting as I’ve never reviewed an anime that lasts 22 VOLUMES!

 

So until next time, my gentle snowflakes, just remember:  Whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you…stranger…