Evil Is Cool: Difference between revisions

* Sir Crocodile of ''[[One Piece]]'' pulls this off almost too well. By all intents and purposes, he is the prime example of a [[Complete Monster]], with a list of atrocities that can fill a book. However, he commits his evil acts while dressed like a blinged-out mafia don, complete with a ring on almost every finger and a pimpin' green fur coat. Not only that, but he controls an organization made up of [[Crazy Awesome]] [[Badass]]es, owns a casino, trots around with a scantily-clad hot chick as his #2, keeps incredibly dangerous predators as pets, and is also made of and can control sand, and he has a hook for a hand. That's just darn cool. But he's such a ''bastard''...

** You can't one up a bastard-8 foot plus tall-knight-marine-Godfather-insanely choking-likely rapist-pirate who kills people by touching them named Crocodile...unless you are a silent-8 foot plus tall-gangster-pirate-superstrong-hetero-ninja who is also a sword named DAZ BONES. He's like Raven from Tekken, only bigger, stronger, a pirate, has no need for weapons, and has the greatest name ever hands down. His loss, or, actually, both of their losses, lost the strawhats fans.

{{quote|''[[That Guy With The Glasses|Y, Ruler of Time]]'': '''on One Piece's villains''' How is it possible that these guys are so awesome I want to root ''against'' the Straw Hats?!}}

* Negishi from ''[[Detroit Metal City]]'' is hated for his music, and generally considered to be a spineless douche by virtually anyone...until he becomes Krauser II in Detroit Metal City, a Death Metal band. And once there, he embodies this trope.

* It says something about ''[[Bleach]]'' that the bad guys tend to be more popular than the good guys. Just look at how [[Evil Counterpart|Grimmjow]] [[Blood Knight|Jaegerjaquez]] and [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Ulquiorra]] [[The Stoic|Cifer]] scored higher on the popularity polls than [[Idiot Hero|Ichigo Kurosaki's]] [[Five-Man Band]] and their allies. However, the inverse is also true: for the longest time, [[The Brute|Kaname Tosen]] was the [[The Scrappy|least-liked]] of the thirteen captains, due to a vast majority of the fandom perceiving him as an insufferable, justice-spouting hypocrite, a view that was actually ''dis''proven by this time (he's more along the lines of a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]), but he remains as the second most maligned of the thirteen captains. Furthermore, [[Big Bad|Sosuke Aizen]] is, by far and large, '''the''' [[Creator's Pet|most hated]] of all ''Bleach'' villains, due to being a combination of the [[Generic Doomsday Villain]], [[Complete Monster]], [[Villain Sue]], absurd [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]], and the embodiment of [[Gambit Roulette]] all at once.

** Honest John and his sidekick, Gideon, from ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'' have one of the coolest songs in Disney history: ''Hi Diddle Dee Dee''

** Jafar from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' and [[Non-Human Sidekick|Iago]] before his [[Heel Face Turn]], one of the funniest characters in both the films and the tv series.

** Yzma from ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'' is arguably the most entertaining character (with the possible exception of Kronk) in the movie in her own right, completely setting aside the issue of the protagonist being less than likable. And if her initial [[Villain Song]], ''"Snuff Out The Light"'' had ended up in the film, she would've been bumped up even further.

** Scar from ''[[The Lion King]]''. [[Complete Monster|He's a regicidal, fratricidal bastard,]] and yet none of us can shake off just how much we love Jeremy Irons. Aside from that, [[Magnificent Bastard|he has to be among the Disney villain whose plans reach fruition the fastest (halfway through).]] For most villains, even in general, they have to wait till the third act to get their dark rewards. He keeps them longest, too, leaving aside folks like Maleficent, who wasn't looking to ''gain'' anything as such. Plus, he has one of the best [[Villain Song]]s ever.

** Zira continues his legacy in ''[[The Lion King]] II'', with her [[Darker and Edgier|relatively more intense]] [[Villain Song]].

** Ursula from ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''.

** The villain of ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' ''breathes'' this trope. Dr. Facilier (voiced by [[Keith David]]) is a nasty piece of work: powerful, scheming, persuasive, stylish, charismatic, ''and'' he has an awesome [[Villain Song]]. Now ''this'' is following tradition!

** Judge Claude Frollo from ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' fits, too, and he has not one, but TWO heroes to overshadow. It helps that he has probably the most audacious and amazing villain song ever, and that neither hero is really interesting enough to stand up to a character with as many layers as Frollo. And then there's Tony Jay's voice.

* ''Scorpius'' from ''[[Farscape]]'' is this, right down to the leather clothes.

* This is why [[Corrupt Hick|Tubbs and Edward]] and [[Monster Clown|Papa Lazarou]] from ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'' are the most remembered characters: they're easily the most fucked up.

* ''[[Smallville]]'':

** A major reason for Lionel Luthor's popularity and [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] status is how utterly cool [[John Glover]] is with a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] and [[Archnemesis Dad]] look. Being [[The Chessmaster]] in a show full of [[Idiot Ball|morons]] didn't hurt either.

* The homely Sligs from [[Oddworld]]. Perhaps it’s the combination of [[Artificial Limbs|slick cybernetics]], glowing [[Electronic Eyes|red visors]] and [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better|standard issue rifles]]. If [[Evil Is Sexy|Evil Makes Them Sexy]] (and each to their own), the fact that they shoot at you on sight is [[The Masochism Tango|just gravy]].

* Through not exactly a villain at the moment(but perhaps will be a antagonist an X-Pack), the [[Knight Templar]] Angel Imperius from [[Diablo III]] seems to be heading in this direction given his badass armor design and {{spoiler|the short but badass fight between him and Diablo at the beginning of Act IV}}.

 

* Ito, the God of Trust and Betrayal from ''[[A Moment of Peace]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130607121002/http://www.amomentofpeace.net/comic.php?num=108 steals dreams and crushes hopes] for a living, and has prosthetic hands forged from moments of despair by crows that grew hands to strangle people.

* [http://www.sincomics.com/ The Sins]. Soul destroying (literally) [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]s of The [[Seven Deadly Sins]] they may be, but they are also cool ([[Replacement Scrappy|ok, not New Envy]]) and way more fun than their opponents, The Virtues. It doesn't hurt that [[Evil Is Sexy|Lust is pretty hot]]!

** Snowball, Morty's dog who becomes a super-intelligent canine who hates humans (except Morty) after Rick's attempt to make him smarter works too well.

** Shleemypants, a 4th-dimensional [[Humanoid Abomination]] with godlike powers and a [[Knight Templar]], who's attitude and (foul) language is that of a hip-hop artist. He's a riot.

 

* As mentioned above, [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|actors frequently mention that playing the villain is just more fun]], not just for the cooler clothes and such, but from an acting standpoint in general. Heroes can be rather [[Boring Invincible Hero|dull,]] simply doing the right thing because it's the right thing. That can be boring for an actor, but a villain usually has more layers. Is he [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|mad with power]]? Does he have a [[Freudian Excuse]]? How did they get to where they are? There's usually more in a villainous character for an actor to sink his teeth into.

* The Nazis may have been horrible, genocidal, and tyrannical, but at least they knew [http://www.waffen-ss.no/uniformer/sepp.jpg how] [http://www.spacestation.carolan.info/uniform-ss_officer-ss-sentr.jpg to]{{Dead link}} [[Evil Is Stylish|dress]], [[wikipedia:Hugo Boss#Involvement in World War II|thanks to Hugo Boss]]. As P.J. O'Rourke once observed, people don't fantasize about being tied to a bed and molested by someone dressed like a ''liberal.''