My Second List of Least Favorite Villains · 8:52pm May 17th
Following my previous post, I was immediately inspired to go ahead and showcase another ten of my least favorite villains. The biggest reason for why is because I enjoyed creating the last one so much that I couldn’t resist doing it again, and it felt good to get it out of my system as well.
The main difference this listing will have from the last one is that there’ll be more live-action villains featured, mainly to give greater diversification among others.
Take a look:
(Warning: Some of these explanations may be a little rant-filled and longer than others.)
#1: Joker (“The LEGO Batman Movie”)
Explanation: Compared to other versions of this legendary DC supervillain, the Joker of this Batman film from 2017 is neither funny, intimidating, diabolical or compelling. Also, his intentions to get Batman to classify him as “His Greatest Foe” did nothing but open up a creepy homosexual subtext, which only made the film itself all-the-more uncomfortable to sit through.
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#2: Quintessa (“Transformers: The Last Knight”)
Explanation: Of all the villains featured in the Transformers movie directed by Michael Bay, Quintessa was quite honestly the least impressive. Her motivations are idiotic, she’s mind-bogglingly one-dimensional, and the subplot featuring her corrupting Optimus Prime hardly ever got off the ground.
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#3: Kuvira (The Legend of Korra)
Explanation: With the exception of Zaheer and his comrades, most of the villains featured in “The Legend of Korra” were hardly what I’d call impressive. But, if I were to choose which was the very worst of them, Kuvira is quite honestly my top choice. She has no character development, no personality, and her motivations merely translate her as a typical power-hungry individual bent on world domination. Everything about Kuvira overall literally screams poorly-characterized rogue.
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#4: Jafar (2019 live-action adaption of Disney’s “Aladdin”)
Explanation: While it was interesting to see the 2019 film draw parallels between Aladdin and Jafar, especially to where they’re basically polar opposites of each other, there were too many things about this version of Jafar that I found to be lacking. Compared to the animated version of Jafar played by Jonathan Freeman, the live-action version doesn’t have enough of a strong, intimidating, or commanding presence, which made it hard to take him seriously. The only theory I have regarding these shortcomings is that they were caused by the filmmakers’ decision to make the live-action version of Jafar younger than his animated counterpart instead of much older than both Aladdin & Jasmine.
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#5: V’Ger (“Star Trek: The Motion Picture”)
Explanation: Around the time I saw the first Star Trek film, I discovered straight away that V’Ger was perhaps the worst villain in the franchise’s history. Or one of the worst, at least. Villains that are also machines weren’t uncommon in the series, but even on that ground, V’Ger was hardly what I’d call compelling. The worst part is that not only was V’Ger’s quest to “Find its Creator” ridiculous, the way the whole thing came across openly felt like it was Gene Roddenberry’s way of mocking humanity’s need for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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#6: Opaline Arcana (5th Generation of “My Little Pony”)
Explanation: All throughout the majority of G5’s run, I’ve often noted that the creative teams were constantly trying to size Opaline up as an openly serious threat. Especially by painting her as the very reason the Unity Crystals were made, and as a villain that managed to give the likes of Twilight Sparkle a run for her money. And, if the G5 comics really are canon, Opaline is also supposed to be the one who caused the three pony tribes to split up.
But, you know what?
The only thing I’ve seen out of Opaline is a pathetic joke, as well as an infuriating villain-wannabe. She’s neither as smart as the G5 entertainment media or fans make her out to be, and she certainly never became more compelling and threatening as both of G5’s televised series progressed. Not to mention her character development is lacking, and she represents every reason for why I was glad “Grogar” turned out to be Discord disguised as him in “The Ending of the End”.
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#7: Dr. Applecheek ("Tom and Jerry: The Movie")
Explanation: Similar to Pristine Figg, Dr. Applecheek is an openly bland and irritable antagonist. His motivations also make him come across as two-dimensional at the most, and his villain song certainly didn’t do him any favors. And just like Figg, he’d form expressions that are creepy & cringy in a way that’s not only ugly, but severely over-the-top & terrible.
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#8: Fenghuang (“Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness”)
Explanation: Based on what I’ve gathered regarding “Kung Fu Panda 4”, most people seem to classify the Chameleon as the worst villain in the KFP franchise. In my opinion, though, that credit strongly goes to Fenghuang from “Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness”.
As a whole, Fenghuang is incredibly irritating, unbright, and far from interesting. Also, whereas the film villains are shown to be on the paths of darkness out of wanting to accomplish something based on having their own ideas of how to do so, Fenghuang is only evil simply because of how powerful and skilled she is compared to others. The revelation in question makes her overall characterization and motivations all-the-more headache-inducing.
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#9: Zusk (“Cyberchase”)
Explanation: Despite having appeared in one episode thus far, Zusk proved himself to be another Hacker competitor who’s openly infuriating and lacks compelling characterization. Just like Ledge, his motivations are also idiosyncratic, and whenever he’d say anything, I’d find myself wanting to kick him in the gut just to shut him up!
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#10: Tubal-Cain (2014 “Noah” film)
Explanation: Aside from being the main villain of perhaps the worst film based on a Bible story I’ve ever seen, Tubal-Cain is everything short of forgettable. He has no personality, zero character development, and less-than-compelling motivations. Every attempt to also make him an alternate counterpart to Noah himself generally fell flat, if I may add.
Dishonorable Mentions: Posey Bloom, the Straycatchers, Harley Quinn (The LEGO Batman Movie)
Explanation: Just like in the last listing, these characters are featured as dishonorable mentions thanks to their direct connections to the characters I listed in this one.
However, while Posey Bloom didn’t have any kind of relationship with Opaline, she’s largely featured as a dishonorable mention thanks to her recurring presence throughout both Make Your Mark and Tell Your Tale. Not to mention she’s one-dimensional, irritable, and unlikable despite her “reformation” in Make Your Mark’s first episode. Turning her into a Tell Your Tale punching bag certainly wasn’t good enough to quell my hatred for Posey, that’s for sure.
well I don't know the other villains, but I can only agree on Opaline. G5 lore really struggles to add up and pinning all that on Opaline is gah!
The fact the Lego Batman Movie didn't get nominated for Best Animated Feature and was snubbed because of Ferdinand and @#$% ing Boss Baby still infuriates me, just shows another reason why that category is seen as the Disney/ Pixar award instead of an actual fair category, you can argue some pixar movies like Inside Out, Up and Toy story 3 deserved the win, but with movies like Frozen beating How to Train Your Dragon 2, Brave beating Wreck it Ralph even though Ralph was a much better film in MY opinion, it just makes everyone believe Disney has full control over the category given how many unfair times they've won. I would've much referred those movies winning those Disney movies because Animation deserves more respect, and it's not just a thing Disney can do, Dreamworks deserved so many wins with the bangers they've made, and these Lego movies all got snubbed because of movies like Lion King( 2019) and whatever else was released during they're respective years.
I'm not saying I hate this, but I just think movies like the Lego movie was FAR deserving of they're Oscars then the movies I've listed, the Academy needs to man up and start showing actual respect to animation in category's other then Best Animated Feature, they deserve the score nominations and directions too, let's just hope with how Disney is falling right now, this will let other studios who deserve wins get the respect that's needed.
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Ironically, “The LEGO Batman Movie” is actually one of my least favorite movies. And it’s for a variety of reasons too.
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It's alright not to like that movie, but you can't deny that it deserved the Oscar nomination over movies like Ferdinand and Boss baby, at least nominating it would've helped made up for the first Lego movie not being nominated, I can understand you not liking it, but I'm just saying, it sucks that the academy is seen as the Dinsey/Pixar award because of stupid decisions like this.
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Truthfully, I don’t think “The LEGO Batman Movie” was ever deserving of the Oscar to begin with. There are plenty of other movies more deserving.
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Hey I can totally understand that, I'm just tired of them unfairly nominating and giving wins to Dinsey and Pixar movie when Dreamworks and other company's deserves so much more, the only wins Dreamworks had are Shrek and Wallace and Gromit, even then the ladder was made by Aardman, I don't mind if you think it shouldn't win or get nominated, but again, Boss baby did not deserve that nomination and it's easily a top 3 worst Dreamworks movie because of it and the Academy is stupid for thinking animated movies are just for kids, I seriously think Cars 3 deserved the nomination over that movie, as well as any other animated movie released that year.