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* Everything about M. Bison in the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' movie is larger than life (except, of course, for his actor Raul Julia's slight frame). He kidnaps AN delegates to ransom them for seed money so that he can, among other things, build a mall (with the help of outside investors, no less!). Not to mention creating his own currency and valuing it against the British pound, with the justification that the British banks will honor that amount after he kidnaps their queen. And when his men capture AN soldiers intent on killing him? He turns them loose one at a time so he can fight to the death ''on live television!'' Not to mention that, [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|for him, killing peoples' fathers is just a Tuesday]]. Raul Julia based his performance on Richard III from Shakespeare's play of the same name who was quite the Magnificent Bastard himself.

* Oddly (and infuriatingly) enough, Dr. Loomis was turned into one of these in the ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]] 2'' remake.

* Lady Van Tassel from ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]''. Just, Lady Van Tassel!

* Disney movies also have some memorably clever villains in them...

** Jafar from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''. While he was a [[Smug Snake]] ([[Scaled Up|and a literal one]]) in the first movie, he learned of his mistakes and graduated to a [[Magnificent Bastard]] in the second movie. The first thing he did when he was freed by Abis Mal was to play on Mal's greed for gold, fear for his life and his hatred for Aladdin in order to make him at first waste two wishes at nothing and then convince him to help him with promises of large riches and revenge on Aladdin. Once he had Abis Mal around his finger, he decided to force his former ally Iago to work for him again and use the trust Aladdin had developed for Iago into fooling him and the Sultan away from Agrabah into a trap, while himself took care of Genie and Abu. When the trap proved successful, he made it look like Aladdin had killed Sultan simply by placing it, slashed, in Aladdin's room, which would ended with him executed for the murder on the Sultan, seemingly ordered by a deceived, distraught Jasmine. If he had turned more attention on Iago's conflicting behavior, then maybe [[The Bad Guy Wins|he would've been the one who won]].