Welcome to watch Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20.

Best movie villains of the century so far for this list will be looking at the greatest movie villains of the century and ranking them based on a combination of their popularity, complexity and overall contribution to film history.

We will not be including animated villains on this list, as they could warrant their own list votes and say they vote how the archbishop tells them.

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Number 20 Bein the Dark Knight rises No.

One good who I was till I put on the Mars.

It was incredibly hard to follow up Heath Ledger's Joker, but Tom Hardy managed to do it with his brilliant portrayal of Bain Party gained £30 of muscle for the role, crafting a certifiable and physically imposing brute of a villain.

It also helps that his physique and caution stayed within the realm of realism as it allowed us to see Bane as a threatening revolutionary rather than a goofy comic book villain looking atyou, Batman and Robin.

This bomb is mobile and the identity of the triggerman is a mystery.

And let's be honest, that mask and voice are now iconic.

Who amongst us hasn't done the bane voice at least once since 2012 u really adopted the Dark I was born in it.

Too bad about his crappy anti climactic death, though Number 19 Terrence Fletcher Whiplash.

While our previous entry is a larger than life character, Terrence Fletcher is not.

He's just a music teacher and conductor.

He doesn't leave any diabolical plots or have ambitions of world domination, and that's part of what makes him such a standout villain.

He's the sort of antagonised that any one of us could encounter in our own academic or professional careers rushing or dragging rush.

So you do know the difference.

As Fletcher J.

K.

Simmons plays a master emotional manipulator preying on the vulnerability and ambitions of his students on his quest for musical perfection.

He's cruel and violent, and yet he's fundamentally human and not without sentiment or honor.

Like so many real world villains, he doesn't see himself is one.

I earned that part.

You never earned anything.

God you are a self righteous prick.

Number 18.

Patrick Bateman, American Saigo.

We love a great villain protagonist, and Patrick Bateman is among the best of the best.

There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me.

Many academics and literary critics view Bateman as a social critique of consumer culture and capitalism.

He's shallow, rooted in physical appearances and surface level observations, and flaunts his materialistic wealth that shuttle off coloring the tasteful thickness off.

Oh my God, it even has a watermark.

Oh, and he's also an insatiable serial killer, a rather bloody but apt metaphor for the unquenchable hunger of consumerism.

Because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

It works well on paper, and Christian Bale brings Bateman to terrifying life for the movie, while other A list actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt were considered for the role, we think bail was a truly inspired, a bit of casting.

He's just got that creepy look about him.

I killed Paul Allen with an ax in the face.

His body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen Number 17 Kill monger, Black Panther.

It's not the first time we've said it, but the emcee You, for all its strengths, has really struggled to bring compelling villains to the big screen.

With Kill Monger, however, they absolutely hit it out of the park.

Black Panther was the first comic book superhero movie to be nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards.

And while there were many contributing factors, Kill Munger felt like a key part of the equation.

I Lived my entire life, played expertly by Michael B.

Jordan.

Kill Monger is a fully fleshed out villain who, despite his lethal methods, has relatable and sympathetic motivations.

You will destroy the world of Wakanda, including the world took everything away from me everything.

I have a love.

He's a character with riel, emotional depth and a powerful backstory, and when you add that to his physicality, you've got a villain worthy of our hero in every regard.

Just burn me in the ocean.

But my assesses that jump from ships because they knew death.

It was better than Bond number 16 Saruman, the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Sarah Ron is certainly an imposing and terrifying figure, but you can't go wrong with Christopher Lee J.

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Tolkien often pointed to Sarah, um, and to defend the criticism that the Lord of the Rings is too black and white in its characterizations.

You did not seriously way, and we have to agree.

Sarah Man is a wonderful villain and a brilliant example of a tragic fall from heroism into villainy.

He's a Gandalf that fell in with sour on the pure good, who was swayed by the lore and promises of power.

And the casting of Christopher Lee was genius.

We couldn't imagine another actor better suited for the role.

And we saw one of modern literature is most popular villains brought to vivid life through his genius.

Save your pity and your mercy.

I have no your spite.

Number 15 the Armitage family.

Get out.

Picture this.

You meet the girl of your dreams and everything seems to be going great.

After a few months, she asks you to meet her parents and you go along with it.

The next thing you know, they're trying to sell your body to the highest bidder.

The Armitage family is deeply racist, take the term manipulative, too sickening new heights and can only be described as evil.

Through and through.

You can't stop the inevitable.

And who knows?

Maybe one day you'll enjoy being members of the family theater son.

No shortage of memorable villains over the last decade.

But what really makes the army to just stand out is that for all intents and purposes, they're just your average family.

Next door they pose is open minded and progressive, but behind closed doors, the indulgent humanity's darkest, cruelest and most selfish of impulses fire.

It's a reflection of our own mortality.

Born, we breathe Dye Number 14 Koba, The Planet of the Apes trilogy.

Koba is arguably one of the most sympathetic movie villains of the century, and his character, Arc, has been widely lauded by critics.

And fans alike love humans more than apes.

Koba serves as the perfect foil to Caesar, whereas Caesar is thoughtful and diplomatic.

Koba is bloodthirsty and hell bent on revenge.

His character development is fluid and natural, and we understand how and why Kobe became such a ruthless tyrant.

It's easy to make a character like that one dimensional, but the writing direction and Toby Cabals.

Wonderful mo cap performance provides Koba a surprising amount of depth.

He is a villain but a tragic villain, and those always make for fascinating characters.

Wait, Cobra number 13.

Calvin Candie, Django Unchained Well blown over.

We got us a fight going on.

It's a good good of fun.

Like Joaquin Phoenix, Leonardo DiCaprio is considered among the most talented actors of his generation.

Who else could take a role like Jordan Belfort and simultaneously make him both reprehensible and so magnetically charming?

Has DiCaprio had already promoting your earlier?

However, he's every bit as capable of turning off that charm.

Your palms flat on that tabletop.

If you lift those palms off that turtle shell tabletop, Mr Putin's going both males that start off playing against type.

As 19th century slave owner Calvin Candie DiCaprio, Holy commits to the sadistic, hate filled and thoroughly repulsive villain.

His bigotry and racism know no bounds, but as detestable as candy is the manor swagger and quirks with which DiCaprio and Abused the character makes him the sort of villain we love to hate.

You do not have anything to drink.

Can I get you a tasty refreshment?

use.

Oh, have a beauty Wonder Ball Number 12 Loki, The Marvel cinematic universe Theo Emcee You was the biggest movie event of the 20 tens, and Loki was at the heart of it.

Well, for a while, anyway, I have asked God and I am burdened with glorious purpose.

Loki was first introduced in 2000 eleven's Thor before transitioning to the Siri's main antagonised in The Avengers.

Luckily, he's not just relegated to basic comic book villainy as he goes through an interesting character arc and takes on more anti heroic traits as the series progresses.

Actor Tom Hiddleston has described Loki as a delusional autocrat and compares him to Edmund from King Lear, an apt description concerning his family lineage and immoral plots for power.

Maybe we'll still be talking about Loki and 400 years time touch Barton until I make him kill you slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear and then awake just long enough to see this good work on when he screams are splittists.

Skull number 11 Alonzo Harris, Training Day police dramas and corrupt cop characters are a dime a dozen, but no movie has managed to do it quite like Training Day.

Alonzo Harris inhabits many of the corrupt police officer traits, including a preference for violence and a willingness to ignore standard and lawful procedures.

You get the picture, but he also takes his immoral dealings further than any other, which includes robbing and murdering suspects, blackmailing his rookie partner with PCP laced marijuana and paying toe.

Have him killed.

He is a horrible, hateful person, and Denzel Washington brings him to thrilling life, earning himself an Academy Award for his efforts.

He's the corrupt cop to end all corrupt cops.

And watching him scheme makes for tantalizing drama.

King Kong ain't got on number 10 Penny Wise.

It's and it Chapter two isa.

Terrifying cosmic being who most commonly takes the form of a sinister clown.

Need we say more?

Okay.

It is a shape shifter and a reality manipulator who knows how to appeal to the good natured sympathies of Children so that he can eat them.

But only after seasoning there meet with fear Well, down here Way never dreamed that someone could hold a candle to Tim Curry's Take a meticulous terror, but Bill Scars guard has turned in the performance of a lifetime to make a whole new generation of cinema goers terrified of this monstrous villain.

The horror genre isn't short on horrific creatures, but with his unique works and the clear joy he takes in his work, Pennywise is cut from a different cloth.

Hello, Number nine.

Amy Gone Girl.

There are so many ways in which this film could have gone wrong.

The manipulative, crazy woman is a tired trope and often serves as a lazy stand in for actual character development.

Amy checks a lot of the boxes traditionally associated with this archetype, but she's anything but two dimensional.

I've killed for you.

Who else can say that?

Despite all the mystery initially surrounding Amy's disappearance, this film takes us deep inside her mind, inviting us to understand what makes this character tick.

The fact that she's an unreliable narrator on Lee adds to her appeal.

Start with the fairy tale early days, those air true and they're crucial.

You want Nick and Amy to be likeable.

After that, you invent conniving, unflinching and brilliant.

Amy is a villain worthy of a greater hero than she ever faces, And so in the end she wins.

This is undeniably Rosamund Pike's career defining role.

When two people love each other and can't make that work, that's the real tragedy.

Number eight.

Kylo Ren The Star Wars sequel trilogy No one will ever top Darth Vader in terms of iconic Star Wars villains, but since he only made a brief, albeit badass, cameo and Rogue one, it would feel like cheating to include him on this list.

In Kylo Ren, however, Vader has a worthy heir and successor.

It's too much.

Ben Solo feels invaders, internal struggle between the dark and light sides of the force personified.

He's a slave to his emotions, both positive and negative.

In many ways, he feels like the sort of complex, tortured character that George Lucas was trying to craft with Anakin Skywalker and the prequels.

A powerful force user played with nuance by Adam Driver Kylo Ren does the franchise proud without feeling like a re tread of old ground Jenna.

Rebels Let it all die.

Number seven Bill the Butcher Gangs of New York.

We didn't think Daniel Day Lewis could be scary, but gangs of New York proved us wrong.

Somebody steals from me.

I cut off his hands.

He offends me.

I cut off his tongue.

He rises against me.

I cut off his head, stick it on a pike.

This movie was considered a disappointment by some, but even its most ardent critics agreed that Bill the Butcher remain for an intriguing and relentlessly terrifying villain.

Bill is the leader of the natives on aggressively patriotic New York gang, opposed to immigration and willing to kill for their true American values.

To defeat my enemy, I extinguish his life.

Consume him as I consume these flames.

The story takes place in the mid 19th century but is proving eerily topical, especially in today's turbulence and tribal ist political atmosphere.

Bill is a brilliantly written and brilliantly performed character who transcends his story to say something larger about America and democracy.

Now you tasted my mutton.

How do you like it, huh?

Number six.

Arthur Fleck, The Joker Joker.

When you bring me out, can you introduce me?

The Joker?

The Joker is one of the most iconic villains of any medium.

With this film, he proved that he doesn't need Batman to maintain that status.

Though 20 nineteen's Joker had its detractors, few critics could find fault with walking Phoenix's brilliant performance.

Now mental illness is a tough subject to tackle, especially when the character in question is supposed to be a villain.

There's always a fear of demonizing mental illness.

When I was a little boy and told people I was gonna be a comedian, everyone laughed at me.

But Phoenix and director Todd Phillips did a solid job of making this character at once sympathetic and someone who lives up to his villainous legacy.

When Arthur Flack gives into his worst inclinations and embraces his Joker persona, he becomes an agent of chaos and evil and an unforgettable one at that number five Voldemort.